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Unicorn Academy: Where Magic Happens #6
Olivia and Snowflake
When your best friend is a unicorn, magical adventures are guaranteed! Imagine a school where you meet your own unicorn and have amazing adventures together! That's what happens for the girls at Unicorn Academy on beautiful Unicorn Island.
Olivia is so happy to be at Unicorn Academy. She hopes her sweet unicorn, Snowflake, will discover her magic before graduation day! Everyone is busy decorating Unicorn Academy for the graduation ball, but it looks like someone is trying to ruin the party. It's up to Olivia and Snowflake to save the day - and the school!
With a glittery cover and beautifully illustrated throughout by Lucy Truman, Unicorn Academy is the perfect series for 7+ readers who love magic and adventure.
Check out the other titles in this Sophia and Rainbow, Scarlett and Blaze, Ava and Star and many more!
Olivia is so happy to be at Unicorn Academy. She hopes her sweet unicorn, Snowflake, will discover her magic before graduation day! Everyone is busy decorating Unicorn Academy for the graduation ball, but it looks like someone is trying to ruin the party. It's up to Olivia and Snowflake to save the day - and the school!
With a glittery cover and beautifully illustrated throughout by Lucy Truman, Unicorn Academy is the perfect series for 7+ readers who love magic and adventure.
Check out the other titles in this Sophia and Rainbow, Scarlett and Blaze, Ava and Star and many more!
94 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 4, 2018
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Julie Sykes
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Welcome to my website. Come on in and have a look around. You can find out about my books and also about me.
Name:
Julie Sykes
Birthday:
My birthday month is August
Place of birth:
Kingston upon Thames
Places I’ve lived:
My family moved to Australia just after I was born but returned to England in time for me to start school. I was educated in Surrey and lived there until I got married. I now live in the south of England with my husband and our three children. We used to live on a fish farm, which we shared with 300,000 rainbow trout. We share our current home with a few goldfish and a white wolf cunningly disguised as a dog.
Jobs:
I’ve worked in a kennels, shops, pubs and on a mushroom farm. My first full-time job was as a laboratory technician and after that a teacher. I’m now a full time writer.
First book published:
There were two - This and That and I Don’t Want To Go To Bed!
Favourite Things:
Family, friends, Spring (the season not the bouncy sort although bouncing is good, too), cappuccino, Danish pastries, Cornwall, the sea, books, animals, chocolate.
Worst Things:
Litter, vandals, cleaning the house, having NOTHING to read.
Hobbies:
Reading, walking, cooking, hanging out in cafés.
Welcome to my website. Come on in and have a look around. You can find out about my books and also about me.
Name:
Julie Sykes
Birthday:
My birthday month is August
Place of birth:
Kingston upon Thames
Places I’ve lived:
My family moved to Australia just after I was born but returned to England in time for me to start school. I was educated in Surrey and lived there until I got married. I now live in the south of England with my husband and our three children. We used to live on a fish farm, which we shared with 300,000 rainbow trout. We share our current home with a few goldfish and a white wolf cunningly disguised as a dog.
Jobs:
I’ve worked in a kennels, shops, pubs and on a mushroom farm. My first full-time job was as a laboratory technician and after that a teacher. I’m now a full time writer.
First book published:
There were two - This and That and I Don’t Want To Go To Bed!
Favourite Things:
Family, friends, Spring (the season not the bouncy sort although bouncing is good, too), cappuccino, Danish pastries, Cornwall, the sea, books, animals, chocolate.
Worst Things:
Litter, vandals, cleaning the house, having NOTHING to read.
Hobbies:
Reading, walking, cooking, hanging out in cafés.
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August 16, 2018
A really, really sweet book that should appeal to all young readers who enjoy magic stories and pony tales. 4.5 stars :)
April 24, 2020
Unicorn Academy is a boarding school on magical Unicorn Island, where each child gets to be paired with their very own unicorn and they all have lessons (and plenty of adventures) together. Each unicorn is born with their own special magical power and in order to graduate from the Academy at the end of the year, the unicorn has to find their magic and bond with their rider.
These small chapter books are absolutely perfect to read to a younger child and they contain gorgeous illustrations throughout to help younger readers engage even further with the story.
Before reading this book we had only read one other Unicorn Academy story and while it would be best to read these adventures sequentially from the first book, we still managed to find our feet with the happenings from the other books. This however does seem to be a mini finale where characters from the first six books are graduating and an overall plot arc of some of the mysterious happenings from previous books is uncovered, so I would suggest reading the first six books if you can before moving on to any other books in this series.
In this book we follow Olivia, a girl who is keeping a secret from her friends, and her unicorn Snowflake. The book is both full of magic and adventure and lessons for the readers to learn that trust in friendship goes both ways, as well as being accepted for who you are.
As I mentioned, there is a larger plot arc that comes to a head in this book and with that there are also great lessons about greed and power and how appearances may be deceiving.
These are fairly short books - just over 100 pages each and are great for young readers who are interested in horses/unicorns and magic and adventure and again, they are also great for young listeners who will sit for a chapter book with an older reader.
These small chapter books are absolutely perfect to read to a younger child and they contain gorgeous illustrations throughout to help younger readers engage even further with the story.
Before reading this book we had only read one other Unicorn Academy story and while it would be best to read these adventures sequentially from the first book, we still managed to find our feet with the happenings from the other books. This however does seem to be a mini finale where characters from the first six books are graduating and an overall plot arc of some of the mysterious happenings from previous books is uncovered, so I would suggest reading the first six books if you can before moving on to any other books in this series.
In this book we follow Olivia, a girl who is keeping a secret from her friends, and her unicorn Snowflake. The book is both full of magic and adventure and lessons for the readers to learn that trust in friendship goes both ways, as well as being accepted for who you are.
As I mentioned, there is a larger plot arc that comes to a head in this book and with that there are also great lessons about greed and power and how appearances may be deceiving.
These are fairly short books - just over 100 pages each and are great for young readers who are interested in horses/unicorns and magic and adventure and again, they are also great for young listeners who will sit for a chapter book with an older reader.
February 28, 2024
3.5/5
The sixth and final book in this cohort of girls! This one wraps up the cohort's story nicely while setting some things up for the next set. Olivia's dilemma is that she hasn't been entirely truthful to her friends and her unicorn in fear that if she told the truth they would no longer like her. This has led her to have a secret hope that she doesn't graduate, without realizing how much Snowflake really wants to. So her arc is getting support from Snowflake to get the courage to tell the truth and to start putting Snowflake's desires above her own fears.
We kind of get to see all the girls contributing to the story and events in this last book, which is kind of special! There is a grand reveal that is set up from some building suspicions from the last installment, though still there is a bit of a mystery on why exactly the motivations are there and where it will go from here. A bit mustache twirly villan-y at the end, but hey it is a kids series :)
My 4.5 year old daughter did well with this installment and didn't show much anxiety around the suspenseful bits. But there is: kidnapping, betrayal of trust by an authority figure, said authority figure actively trying to harm the main characters. I am sure those things could be disturbing for some young readers so wouldn't hurt to throw in some discussion for those parts.
The sixth and final book in this cohort of girls! This one wraps up the cohort's story nicely while setting some things up for the next set. Olivia's dilemma is that she hasn't been entirely truthful to her friends and her unicorn in fear that if she told the truth they would no longer like her. This has led her to have a secret hope that she doesn't graduate, without realizing how much Snowflake really wants to. So her arc is getting support from Snowflake to get the courage to tell the truth and to start putting Snowflake's desires above her own fears.
We kind of get to see all the girls contributing to the story and events in this last book, which is kind of special! There is a grand reveal that is set up from some building suspicions from the last installment, though still there is a bit of a mystery on why exactly the motivations are there and where it will go from here. A bit mustache twirly villan-y at the end, but hey it is a kids series :)
My 4.5 year old daughter did well with this installment and didn't show much anxiety around the suspenseful bits. But there is: kidnapping, betrayal of trust by an authority figure, said authority figure actively trying to harm the main characters. I am sure those things could be disturbing for some young readers so wouldn't hurt to throw in some discussion for those parts.
October 15, 2019
As it looks like Olivia won't bond with Snowflake in time for their graduation nor find Snowflakes magic in time, she becomes resigned to the fact she'll be the only one of her friends left behind at the school.
However in a twist of events, Olivia finds herself sharing her deepest secret after she gets taken by the person who's been causing all the trouble around the academy...
A perfect short adventure fantasy book teaching about friendship and life issues to curl up with and get lost into another world entirely great for young readers and those of us who wish unicorns were real as adults too!
However in a twist of events, Olivia finds herself sharing her deepest secret after she gets taken by the person who's been causing all the trouble around the academy...
A perfect short adventure fantasy book teaching about friendship and life issues to curl up with and get lost into another world entirely great for young readers and those of us who wish unicorns were real as adults too!
December 27, 2020
This one finally told us who the "bad guy" is. It's the graduation of the Sapphire dorm (at least for those that have bonded with their unicorns and if said unicorns have found their magic) we've been reading about the last several books. I wouldn't read this one to my preschooler again because it did talk a lot about the bad guy in a way that sounded scary for a preschooler.
August 4, 2021
I liked this more than the other books in the series. It was super fun to read, and Snowflake looks amazing on the front cover. Annoyingly, I could already guess the bad person was Ms Primrose from the start- and by that I mean from the start of the whole Unicorn Academy series.
July 22, 2020
Can't wait for the next set of unicorn academy books
December 17, 2020
5 stars according to my 5yo
July 29, 2021
6 yr old loves this series
July 28, 2022
I really like this book and it is one of my favourite books!!
April 23, 2023
It was amazing!
December 3, 2023
My favorite book in the series!
February 22, 2025
My daughter's review: "It was super fun!"
April 9, 2025
Read the series with my 9yo daughter who loved it and rated 5 stars
May 13, 2025
Our 9 year old loves Unicorn Academy, and gives this book 5/5 stars as well. I will say, this book had quite the plot twist!
August 22, 2025
I WAS NOTA EXPECTING THAT TWIST (watched the show first, now it makes me 🤔
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