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    Palace of Mirrors

    Written by Margaret Peterson Haddix

    Narrated by Polly Lee

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    International Reading Association Children’s Book Award winner Margaret Peterson Haddix returns to the world of Just Ella for this enchanting book about a princess in peril. Disguised as a peasant, Cecilia has been hiding for years from the evil people who killed her parents. Now the time has come to reclaim her title. There’s just one problem. Princess Desmia—supposedly Cecilia’s decoy—believes a different version of the story.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books Audio
    Release dateDec 12, 2008
    ISBN9781436186117
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    Margaret Peterson Haddix

    Margaret Peterson Haddix grew up on a farm in Ohio. As a kid, she knew two girls who had the exact same first, middle, and last names and shared the same birthday—only one year apart—and she always thought that was bizarre. As an adult, Haddix worked as a newspaper reporter and copy editor in Indiana before her first book, Running Out of Time, was published. She has since written more than forty books for kids and teens, including the Greystone Secrets series, the Shadow Children series, the Missing series, the Children of Exile series, and lots of stand-alones. Haddix and her husband, Doug, now live in Columbus, Ohio, where they raised their two kids. You can learn more about her at haddixbooks.com.

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    • 5/5
      This was an interesting story with a twist that I honestly did not see coming at all. She also left me guessing many times about what exactly the story was, and more than a little surprised. I was pleased with the unconventional ending as much as I was with the unconventional story.
    • 2/5
      What happens when you are raised believing one story only to have it ripped away by reality? That is Cecilia's story. She was raised in small village by a nanny being tutored by a knight and believing she was the true princess of Suala - a country constantly at war with it's neighbors. Cecilia's only real friend was Harper, a village boy who will grow up to play a harp to keep him from the wars that killed his father. Together Cecilia and Harper are relatively happy. Until the night that Cecilia's house is attacked and she decides to head for the capital city to tell the fake princess Desmia that she is the real princess. Sounds like the naive ramblings of a preteen doesn't it. Who hasn't wanted to believe they are really royalty or an heiress or at least adopted. Cecilia is living that fantasy. Until she reaches the capital, is imprisoned for her claims and realizes things are really REALLY not what they seem. One of the characters of this book is Ella from Just Ella . I loved this spunky Cinderella turned realist character! - if the reader knows Just Ella, if not they are missing much of the undertones that work to highlight the personality of Cecilia. I really liked this story. I think it will appeal to many YA girls...the end is rather contrived. I was a little disappointed. But - I haven't read the next book...maybe it would make more sense!
    • 3/5
      3.5 stars. I liked the twist at the end.
    • 5/5
      Great companion novel for kids who enjoyed Just Ella. Princesses with brains, guts, and determination!
    • 3/5
      It's okay but the beging is to slow but if you get through that it's pretty good book.There are lots of twists and turns secret passageways, princesses in dungens, Kights in trocher chambers,and each one claims to have the real princess.
    • 4/5
      MS, TweenNice unexpected twist at the end. Cecelia intends to assume her rightful role of princess after having been cryptically raised as a peasant girl only to find out her understanding of reality is skewed. Realistic voice; emotions of power, fear, betrayal, jealousy well written. Book on tape is good.
    • 3/5
      Cecilia is the actual princess of Suala, living out her life in hiding in a peasant village far from the capitol, away from menacing foreign enemies who might want to end her life the same way they killed her parents. Every night she studies princess lessons with her knight/tutor Sir Stephen, and wonders about Desmia, the decoy princess on the throne, living the life that Cecilia should have.Urged on by her good friend Archer, Cecilia and Archer set off to the capitol to reclaim her rightful place on the throne. But it turns out that Desmia has grown up hearing a different story, and they may all be in danger from an enemy that’s much closer to them than they expected.PALACE OF MIRRORS is a charming companion novel to Haddix’s endearing JUST ELLA. Of course, this book is not Ella’s story, though the feisty heroine of the previous book plays a fairly important role in this novel. Readers will connect to Cecilia’s uncertainty about her identity and destiny, as well as her confusing feelings for and relationship with Archer. PALACE OF MIRRORS is full of spunky, appealing characters, and even if the plot seems a little uneven—too slow at the beginning, too quickly wrapped up, too anticlimactic—it is still a decent read for late elementary and middle school girls who want a lighthearted romance set in an exciting world.
    • 4/5
      Fourteen-year-old Cecilia has always known she is the true princess of Suala, but when she and her best friend, Harper, decide to speed up her ascendancy to the throne, they find danger and many imposters who challenge her claim.