“Action packed and wellpaced, the story's depth incorporates artful negotiation, the importance of education, and citizens' equality and rights. With Dean Hale, illustrated by Nathan Hale She must rely on her own strength and intelligence to unravel the mystery, protect the girls, complete her assignment, and finally make her way home.ĭon't miss any of these other books from New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale: Unfortunately, Astrid, Felissa, and Sus are more interested in hunting and fishing than becoming princesses.Īs Miri spends more time with the sisters, she realizes the king and queen's interest in them hides a long-buried secret. But instead of returning to her beloved Mount Eskel, Miri is ordered to journey to a distant swamp and start a princess academy for three sisters, cousins of the royal family. Miri has spent a year at the king's palace, learning all about being a proper princess. Readers will be sad to see Miri go but satisfied that she leaves on an ultimately happy and memorable note.In this third book in New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale's Princess Academy series, Miri goes from student.
Hale once again manages to create a cast of female characters diverse in their qualities and distinctly individual, offering an inclusive portrait of what girlhood and womanhood look like.
She’s still the same wonderfully outspoken nonconformist, though, and her verbal takedown of several members of the royal family is both powerful and satisfying. That’s appropriate, given that Miri herself has matured quite a bit she has begun to recognize that good people are capable of terrible deeds and that forgiveness often comes in halting, sputtering steps. Hale’s conclusion to her popular series offers a satisfying wrap-up of the previous installments’ themes of friendship, female empowerment, and citizenship, but it also offers a slightly more sophisticated and mature look at the nuances of political strategy. The king’s cousins, however, live in the literal backwaters, and upon Miri’s arrival in the swampy area known as Lesser Alva, she finds three nearly feral sisters living on their own, a town that shuns them, and a host of secrets that could completely change the future of Danland and its rulers.
In order to prevent war with a neighboring country, the king is offering up three of his distant cousins as potential brides for a political alliance, and he wants Miri to train them in the art of being princesses. In this final installment of Hale’s Princess Academy series ( Princess Academy, BCCB 9/05, etc.), Miri is prepping to return to her beloved mountain home and announce her betrothal to her childhood friend Peder when she is summoned by the king for an important task.
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