Palace of Stone

4.5 Originally posted at Fantasy Literature.

Palace of Stone is a sequel to Shannon Hale???s excellent Newbery Honor-winning Middle Grade novel Princess Academy. You???ll definitely want to read Princess Academy first, and to avoid spoilers, you should read it before you read this review. So, if you haven???t read Princess Academy yet, go away and read it now. (Then come back, please.)

In Princess Academy, we met the poor hard-working uneducated families of Mount Eskel who survive by mining and carving linder, a valuable type of stone that they export to lowlanders. Their culture was changed when it was determined by lowlander priests that the next princess should come from Mount Eskel. To get the girls up to snuff, a ???Princess Academy??? ... Read More: http://www.fantasyliterature.com/reviews/palace-of-stone/