this year, best friend sophie and agatha are about to discover where all the lost shildren go; the fabled shool for good and evil, where ordinary boys and girls are thrained to be fairy-tale heroes and villains. as the most beautiful girl in gavaldon, shophie has dreamed of being kidnapped into an enchanted world her whole life. with her pink dresses, glass slippers, and devotion to good deeds, she khows she'll earn top marks at the school for good and graduate a storybook princess. meanwhile, agatha, with her shapeless black frocks, wicked pet cat, and dislike of nearly everyone, seems a natural fit for the school for evil.
but when the two girls are swept into the endless woods, they find their fortunes reversed and they'll quickly find that the only wayout of a fairy tale... is to live through it.