love this series.
The School for Good and Evil
By Soman Chainani
Book 1 of 4 in the
The School for Good and Evil Series
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 4 - 8 | Grades 4 - 6 | n/a | 5.2 | 105365 |
The New York Times bestselling The School for Good and Evil 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 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?
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published on 4/30/2014
Binding: Paperback
Book Reviews (305)
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THIS IS THE BEST BOOK IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE. A must read for everyone filled with laughs and mystery this twisted book is totally worth your while.
A princess and a witch....friends? Sophie is a beautiful blonde, obsessed over her looks and doing good deeds. Agatha is the opposite. She is a witch's daughter, and most of the village stays away from her and thinks she's evil, which Agatha demonstrates quite often. Sophie first becomes friends with Agatha for a good deed, but soon Sophie and Agatha become real best friends. One night, Agatha and Sophie get kidnapped from their village of Gavaldon and brought to the School of Good and Evil, where fairy-tale heroes and villains are made. Students are sorted into Evers (Good) or Nevers (Evil). Sophie has been waiting for this for her entire life, and Agatha just wants to find a way home. But then Agatha is placed into the Good school and Sophie is placed into the Evil school. Is it a mix up? Sophie and Agatha try to switch places, but it never works. Who is really Good and who is really Evil? Through classes, boys, and a faltering friendship, what will they find out about themselves and each other? Will Sophie and Agatha ever get home and find their Happily Ever After? THIS BOOK IS INCREDIBLE! Soman Chainani is amazing and I love his writing. I loved the fact that my opinion kept switching back and forth on who to root for, and who was good or evil, with all the plot twists. It was so good! Literally, right after finishing this first book in the epic series I immediately checked out the next 3 books in the series and I am eagerly awaiting the 5th book! The School for Good and Evil is a fun, engaging read that I really enjoyed, and I think you will too! I give it 5/5 stars, and I recommend it for ages 8+.
Sophie, the most beautiful girl in Gavaldon, has waited her whole life to be kidnapped. With her pink dresses, very extensive grooming, and devotion to helping others look their best, she's positive she'll be the top student in the School for Good. Meanwhile, Agatha, who loves black, graveyards, and being alone, is told she'd be perfect for the School for Evil. So when Sophie is thrown into Evil and Agatha into Good, Sophie is determined to get into Good and Agatha is determined to take Sophie back home. But what if Sophie really is Evil and Agatha is Good? Who is the School Master really? And, most of all, who decides who's good or evil? This is a spectacular book full of twists and turns you'll never see coming and just when you think you've figured out what's going to happen, the story goes in a direction you never would've guessed!
“Sophie had waited all her life to be kidnapped.” I like this book! It seemed like a Disney-type story but with lots, I mean LOTS of action. And with the drawings? This should be Disney-fied. It’s the perfect middle-grade fantasy. There was action, adventure and love. Basically, this book is about these two girls, Sophie and Agatha. They live in a town where, every twelve years, two children get kidnapped by the “School Master” and go to the School For Good and Evil. This book was great! It was light and fluffy, just the type of book you want to read during final exam week. *Sigh* CHARACTERS- Sophie and Agatha were the two main characters. I really liked Sophie’s character development throughout the novel. And Agatha too! Making mistakes then learning from them is key for Agatha in this book. SETTING The overall setting for this novel is great! I really liked the ‘fairy-tale’ theme going on. To have how characters in fairy tales developed is very interesting to me… Overall, I liked this book. It was action-y and fairy-tale-y that I instantly fell in love with this one! Four stars from me! I received an early release copy of the paperback version of this book from DogoBooks, this has not influenced my opinion.
I loved this book!!!! It was funny, fantasy-ic? And I suggest you read or review this ASAP
This book was really good and I recommend it to anyone who likes magic, romance, drama, or suspense. It was a great book and I've read it multiple times since I got it.
This book was amazing, it was really good and very interesting.
Welcome to Gavaldon, a seemingly ordinary village surrounded on all sides by woods. But there is one part about this village that is out of the ordinary. Every four years, on the eleventh night of the eleventh month, two children are taken from their beds and spirited away. They are taken to the School for Good and Evil, where good children train at the School for Good to become princes and princesses, and where evil children train at the School for Evil to become villains and witches. One of the children is always kind and beautiful, while the other child is always ugly and odd. Sophie and Agatha are best friends, and they seem like the perfect pair to be taken this year. Sophie is the perfect candidate for Good, for she is 'kind' and beautiful, while Agatha is odd and ugly. But, when these two friends reach the school, Agatha is taken to Good, and Sophie is taken to Evil. Did the School Master make a terrible mistake... or was he right all along? In this entertaining story, Sophie and Agatha learn about love, hard work, friendship, and what it truly means to be good or evil. I loved, loved, loved, LOVED it, and once I started reading it I could never put it down. This is a great book to teach kids about staying true to themselves, and it has a great twist to the fairy tale stories that we all know and love. I highly recommend this to older elementary and middle school kids. Enjoy!
This book is an absolute must-read because it is so well written and it has such an interesting story. Sophie and Agatha are best friends and complete opposites. Sophie is the prime example of beauty (and vanity) while Agatha is actually a witch’s child. They are taken to the School of Good and Evil, where young children learn to become heroic heroes and vile villains. The problem is that Sophie is taken to the Evil school while Agatha is taken to the Good school. Each side doesn’t think their latest recruit is worthy. Sophie and Agatha try everything to change the error, but nothing really works. The twists and turns this story takes will amaze you, until the finale shocks you. This book is a superb read and is part of a series. Get all of them for a great time!