03415cam a2200361 4500 233589194 TxAuBib 20150806120000.0 ||||||s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307746191 0307746194 54d7a782-8442-4706-ae12-4f298bd8eb15 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 314932 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Lowry, Lois. The Birthday Ball [Libby Audiobook]. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2010. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 94MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 94MB. HTML:Bored, bored, bored. It's all Princess Patricia Priscilla can think as her sixteenth birthday approaches. It's less than a week before the Birthday Ball, where she will choose her husband from a group of unappealing suitors.<br /> Boring.<br /> But things around the kingdom get pretty interesting when Princess Patricia Priscilla disguises herself as a peasant and starts attending the village school. She may not be spending her days in the comfort of the castle, clothed in silk, but at least life in the village is fun. It doesn't hurt that the new schoolmaster is young and handsome.<br /> In this tale of mistaken identity, creamed pigeons, and young love, the two-time Newbery Medal winner Lois Lowry compares princesses to peasants and finds them to be exactly the same in all the important ways. As her sixteenth birthday approaches, Princess Patricia Priscilla escapes her boring existence by taking her chambermaid's place at the village school. While the castle is abuzz with preparations for the ball at which three "repulsive rulers" will present themselves as suitors, "Pat" experiences the delights of learning delivered by the new schoolmaster. Elissa Steele's regal voice is a wonderful fit for Lowry's engaging tale. Her enunciation has the clarity of a gemstone, and she trills Lowry's droll alliteration and repetitions with ease. (How many rhyming adjectives are there for Delicious the cat?) Steele's deliberate pacing lets the delights of Lowry's language shine. A.R. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine. AudioFile Magazine. Juvenile Literature. Juvenile Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-05 20:00:03. Steele, Elissa. http://nh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=54d7a782-8442-4706-ae12-4f298bd8eb15 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/314932-TheBirthdayBall.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/314932-TheBirthdayBall.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=54D7A782-8442-4706-AE12-4F298BD8EB15&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/314932-TheBirthdayBall.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/314932-TheBirthdayBall.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=54D7A782-8442-4706-AE12-4F298BD8EB15&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)