The Bell Beneath Briarwick

Thirteen-year-old Wren Holloway has spent years hearing things no one else can-memories lingering in old objects, voices trapped inside places, and echoes left behind long after people are gone.

Then one rainy afternoon in Grand Rapids, Wren hears a bell ringing from the site of a school that was demolished years before she was born.

The bell leads her to a mysterious invitation from Briarwick Academy, a hidden boarding school in Michigan's Upper Peninsula where students learn to understand and control unusual abilities. For the first time, Wren is surrounded by people who believe her. At Briarwick, staircases move, objects have opinions, magical creatures emerge from ink and paper, and even the school itself seems to remember the students who have walked its halls.

But Briarwick is hiding something.

There should be four houses. Four founders. Four names.

Yet Wren keeps finding traces of a fifth.

A missing tower appears in reflections. An erased house name refuses to stay written. Strange passages open beneath the school. Students begin forgetting things they know happened. And deep below Briarwick, a bell rings even though everyone insists the academy has never had one.

With the help of her new friends Milo, Elodie, and Ash-and Quill, the mischievous paper fox created from Wren's own magic-Wren begins unraveling a mystery Briarwick has spent decades trying to bury.

Because some memories refuse to disappear.

And when the forgotten bell begins to ring, Wren may be the only person who can hear what the school is trying to say.

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