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- Herausgeber: Nosy Crow
- Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
- Serie: Unicorn Academy
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021
When your best friend is a unicorn, magical adventures are guaranteed! Imagine a school where you meet your own unicorn and have amazing adventures together! That's what happens for the girls at Unicorn Academy on beautiful Unicorn Island. Aisha and her friendly unicorn, Silver, are having lots of fun at Unicorn Academy, but Aisha keeps getting distracted and Silver just wants to play! Huge hailstorms are putting the school in danger, and it looks like bad magic might be involved. Suddenly Aisha and Silver are in a race against time to stop the storms and save their school from a mysterious villain. With a glittery cover and beautifully illustrated throughout by Lucy Truman, Unicorn Academy is the perfect series for 7+ readers who love magic and adventure. Check out the other titles in this series: Lily and Feather, Phoebe and Shimmer, Zara and Moonbeam and many more!
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The rumbling became a roar. Aisha stared in disbelief as the top of the mountain seemed to slide closer. Blinking, she realised a gigantic wall of snow was falling from the top, straight towards them. “Avalanche!” she shrieked.
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To all the friends of Unicorn Academy and to unicorn lovers everywhere.
CHAPTER ONE
The hailstones battered down on the roof, but Aisha ignored them. She and her unicorn, Silver, were safe and warm inside the stables at Unicorn Academy. Aisha’s fingers moved quickly along her flute, playing the lively piece of music she had been composing for her dorm’s end-of-term display ride. Silver tapped along with his hooves.
Aisha had almost reached the end of the piece when Lily came into Silver’s stall. Aisha paused, suddenly realising that the hailstorm had stopped and it was quiet again.
“There you are! I ran over as soon as the 2storm ended to check you were OK,” said Lily. “The hailstones were massive. There’s loads of damage.” Lily tucked her short, dark hair behind her ears. “Trees have lost branches, the greenhouse has been smashed.” She shivered. “That’s the second hailstorm in two days. It’s really worrying. Zara wants us to have an Amethyst dorm meeting with our unicorns to talk about what Ms Nettles said. Are you coming?”
Aisha remembered Ms Nettles, the headteacher, giving a long speech in assembly that morning, but she’d been thinking about her music and she’d drifted off into her own thoughts. Afterwards, she’d hurried to the stable block to play her piece to Silver. She frowned. “I’m working on my music.”
“Please, Aisha. This is important. And –” Lily smiled hopefully – “we’re going to play crossnet afterwards. It’s much more fun with four of us.” 3
“Let’s go, Aisha,” pleaded Silver. “I love crossnet!”
Aisha shook her head. Her friends were great, but when she composed music she couldn’t relax until she was happy with it. It was like having an itch she had to scratch. “Sorry,” she apologised. “You can tell me what you talked about later.” She lifted her flute to her lips.
“OK,” said Lily, walking away. “But Zara won’t be happy about this.”
Aisha continued playing her music while Silver munched on his hay, until the stable door swung open again. Aisha blinked in surprise as she saw Zara, Phoebe and Lily all standing there. Zara’s hands were on her hips and her dark eyes were cross. “Aisha,” she said sternly, “Lily said you’re too busy to come to our dorm meeting.”
Behind Zara, Lily gave Aisha an apologetic look. 4
“I’m working on my music,” said Aisha. She put her flute down and tightened her high ponytail.
“Aren’t you worried about what Ms Nettles said?” Zara asked.
5“It’s awful!” exclaimed Phoebe. “Please come with us to talk about it, pleeeeeease!”
Aisha felt her lips twitch. Phoebe was always so dramatic.
“We’re not leaving without you,” Zara told her.
Aisha grinned. She knew when she was beaten. “All right,” she said, putting her flute in its case. “I’ll come.”
“Yay!” Silver whinnied in delight. “We can play crossnet!” He eagerly trotted over to the other unicorns.
“So, what did you think about what Ms Nettles said?” Zara asked Aisha as they followed Silver. “It’s really worrying, isn’t it?”
“Um…”
Zara frowned. “Honestly, Aisha! You didn’t listen! If the hailstorms get worse then school may have to close.”
“Ms Nettles said one of us might be killed if we 6got caught outside in a hailstorm!” Phoebe’s blue eyes widened.
“She didn’t exactly say that, Phoebs,” said Zara carefully. “She said that if these storms carry on, it will be too dangerous for us to stay at school. The term will have to end early and graduation will be brought forward – we’d all be going home in just five days’ time.”
“That’s terrible!” Aisha hated the idea of saying goodbye to her friends early. Also, she and Silver weren’t ready to graduate because he hadn’t discovered his magic and they still hadn’t bonded. When unicorns and their partners bonded, a strand of the person’s hair turned the same colour as their unicorn’s mane. Then everyone could see that they were partners – and best friends – for life. If term ended in five days, she and Silver might not graduate and they would have to return to the school for a second year. Much as she loved 7Unicorn Academy, Aisha didn’t want to stay there without the rest of her dorm.
“We need to find out who’s causing these hailstorms and stop them!” declared Phoebe.
Aisha’s eyes widened. “You mean the hailstorms might not be natural, they might be caused by magic?”
“Shh!” Zara said hastily, glancing round. “Let’s go to the meadow where we can continue our meeting without being overheard!”
CHAPTER TWO
Zara vaulted on to her unicorn, Moonbeam. The others followed her lead and soon they were all cantering out of the stable yard and past Sparkle Lake. The fountain in the middle of the lake brought magical water up from the centre of the earth that then flowed all around Unicorn Island. The water made the crops and animals on the island flourish, and when the unicorns drank it, it strengthened their powers. When students of the academy graduated, they became guardians of the island and helped protect its magical waters. Aisha planned to be a composer or a musician, 9but she loved knowing that she and Silver would also work together, protecting their beautiful island.
Near the meadows, the girls passed their riding teacher, Ms Tulip. She was heading for the stables with Mr Longnose, a school inspector. He was a tall, gangly man with a pointed nose and sharp eyes and he always seemed to think he knew best. She felt sorry for Ms Tulip, having to listen to him ramble on as they walked. Poor Ms Tulip!
“Let’s not go near Mr Nosey Parker,” muttered Phoebe. “He’ll only ask where we’re going!”
“I don’t trust him one bit,” said Zara darkly.
Giving Mr Longnose and Ms Tulip a wide berth, they cantered into the meadow. They dismounted next to a sparkling stream and the girls sat down on some nearby tree stumps while the unicorns splashed into the icy water, whinnying and kicking it at each other. Silver 10loved to play, and he stamped his hooves harder than anyone, laughing when he soaked the others. Aisha grinned. She loved Silver so much. He was so confident and cheerful.
11“Right, Amethyst dorm, down to business!” said Zara, pulling a pen and notebook out of her pocket. “I think someone is making these hailstorms happen and I suspect it’s the same mystery person who’s caused all the other problems this year – the tornadoes, the tidal wave and the drought. If we want Unicorn Academy to stay open, we need to work out who is responsible and stop them.” She opened her notebook. “Let’s examine what we know.”
“The person doing these things is a man,” Lily put in. “We’ve heard him speak every time there’s been a weather disaster.”
“You cannot stop me,
