Soon Miri finds herself confronted with a harsh academy mistress, bitter competition among the girls, and her own conflicting desires. The king's ministers set up an academy on the mountain, and every teenage girl must attend and learn how to become a princess. In a year's time, the prince will choose his bride from among the village girls.
Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her village the home of the future princess. Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have lived a simple life. If this book were a person, it would be kind.A Newbery Honor Winner A New York Times Bestseller In this first book in New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale's Princess Academy series, Miri finds herself a sudden participant in a contest to find the next princess of the realm. The book also contains enough complexity to engage older readers. Any kid who is a part of a middle school environment could relate to this book and its interpersonal relationships between the young people. I highly recommend this book for any young reader who enjoys fairy tales, friendships, princesses and school. Education and books are portrayed as important and valuable, which they are! The story displays how education and applying that education can improve lives and raise the quality of living for a community. Miri is instrumental in giving her village the information they need to stop the lowland traders from taking advantage of their ignorance. She becomes hungry for knowledge and it is through this hunger that she learns about commerce and brings what she has learned to her Pa and the villagers. I could go on and on about several different kinds of relationships Miri develops throughout the story but I’ll just say that each friendship is well done-honest in the failings we have with our friends and inspiring in the goodness we find in developing old and new friendships.Įducation and books play a large role in the story as the mountain girls all learn to read at the academy and Miri develops a love for books and all the wondrous knowledge they hold. It reinforces the idea that you never really know the content of someone’s character by the exterior. I love that the friendship is built through learning to understand each other and being willing to step out and be open with another person. They become good friends while at the academy and Miri even invites Britta to spend time with her own family since her relatives don’t seem to like her much. When they are at the academy together, Miri learns that Britta is not the horrible lowlander like Miri assumed and instead is kind and very lonely for a friend. For example, another young girl named Britta, a lowlander who lost her family and had to move in with distant relatives on the mountain, has not made any friends and at first Miri thinks it’s because she is haughty. I really enjoyed all of Miri’s relationships in this book.
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