When it happens to sweet, Disney princess–like Sophie and her friend Agatha, plain of features, sour of disposition and low of self-esteem, they are both horrified to discover that they’ve been dropped not where they expect but at Evil and at Good respectively. Those who survive to graduate become major or minor characters in fairy tales. 9-14)Ĭhainani works an elaborate sea change akin to Gregory Maguire’s Wicked (1995), though he leaves the waters muddied.Įvery four years, two children, one regarded as particularly nice and the other particularly nasty, are snatched from the village of Gavaldon by the shadowy School Master to attend the divided titular school. Tweens will definitely identify and could view their grandparents in a whole new light. Korman’s novel narrated by the good, the bad and the only slightly involved is his usual smart, funny, slightly skewed realism. Claverage gets a taste of peace, love and understanding it won’t soon forget. They don’t come any stranger than Cap, and Zach Powers and his clique do their level best to make Cap’s life hell. Unfortunately, there’s this tradition at Claverage (C-average) Middle School in which the eighth-grade class elects the strangest kid and biggest nerd to be Class President. Donnelly spent a few of her childhood years at Garland, and she knows what he’s in for. When Rain falls from a plum tree and has to spend two months in the hospital, Cap gets his first real taste of the confusing, “real” world of 2007. He doesn’t know what TV is like, and he’s never held money in his hand. Thirteen-year-old Capricorn “Cap” Anderson has only left the Garland Farm Commune (founded 1967) with his grandmother (“Rain”) a few times for supplies.
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