Erika McGann

A coven of pre-teen witches, bored with the slow-and-steady instruction they're receiving from their grandmotherly instructor, start following a younger, flashier instructor. With strife in the coven, it's up to Grace to bring them all back together and save the day. The book was cute and sweet, focusing on friendship. (Provided by publisher)

Received as an October Book Crate from Lit-Cube. A group of middle school kids accidentally open a portal for a pesky demon to enter their school and wreak unspeakable havoc as it works its way through their wish list of magic they thought would be fun to perform until they see their misdeeds in action. They eventually find help in some unlikely allies but it does take several attempts.

Five friends in school are dabbling in magic and spells and they do want it to work until an experiment with an Ouija board goes horribly wrong, one of them is posessed and the other four have to work at helping their friend and stopping the last spell in the notebook from coming true.

It was a laugh, some very funny characters and the situations were often hilarious. Features good witches as well as demons, and good witches who are cranky, and I loved her to bits.