‘School for Good and Evil’ Author Soman Chainani on New Teen-President Thriller ‘Young World,’ TV Series Adaptation

May 5, 2026 11:31am PT ‘School for Good and Evil’ Author Soman Chainani on New Teen-President Thriller ‘Young World,’ TV Series Adaptation

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“The School for Good and Evil” author Soman Chainani has moved on from fairy tales to radical politics with the Tuesday release of his debut YA novel, “Young World,” from Penguin Random House.

Told through diary entries interspersed with over 150 neon-orange visuals, “Young World” is described as a geopolitical thriller that follows an average teenager that becomes president of the United States in a not-so-distant future.

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