{"id":2964,"date":"2024-10-12T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2024-09-05T17:23:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T21:23:03","slug":"villains-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/?p=2964","title":{"rendered":"Villains Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Ryan Hammond<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/VillainsAcademy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/VillainsAcademy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/VillainsAcademy.jpg 200w, https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/VillainsAcademy-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Year of Publication:\u00a0<\/strong>2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A summary from Goodreads:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Being BAD has never felt so GOOD! The first in a villainously funny, highly illustrated young middle-grade series from author-illustrator Ryan Hammond.&nbsp;For fans of&nbsp;<em>Amelia Fang<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Dog Man<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Grimwood<\/em>. And don&#8217;t miss the second installment,&nbsp;<em>How to Steal a Dragon<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Frightfully fun \u2013\u00a0<em>Villains Academy<\/em>\u00a0had me cackling from the very first page!\u2019\u00a0Katie Tsang, co-author of the Dragon Realm series<br>\u2018I loved the spookily funny\u00a0<em>Villains Academy<\/em>. It&#8217;s a work of (evil) genius!\u2019\u00a0Jenny McLachlan, author of\u00a0<em>The Land of Roar<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Welcome to Villains Academy&nbsp;<\/em><em>\u2013&nbsp;<\/em><em>t<\/em><em>he most prestigious villain school in the ENTIRE land. You will either leave here as a fully-formed villain . . . or in tatters.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s werewolf Bram\u2019s first day at Villains Academy. He really doesn\u2019t feel like a villain at all, but the coveted Villain of the Week trophy is up for grabs, and Bram knows he\u2019ll have to dig deep. With the help of new friends Mona the elf-witch, Bryan the lion, Shelia the ghost and Tony the skeleton, can Bram find his inner badness and become the villain he&#8217;s always dreamed of being?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Goshen Public Library call number:  <\/strong> JF HAMMOND (BOOK-J)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ryan Hammond Year of Publication:\u00a02023 A summary from Goodreads:&nbsp; Being BAD has never felt so GOOD! The first in a villainously funny, highly illustrated young middle-grade series from author-illustrator Ryan Hammond.&nbsp;For fans of&nbsp;Amelia Fang,&nbsp;Dog Man&nbsp;and&nbsp;Grimwood. And don&#8217;t miss the second installment,&nbsp;How to Steal a Dragon! \u2018Frightfully fun \u2013\u00a0Villains Academy\u00a0had me cackling from the very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2966,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions\/2966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}