Miri is a complicated, headstrong heroine, and, in every new experience she faces, Hale excels at giving readers unexpected depth. Tutor Olana: As a woman who defines the words "strict" and "intimidation", it is Tutor Olana's duty to somehow transform coarse mountain girls into proper ladies worthy of the title princess.Shannon Hale's PALACE OF STONE is a masterfully complex tale that subverts everything you expect from a princess adventure. Katar: An older girl who attends the academy, prickly Katar is determined to become the best and brightest student even if she has to claw that title away from Miri. When she is forced to attend the Princess Academy, Esa discovers that she loves learning and realizes that the world beyond her mountains is vast and filled with things yet to discover.
Although they have always understood each other perfectly in the past, the possibility that Miri might marry the prince of Danland and permanently leave the mountain complicates their relationship.Įsa: Peder's little sister who still works in the quarry despite an old injury that disabled one of her arms. He and Miri have known each other their whole lives and have been best friends for nearly as long. Peder Doterson : Miri's childhood friend and Esa's older brother. But when she attends the academy with the other Eskelite girls, they realize that she is not nearly as snooty as they expect her to be. But when she is forced to attend the Princess Academy, she discovers a different way to be useful.īritta Paweldaughter : An orphaned lowlander who was sent to live on Mount Eskel with her only living relatives, Britta's silk dresses and general ignorance of how to live on a mountain mark her as a useless outsider.
Miri Larensdaughter: Embarrassed by her own scrawny physique, Miri has always felt out of place in her beloved village atop Mount Eskel, which is populated by muscular linder miners. Yet when danger comes to the academy, it is Miri, named for a tiny mountain flower, who must find a way to save her classmates- and the future of their beloved village. At the school, Miri finds herself confronting bitter competition among the girls and her own conflicted desires to be chosen. All eligible girls must attend a makeshift academy to prepare for royal life. But Miri's life will change forever when word comes that her small village is the home of the future princess. High on the slopes of rocky Mount Eskel, Miri's family pounds a living from the stone of the mountain itself.
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