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Palace of Mirrors
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SOLVED. A realistic Fantasy (?) book about a princess and a boy named Harper going on an adventure to the castle. [s]
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Dec 27, 2022 10:38PM
I read it around 2015-2016. I don't remember too much but what I do remember is that it was about a princess (I'll call her hidden princess to keep everything straight) living as a common girl and her best friend was named Harper and he played a harp due to his mother forcing him to take lessons. Something happened and the princess ran away from home to go to the castle. I don't remember the journey to the castle, but I remember once they got there, they somehow got in and performed for the reigning princess (hidden princess dancing while Harper played the harp). After their performance Hidden princess told reigning princess that she was the true princess, causing reigning princess to lock her in a tower to protect her from someone (I think he might have been an adviser or something) who was finding all the princesses like the hidden princess and sending them to the dungeon. How these princesses knew they were a princess was a note hidden inside an object unique to each princess. The note basically explained that the queen's own child was stillborn and so she sent someone to the orphanage to get as many girls that could be passed off as newborn as possible. If I remember correctly the queen died that night happily listening to the babies in the nursey and loving all of them as they were now her daughters. Reigning princess had a snow globe as her object and hidden princess had the harp that Harper was given to use and take care of. The adviser(?) had found out about the princesses because he had found the note in the reigning princess' snow globe, which had gotten smashed. I think the title had the word "castle" or something similar. It might have had a dark colored cover but I'm not too sure on this. I don't remember anything else about this book.
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This is “Palace of Mirrors” by Margaret Peterson Haddix! All of the elements fit, from the secret princess, to the best friend named Harper, to the reveal that there are multiple adopted princesses.
Charlotte wrote: "This is “Palace of Mirrors” by Margaret Peterson Haddix! All of the elements fit, from the secret princess, to the best friend named Harper, to the reveal that there are multiple adopted princesses." Thank you so much!
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