Gussie's story of inspiration and hope is both heartwarming and heartrending. Spirited and imaginative, Gussie has a passionate interest in everything around her and her vivid stream of thoughts and observations will draw you into a renewed sense of wonder. Perhaps because she knows her time might be short, she values every passing moment, experiencing each day with humour and extraordinary courage.

She also has a life-threatening heart condition. Twelve yhears old and settling into her new ramshackle home on a cliff top above St Ives, she has an irrepressible zest for life.

As she searches the Cornish coast for the elusive insect, Gussie learns to be like the Burying Beetle, to bury things past and to live. When she reads about the Burying Beetle, which has the unusual habit of burying dead birds, mice, and other small animals by digging away the earth beneath them, it becomes her mission to find one. Twelve-year-old Gussie was born with a rare, life-threatening heart disease, but it hasn't hampered her curiosity. There will be grief like a sharp rock in your throat. It was after I ate King that everything started to go wrong in our entire family, as if someone had put an evil spell onto us, a hex - like a bad fairy godmother had said at my birth, when you are eleven you are going to be struck by a sorrow so big it will be like a lightning bolt. With Dean Hale, illustrated by Nathan Hale Torn between loyalty to the princess and her new friends' ideas, between an old love and a new crush, and between her small mountain home and the bustling city, Miri looks to find her own way in this new place.ĭon't miss any of these other books from New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale: There, Miri also has a chance to attend school-at the prestigious Queen's Castle.īut as Miri befriends sophisticated and exciting students, she also learns that they have some frightening plans for a revolution. She and her princess academy friends have come to Asland to help the future princess Britta prepare for her wedding. In this second book in New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale's Princess Academy series, Miri embarks on a brand new life in the city.Ĭoming down from the mountain to a new city life is a thrill to Miri. Princess Academy: Palace of Stone Shannon Hale Sorry, the publisher does not allow users to read this book from the country from which you are connecting.

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