Shannon Hale has written two other books that she once said she considers to be a part of the same world in which Bayern exists, but in a different time and on a different continent. The first of these books is Princess Academy.
The main character is Miri, a young girl named after the only flower that can grow on her rocky mountain. Like the flower, Miri is small and, compared to everyone else in the village, weak.
Everyone in the village except Miri works in the quarry; it is the only source of income the people of Mount Eskel have. Miri tends to the goats.
Then, shock and surprise. Important lowlanders show up on the mountain and order almost every eligible girl in the village to walk three hours away to an academy where they're expected to spend the next several months away from family learning how to be proper ladies.
Why? The priests have declared that the prince's next bride is among the girls on Mount Eskel. Miri has a shot at proving her worth!
This book has high points and low, a few danger scenes, and some drama. But best of all, Hale shows us two new things: a new language in something one would never before have expected and more than just the protagonist gets her story wrapped up all nicely with no strings left open.
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