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Year Of The Griffin
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Year Of The Griffin Paperback - 2001

by Jones, Diana Wynne

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Eight years after the end of Mr. Chesney's offworld Pilgrim Parties, as seen in "Dark Lord of Derkholm", Wizards University is in a shambles. Wizard Derk's griffin daughter Elda and her fellow first-year students encounter tyrannical tutors, boring lectures, and terrible rectory food. But things get even worse when the University sends a letter to each of their families begging for funds.

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New York: HarperTrophy. Paperback. 2001. 1st thus. 16mo 390pp . Fine with no DJ. Mass Market PB .
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  • Title Year Of The Griffin
  • Author Jones, Diana Wynne
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st thus
  • Condition Used - Fine with no DJ
  • Pages 390
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperTrophy, New York
  • Date 2001
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 023052
  • ISBN 9780064473354 / 006447335X
  • Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.77 x 4.22 x 1.11 in (17.20 x 10.72 x 2.82 cm)
  • Ages 08 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 7
  • Reading level 830
  • Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, Magic
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99048522
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the rear cover

EIGHT YEARS AFTER the end of Mr. Chesney's offworld Pilgrim Parties, the Wizards' University is in a shambles. Wizard Derk's griffin daughter Elda and her fellow first-year students encounter tyrannical tutors, boring lectures, and truly terrible refectory food. But things get even worse when the University sends a letter to each of their families begging for funds. Now Elda and her friends must contend with a band of trained assassins, a flock of renegade griffins, and an unexpected trip to the moon. Even with all the magical means at their disposal, will they make it through their first year?

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  • Booklist, 04/15/2002, Page 1416
  • Booksense '76 Childrens Fall02, 08/01/2002, Page 1
  • Ingram Children's Advance, 07/01/2001, Page 66

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