On the Children's Shelf: "The School for Good and Evil" by Soman Chaninani

My daughter read Soman Chaninani's "The School for Good and Evil" after a friend recommended it to her. She couldn't put it down. She was thrilled when she received the second book in the series for Christmas and immediately handed me book one and told me I "had to" read it.
 
I'm a bit behind on my "to be read" list. Okay, who am I kidding? My "to be read" list is probably a mile long, but when your child hands you a book that they love and asks you to read it...that book jumps to the top of the list. 
 
I dove into "The School for Good and Evil" this week. It is very different from what I was expecting, and I honestly have no idea where the story will go ... which makes it awesome! I dislike when books are predictable and this one surprised me from the start. To give you a brief over view, there is a school for good and evil (obviously). Every four years, two children from a town surrounded my forest go missing in the middle of the night. They are never found. Years later, new fairy tale books arrive at the local book seller's, and the children who went missing are in them ... one is the good character, the other is the evil character. In the days leading up to the night when the two children will be taken by the school master, parents try to make their naughty children better (so they aren't the most evil child) and their good children ugly and as unlike a fairy tale prince or princess as possible.
 
This year, unlike other years, one girl is hoping to be chosen. She wants desperately to be a princess in a fairy tale and impatiently awaits the arrival of the school master in the hopes that he will take her away to her fairy tale life. To find out if she is taken and if she ends up the princess in a fairy tale, check out this incredible series. I'm only on book one, but I can't put it down and am excited to see where this series goes!
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Submitted by Brewster, NY

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