Agent: Barry Goldblatt, Barry Goldblatt Literary. Still, this is a fine follow-up to a novel that already felt complete. Hale handles these threads ably, although a scene in which the Eskelites stop a villain by using their ability to communicate through stone%E2%80%94a homegrown talent called "quarry-speech"%E2%80%94has a whiff of comic-book superhero that feels out of place. Miri is torn in several ways: between two boys, between the educational advantages Asland offers and her home in the mountains, and between empathy for the "shoeless" and loyalty to Britta, who has become the focus of the revolutionaries' wrath. She has written three books for adults, including the upcoming Midnight in Austenland (Jan. Revolution is in the air, and it sweeps Miri, now enrolled at the university, into its wake. Shannon Hale is the New York Times best-selling author of six young adult novels: the Newbery Honor book Princess Academy, multiple award winner Book of a Thousand Days, and the highly acclaimed Books of Bayern series. But while the palace in the capital city of Asland is as luxurious as their imaginations conjured, the working classes are hungry and tired of footing the royal family's bill. 20 of the best book quotes from Princess Academy 01 Share For the past few years, all her childhood friends has begun to work in the quarry, and Miri had grown used to solitude in her house and on the hilltop with the goats. Readers of Hale's Newbery Honor%E2%80%93winning Princess Academy (2005) will welcome this reunion with Miri and her schoolmates, as they descend Mount Eskel to help Britta prepare for her wedding to Prince Steffan.
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