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| Original Title: | Princess Academy |
| ISBN: | 1599900734 (ISBN13: 9781599900735) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Princess Academy #1 |
| Characters: | Knut, Miri, Peder, Britta, Marda, Katar, Olana, Esa, Frid |
| Setting: | Mount Eskel |
| Literary Awards: | Newbery Medal Nominee (2006), Utah Book Award for Children/Young Adults (2005), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2007), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2008) |
Shannon Hale
Paperback | Pages: 314 pages Rating: 4.02 | 98057 Users | 8415 Reviews
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| Title | : | Princess Academy (Princess Academy #1) |
| Author | : | Shannon Hale |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 314 pages |
| Published | : | April 17th 2007 by Bloomsbury Children's Books (first published July 1st 2005) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Childrens. Middle Grade |
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Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of the village. The king's ministers set up an academy on the mountain, and every teenage girl must attend and learn how to become a princess.
Miri soon finds herself confronted with a harsh academy mistress, bitter competition among the girls, and her own conflicting desires to be chosen and win the heart of her childhood best friend. But when bandits seek out the academy to kidnap the future princess, Miri must rally the girls together and use a power unique to the mountain dwellers to save herself and her classmates.
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Ratings: 4.02 From 98057 Users | 8415 ReviewsWeigh Up About Books Princess Academy (Princess Academy #1)
4.5 starsThat was absolutely lovely.Confession: I waited too long to read this book. The little snatches of writing style I had seen didnt look that good, and the description gave me the suspicion that it would be The Same Old Story. I was happily wrong and discovered one of the best fantasies Ive ever read. ;) The worldbuilding was really good and not too bizarre. It felt almost like somewhere straight out of Alps with hardworking, friendly (if slightly quarrelsome) neighbors. I loved the descriptions of the desolately beautiful
This was such a wonderful fairytale read!A prince, selecting a girl to marry! The Selection? Read this instead! Experience a fantastic adventure to knowledge and True Love with small but Terrible Miri! FULL REVIEW TO COME!
Had a very long drive ahead of me yesterday, so took this lovely book along to reread it.It was never very surprising to this old reader; I could see the plot turns coming a few chapters before they did, but the true pleasure is in the relationships of the families in the mountain village where Miri lives, and of course the relationships of the girls as they develop.This reading, I appreciated how Hale takes the time to give all the girls at least some personality, and some chance to change and
this will always be one of my favorite books. I've grown up rereading it multiple times, and it's such a cozy, fluffy story. <3
Read for my 2018 women of speculative fiction challenge.No wolf falters before the bite, so strike.No hawk wavers before the dive, so swing.No sun pauses before the set, just strike.No rain delays before the fall, just swing.In my most drastic tonal shift to date, we will be going from talking about The Poppy War to discussing Princess Academy by Shannon Hale, a 2006 nominee for the Newbery Medal. Am I just using this reading project as an excuse to revisit the books that I read obsessively as a
Awkward proseI couldn't get around the unseemly and awkward phrasing, so bad I couldn't enjoy the story. My impression is that the author is not well-read; her word-usage is just slightly off. The combination of bulky sentence structure and jarring words felt pretentious to me. The poetry, intended as quarry-work songs, was nauseatingly trite. Ech! Unfortunately, these aren't sporadic issues, they inundate the entire novel. Definitely could have used more editing.You can imagine my surprise to
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