My Friend Is A Witch. A Strange Classmate – vol. 1

Fantasy
Humorous

My friend is a witch! That means magic… and a whole lot of trouble. So take my advice: whatever you do, don’t open the last door on the right.

Strange things are happening in Miriam’s class. Someone’s hair catches fire, someone else’s teeth turn blue. And a storm breaks out during the maths test. Miriam finds out that Priscilla Applepot, the new girl sitting next to her, is responsible. And she’s also a witch. The little witch can’t control her powers properly, and she’s supposed to hide them from the Non-Magickers – the humans. She lives in a magical house with her  parents and Bartholomeus, a barn owl who can turn into a boy. Priscilla and Bartholomeus drag Miriam into a whirlwind of bizarre adventures, including bats to groom, temperamental mummies, and a strange Last Door on the Right, which opens onto a different world to explore every time.

  • A second episode packed with even more laughs and adventure—perfect for early independent readers.
  • A world full of quirky creatures and magical settings to spark imagination and reading joy.

From the same series: A Mummy At The MarketMorgana’s Diadem.

Publisher: Salani
Target: 8-10
Year: 2022
Author
Gisella Laterza

Gisella Laterza lives in Bergamo—or more precisely, in a downtown café where she spends her time writing. When she’s not writing, she teaches Italian and Latin at a high school and leads creative writing workshops for boys and girls aged 6 to 99. She has published novels, short stories for school anthologies, biographies, and a children’s adaptation of the Divine Comedy (Einaudi Ragazzi). Among her most successful series is Three Friends and a Diary (Tre amiche per un diario, Il Battello a Vapore). Under the pseudonym Ella Archer, she wrote Abyss and Enchantment, a fantasy romance currently being translated in France, the Netherlands, and Spain. The book was a finalist for the ILfest Prize (Munich, 2025) and the Romance Book Party Awards (Naples, 2025).

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