Shannon Hale’s The Forgotten Sisters is a swampy adventure for 10 year olds about a girl who’s sent to teach three royal cousins when all she wants is to go home.<\/p>\n
Miri has been away from her mountain village for a whole year. Her bags are packed with presents for Pa and her sister Marda. The wagons are loaded. Then a royal guard strides across the courtyard, and the king wants to see her. Right now.<\/p>\n
The king has cousins living far away in Lesser Alva. They need a princess academy, and the queen won’t have anyone but Miri as their tutor. So instead of going home, Miri is put on a ship to a swamp. (She drives a hard bargain for her village before she agrees, which is very Miri.)<\/p>\n
This is the third Princess Academy book, and it turns things upside down. Miri used to be the student. Now she’s the teacher, and she hasn’t a clue how to do it.<\/p>\n
Her plan is to be imposing. It lasts about a minute. She arrives hot and muddy, faints on the floor and wakes up to three sisters who’ve never heard the word tutor. Astrid carries a sharpened stick. Felissa is almost always smiling. Sus, the youngest, wants to know if she’s brought any city food.<\/p>\n
It’s so funny watching Miri get everything wrong. She walks into their house uninvited, which you never, ever do in Lesser Alva. She’s bitten by a snake on her first morning. Then she wins a scrap of respect by skinning a rat for breakfast faster than anyone expected!<\/p>\n
Those breakfasts are worth a mention if you’ve got a squeamish reader. The sisters hunt what they eat, and Sus sucks the eyes out of a roasted rat. It’s played for laughs and it’s over in a line.<\/p>\n
What makes it lovely, though, is how homesick Miri is. She keeps a little stone hawk from home in her pocket. She sings nonsense songs into the wind on the ship. Anyone who’s been sent somewhere they didn’t choose will know that feeling.<\/p>\n
And there’s a mystery sitting underneath it all. Where’s the money the king sends every month? And why does the palace care so much about three girls in a swamp?<\/p>\n
If your reader hasn’t met Miri yet, the first Princess Academy book is where she starts, on a mountain where everyone quarries stone and a girl is desperate to be allowed to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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