Year of the Griffin

Blurb

Year of the Griffin, later The Year of the Griffin in the U.K., is a fantasy novel by the British author Diana Wynne Jones, published 2000 simultaneously in the U.K. and the U.S. It is the sequel to The Dark Lord of Derkholm, set primarily at the University several years after that novel's radical conclusion.
Year is centred on six first-year students of magic, in relation to the administration and teachers, their families and studies, and each other. A review in Publishers Weekly called it a "boisterous spoof of the campus novel"; another in Booklist said that it continues "Jones' spoof of traditional fantasy conventions".