| Princess Academy Lib/E Adapted Edition Contributor(s): Hale, Shannon (Author), Credidio, Laura (Read by), Full Cast, A. (Read by) |
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ISBN: 0792796985 ISBN-13: 9780792796985 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing OUR PRICE: $58.46 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: February 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic - Juvenile Fiction | Royalty - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Princess Academy |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 6.7" (0.65 lbs) |
| Themes: - Topical - Friendship |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hale, Shannon: - Shannon Hale is the author of multiple award-winning young adult novels, including Austenland and the New York Times bestselling Princess Academy, which is also a Newbery Honor book. Her first book, The Goose Girl, was an ALA Top Ten Book for Young Adults and won the Josette Frank Award. In addition to her successful young adult novels, she cowrote two graphic novels with her husband, Rapunzel's Revenge and Calamity Jack. She received a degree in English from the University of Utah and a master's in creative writing from the University of Montana. Full Cast, A.: - Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales on 27 October 1914. In 1934 his first book of poetry, Eighteen Poems appeared, followed by Twenty-five Poems in 1936, Deaths and Entrances in 1946 and in 1952 his final volume, Collected Poems. He also published many short stories, wrote filmscripts, broadcast stories and talks, did a series of lecture tours in the United States and wrote Under Milkwood, the radio play.During his fourth lecture tour of the United States in 1953, a few days after his 39th birthday, he collapsed in his New York hotel and died on November 9th at St. Vincent's Hospital. His body was sent back to Laugharne, Wales, where his grave is marked by a simple wooden cross. In June 1994, his wife, Caitlin Thomas, died in Italy, where she had spent most of the years of her life after the death of Dylan Thomas. Her body is buried next to his. |