Edge Chronicles 8: The Winter Knights (The Edge Chronicles)
The eighth volume in the Edge Chronicles series begins with young Quint entering the Knights Academy at a time of great turmoil. Despite the death of his sponsor, he is allowed to join the other squires at the academy on Sanctaphrax (the great city on a floating rock), but as their training progresses, their very existence is imperiled by unusual winter storms of increasing ferocity. Although Stewart's writing and Riddell's ink drawings create their own distinctive world, this novel shares charming elements with certain other wizards'-academy fantasies and stands alone better than some of its series mates. Phelan, Carolyn