How did we all get introduced to Shannon Hale's books?

[Redwallcrazy]

I checked out River Secrets as a book on cd, and I loved it so I read the rest of the books. I love Razo, he's soooo awesome.

[Monica]

i no! hes one of my favorites

[Redwallcrazy]

I just love his view on things. He makes me laugh!

[[deleted user]]

i think Razo is my fav character in all of the books :P

[Redwallcrazy]

mine too!!

[Monica]

Lol i like rinna the best i think... its so hard to choose.... rinna or enaa. those are my fav

[Redwallcrazy]

If I had to choose between those two, yay, that would be a hard choice, they are both sooo cool.

[Monica]

i no!

[Redwallcrazy]

It's like if you go for powers, Rinna has Tree-speaking and people speaking, where Enna has wind and fire speaking, and those are both cool and can be used in different ways. And if you go for character, they are both so opposite, where Rin is quiet and thoughtful, Enna is not so quiet and forceful. But they are both cool that way, so to decide between them.....

[secretly bayern]

mines still isi but i havent even started my 3rd yet so idk maybe itll change

[Redwallcrazy]

You haven't read River Secrets? For me River Secrets is tied with Forest Bron for my favorites.

[Clarissa]

My mom has signed copies by Shannon Hale and a lot of my friends said they were good and also my brother said they were good, so I finally sat down and read them and I fell in love with them.

[Rachel]

My mam borrowed Enna Burning from the Library for me when I was eight and since then Shannon has been one of my favourite authors :)

[Emily]

I was introduced to Shannon Hale from my roomate who owned Princess Academy. I was deturmined to read all of her books by the end of the year. It took me about 50 pages to get into princess academy but once i did i loved it. Its in my top five books. I tell all my donors - i work at a plasma donation facility - to read it. I tell the men that their daughters need to read it. Its so good!! Then i read Austenland, and then the books of Bayern. Also amazing!

[Madeline]

I got Princess Academy for one of my birthdays and LOVED it. And then I learned she has written more books.

[Eve]

My grandma loved her books, she told my mom, when I was like 4 I read rapunzels revenge and now she is my hero. No I mean seriously I want to be an author like her and she is my inspiration

[Libby]

I was about 7 and my mom took me and my sister to Barnes and noble,and back then I didn't like reading that much.So I was walking around and found princess academy and I just loved the cover, and so my mom bought it for me and tried to read it to me but I didn't really like it.4 years later and know I love reading and was looking through my closest and found it and read it in one sitting. I was so in love with the book and so upset that it ended. Likely for me I only had to wait 3 months to read palace of stone and I loved that even now. Ever since then Shannon Hale has been one of my favorite authors.

[Erin]

My aunt found The Goose Girl in a secondhand book shop. As soon as she read it, of course she fell in love! She then passed it along to me and ever since then I've just been in love! Even though it is so sad that someone didn't want their book anymore, I am so happy they gave it up because I probably would have never known.

[[deleted user]]

So a few years back I was at my public library and I asked a librarian for a recommendation and they told me I should read and I really liked it so I checked out some more of her books.

[Leah]

I believe that Princess Academy was the first one that I read. I remember seeing it at the library when I was about eleven or twelve years old and thinking " Hey, this looks like a pretty cool book, it's about a princess school!" Little did I know that Shannon Hale was about to become one of my favorite authors. I read the book and I could not put it down, it was amazing! It had an exciting plot, amazing characters, and an amazing story. After reading Princess Academy I read Goose Girl. Somehow, Goose Girl was just as good as Princess Academy, or maybe even better!! I was completely enthralled. There was absolutely no way I was putting that book done. I huddled under my covers, my hand growing numb as I gripped my flashlight. Quickly, I turned the pages, enraptured in the suspense of the story. I kept on thinking " Just one more chapter, I just need to find out what's going to happen next." Next thing I knew, I had completed the book. For a quick minute, I thought I was an amazingly fast reader, before I glanced at the clock.... and realized it was two in the morning!! Yep, I was hooked on Shannon Hale's books, and the amazing characters, wondrous lands, and exciting plots that came with them:)

[Jessica (JT)]

I saw "Princes Academy" on a shelf in Barnes and Nobil and I loved the cover. The pretty cover drew me into reading the back and I asked my mother to get it for me. I loved it so much that I had to get all her other books (which were not that many at the time). Now I am an adult, but I still love reading everything she publishes.

[Kaitlyn]

Hey guys! Anyone still active on Goodreads? Well, anyways, we should get this group started up again!!

[Eve]

Sure! Let's do it!

[Kaitlyn]

Hey, would it be cool to do a rp of the books of Bayern? Make it our own?

[Eve]

Awesome idea! Could I be Enna?

[Kaitlyn]

I'm gonna make a group.

[Eve]

Okay, tell me when you do.

[Kaitlyn]

Made! Search Shannon hale

[Kaitlyn]

It doesn't have a group pic yet. I have to go on the computer to do that and I had to leave. On the app

[Cadence]

I started by reading the Book of a Thousand Days because it was in a journal format which I love to read but then I fell in love with Shannon Hale and started reading Princess Academy.

[Erin]

My aunt found The Goose Girl in a random used book shop (why anyone would want to give up such a treasure, I don't know) and brought it home to read. She fell in love, so of course, she got me hooked on all of Shannon Hale's books.

[Andie]

I read Princess Academy b/c someone told me that Shannon Hale was a member of my religion, and LOVED the entire series. Then I found out she had written The Books of Bayern. Happiest day of my life!

[Rachel]

I found out about Shannon Hale because I was bored at the library and I couldn't find anything to read so I grabbed a book that seemed promising. It was the 4th book of the books of Bayern. My mom told me to read Shannon hale books. i didn't realize that it was the 4th book. My mom told me. I read the goose girl. I haven't read the rest, idk why. i am gonna. So yeah that's how I found out

[Mikal]

For my birthday one year my family got me all the Princess Academy books and Goose Girl

[Saniya]

One day, I was ordering books online (Library app), and then it suggested “Real Friends,” since at the time, I was reading lots of graphic novels. I decided to order and read it. I fell in love with it, and read the other two in the series. Though, I wish their was a fourth book.

[Emma]

Yeah my mom used to go to a book club, and she got real friends for me. So I read that whole series, but then my mom also showed me goose girl and that really got me into Shannon Hale.

[fᥲιth]

I had to read a newbery honor book over the summer for school, and I chose princess academy I was SO in love with it!!