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Would you send a villain to do a hero's job? Flunked is an exciting new twisted fairy tale from the award-winning author of the Secrets of My Hollywood Life series. "Charming fairy-tale fun." -Sarah Mlynowski, author of the New York Times bestselling Whatever After series.
Gilly wouldn't call herself wicked, exactly...but when you have five little brothers and sisters and live in a run-down boot, you have to get creative to make ends meet. Gilly's a pretty good thief (if she does say so herself).
Until she gets caught.
Gilly's sentenced to three months at Fairy Tale Reform School where all of the teachers are former (super-scary) villains like the Big Bad Wolf, the Evil Queen, and Cinderella's Wicked Stepmother. Harsh. But when she meets fellow students Jax and Kayla, she learns there's more to this school than its heroic mission. There's a battle brewing and Gilly has to wonder: can a villain really change?
"Fairy Tale Reform School is spellbinding and wickedly clever. Gilly is smart, spunky, and a hilarious narrator, and I cannot wait to read about her next adventure!" -Leslie Margolis, author of the Annabelle Unleashed novels and the Maggie Brooklyn mysteries
"Fairy Tale Reform School is a fresh and funny take on the enchanted world. (And who hasn't always wanted to know what happened to Cinderella's stepmother?)" -Julia DeVillers, author of the Trading Faces identical twin series and Emma Emmets, Playground Matchmaker
Flunked (Fairy Tale Reform School), by Jen Calonita - Amazon Sales Rank: #215684 in Books
- Brand: Calonita, Jen
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Released on: 2015-03-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.65" h x .92" w x 6.95" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 256 pages
Flunked (Fairy Tale Reform School), by Jen Calonita From School Library Journal Gr 4–7—Twelve-year-old Gilly is mostly happy living in a shoe with her parents and five siblings. Times are hard, though, especially since Cinderella's fairy godmother stole Gilly's father's design for the glass slipper. To help feed her family, Gilly steals food and trinkets from the wealthier residents of Enchantasia. Upon her third arrest for theft, Gilly is sentenced to three months in Fairy Tale Reform School, a juvenile detention facility run by Cinderella's Wicked Stepmother and other famous fairy tale antagonists. Fans of Liesl Shurtliff's Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin (Knopf, 2013) and Christopher Healy's The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom (HarperCollins, 2012) will find much to love in this fast-paced romp. While Gilly picks pockets without remorse, previously evil fairy tale villains have turned over a new leaf. The Evil Stepmother has made amends with Princess Ella and now helps Enchantasia's youngest criminals embrace their own inner virtue. The Big Bad Wolf is now Professor Wolfington, a popular teacher despite his bulging muscles and wolfish grin. While gargoyle attacks, suspicious behavior, and magical mayhem provide plenty of action, Gilly's constant self-sacrifice and insatiable need to spy on her teachers get old quickly. Drawings of news scrolls throughout the story help break up the text and may entice reluctant readers, though seasoned readers will predict the true antagonist long before the big reveal. VERDICT Gilly's plucky spirit and determination to oust the culprit will make Flunked a popular choice for tweens.—Leigh Collazo, Dulwich College, Suzhou, China
Review "This enjoyable series launch creatively incorporates familiar fairy-tale characters and hallmarks-princesses, talking mirrors, spells, and magical beings, from fairies to ogres-along with an engaging and spirited protagonist, abundant plot turns, and witty touches. Overall,there's much to amuse and entertain fans of classic tales with a twist." - Booklist"Calonita blithely samples from fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and folklore in this lighthearted first book in the Fairy Tale Reform School series.... Recognizable fairy-tale characters abound (profiles of the school's instructors, like Xavier Wolfington, the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood, appear throughout), and questions of whether goodness or badness run to the core of a person leave readers with plenty to consider." - Publishers Weekly"Gilly's plucky spirit and determination to oust the culprit will make Flunked a popular choice for tweens" - School Library Journal"Gilly hates the royals and blames them for her family's poverty. So robbing from the royals doesn't bother her at all. Unfortunately it's still a crime and lands her in Fairy Tale Reform School. But this school is not what she expected, and it just might make a hero of her yet. Fairy tale fans will love this clever and lively tale of magic, friendship, and courage. " - Discovery Girls"Flunked sounds incredibly innovative and appears to be turning the story of Cinderella's stepmother upside-down. I for one am dying to see the real reason behind Flora's reform school and what is really going down in Enchantasia." - B&N Kids Blog"A reform school where all the teachers are former villains. Kinda writes itself, right" - SLJ Fuse 8"Readers will recognize and enjoy the various fairy tales referenced here, as Calonita nods to movie adaptations as well as the original stories, and they'll enjoy her sly incorporation of social media to provide important background informa- tion and character sketches...this clever novel and its smart, endearing cast of characters will have readers enchanted and eager for the implied sequel(s). " - Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books"A spoof on folktales... would be enjoyed by students preferring fast-paced mysteries. Recommended" - School Library Connection
About the Author JEN CALONITA has interviewed everyone from Reese Witherspoon to Justin Timberlake, but the only person she's ever wanted to trade places with is Disney's Cinderella. She's the award-winning author of the My Secrets of My Hollywood Life series. Jen lives in Merrick, New York with her husband, two sons, and their Chihuahua, Captain Jack Sparrow. Visit jencalonitaonline.com for more.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful. Flunked is a whole lotta fun to read. By Michelle@Book Briefs Flunked is the first book in an adorable middle grade series called Fairy Tale Reform School. I really liked this book. It put a smile on my face the whole time I was reading it. Yes, it was a younger read than I was used to, but it was perfectly suited for it's middle grade audience. The heroine is Gilly and is around 12 or 13. She is caught stealing a hair clip and is shipped off to the Fairy Tale Reform School for the mischievous children on the path to becoming a villain. I think this is such a cute idea for a magical and funny story.I really like that we got to see the "crime" that Gilly committed to get sent to reform school as it played out, rather than just starting the book with her already there and flashing back on what brought her in. I thought it gave the readers a great perspective on what her family is like, and gave us an idea of who Gilly is. I had a hard time calling her a mini villain because she didn't seem even close to evil, but I thought she did have some flair and interesting qualities that are not anything like your typical heroine. It made her more likeable, as strange as that sounds.I loved the fairy tale reform school setting. The professors were all ex-villains. Come on, you know that sounds like a fun school to be at! And Gilly's friends are great. This book kind of had an Ella Enchanted feel to it. I'm not completely sure why, because the story is not even close to the same, but I just kind of pictured the town and the schools to be the kind of setting from the Ella Enchanted movie with Anne Hathaway. That kind of colorful faux olde world setting? (I would really love someone else that has read the book to tell me if they felt the same way, or if I am just weird?)Bottom Line: Flunked is a super cute book in what I think will be a great middle grade series. Heck, not just for tweens. I liked this series, and I will be continuing on with it. I loved the humor in Jen Calonita's writing. Not to mention Flunked was a whole lotta fun to read.*Disclaimer- I got a copy of this book for free in exchange for my honest review. I was not compensated for my thoughts.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. An interesting first installment. By Mandy Gilly comes from a poor family of shoe makers, they struggle just to have enough to even eat. With her sister’s upcoming birthday Gilly steals a comb for her thinking she made it home undetected. Looks like Gilly’s luck has run out she’s been caught for the third time. She’s forced to attend the Fairy Tale Reform school run by Flora the wicked step mother of Cinderella. For three months Gilly will spend her time at the school transforming from villain into a hero’s. The school is unlike anything she would have imagined studies, flying on Pegasus and so much more.Gilly finds friends among her fellow misfits Jax and Kayla finding a bond with each. After only being at the school for a few short weeks they are attacked by Gargoyles and Professor Harlow is controlled forced to attack Snow. Thanks to her quick thinking Gilly saves Snow as well as the rest of her follow students only to be released from school. Something is going on at the Fairy Tale Reform School maybe it’s not doing as good as expected. Will Gilly leave or figure out what’s really going on?I forgot that the characters are only 12 they seem much older. I liked Gilly she’s only doing what she could to take care of her family. While she may be a villain in the law’s eyes I don’t see her as one. I didn’t have any issues connecting with her as a character but I didn’t love her like I would have hoped. I like that she had her friends to support her on her new adventure at the school for Fairy Tale Reform.I’ve had Flunked on my TBR forever based on the cover alone, and this week it worked perfect for my scavenger hunt challenge so I decided to give it a shot. The concept is like a boarding school but the author puts her own twist and turns it into a villain reform school. Flunked is a fast paced story that is filled with action, mystery and a whole lot of magic. Flunked is a middle grade story which isn’t my typical read but I enjoyed it one of those books you can read in a lazy afternoon. The author has a great writing style her story flows smoothly from start to finish it’s a captivating read. I enjoyed Flunked but I didn't love it, but I am curious to check out the next one. I think the only issue I had is I kept forgetting that the main character was so young.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Failure to Launch By Ink and Page I judged a book by its cover. And a little bit by its description. And it came up wanting.The recent spate of fairy tale redux(es?) has produced many new tales to enjoy. They come with a built-in audience, and since most everyone knows the stories already, the reader already "gets" a lot of it. Plus, it's a lot of fun to turn these legends on their heads, exploring them in a new and different way. Unfortunately, despite the intriguing plot, I am disappointed in this new series.The Wicked Stepmother, of Cinderella fame, is so distressed by and repentant of her treatment of Cinderella that she has turned over a new leaf. She wants to encourage other villains to do the same, so she opens Fairy Tale Reform School. The former villains all teach there, and all of the troubled youth in Enchantasia are sent there to get, of course, reformed. Not all of the baddies are former ones, however; two of the most notorious, Gottie (who imprisoned Rapunzel in her tower) and Alva (the malefactor of Sleeping Beauty) are in hiding, refusing to change their ways.There are four princesses who now rule over Enchantasia: Cinderella, Rapunzel, Rose (Sleeping Beauty) and Snow White. Not everyone gets a happily ever after, though. Twelve-year-old Gilly Cobbler, the daughter of a poor shoemaker, is one of the many in Enchantasia who are struggling to help put food on the table. Gilly is a thief, and though she is pretty good, she is finally caught enough times to warrant a stay at FTRS (as it is referred to in the book). She does not know how long she has to remain there; and her family, which includes her parents, three brothers and two sisters, depend on her "abilities" more than they know. How will they survive?Gilly plans to keep her nose clean so she can get out and get home quickly. No one's going to change her. But she meets some other "inmates" and starts to let down her guard a bit. Then they start to suspect that there are things happening at the school that could harm not only the students, but the visiting princesses and even Enchantasia itself. Does Gilly want to get involved or get home?It takes a long time for this story to get moving; and while the plot has loads of potential, it just doesn't go anywhere. Naturally, we are supposed to be a little wary of the reformed villains; that makes for a great plot device. And the new friends that Gilly makes, from fairies to trolls to regular boys, allows for an interesting group of secondary character types. However, there's just no depth to any of them, including Gilly. There's also a "mean girl" who happens to be the sister of Snow White's Wicked Queen, and her presence is jarring and out of place, especially since she shows her bad self in front of the WQ. If everyone who teaches there is supposedly repentant, why does the WQ allow Jocelyn to act the way she does?The language used is clunky; there are many attempts at snark and a lot of slang used, both of which seem out of place in the fairy tale environment. The writing style attempts to sound like "something the kids'll like." Many of the character names are unusual, which normally doesn't bother me, but they are so varied that they don't sound like they are from the same story. I don't know if Disney made up or owns the rights to the names of the villains, but I don't understand why their "normal" names weren't used. And at the story's close, I had sort-of a Harry Potter déjà vu; as I reviewed Flunked in my head, I realized that the structure of the story, among other things, was quite similar. Nothing wrong with that, I suppose, but the narrative in no way lives up to that series.Flunked (Fairy Tale Reform School #1) by Jen Calonita was published March 3, 2015 by Sourcebooks Jabberwocky. A free copy of this book was given to Ink and Page in return for an honest review. Big thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley.Rating: 2Genre:Middle Grades Fiction Fantasy ParanormalAges: 9 to 13
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