Stones to Ashes — Kailin Gow

If you like Harry Potter or Chronicles of Narnia, you will love Kailin Gow's Alchemists Academy Series. A boarding school for the magically inclined, founded by Merlin himself. The Alchemists Academy is Harry Potter meets Camelot along with a healthy dose of teen love, coming of age, friendship, and destiny.
"What do you learn here...at the Academy?" Wirt asks. "Magic? The responsibility to use your powers responsibly?"

"Uh...something like that," his roommate Spencer said. "More like how to rule worlds."

Wirt, is used to being shuffled from foster home to foster home, adopting a devil-may-care attitude toward the world along the way. Now he s in a school he can t escape, learning to develop his latent magical abilities, for what use, he doesn t know...to save his world or to destroy it...