Year of the Griffin

If you’re looking for an enjoyable book for teenagers featuring a magic school, griffins, jinxes, bumbling teachers, enthusiastic pupils, dragons, and more then you need look no further then Diana Wynne Jones’ Year of the Griffin.   Jones has a fascinating way with plot and a way of making you think about issues in the context of the story that is really quite exceptional. I’ve long been a fan of Jones, reading her when I was myself a teenager and revisiting her books from time to time as an adult and I would always recommend her to anyone with a taste for quirky fantasy books.