White should definitely give this one a go. I’m not sure that readers of Ever After High would necessarily gravitate toward THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL because the tone is so different, but definitely readers who enjoyed THE THICKETY: A PATH BEGINS by J. Agatha doesn’t see herself as lovely, but her compassion and kindness mark her as a true princess. The victims are the most popular girls in school, each murdered and arranged in a grim fairy-tale tableau. Her shallowness and disdain for others much more heavily define her. There are no happy endings for the Princesses of Chaminade High in this short, twisty tale of teenage murder games by the New York Times bestselling author of The School for Good and Evil series.Sophie’s outward beauty isn’t what makes her good. Over all, the message is a familiar important one. One of the students in the School for Evil turns rat poop into chocolate. Agatha, surrounded by curious princes and princesses in the School for Good, passes gas at them to buy her time to escape. The story is a bit meatier than the Ever After High series, but it’s also a bit cruder. While we both loved the upbeat story and its modern fairy tale feel, I liked that this series looked similar but perhaps more complex. When I saw THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL sitting on the shelf in our local bookstore, my daughter and I were in the middle of the Ever After High series by Shannon Hale.
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