When Brystal Evergreen stumbles across a secret section of the library, she finds a book that describes a world beyond her imagination, and discovers the impossible—that she is a fairy, capable of magic—in this series debut for readers 9 to 12 by the creator of the Land of Stories books. But women are forbidden from reading and magic is outlawed in the Southern Kingdom, so Brystal is sent to the miserable Bootstrap Correctional Facility. Then, with the help of the mysterious Madame Weatherberry, she is whisked away and enrolled in an academy of magic. Yet even here, adventure comes with a price, and Brystal and her classmates will have to stop a sinister plot that puts both the everyday world and the enchanted lands at risk.