Here is the second Author Highlights I promised for the month of June. Finally, I will be caught up with this post. It only took a few months but here we are. This means that we are in the seventh month of me doing this post. It’s been over half a year which is weird since it seriously seems like yesterday when I started this blog. I know I say that a lot but it’s true. Anyways let’s get this post started. The author of today is…..
Shannon Hale
Shannon Hale has written over thirty books. Several are individual books while other are part of a series. She is most known for her Princess Academy Series.
I have read the Princess Academy series, The Goose Girl, and the Book of a Thousand Days. I loved each of these stories and I still treasure them despite the fact that the books are for a younger audience.
Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king’s priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year’s time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of the village. The king’s ministers set up an academy on the mountain, and every teenage girl must attend and learn how to become a princess.
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. 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.
Anidora-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree spent the first years of her life listening to her aunt’s incredible stories and learning the language of the birds. Little knowing how valuable her aunt’s strange knowledge would prove to be when she grew older. From the Grimm’s fairy tale of the princess who became a goose girl before she could become a queen, Shannon Hale has woven an incredible, original and magical tale of a girl who must understand her own incredible talents before she can overcome those who wish her harm.
When Dashti, a maid, and Lady Saren, her mistress, are shut in a tower for seven years because of Saren’s refusal to marry a man she despises, the two prepare for a very long and dark imprisonment.
As food runs low and the days go from broiling hot to freezing cold, it is all Dashti can do to keep them fed and comfortable. With the arrival outside the tower of Saren’s two suitors–one welcome, the other decidedly less so–the girls are confronted with both hope and great danger, and Dashti must make the desperate choices of a girl whose life is worth more than she knows.
For more information on the author visit her website at http://www.shannonhale.com/.
Write your Destiny 