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Parent of 6, 11, and 12 year old
January 11, 2011
 
Possitive Role Models
Great Possitive Role Model

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Teen, 18 years old
January 8, 2011
 
Perfect for young readers, enjoyable for older ones...
I loved this book when I was a tween and I still love it.

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Parent of 9 year old
March 3, 2010
 
i absolutly hate it u suck:)

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Kid, 13 years old
January 22, 2010
 
I COULDN'T STOP READING IT!
Thsi book was REALLY GOOD! i HAD BOUGHT THE BOOK (301 PAGES) and i sat on the couch for about 5 hours. because I could not stop reading it! TRUE STORY The one death as posted above was to a bandit that held the main character and threatened to kill her, he fell off a cliff, (no blood at all)So as like most comments I would say everything about the book, that will be a spoiler. So I could say is GET THIS BOOK NOW!

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Parent of 14 and 15 year old
February 28, 2011
 
Great Book!
Shows Miri's strength throughout the story. Great detail, and when the kids get older they should read the Books of Bayern :)

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Teen, 14 years old
September 15, 2011
 
My favorite
I love this book! It has all the best things a book could have: action. romance (not yucky stuff), and you can understand how the characters feel! This book is by far one of my faves!

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Teen, 15 years old
September 21, 2010
 
awesome for any age
This book was one of my favorites since I was 8 years old. Shannon Hale is THE best auther of my life.

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Parent of 5, 9, 11, 13, and 16 year old
February 24, 2010
 
Daughter & I both love this book.
Great book!

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Adult
November 11, 2009
 
Love it
I love Shannon Hale and this book of hers is wonderful. Its a great fairytaleish story.

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Kid, 12 years old
June 2, 2011
 
Amazing
Great, excellent book... It's basically okay for any kid who can read it, I'm guessing about eight years old.

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Adult
August 5, 2010
 
Even adults can enjoy this book.
I have read this book twice for two different book clubs and thoroughly enjoyed it. I didn't worry about the "girl power" stuff just enjoyed a book where the main charachter has to figure out her role in life. Miri is a a typical teen young woman who has doubts in some areas and confidence in others. I loved that she came from a family that loved each other instead of the usual "family in crisis" stuff usually included in modern fiction.

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Teen, 15 years old
July 16, 2010
 

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Parent of 8 and 8 year old
June 15, 2010
 
Not what I expected from the title (a good thing)
In an age where "princess" almost always equals a Disney-esque rendering of royalty, I was at first hesitant about selecting this book for my two girls but am SO glad we gave it a shot. We all thoroughly enjoyed it. It also provides a great contrast to the highly commercialized princess stories/fairy tales, which often incorporate a "love at first sight" aspect to the story line and can lead to good, age-appropriate discussions about the whole "knight in shining armor" myth. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is considering reading it!

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Teen, 15 years old
May 8, 2010
 
Girl-Power!
This was a good book that girls who love a good girl-power story will love. This book has action, friendship, love, courage, girl-power and more.

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Kid, 12 years old
August 7, 2010
 
I really like this book!

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Kid, 11 years old
August 4, 2011
 
Best book ever
It was a really good book I would tell every girl to check it out!

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Parent
June 17, 2011
 
The book is full of negative messages that are disguised as positive ones.
I know its a weird thing to say about a book, but its very true. This book is like a how-to for bad judgement. The hero, Mirri, just having learned to read that week, decides that she now has the keys to all problem solving. She doesn't question the idea that maybe just because she has read one book she doesn't have all the answers. The best example; She doesn't understand things like demand, and supply, but she learns that this weird rock that they get from the mountain is expensive. So she now "knows" that the traders are cheating her village, and can somehow stop them. Ok? How about the cost of hauling this rock through a mountain? She has no idea what that costs the traders. She has no idea if anyone out in the wider world even wants this rock at a given time. Maybe no one even is building a palace in the lowlands. So how exactly would she be able to force the traders to change their prices? She can't take the rocks to the cities herself. Maybe the traders simple can't afford to give a better price even if the price of the rock is theoretically high. UGH. There is nothing worse then an idiot with a teeny bit of knowledge. Thats Miri in a nutshell. Worse yet, she is exactly the same with rules. Miri thinks that she is the best qualified to know if a given rule is just or not. Im sorry? Maybe I think drugs should be legal. Does that mean I can act on it? You don't just break a rule because you don't like it. Only a sociopath does that. Maybe thats a very good point actually. Miri is as shallow and as egotistical a person as I could imagine. I doubt she will grow out of it. Do not give this book to a kid. They will not learn any good lessons, and plenty of bad ones.

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Teen, 16 years old
July 8, 2010
 
Nice book but, worried about the younger kids understanding!
From a teen/tween point of view this book is awesome. For a parent's point of view (I am not a parent) this book relly doesn't teach a lesson, but, it has a lesson in it. I don't think that it is for 9 year olds because at that age some girls might have a problem understanding the romance, trading, complicated words, and also the quarry speech. For a 14 year old some things took me a little while to put together but I got it. This book is a book that you would say uses "Girl power" as i would say!

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Teen, 15 years old
May 15, 2010
 
Enjoyable for all ages
awesome book. great for elementary schoolers and adults have liked it too. Great role models

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Teen, 16 years old
March 17, 2010
 
great book!
i only say eight and up because younger kids may have a hard time understanding it, not because of the content. If you have a six or seven year old who loves to read, this book is great! I remember picking this up in the book store and loving it after reading the first chapter!

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