âAn empowering and timely story about resistance.â âBooklist
Princess Academy meets Megan Whalen Turner in this stunning novel about a girl who wonât let anything tame her spiritânot the government that conquered her people, and definitely not reform school!
Malley has led the constables on a merry chase across her once-peaceful country. With her parents in prison for their part in a failed resistance movement, the government wants to send her to a national schoolâbut theyâll have to capture her first.
And capture her they do. Malley is carted off to be reformed as a proper subject of the conquering empire, reeducated, and made suitable for domestic service. Thatâs the governmentâs plan, anyway.
But Malley will not go down without a fight. Sheâs determined to rally her fellow students to form a rebellion of their own. The government can lock these girls up in reform school. Whether it can break them is another matter entirelyâŚ