The School for Good and Evil

by Chainani, Soman
ISBN: 9780062104908
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The New York Times bestselling School for Good and Evil series is an epic journey into a dazzling new world, where the only way out of a fairy tale is to live through one.

Start here to follow Sophie, Agatha, and everyone at school from the beginning This paperback edition features an Extras section, giving readers a chance to see which school they'd be in and a Q&A with the author, Soman Chainani--as well as a beautifully redesigned cover.

With her glass slippers and devotion to good deeds, Sophie knows she'll earn top marks at the School for Good and join the ranks of past students like Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Snow White. Meanwhile, Agatha, with her shapeless black frocks and wicked black cat, seems a natural fit for the villains in the School for Evil.

The two girls soon find their fortunes reversed--Sophie's dumped in the School for Evil to take Uglification, Death Curses, and Henchmen Training, while Agatha finds herself in the School for Good, thrust among handsome princes and fair maidens for classes in Princess Etiquette and Animal Communication.

But what if the mistake is actually the first clue to discovering who Sophie and Agatha really are?

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Chainani, Soman
  • ISBN: 9780062104908
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.56 x 1.25
  • Number Of Pages: 544
  • Publication Year: 2014

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  • Fairy tales aren't made - they're trained

    Deana V. - 2 years ago

    Though the target audience is below my age demographic, I found myself highly enjoying the world in which Soman Chainani has created. In a world where children are plucked from their beds to be turned into fairy tale characters, The School for Good and Evil centers around two friends who are chosen for these schools. In these two schools, children are trained to be as heroic or as evil as possible in the hopes of becoming a protagonist (or antagonist) of the next great fairy tale. What no one expects is for the fair and pink-loving Sophie to be dropped in the school for Evil while goth-like Agatha is sent to the school for Good. Far from familiarity, Agatha and Sophie must decide whether to accept their fates or push against the status quo. Either way, their presence will leave an impact on the schools forever...

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  • A twist on the usual tales

    Laura K. - 6 years 3 months ago

    The School for Good and Evil is a new take on fairy tales for middle grade readers that takes all the conventions of the fairy tale world, but reinvents them for a great tale about friendship and what makes a good person. It begins with Sophie and Agatha, two girls from a small village on the edge of the woods where once a year, two children are spirited away to the School for Good and Evil to either be sorted into the Good side or the Villain side. Sophie, with her beautiful looks and blond hair, thinks she'll be perfect for the Good side and Agatha, with her dark clothes and grumpy demeanor, wants to be on the villain side. But on the night of the sorting Sophie is put into the Villain academy and Agatha is put on the side of Princesses. This is the beginning to a fun series for readers who aren't quite ready for the teen section but need a challenge and with six books and counting, it's sure to keep you busy!

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  • Proof that rules were meant to be broken

    Rebekah M. - 7 years ago

    Since this book is a bit on the younger side of fairy tale retellings, I thought it'd be a quick fluffy read and fully expected to be able to predict the plot. Then the novel proved me wrong not once, but around four times. I'm a sucker for twisted fairy tales and Chainani's story doesn't disappoint: Two girls from a small village who grew up reading fables find themselves attending a school designed for the fairy tale characters themselves, except that Sophie (the pink loving blonde with her sights set on a prince) is enrolled in the school for evil and Agatha (the black wearing loner whose only friend is Sophie herself) winds up in the school for good. This supposed mix-up sparks a crazy chain of events that threatens to bring down the entire fairy tale community. The story is all about subverting expectations and, while I probably would have written it differently, I enjoyed finding out where it ultimately went. Let's just say the ending wasn't at all what I expected; I went out and grabbed the second in the series the next day. The only problem I had while reading was that it felt like the characters hadn't learned anything over the course of the novel. It was as though they were completely ignorant to everything happening around them, story-wise. After 300 pages, the audience certainly gets what's happening and it was frustrating to read that the characters weren't. Maybe this was because the book was written for an age range pretty far below my own, but 9-11 year olds who are reading 300-400 page books are sure to catch up to the storyline and ideas pretty quickly. Still, I couldn't put it down.

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