Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters
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Overview
A New York Times Bestseller
In this third book in New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale’s Princess Academy series, Miri goes from student . . . to teacher!
Miri has spent a year at the king’s palace, learning all about being a proper princess. But instead of returning to her beloved Mount Eskel, Miri is ordered to journey to a distant swamp and start a princess academy for three sisters, cousins of the royal family. Unfortunately, Astrid, Felissa, and Sus are more interested in hunting and fishing than becoming princesses.
As Miri spends more time with the sisters, she realizes the king and queen’s interest in them hides a long-buried secret. She must rely on her own strength and intelligence to unravel the mystery, protect the girls, complete her assignment, and finally make her way home.
Don’t miss any of these other books from New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale:
The Princess Academy trilogy
Princess Academy
Princess Academy: Palace of Stone
Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters
The Books of Bayern
The Goose Girl
Enna Burning
River Secrets
Forest Born
Book of a Thousand Days
Dangerous
Graphic Novels
with Dean Hale
Illustrated by Nathan Hale
Rapunzel’s Revenge
Calamity Jack
Illustrated by Victoria Ying
Diana: Princess of the Amazons
Illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Real Friends
Best Friends
The Princess in Black series
For Adults
Austenland
Midnight in Austenland
The Actor and the Housewife
Just in time for the 10th anniversary of Newbery Honor winner Princess Academy, Shannon Hale returns to Miri’s enchanting world.
Miri’s charming story continues in this latest from renowned author Shannon Hale: The student becomes the teacher when former princess-in-training Miri is asked to teach three royal cousins in the third offering in this New York Times-bestselling, Newbery Honor-winning series from seasoned pro Hale.
Timed with the 10th anniversary of Princess Academy and a complete series repackage: The release of this third book will give us the opportunity to celebrate all three books - and to introduce brand new, fresh covers for the whole series!
The latest from a best-selling author: The Princess Academy paperback spent 24 weeks on the NYT bestseller list (peaking at #3). The hardcover of Palace of Stone spent one week as #8 on the NYT bestseller list. Shannon’s series Ever After High also hit the NYT bestseller list.
Shannon’s star is on the rise throughout the book world: Shannon’s series Ever After High (Little Brown) and Princess in Black (Candlewick) have spent weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and her graphic memoir with LeUyen Pham, Real Friends (Macmillan), and her middle-grade Marvel novel, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (Disney), have garnered lots of publicity.
Action packed and wellpaced, the story’s depth incorporates artful negotiation, the importance of education, and citizens’ equality and rights. This final installment of The Princess Academy trilogy certainly leaves room for more books if Hale were so inclined. Won’t she reconsider?
Miri, as spunky and smart as ever, returns in the final book of the award-winning Princess Academy trilogy. . . . Hale maintains her high quality of storytelling, with lots of action, plot twists and lyrical writing. . . . A laudable conclusion to a popular series.
Hale once again manages to create a cast of female characters diverse in their qualities and distinctly individual, offering an inclusive portrait of what girlhood and womanhood look like.
Hale keeps the action taut and the young women smart and savvy. . . A decade after the Newbery Honor-winning Princess Academy was published, this third and possibly final installment in the series will please old and new fans alike.
As always, Hale is a terrific storyteller: she deftly juggles plot, character, and setting; her prose is lyrical yet economical; and the themes of feminism and equality that run throughout the trilogy blossom in the resolution of this concluding volume. Readers will be sad to say goodbye, not just to Miri and company but also to Danland itself.
Powerful and deeply engaging.
Palace of Stone . . . proves once again that with quick wit and brave words, one person really can change the world.
The book is a fresh approach to the traditional princess story with unexpected plot twists and great emotional resonance.
This is not a fluffy, predictable fairy tale. . . . Instead Hale weaves an intricate, multilayered story about families, relationships, education, and the place we call home.
- Title: Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters
- Author: Shannon Hale
- Series: Princess Academy
- Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 272
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781619634862, 9781619639331, 1619639335, 1619634864
- Resource ID: LLS:9781619634862
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T15:32:25Z
Shannon Hale is the Newbery Honor–winning and New York Times bestselling author of the series Princess Academy, Books of Bayern, Ever After High, and Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, as well as stand-alones Book of a Thousand Days, Dangerous, and the graphic novels Rapunzel's Revenge, Calamity Jack, Real Friends, Best Friends, and The Princess in Black series, among other books. She also wrote three novels for adults, including Austenland, now a major motion picture starring Keri Russell. She and her husband, the author Dean Hale, have four children and live near Salt Lake City, Utah.
www.shannonhale.com
@HaleShannon