Staff Pick of the Week: Flora Segunda

This week's pick is Flora Segunda: being the magickal mishaps of a girl of spirit, her glass-gazing sidekick, two ominous butlers (one blue), a house with eleven thousand rooms, and a red dog by Ysabeau S. Wilce (YA WILCE).

Flora Segunda lives in Crackpot Hall, a falling-apart house with rooms upon rooms, a slightly mad father, and a mother who's almost always gone fighting wars. She's about to turn fourteen, at which point she'll be ready to go into the military and follow in her mother's footsteps. But Flora doesn't want to be a Commanding General like Mamma - she wants to be a Ranger like her heroine Nini Mo. Flora's dream is to create magic and go on reconnaissance missions, not to be a soldier. Mama doesn't like magic, nor does she like deviations from her plans for Flora. But a few days before her birthday Flora takes a wrong turn in Crackpot Hall and encounters Valefor, the magical house butler Mama banished years ago. After a little convincing on Valefor's part, Flora decides it's time to introduce magic back into Crackpot Hall. And when she and her best friend Udo decide to go rescue the Dainty Pirate, what started out as an interesting adventure starts to become a very dangerous set of circumstances.
For more information about Flora and Crackpot Hall, check out www.CrackpotHall.com.