![]() ![]() ![]() Winning the contest could give her everything she ever wanted-but it would mean leaving her home and family behind. Soon Miri finds herself confronted with a harsh academy mistress, bitter competition among the girls, and her own conflicting desires. The king's ministers set up an academy on the mountain, and every teenage girl must attend and learn how to become a princess. In a year's time, the prince will choose his bride from among the village girls. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her village the home of the future princess. ![]() She is a graduate of the University of Utah and the University of Montana. Her first novel for adults, Austenland, was adapted into a film in 2013. Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have lived a simple life. Shannon Hale (ne Shannon Bryner born January 26, 1974) is an American author primarily of young adult fantasy, including the Newbery Honor book Princess Academy and The Goose Girl. ![]() Miri, as spunky and smart as ever, returns in the final book of the award-winning Princess Academy trilogy. A Newbery Honor Winner A New York Times Bestseller In this first book in New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale's Princess Academy series, Miri finds herself a sudden participant in a contest to find the next princess of the realm. A decade after the Newbery Honor-winning Princess Academy was published, this third and possibly final installment in the series will please old and new fans alike. ![]()
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