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271 p. New Zealand Post Children's Senior Book of the Year, 2003. Roland has everything a young man could wish for. So the fact that he committed a petty crime and that, somehow, one of his teachers knows about it is something he cannot explain. The teacher, Mr Hudson, uses this knowledge to blackmail Roland into befriending the school misfit - Jess Ferret. But then Roland discovers that she is studying alchemy, and that a power-hungry magician is on their track.
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