Newberry Honor Book
This story is a very unique twist on the classic princess fairy tale. The usual prince meeting the love of his life who is actually a peasant girl is not present in this story. Instead, our main character Miri lives atop Mount Eskel, a mountain far above the kingdom and not often thought of by the rest of the country. Whenever a prince is ready to marry in Danland, the name of our kingdom, the priests predict the location of the princess to be. This time around, Mount Eskel is chosen and an academy is set up to whip the rough mountain girls into shape. Miri along with the rest of the girls in her village are taken to the academy and are taught how to be princesses. In the process they learn about each other, valuable knowledge that would help their village, and about the rest of the kingdom. When bandits overtake the academy, Miri forces the girls to work together to save each other and their village.
This story was not at all what I expected! Once I really got into the story, it was quite difficult to put it down! I could easily see girls in upper elementary loving this book. It has a very powerful female role model who works hard and ends up making her entire town proud of her. I recently found there is a sequel to this story. It would be great to get upper elementary girls together to read the books and have book club! This would be a fantastic discussion book club book.
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