Princess Academy - Shannon Hale

Written by Shannon Hale
Read by Laura Credidio, full cast
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Series: Princess Academy
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Edition: Unabridged
Release date: November 1, 2012
Duration: 07:30:38

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.

“…. Narrator Laura Credidio’s voice is pleasant and soothing, and her narration is well paced. The ensemble’s acting is good, and the girls who attend the academy, including Miri, are uniformly charming. The casting reveals special care and intelligence in that the voices give dimension to the characters that the story bears out, a remarkable vocal foreshadowing that is due, of course, to the actors’ skill. This sweet story will primarily interest 10-14- year-old girls, but even boys may enjoy it (though they may not admit it).:— AudioFile