From acclaimed author Shannon Hale comes the Newbery Honor-winning novel about would-be princesses and one small but determined girl's destiny.
Bloomsbury USA Children's Books
April 2007
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Featuring: Miri
336 pages ISBN: 1599900734 EAN: 9781599900735 Paperback Add to Wish List
High on the side of rocky Mount Eskel, far from the valleys
where gardens are green and lush, where lowlanders make
laws, Miri’s family has lived forever, pounding a living
from the stone of the mountain itself. For as long as she
can remember, Miri has dreamed of working alongside the
other villagers in the quarries of her beloved mountainside.
But Miri has never been allowed to work there, perhaps, she
thinks, because she is so small.
Then word comes from the valley that the king's priests have
divined Mount Eskel to be the home of the prince’s
bride-to-be—the next princess. The prince himself will
travel to the village to choose her, but first all eligible
girls must attend a makeshift mountain academy to prepare
themselves for royal lowlander life.
At the school, Miri soon finds herself confronted by bitter
competition among the girls and her own conflicting desires
to be chosen by the prince. Yet when danger comes to the
academy and threatens all their lives, it is Miri, named for
a tiny mountain flower, who must find a way to save her
classmates—and the one chance to leave the mountain each of
them is determined to secure as her own.
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