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Dashti, a maid, is locked up in a windowless tower with her Lady Saren as punishment for Saren's refusal to go through with the marriage her father arranged for her. A sincere and realistic take on I Just Want to Be Normal, and a Newbery Honor winner. Miri quickly rises to the top of her class and realizes she has a chance at becoming the princess, but struggles to choose between a better life, and leaving behind her home and the boy she's falling in love with. One day all the girls from the village are rounded up by an emissary from the king and sent to a finishing school - the titular princess academy - thanks to a prophecy that the prince's future wife will come from their region. Eskel, far removed from the rest of the Kingdom of Danland. Fearful of Selia and her guards, who still want her dead, Ani disguises herself as a city worker who tends to the geese as she plots a way to convince the king of her true identity. Ani escapes, but then must make her way to Bayern alone. Halfway there, she is betrayed by her company as they attempt to murder her and replace her with her lady in waiting, Selia. The Goose Girl (2003): Princess Anidori is traveling from her home kingdom to the kingdom of Bayern to marry the prince and hopefully bring peace to their two nations.Note: Works that have their own media pages are linked to below, and the tropes for those works have been migrated to the relevant pages. They can be a little slow in the beginning, but they are always worth the effort. Her books straddle the line between High Fantasy and low, being small-scale, low magic, and sometimes gritty or violent, but also featuring unambiguously good and evil characters and traditional happy endings. Author of mostly young adult fantasy novels, notable for her consistent inclusion of strong female protagonists and unique, subtle magic systems.