num_pages: 314
description: 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.
language: English
title: Princess Academy
titlecomplete: Princess Academy (Princess Academy, #1)
characters: Olana, Knut, Miri, Marda, Peder, Britta, Katar, Esa (Death Comes as the End), Frid
genres: Middle Grade, Adventure, Childrens, Juvenile, Young Adult, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Romance, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy
ratings_count: 114908
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: Bloomsbury Children's Books