The Unseen City: The Elena Vasquez Academy Series

"I have a notebook, a theory, and absolutely no supervision."
— Declan Brennan, age 13

Nessa sees the magic humming under Chicago's streets. Declan's words can shake the ground. Maeve fights like a warrior before she's even decided to move. For their whole lives, all three have hidden what they are and tried to pass for normal.

Then a secret South Side school recruits them — a place for kids exactly like them — and finally gives their weirdness a name. But learning to control their powers turns out to be the easy part. Something ancient is quietly draining the city's hidden magical world, and the adults in charge are too tangled in their own rules to stop it. With Halloween closing in, three seventh-graders are the only ones left to piece the mystery together.

A fast, funny, big-hearted fantasy adventure for readers who love Percy Jackson and the secret-school magic of Harry Potter. Book One of the Elena Vasquez Academy, set in the Chicago Underground universe.

If they survive, they might just pass the seventh grade.