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I have a complicated relationship with Shannon Hale. I loved The Goose Girl, but didn't love Enna Burning. However, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
emmaorgana promised me that I would love Princess Academy, and she managed to do it without spoiling the part I loved the most. (Um, I think it was Emma? I may have been Laura. But the important thing is that I have really great friends who totally know how to get me to read a book.)
ANYWAY!
So the basic plot of the book is that the auguries reveal that the future bride of the prince was born on Mount Eskel, with the stone cutters, so all the girls who live there have to go to school for a year in order to learn how to not be country bumpkins. There is extreme prejudice between the lowlanders and the mountain folk. Every year, traders come and take away the linder (the stone), paying a pittance for it, and in the middle of it all is Miri: a tiny girl, born too soon, who is forbidden to work in the quarries.
( And we all know what happens when you teach the peasants to read. )
So an 8/10 for people learning to read, people learning their worth, and girls fighting back by using their brains.
emmaorgana promised me that I would love Princess Academy, and she managed to do it without spoiling the part I loved the most. (Um, I think it was Emma? I may have been Laura. But the important thing is that I have really great friends who totally know how to get me to read a book.)ANYWAY!
So the basic plot of the book is that the auguries reveal that the future bride of the prince was born on Mount Eskel, with the stone cutters, so all the girls who live there have to go to school for a year in order to learn how to not be country bumpkins. There is extreme prejudice between the lowlanders and the mountain folk. Every year, traders come and take away the linder (the stone), paying a pittance for it, and in the middle of it all is Miri: a tiny girl, born too soon, who is forbidden to work in the quarries.
( And we all know what happens when you teach the peasants to read. )
So an 8/10 for people learning to read, people learning their worth, and girls fighting back by using their brains.
