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The School for Good and Evil First published in hardback in the USA by HarperCollins Children’s Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. in 2013 First published in paperback in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2013

The School for Good and Evil: A World Without Princes First published in hardback in the USA by HarperCollins Children’s Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., in 2014 First published in paperback in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2014

This bind-up up edition, The School for Good and Evil: 2 Book Collection, first published in Great Britain in electronic format by HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 77—85 Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, London W6 8JB

Text © 2013, 2014 by Soman Chainani

Illustrations copyright © 2013, 2014 by Iacopo Bruno

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Source Edition ISBNs: 9780007492930, 9780007502813

Ebook Edition © SEPTEMBER 2014 ISBN: 9780008108182 Version: 2014-08-14

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

The School for Good and Evil

The School for Good and Evil: A World Without Princes

About the Author

About the Publisher

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

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

1 - The Princess & The Witch

2 - The Art of Kidnapping

3 - The Great Mistake

4 - The Three Witches of Room 66

5 - Boys Ruin Everything

6 - Definitely Evil

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

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.

“Father, if I don’t sleep nine hours, my eyes look swollen.”

“Everyone’s prattling on that you’re to be taken this year,” her father said, nailing a misshapen bar over her bedroom window, now completely obscured by locks, spikes, and screws. “They tell me to shear your hair, muddy up your face, as if I believe all this fairy-tale hogwash. But no one’s getting in here tonight. That’s for sure.” He pounded a deafening crack as exclamation.

Sophie rubbed her ears and frowned at her once lovely window, now something you’d see in a witch’s den. “Locks. Why didn’t anyone think of that before?”

“I don’t know why they all think it’s you,” he said, silver hair slicked with sweat. “If it’s goodness that School Master fellow wants, he’ll take Gunilda’s daughter.”