num_pages: 8
description: Shannon Hale's bestselling Newbery Honor tale is definitely not your typical quest-for-Prince Charming fantasy! Cheerful and witty 14-year-old Miri loves her life on Mount Eskel, home to the quarries filled with the most precious linder stone in the land, though she longs to be big and strong enough to do quarry work like her sister and father. But Miri experiences big changes when the king announces that the prince will choose a potential wife from among the village's eligible girls-and that said girls must attend a new Princess Academy in preparation. Princess training is not all it's cracked up to be for spunky Miri in the isolated school overseen by cruel Tutor Olana. But through education--and the realization that she has the common mountain power to communicate wordlessly via magical "quarry-speech"—Miri and the girls eventually gain confidence and knowledge that helps transform their village.An unabridged recording on 8 CDs (7 hours, 30 minutes).
language: English
title: Princess Academy
titlecomplete: Princess Academy
characters: Britta, Frid, Knut, Marda, Peder, Olana, Miri, Katar, Esa (Death Comes as the End)
genres: Young Adult Fantasy, Romance, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Juvenile, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Adventure, Young Adult
ratings_count: 114926
places: Mount Eskel
series: Princess Academy
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Utah Book Award
category: Children/Young Adults, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: AML Award
category: Young Adult Literature, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
publisher: Full Cast Audio