The Wizard Without a Wand - Book 2: The Diary of Jenie Maloy: The Wizard Without a Wand, #2

By Dale Stubbart

In Book 2 of The Wizard Without a Wand, Jenie Maloy tells us her version of what happened during her first year at Wizard School. While it's the same story as Shmedley Thrumbledack's story in Book 1 of this series, we learn different things. For one thing, it's told from a different person's perspective. For another, Jenie remembers more things than Schmedley.Jenie Maloy is one of the Tensome – a group of ten kind students who somehow end up together in their dorm – Hotel Westly. Jenie doesn't want her parent to find about her friends, because every time they do, she quickly loses those friends. Jenie thinks she wants to hang with the super-rich kids. She also wants to hang out with boys, several boys, enough boys to drive her parents nuts. But she finds that hanging with the Tensome is what she really wants to do. And she learns that she has a gift she has always wanted, but which she always thought she never had. In this book, we are introduced to the rest of the Tensome and to the rest of the Teachers. Rating G; Reading Level Easy 5th Grade; Longest Word: Incomprehensibly. Jennie Malloy is a young teenage girl. The day before she heads to Wizard School, she changes her name to Jenie Maloy. She hopes people will mistake her name for Genie. Her parents give her a magic diary. She can write whatever she wants to in the diary and then look it up remotely, later when she needs to know it. Her magic diary won't let her cheat on schoolwork. But it does help her remember things, especially the names of all those boys.Jenie's parents give her the choice of riding the Train to Wizard School or riding the Bus. Even though Jenie knows that she'll totally loathe riding on the Bus, she agrees to do so. Jenie figures that riding the Bus to Wizard School is the right thing to do. And doing the right thing will get her into Hotel UpAbove where all the super-rich kids stayed. Well, maybe she'd only end up in Hotel Northby where the rich, but not super-rich, kids stayed. However, something went terribly wrong. For Jenie Maloy ended up in Hotel Westly. Yet, as soon as she met the hotel clerk Pinkshny Shmerimidan, she knew that they would be best friends, even though Pinkshny was several years older.Some stories about Wizard Schools are rather dark. This one is mysterious, yet light. And there's lots of humor. There will be surprises. And you'll like the ending. Wizard Schools seem to have certain things in common. Dragons for instance. But Dinosaurs? Yep, this Wizard school also has those. They also have bullies as do other Wizard Schools. How will Schmedley be able to defend himself from them without his wand? Giants, perhaps. One of the students is very tall and very muscular. Most Wizard Schools have Dormitories. Sometimes they're called houses. This Wizard School calls them hotels. The students at all Wizard Schools cast spells. In this one, they all have other special, magical abilities. If this were a book about superheros, those talents might be called superpowers. They all have teachers or professors, and principals or headmasters or headmistresses. And there are always tests, both the formal and informal kind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dale Stubbart
• Release date: Nov 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201450304

Book preview

The Dasha

They named their room the Dasha . There were ten of them. So they referred to themselves as the Tensome . Some referred to them as the Flock because they were always hanging around together.

It took them some time to decide on a name for their room in Hotel Westly. They finally decided on Dasha, since it was Sanskrit for Ten. Other ideas for the name were tossed about such as Ten in other ancient languages or Friends in ancient languages.

They all preferred Sanskrit over the other ancient languages. So it was a tossup between Dasha and Sakhi (Sanskrit for Friends). It was a close vote. But Dasha won out.

Jenie Maloy was, at least in her mind, your typical student at Wizard School. She had gotten one or two right answers in most of the subjects during the evaluation. She was fairly good looking – not too beautiful, not too plain.

Jenie had her share of friends. She also had her share of bullies who picked on her. And she was here at Wizard School to learn to become a powerful Wizard.

Jenie Maloy’s Parents gave her the choice when she graduated from 8th grade. Did she want to attend a private College Prep School or go to Wizard School?

She could have chosen some other education option for her pre-College years. But she knew her Parents would only really approve of one of those two decisions.

It was a hard decision. She would already have a few friends at Prep School. She would have to make new friends at Wizard School. She would do well at either School. Her Parents could keep a better eye on her at Prep School. Etc.

In the end, she decided that although she would have fun at Prep School, she might have even more fun at Wizard School. And so the decision was made.

Of course she told her folks that she had decided that Wizard School would make her a better person. And thus she could make the World a better place.

Now that she had been here for a few weeks, Jenie Maloy still had reservations about attending Wizard School. She was undecided as to whether Wizard School was Utopia or Aipotu. (Aipotu is Utopia spelled backwards and is its antithesis. Aipotu is pronounced like you’re spitting something out).

Which Dormitory, or Hotel as they were called here, would she be assigned to? The Hotels were named after the seven directions – Hotel Westly, Hotel Northby, Hotel Easting, Hotel Southette, Hotel UpAbove, Hotel DownBelow, and Hotel RightHere.

Jenie was hoping for Hotel UpAbove. She’d heard that all the super-rich kids went there. At the very least she was hoping to end up in Hotel Northby where the well-to-do kids would be.

Jenie’s Parents told her that she could be happy in any of the Hotels.

Her Parents also insisted that she ride the Bus to Wizard School, although they could have afforded to let her ride the Train. They had said that she could decide. But they had also said that riding the Bus and getting to know the ordinary kids (which meant not the super-rich kids or the well-to-do kids), would be the right thing to do. And that was the same as insisting she do it.

So Jenie decided to ride the Bus. She figured that if she did so, she would be rewarded by being assigned to Hotel UpAbove. At the very least, she’d get to live in Hotel Northby.

The Diary

As a reward for choosing to do the right thing, that is ride the Bus, Jenie Maloy’s Parents bought her a magic Diary. The Diary was wonderful. It would record what she wanted it to record. All she had to do was to think that she wanted it to record that event or thing.

Her Diary would also record some random things she was thinking about during the day. These random things were recorded without Jenie thinking about wanting them to be recorded. In fact, Jenie would have preferred that her Diary hadn’t recorded some of these random things.

If Jenie needed to remember something her Diary had recorded, she just needed to think the