{"id":252,"date":"2008-11-06T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T04:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/06\/review-of-princess-academy-by-shannon-hale-audiobook\/"},"modified":"2008-11-17T22:46:43","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T02:46:43","slug":"review-of-princess-academy-by-shannon-hale-audiobook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Review of Princess Academy, by Shannon Hale (Audiobook)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Princess Academy<\/em><\/p>\n

by Shannon Hale<\/p>\n

Read by Laura Credidio and The Full Cast Family<\/p>\n

Full Cast Audio, 2007.\u00a0 8 compact discs.\u00a0 7 hours, 21 minutes.<\/p>\n

Starred Review.<\/p>\n

Winner of a 2006\u00a0Newbery Honor Award.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.fullcastaudio.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.squeetus.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I read and reviewed this book in the print version when it first came out.\u00a0 ( http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/YAFiction\/princessacademy.html<\/a>\u00a0)<\/p>\n

At the time, I wasn’t quite as enchanted with the book as with Shannon Hale’s other books.\u00a0 I think it suffered just a little because my expectations were so tremendously high.\u00a0 This time, listening to Full Cast Audio’s fabulous production (complete with songs sung in between the chapters), the book was even better than I remembered it.<\/p>\n

I think the problem before may have been that I read the book too quickly.\u00a0 There are some issues at the beginning where I wasn’t quite tracking with Miri.\u00a0 She felt like her obviously loving Pa was ashamed of her.\u00a0 She was prejudiced against lowlanders.\u00a0 And she was trying to get out of going to the Academy even when it would get her family in trouble.<\/p>\n

However, all of those issues are resolved, and as the story goes, it gets better and better.\u00a0 I like the way Miri discovers the magic of the mountain and all the village girls learn to use it together.\u00a0 I like the way friendships are formed, and Miri becomes proud of her heritage.\u00a0 There’s danger and cleverness, and even a sprinkle of romance.<\/p>\n

Full Cast Audio’s production, as always, enhances the book beautifully.\u00a0 They truly use a full cast of different voices for different characters.\u00a0 This production made an already wonderful book even better.<\/p>\n

Buy from Amazon.com<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n

www.sonderbooks.com\/Teens\/princess_academy_audio.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Princess Academy by Shannon Hale Read by Laura Credidio and The Full Cast Family Full Cast Audio, 2007.\u00a0 8 compact discs.\u00a0 7 hours, 21 minutes. Starred Review. Winner of a 2006\u00a0Newbery Honor Award. http:\/\/www.fullcastaudio.com\/ http:\/\/www.squeetus.com\/ I read and reviewed this book in the print version when it first came out.\u00a0 ( http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/YAFiction\/princessacademy.html\u00a0) At the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,9,42,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiobooks","category-fantasy","category-starred-review","category-teen-fiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}