Hale’s wide-ranging oeuvre includes three books for adults, among them Austenland, adapted as a 2013 Sony Pictures movie YA series Ever After High, starring the children of classic fairy tale characters sci-fi thriller Dangerous fairy tale-inspired graphic novels Rapunzel’s Revenge and Calamity Jack, written with her husband, Dean Hale, and illustrated by Nathan Hale and The Princess in Black, also written with Dean Hale and illustrated by LeUyen Pham, a chapter book about a royal superhero, just optioned by Universal Pictures. The versatile Salt Lake City author has 20 books to her credit since the 2003 publication of her debut novel, The Goose Girl, which launched the Books of Bayern series. The Forgotten Sisters’ 150,000-copy first printing brings the series’ in-print tally to more than one million copies, and Hale will greet some of her legion fans on a six-city author tour that kicks off February 21. Sent to an academy to learn how to become a princess, Miri soon finds herself confronted with a harsh mistress, bitter competition among the girls, and even bandits intent on kidnapping the future princess.'When it comes to contemporary classics, Shannon Hale has the makings of someone whose books will be read and reread for decades to come.' –The 2006 Newbery Committee (The Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association)'Princess Academy is the strong, well-written story of one girl's determination to show that even a small mountain flower can be as valuable as a gold crown.' –'An unalloyed joy.' –Kirkus Reviews'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.On February 24, Bloomsbury will release The Forgotten Sisters, the final installment of Shannon Hale’s Princess Academy trilogy, on the 10th anniversary of the publication of the series’ launch title, the Newbery Honor-winning Princess Academy. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life.

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