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The Birthday Ball
By Lowry, Lois
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-54723-869-2
- Publisher
- Houghton
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2010
Gr 6-8 Princess Patricia Priscilla will soon be 16, marrying age in her kingdom. A birthday ball is planned where suitors will woo her. The very bored princess knows that once she is married, she will not have much freedom, so she swaps clothes with her chambermaid to spend the week as a peasant girl attending the village school. There she meets the handsome, sweetly smart schoolteacher. Meanwhile, the suitors, each awful in his own ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2010
Pampered Princess Patricia Priscilla decides to pull a Paris Hilton and dabble in peasant life. Lowry's comic, breezy royalty-in-disguise tale has "Pat"—her peasant moniker, since the shorter the name, the lower the social status—switching outfits with her chambermaid and surreptitiously attending the village school. ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2010
In Lowry's breezy, comic royalty-in-disguise tale, pampered Princess Patricia Priscilla--"Pat"--switches outfits with her chambermaid and attends sc...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on May 1, 2010
A well-written witty and inventive fairy tale. Award-winning author Lois Lowry continues to impress with her range and versatility. Clever, funny details inclu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
