Enter a treacherous world where destiny, desire, and friendship meet two girls on their unexpected adventure to The School for Good and Evil, the place where all fairy tales start. Sophie is the classic princess on a book cover; blonde, fair, the beauty of her town, and seemingly benevolent at every turn. Agatha, the “Graveyard Girl,” constantly wearing black, has a witch mother, and a cat with a less-than-sunny disposition appears as the antithesis of Sophie, destined to be the villain. Yet, once kidnapped and taken to the School for Good and Evil, Agatha is plopped onto the butterfly-filled field in front of the shimmering castle of the Good school. Whereas Sophie is left hurtling towards the pitch black grounds of the school for Evil, insignificantly small compared to the sharp spires of the castle. Each a fish out of water, Sophie and Agatha navigate their reality while dealing with princes, betrayal, a mysterious Headmaster, and the discovery of their true selves within the world of Good and Evil.

Pick up this thrilling book to discover a friendship stronger than any binary and to reveal the inner workings of how fairy tales really get made.

Review by: Elise Fukuda

Elise is a teen volunteer at the Palms-Rancho Park Library. She is in 10th grade at the Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts.

—Emily Meehan, Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library