Hollow Fields And The Perfect Cog by Madeleine Rosca

Hollow Fields And The Perfect Cog by Madeleine Rosca, 192 pages

In this stand alone Hollow Fields manga, Lucy and the other students of Hollow Fields must earn the cash to rebuild their school.  How will they do this?   The students decide to enter the inter school mad science fair competition.   Can they create the winning entry?

Hollow Fields by Madeline Rosca

Hollow Fields by Madeline Rosca, 550 pages

Hollow Fields is a well written manga series about a young girl, Lucy Snow, who mistakenly ends up at a boarding school for young geniuses.  Lucy finds trouble fitting in and discovers that low grades result in a dangerous form of detention. Will Lucy find out the secrets behind Hollow Fields and what makes the staff act so strangely?  This is the first manga book I have read that I actually read from right to left, and I must say, I did enjoy it!  Madeline Rosca does a fantastic job illustrating this novel.

Hollow Fields by Madeleine Rosca

Hollow Fields by Madeleine Rosca - 544 pages

Lucy Snow is on her way to her new boarding school when she gets lost in the woods.  She believes she has stumbled her way there but in reality it is Miss Weaver's Academy for the Scientifically Gifted and Ethically Unfettered -- also known as Hollow Fields.  It seems to be a great school at first with huge private rooms and scrumptious meals prepared to order.  But there is a downside . . . it's a school for mad scientists and every week the student with the lowest grades is sent to detention and never returns.

This was an interesting graphic novel.  I'm a little confused as to the intended audience.  The main character is a 9 year old girl who seems very young, however, I would think the storyline is more for teens.  It was interesting enough to finish the book but probably isn't one I would recommend too often.