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"The Goose Girl" became her first published novel after being met with nine rejections; Hale received an offer in 2003 from Bloomsbury Publishing. Hale based the book on her favorite fairy tale of the same name. It was named an ALA Teens' Top Ten and became the first of many novels in Hale's Books of Bayern series. "Goose Girl" also won the 2004 Josette Frank Award for fiction and was reprinted by Bloomsbury in 2017. Hundreds of thousands of copies of the novel have been printed in a total of fifteen languages. The other Books of Bayern include "Enna Burning", "River Secrets", and "Forest Born".