Being a guy, I got an initial laugh of confusion when I told my friends I was reading a book called "Princess Academy." However, this book is for guys and girls of any age.
Miri is a girl living on Mount Eskel, a remote and poor territory of the kingdom where they mine linder from a quarry to make a meager living. She struggles with wanting to work at the quarry along with the other girls, but her dad won't let her. She feels like an outcast. This year, however, the chief delegate of the kingdom arrives and makes a surprise announcement: it has been foreseen that the next princess will come from Mount Eskel and so, in order to prepare, a princess academy will be formed in order to instruct the eligible girls and prepare them to meet the prince.
What we find in this book is an encouragement towards education, understanding, and sticking up for others. We find girls who start off in competition learning to get along. We find courage, creativity, and empathy. I'd say this book is primarily character driven with Miri at the center of it all. She really is an admirable character and she learns many things along the way.
There's a tiny bit of fantasy mixed in with the plot, but not so much as to get in anyone's way. The majority of the occurrences are events that could still happen to our children as they're growing up, or children elsewhere in the world who come from more impoverished backgrounds.
So are there some things are are probably geared more towards a girl audience? Perhaps, but other than the idea of a princess, most of this book is applicable to all who read it. We all have dreams that we would do anything to achieve and awakenings along the way. If a book is wholesome for children because it promotes the values we want in our children, then shouldn't we, the adults, also read it to instill those values in ourselves?
This is a really good book and, again, I recommend it to all, regardless of age or gender.
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I personally loved this book from the beginning when I first read the back of it I totally wanted to read this book was a stretcher my mind and a beautifully written book I encourage everyone to read this book Princess Academy palace of stone by Shannon Hale
