Publisher's Synopsis
Often mistaken for a boy because of her haircut and name, Alex Morningside is an inquisitive girl of ten-and-a-half who attends the prestigious Wigpowder-Steele Academy. Unfortunately, though she loves to learn, Alex just cant bring herself to enjoy her classes. Her teachers are all old and smelly and dont seem to know about anything that has happened in the world the past thirty years, and her peerswell they are quite simply ridiculous.
