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THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL will soon be a major motion picture from Netflix - starring Academy Award winner Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh, Sofia Wylie, Sophie Anne Caruso, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, Kit Young, and more! 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! With her glass slippers and devotion to good deeds, Sophie knows shell 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 - Sophies 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? Dont miss the thrilling conclusion to the beloved series, The School for Good and Evil #6: One True King! Read more AMAZON.COM REVIEW THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL READING PLAYLIST BY SOMAN CHAINANI One of my goals in writing The School for Good and Evil was to give the book new energy from chapter to chapter, so you never feel like youre in the same place twice. For each of the 30 chapters, Id pick a book (sometimes a piece of music or an article) that I remembered loving as a child or adolescent and obsessively reread it until I put the chapter to bed. None of the books had explicit links to The School for Good and Evil -- in fact, most of them arent even fantasy. But in the end, I realized I had a playlist to my own imagination, at once light and dark, good and evil. Compiled between April 2011 through March 2012 1. The Princess & The Witch Mary Poppins, P.L Travers. 2. The Art of Kidnapping Peter Pan, JM Barrie Music Video: "Oh, Father" (Madonna, Like a Prayer) 3. The Great Mistake Alices Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll The Bad Beginning, Lemony Snicket 4. The Three Witches of Room 66 The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith The Steampunk Bible, Jeff Vandermeer 5. Boys Ruin Everything Interview with a Vampire, Anne Rice 6. Definitely Evil The Witches, Roald Dahl 7. Grand High Witch Ultimate The Magicians, Lev Grossman 8. Wish Fish 9. 100% Evil The Magician King, Lev Grossman 10. Bad Group The Hobbit, JR Tolkien 11. The School Masters Riddle The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman 12. Dead Ends Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh TV: Downton Abbey, Season 1 13. Doom Room 14. The Crypt Keepers Solution Room with a View, EM Forster 15. Choose Your Coffin 16. Cupid Goes Rogue Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil, John Berendt 17. The Empress New Clothes 18. The Roach and the Fox Auntie Mame, Patrick Dennis Auntie Mame Around the World, Patrick Dennis Madonna Style, Carol Clerk Music Video: "Express Yourself," Madonna "Viva Donatella," Lauren Collins. New Yorker. 9.24.07 19. I Have a Prince Lord of the Flies, Wiliam Golding 20. Secrets and Lies 21. Trial by Tale And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie 22. Nemesis Dreams The Secret History, Donna Tart Music Video: "Bedtime Story," Madonna (Bedtime Stories) 23. Magic in the Mirror The Line of Beauty, Allan Hollingshurst 24. Hope in the Toilet 25. Symptoms The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde TV: Downton Abbey, Season 2 26. The Circus of Talents 27. Promises Unkept Blindness, Jose Saramago Music Video: "Frozen," Madonna (Ray of Light) 28. The Witch of Woods Beyond The Crucible, Arthur Miller Music Video: "What It Feels Like For a Girl," Madonna (Music) 29. Beautiful Evil 30. Never After The Alienist, Caleb Carr Music Video: "Falling Free," Madonna (MDNA) FROM BOOKLIST With overtones of Wicked, and shaped by the world of fairy tales, comes this story of two girls plucked from their village to attend the School for Good and Evil. Pretty (on the outside) Sophie has been hoping for the schoolmaster to take her to a place where shell become the princess she always imagined herself to be. Homely loner Agatha is the other chosen girl, someone Sophie befriended in an effort to show off her "goodness." But their arrival at school leads to a shock, with Agatha placed with the Evers (as in happily ever after) and a distraught Sophie stuck with the creepy Nevers. So begins a tale that sees both girls fighting their fates - and at times each other - as they search for an ending that will encompass all that they are and what theyve learned during their Grimm adventures. The terrific cover will draw readers in, the premise is a winner, and both Sophie and Agatha are strong characters. However, this is sometimes overwritten and repetitive, dragging the narrative down in places. But those who like their fantasy laced with fairy tale will surely enjoy it. Grades 6-8. --Ilene Cooper REVIEW "Wow. From the very first sentence, you know youre entering a thrilling world of strange fantasy... A wild and dangerous fairy tale ride. I loved this book." (R.L. Stine, author of the bestselling Goosebumps series) "Chainani has beautifully imagined the world where fairy tales come to life, a place where for every fairy princess with a Happily Ever After in her future there is a villain with a tragic fate in store. But in The School for Good and Evil its not always certain which is which." (David Magee, screenwriter of Life of Pi and Finding Neverland) "It is not often that someone comes along who can reinvent fairy tales and reclaim their magic. Chainani take
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Soman Chainani's debut series, THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL, has sold more than 3.5 million copies, been translated into 31 languages across 6 continents, and will be a major motion picture from Netflix in 2022. Each of the six books in the series - THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL, A WORLD WITHOUT PRINCES, THE LAST EVER AFTER, QUESTS FOR GLORY, A CRYSTAL OF TIME, and ONE TRUE KING - have debuted on the New York Times Bestseller list. Together the books have been on the print and extended lists for 41 weeks. A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University's MFA Film Program, Soman began his career as a screenwriter and director, with his films playing at over 150 film festivals around the world. He has been nominated for the Waterstone Prize for Children's Literature, been named to the Out100, and also received the $100,000 Shasha Grant and the Sun Valley Writer's Fellowship, both for debut writers. Soman's latest book, BEASTS & BEAUTY, is an instant New York Times Bestseller and will soon be published in 10 languages. It is his seventh New York Times bestseller in a row.
