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The Birthday Ball
Paperback
General Juvenile FictionHoliday
ISBN13: 9780547577104
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: Sep 13 2011
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.67
Language: English
A wry, dry, laugh-out-loud princess tale by the hilarious Lois Lowry, with illustrations by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer.
Princess Patricia Priscilla is bored with her royal life and the excitement surrounding her sixteenth birthday ball. Doomed to endure courtship by three grotesquely unappealing noblemen, she adopts a peasant disguise and escapes her fate--for a week.
In this tale of mistaken identity, creamed pigeons, and young love, the two-time Newbery medalist Lois Lowry compares princesses to peasants and finds them to be exactly the same in all the important ways.
What happens when a princess trades her tiara for bare feet and a day at the village school?
- Royalty in Disguise: Princess Patricia Priscilla isn't just bored--she's trading places with her chambermaid to live as a peasant girl named Pat.
- Hilarious Suitors: Forget Prince Charming. Patricia is doomed to choose between a weeping warthog-like Duke, a preening prince, and a pair of bickering, conjoined counts.
- A First Crush: At the village school, 'Pat' meets Rafe, the handsome new schoolmaster who has no idea he's teaching a princess.
- Laugh-Out-Loud Humor: A witty, funny middle grade story from two-time Newbery medalist Lois Lowry, perfect for readers who love clever fairy tales with a twist.
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