Academia Lunaris

At twelve, Kieran Morris has been called difficult so many times she's started to believe it. Then an invitation arrives from a school for witches, and everything she was told to shrink about herself turns out to be the very thing that makes her powerful. Sorted into Morgana House, Kieran discovers that her magic burns fast and bright and runs on feeling, which makes it brilliant in theory and dangerous in a classroom. With a teacher who tells her to ride her fire instead of smothering it, and friends who stay even when sparks fly, Kieran begins to imagine a place where she fits. But a hidden file holds the truth about the mother who gave her up, and about the Crossroads Society, who have been waiting a long time for a girl exactly like her. When they come, Kieran will have to decide what her magic is really for. A warm, fierce story about found family, inherited love, and learning to stop apologizing for taking up space.