Yet when danger comes to the academy and threatens all their lives, it is Miri who must find a way to save her classmates. 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 possibility.Īt the school, Miri soon finds herself confronted by bitter competition among the girls and her own conflicting desires to be chosen by the prince and her blooming relationship with her best friend, Peder. 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. But Miri has never been allowed to work there, perhaps, she thinks, because she is so small or maybe her Pa doesn’t think she can do it. For as long as she can remember, Miri has dreamed of working alongside the other villagers in the quarries of her beloved mountainside. 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. Music and Lyrics by KATIE BROWN with JEFF BROWN and MICHAEL BEARDENĪrranged and Orchestrated by MICHELLE WILLISīased on the Newbery Honor winning novel, Princess Academy by Shannon Hale, this heart-warming original Kensington musical of self-discovery will be back on our stage in December, 2021! Princess Academy Summary:

Enna Burning: Rather disturbing for a children’s story (fantasyliterature.An Original Kensington Musical: Princess Academy.

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Violence: none, though there is a brief fighting scene.

The fantasy aspect of this book is very creative and interesting as well. Miri is such a strong and smart female character.

I think any age will enjoy this novel, but especially tweens and a little younger. It’s been awhile since my first reading, but I liked the book better the second time around. My Review: I recently re-read Princess Academy to get ready for the release of Palace of Stone. 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.

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. 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 himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of the village. Then word comes that the king’s priests have divined her small village to be the home of the future princess. Description (from the cover): Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life.

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