Princess Academy, Shannon Hale
Princess Academy, Shannon Hale
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Princess Academy

Author: Shannon Hale

Narrator: Laura Credidio, a full cast

Unabridged: 7 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2012

Synopsis

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.

About Shannon Hale

Shannon Hale is the author of multiple award-winning young adult novels, including Austenland and the New York Times bestselling Princess Academy, which is also a Newbery Honor book. Her first book, The Goose Girl, was an ALA Top Ten Book for Young Adults and won the Josette Frank Award. In addition to her successful young adult novels, she cowrote two graphic novels with her husband, Rapunzel’s Revenge and Calamity Jack. She received a degree in English from the University of Utah and a master’s in creative writing from the University of Montana.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on September 11, 2018

The Princess Academy is a favorite comfort read, and a delightful older middle grade/younger YA fantasy, nominated for the 2006 Newbery Award. Miri is a teenage girl living in a small, simple mountain village, where everyone makes a living quarrying a lovely marble rock that is found only on their m......more

Goodreads review by HT on June 29, 2007

Overall, the book was well written and appropriate for a young adolescent audience. It was certainly not written for someone in my demographic! I enjoyed a number of aspects of this book and also a few disappointements. Specifically, 1) The resolution of the primary conflict (who gets to be the prince......more

Goodreads review by Tamora on September 03, 2008

I really liked it when the girls started pulling together and thinking past the fairytale, deciding that was in their best interest.......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on August 21, 2010

The linder quarries on Mount Eskel make for hard labour, but the villagers who mine it wouldn't trade their life for anything. The linder stone takes skill to extract in whole blocks from the mountainside, and its qualities enable them to converse without speaking. Fourteen year old Miri wants nothin......more

Goodreads review by Kate on January 07, 2021

Confession: I waited too long to read this book. The little snatches of writing style I had seen didn’t 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 I’ve ever read. ;) The worldbuilding was......more

Awards

  • Newbery Honor
  • Book Sense Pick
  • Audie Award Finalist
  • ALA Notable Book
  • Salt Lake Tribune Best Book
  • New York Public Library Book for Teens
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