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First published in the USA by HarperCollins Children’s Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. in 2013
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2013
The School for Good and Evil
Text copyright © 2013 by Soman Chainani
Illustrations copyright © 2013 by Iacopo Bruno
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Source ISBN: 9780007492930
Ebook Edition © JUNE 2013 ISBN: 9780007492947
Version: 2019-09-05
IN THE FOREST PRIMEVAL
A SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL
TWO TOWERS LIKE TWIN HEADS
ONE FOR THE PURE
ONE FOR THE WICKED
TRY TO ESCAPE YOU’LL ALWAYS FAIL
THE ONLY WAY OUT IS
THROUGH A FAIRY TALE
Contents
4 - The Three Witches of Room 66
7 - Grand High Witch Ultimate
8 - Wish Fish
9 - The 100% Talent Show
10 - Bad Group
11 - The School Master’s Riddle
12 - Dead Ends
13 - Doom Room
14 - The Crypt Keeper’s Solution
15 - Choose Your Coffin
16 - Cupid Goes Rogue
17 - The Empress’s New Clothes
18 - The Roach and the Fox
19 - I Have a Prince
20 - Secrets and Lies
21 - Trial by Tale
22 - Nemesis Dreams
23 - Magic in the Mirror
24 - Hope in the Toilet
25 - Symptoms
26 - The Circus of Talents
27 - Promises Unkept
28 - The Witch of Woods Beyond
29 - Beautiful Evil
30 - Never After
About the Author
About the Publisher
But tonight, all the other children of Gavaldon writhed in their beds. If the School Master took them, they’d never return. Never lead a full life. Never see their family again. Tonight these children dreamt of a red-eyed thief with the body of a beast, come to rip them from their sheets and stifle their screams.
Sophie dreamt of princes instead.
She had arrived at a castle ball thrown in her honor, only to find the hall filled with a hundred suitors and no other girls in sight. Here for the first time were boys who deserved her, she thought as she walked the line. Hair shiny and thick, muscles taut through shirts, skin smooth and tan, beautiful and attentive like princes should be. But just as she came to one who seemed better than the rest, with brilliant blue eyes and ghostly white hair, the one who felt like Happily Ever After . . . a hammer broke through the walls of the room and smashed the princes to shards.
Sophie’s eyes opened to morning. The hammer was real. The princes were not.
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