![]() ![]() Without these four core values, a girl may have all the crowns and castles she wants, but she will no more be a princess than she will a dragon. These are the four cardinal virtues of Pennyroyal Academy. ![]() The princesses-in-training learn that to fight witches they must become courageous, compassionate, kind and disciplined. And wouldn’t the stickiness of the webs be nasty and uncomfortable? And how would you take them off? Yuck! There were other details that sidetracked me, too, but as these others are spoiler-ish, I’ll save them to discuss with those who have already read the book. Wouldn’t they be at least translucent, no matter how many spiderwebs you used. I just kept wondering how the the whole spiderwebs-as-clothing thing worked. If you got stuck, as I did, on imagining the girl dressed only in spiderwebs, then maybe you’ll get stuck again on some of the other rather odd aspects of this book. If that introduction intrigues you, Pennyroyal Academy is the book for you. ![]() A nameless girl dressed only in spiderwebs enters the Pennyroyal Academy, a place where girls are trained to become princesses who do battle with witches and boys are trained to become knights who fight dragons. ![]()
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