Rich and strange (and kitted out with an eye-catching cover), but stronger in the set pieces than the internal logic. At this point, readers are likely to feel suddenly left behind, as, thanks to summary deus ex machina resolutions, everything turns out swell(ish). This leads up to a vicious climactic fight that sees Good and Evil repeatedly switching sides. Growing into their true natures amid revelations and marked physical changes, the two spark escalating rivalry between the wings of the school. Gradually-too gradually, as the author strings out hundreds of pages of Hogwarts-style pranks, classroom mishaps and competitions both academic and romantic-it becomes clear that the placement wasn’t a mistake at all. 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. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Chainani 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. Reeder, Heathwood Hall Episcopal School, Columbia, SCĬopyright � Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. This great book has a good message without ever becoming preachy. In the end, she realizes that true friends like you for who you are and enjoy differences as well as similarities. While her misadventures are hilarious, Moxie is an endearing, complex character with whom young adults can easily identify. Moxie is every young teen who believes that other people's lives are more exciting than her own and wants to make herself special, too. She's terrified it might land in the wrong hands.
It's exhausting, but she's holding it together, just barely, until she realizes that her journal is missing. Moxie keeps a logbook just to remember which personality she's been using with whom. At the Eaton Academy for Girls, she tries out several personas, including Mysterious Earth Goddess (MEG), Hale and Hearty Sports Enthusiast (HHSE), and Detached, Unique, Coolly Knowing Individual (DUCKI). Grade 5-8 Moxie Roosevelt Kipper, 13, has always felt too ordinary for her extraordinary name, and she plans to reinvent herself now that she has gone away to boarding school on a music scholarship. Elizabeth Cody Kimmel lives in Cold Spring, New York.
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