Playschool — Colin Thompson

 

Look through the cobwebbed, murky arched window in deepest Patagonia, and this is what you might see. Every day five of the Flood children travel halfway round the world to Quicklime College, the ultimate school for witches and wizards. There's no time for silly games flying around on broomsticks. Sports day is coming up, and before you even wonder how fourâ€"legged Satanella copes with the threeâ€"legged race, here's a secret for you: Orkward Warlock, the vilest child in the school, and his sidekick, The Toad, hate the big, happy Floods family. And they're plotting to kill the Floods -- on sports day.