Age range 9 to 12

Swordplay! Arsenal cubes and blade chasers! School bullies! Selfservingrivals! Scheming adults and soullessrebel plotters! Welcome to the world of cadet Hatter Madigan, who has just entered Wonderland's MillineryAcademy, where those born to protect the queendom train to become spies, assassins, and bodyguards. The coedworld of a freshman Cap is extremely competitive, and as hard as Hatter's mystic and martial studies prove tobe, they are little compared to the more difficult art of successfully dealing with others vying to be the best.

As readers of The Looking Glass Wars already know, Hatter will grow up to one day serve as bodyguard to twoqueens and become Wonderland's most famous traveler. But in the Hatter Madigan series-each installment ofwhich chronicles a single year of our hero's education-readers live through the experiences that shaped thisextraordinary character. Come and share Hatter's pride as he excels in combat trials and imagination workshops;empathize as he struggles with the first stirrings of love and the expectations of teachers familiar with his famousolder brother; feel his excitement when he and his new friends discover that ghosts, somehow connected to theMillinery's HATBOX (Holographic and Transmutative Base of Xtremecombat), have the ability to possess thebodies of the living-a haunting that threatens all of Wonderland.