He tells her that he belongs to a secret society called the Order of the Bear, and he believes that the resurrection of King Arthur is imminent. Morton’s office the next morning for her disciplinary meeting. Will grows closer to Ellie, who comforts him about his breakup. On the boat, Marco reveals Jen and Lance’s affair.
Marco invites her to go sailing with him and Jen, Lance, and Will. She also meets Will’s troubled brother, Marco, learning that he was expelled the previous year after attacking Mr. That same weekend, Ellie learns that Jen has been hooking up with Lance without Will’s knowledge. Morton reacts bizarrely to her submission, demanding that she and Lance report to him for a disciplinary hearing. Uninterested in the subject, she writes the project outline and turns it in. In World Literature class, Ellie is partnered with Lance to present about a medieval figure called the Lady of Shalott. Will tells a similar story to Ellie, adding that he is upset that his father is trying to force him to go to the Naval Academy, foreclosing the opportunity to make an actual difference in the world. She learns from her new teammates that Will has been suffering from emotional issues due to his wealthy military father’s recent remarriage to the wife of his best friend. They quickly form a camaraderie, and Ellie resolves to join the track team. The first week of school, Will appears at Ellie’s house, having been assigned to her as a guide. The dark haired boy is Will Wagner, Jen’s boyfriend and a football quarterback. They include cheerleader Jen Gold and football guard Lance Reynolds. Beginning school at Avalon High, Ellie finds that the kids from the park are her classmates. She is startled when one of them, a boy with dark hair, looks at her as if they know each other. However, she happens to run into three people her age while on a run in the park.
Ellie, reluctant to leave her old life and friends, rejects the notion that she should make friends. The Harrisons move to Annapolis in late summer, before the school year starts. Both her parents, professors of medieval studies, plan to use the next year for an academic sabbatical. The novel begins as Ellie Harrison moves from Minnesota to Annapolis, Maryland at the beginning of her junior year of high school. The novel was succeeded by a manga series published in three volumes titled Avalon High: Coronation. When Ellie, a new student, moves into town and is thrown into the fray, she scrambles to find her own place in the narrative and to avoid a grim, medieval fate. Meg Cabot’s young adult novel Avalon High (2005) blends a modern narrative with medieval fantasy, describing a high school whose seemingly typical social problems escalate to a tipping point, revealing a supernatural connection to the mythos of King Arthur’s court.
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