Princess Academy
by:
Shannon Hale (author)
A masterful story of a young girl plucked from her village by the king's ministers in order to learn the skills of a princess. What becomes a familiar story, quickly becomes a dark, powerful allegory of issues being faced by young women
A masterful story of a young girl plucked from her village by the king's ministers in order to learn the skills of a princess. What becomes a familiar story, quickly becomes a dark, powerful allegory of issues being faced by young women
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780747598015 (0747598010)
Publish date: March 2nd 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Series: Princess Academy (#1)
For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleI thoroughly enjoyed this book. Such a fantastic read.When I first started the book, it took me a little while to get into the story. Once quarry-speak was introduced, I was instantly hooked, driven by the same curiosity that ensnared Miri. The whole i...
This is the type of excellent children's publishing that I craved as a preteen/young teen. It reads sort of like a middle grade, more accessible to younger readers than a lot of the YA MA books these days. This wasn't at all what I was expecting from the title and cover; I thought it would be fluf...
This might sound weird, but I have to admit that what attracted me to this book in the first place was that almost every major character was a girl. (Oddly enough, the bad guys are all male, but that is totally beside the point--I do NOT mean to give the impression that this is a girls vs. guys thin...
This is a book I both really enjoyed and find myself completely uninterested in reading the sequel. There's a lot of interesting stuff happening, but I left with the impression that the lowlanders really were a bunch of [redacted] [redacted] heads, so Miri's next adventure being set in their world s...
You know the weird thing is while reading this book, how much it reminded me of the book The Selection (my review of that book is here). Both feature girls being gathered from the kingdom to find someone to marry the prince. They get along with some girls, and not with others. She has a boy back ...
7 years ago
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