The iron trial

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Label

The iron trial

Statement of responsibility

Holly Black and Cassandra Clare ; with illustrations by Scott Fischer

Title variation

Magisterium: The iron trial

Creator

• trueBlack, Holly

Contributor

• trueClare, Cassandra
• Fischer, Scott M.

Author

• trueBlack, Holly
• trueClare, Cassandra

Illustrator

• Fischer, Scott M.

Subject

• trueChildren's stories
• trueFantasy
• Fantasy fiction
• Fantasy fiction
• Fantasy fiction
• Fiction
• trueFriendship
• trueGood and evil
• trueHunt, Callum (Fictitious character)
• Juvenile works
• Magic
• Magic -- Fiction
• Magic -- Juvenile fiction
• truePreteen boys
• trueSchools
• trueVirginia
• trueChildren of widowers
• trueChild wizards

Genre

• Fantasy fiction
• Children's stories
• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

• Warned away from magic all of his life, Callum endeavors to fail the trials that would admit him to the Magisterium only to be drawn into its ranks against his will and forced to confront dark elements from his past
• Friends and foes. Danger and magic. Death and life. Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial. Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail. All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he succeeds at the Iron Trial and is admitted into the Magisterium, he is sure it can only mean bad things for him. So he tries his best to do his worst - and fails at failing. Now the Magisterium awaits him. It's a place that's both sensational and sinister, with dark ties to his past and a twisty path to his future. The Iron Trial is just the beginning, for the biggest test is still to come ... From the remarkable imaginations of bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes a heart-stopping, mind-blowing, pulse-pounding plunge into the magical unknown. -- from dust jacket

Member of

• trueMagisterium
• Magisterium, bk. 1

Storyline

• truePlot-driven

Writing style

• trueAttention-grabbing

Award

• Indian Paintbrush Book Award (Wyoming), 2016.
• Land of Enchantment Book Award (New Mexico): Lizards (Grades 6-8), 2019.
• Nutmeg Children's Book Award, Teen category, 2017.
• Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, 2014.
• YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, 2016.
• YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers: Top Ten, 2016.
• Young Reader's Choice Award (Pacific Northwest), Intermediate, 2017.

Awards note

• Pacific Northwest Library Association (PNLA), Young Reader's Choice Award (YRCA), Intermediate Division, 2017.
• Land of Enchantment Lizard Book Award, 2019

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

[Fic]

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 830L
• Sentence length: 4 (hard)
• Word frequency: 3 (medium)

Intended audience source

• lexile
• lexile

Interest level

MG

LC call number

PZ7.B52878

LC item number

Ir 2014

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 5
• 8

Reading level

• 5.6.
• 5.4.
• 5.4
• 5.6

Series statement

Magisterium

Series volume

book 1

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Counts!
• Reading Counts RC
• Accelerated Reader AR

Target audience

juvenile