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** ''The Goose Girl''v(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. Halfway there, she is betrayed by her company as they attempt to murder her and replace her with her lady in waiting, Selia. Ani escapes, but then must make her way to Bayern alone. 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.
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** ''The Goose Girl''v(2003): 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. Halfway there, she is betrayed by her company as they attempt to murder her and replace her with her lady in waiting, Selia. Ani escapes, but then must make her way to Bayern alone. 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.
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* Two Literature/TheUnbeatableSquirrelGirl books with husband Dean Hale:
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** ''The Goose Girl''. 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. Halfway there, she is betrayed by her company as they attempt to murder her and replace her with her lady in waiting, Selia. Ani escapes, but then must make her way to Bayern alone. 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. Three sequels feature the friends Ani meets among the city workers.
** ''Enna Burning''
** ''River Secrets''
** ''Forest Born''
** ''Enna Burning''
** ''River Secrets''
** ''Forest Born''
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** ''The Goose Girl''. Girl''v(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. Halfway there, she is betrayed by her company as they attempt to murder her and replace her with her lady in waiting, Selia. Ani escapes, but then must make her way to Bayern alone. 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. Three sequels feature the friends Ani meets among the city workers.\n
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** ''A Wonderlandiful World''.
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** ''2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious''.
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''Note'': The Books of Bayern now has its own [[Literature/BooksOfBayern separate page]]. Tropes from the series on this page has been moved there.
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* ''The Goose Girl''. 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. Halfway there, she is betrayed by her company as they attempt to murder her and replace her with her lady in waiting, Selia. Ani escapes, but then must make her way to Bayern alone. Fearful of Selia and her guads, 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. Three sequels feature the friends Ani meets among the city workers; the series is called Books of Bayern.
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* ''The Goose Girl''. 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. Halfway there, she is betrayed by her company as they attempt to murder her and replace her with her lady in waiting, Selia. Ani escapes, but then must make her way to Bayern alone. Fearful of Selia and her guads, 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. Three sequels feature the friends Ani meets among the city workers; the series is called Books of Bayern.
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* ''Book of a Thousand Days''. 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. Saren is betrothed to Lord Khasar, who terrifies her senseless for an unknown reason, but instead wishes to marry the benevolent Khan Tegus. The book is presented as Dashti's diary, documenting her encounters with Khasar and Tegus, her attempts to keep her and Saren alive and sane in the tower, and their adventure thereafter. Relatively short, but absolutely packed with story.
* Three books in the ''Toys/EverAfterHigh'' franchise - ''The Storybook of Legends'', ''The Unfairest of Them All'', and ''A Wonderlandiful World''.
* Two ComicBook/SquirrelGirl books with Dean Hale: ''Squirrel Meets World'' and ''2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious''.
* Three books in the ''Toys/EverAfterHigh'' franchise - ''The Storybook of Legends'', ''The Unfairest of Them All'', and ''A Wonderlandiful World''.
* Two ComicBook/SquirrelGirl books with Dean Hale: ''Squirrel Meets World'' and ''2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious''.
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* ''Book of a Thousand Days''.''Literature/BookOfAThousandDays''. 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. Saren is betrothed to Lord Khasar, who terrifies her senseless for an unknown reason, but instead wishes to marry the benevolent Khan Tegus. The book is presented as Dashti's diary, documenting her encounters with Khasar and Tegus, her attempts to keep her and Saren alive and sane in the tower, and their adventure thereafter. Relatively short, but absolutely packed with story.\n
* Three books in the ''Toys/EverAfterHigh''franchise - franchise:
** ''The Storybook ofLegends'', Legends''
** ''The Unfairest of ThemAll'', and All''
** ''A Wonderlandiful World''.
* Two ComicBook/SquirrelGirl books with DeanHale: Hale:
** ''Squirrel MeetsWorld'' and World''
** ''2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious''.
* Three books in the ''Toys/EverAfterHigh''
** ''The Storybook of
** ''The Unfairest of Them
** ''A Wonderlandiful World''.
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** ''2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious''.
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* AlphaBitch: Katar, who at least averts being BookDumb by being Miri's rival for the top grade.
* BrideAndSwitch: Saren convinces Dashti to take her place in ''Book of a Thousand Days''.
* DamselInDistress: Lady Saren will drift into DamselScrappy and TooDumbToLive territory for some readers. Unlike all the other female characters in this series, she is the only one that can't get herself out of trouble.
* DamselOutOfDistress: Nearly all of the girls that Shannon writes get captured or in trouble, and all of them keep their heads and end up rescuing themselves. Except for Saren, as seen above.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Dan]] in ''Princess Academy''
* BrideAndSwitch: Saren convinces Dashti to take her place in ''Book of a Thousand Days''.
* DamselInDistress: Lady Saren will drift into DamselScrappy and TooDumbToLive territory for some readers. Unlike all the other female characters in this series, she is the only one that can't get herself out of trouble.
* DamselOutOfDistress: Nearly all of the girls that Shannon writes get captured or in trouble, and all of them keep their heads and end up rescuing themselves. Except for Saren, as seen above.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Dan]] in ''Princess Academy''
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* BrideAndSwitch: Saren convinces Dashti to take her place in ''Book of a Thousand Days''.
* DamselInDistress: Lady Saren will drift into DamselScrappy and TooDumbToLive territory for some readers. Unlike all the other female characters in this series, she is the only one that can't get herself out of trouble.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Dan]] in ''Princess Academy''
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* EverybodysDeadDave: What Dashti finds upon returning to [[spoiler:Titor's Garden]].
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* IAmSpartacus: Used in ''Princess Academy'' where all of them claim to be the princess.
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* MeaningfulName: Khasar, from a Mongolian root meaning [[spoiler:terrible dog]]. Also used in-universe, as in ''Thousand'' there's a whole naming language. Saren, means 'moon light' and she's a much softer character than the rest.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Miri befriends Knut, the academy cook.
* ParentalAbandonment: Miri, and Dashti.
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* PrinceAndPauper: Dashti and Saren
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* SavageWolves: In ''Book of a Thousand Days'' there are some ''definitely'' bad wolves.
* SurvivorGuilt: Ani struggles with this after the murders of the men who were loyal to her. Also Talone to some extent, when he thinks Ani is dead.
* SurvivorGuilt: Ani struggles with this after the murders of the men who were loyal to her. Also Talone to some extent, when he thinks Ani is dead.
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* AndThenWhat: Batu to Dashti, on her plan to [[spoiler: Defeat Khasar]]
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Some of the books' endings are made of [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heartwarming]], but only after the protagonists are made to suffer the worst lives ever.
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* Three books in the ''Franchise/EverAfterHigh'' franchise - ''The Storybook of Legends'', ''The Unfairest of Them All'', and ''A Wonderlandiful World''.
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* Three books in the ''Franchise/EverAfterHigh'' ''Toys/EverAfterHigh'' franchise - ''The Storybook of Legends'', ''The Unfairest of Them All'', and ''A Wonderlandiful World''.
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* Two ''ComicBook/SquirrelGirl'' books with Dean Hale: ''Squirrel Meets World'' and ''2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious''.
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Author of mostly young adult fantasy novels, notable for her consistent inclusion of strong female protagonists and unique, subtle magic systems. Her books straddle the line between HighFantasy and [[LowFantasy low]], being small-scale, low magic, and sometimes gritty or violent, but also featuring unambiguously good and evil characters and traditional happy endings. They can be [[SlowPacedBeginning a little slow in the beginning]], but they are [[SoCoolItsAwesome always worth the effort]].
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Author of mostly young adult fantasy novels, notable for her consistent inclusion of strong female protagonists and unique, subtle magic systems. Her books straddle the line between HighFantasy and [[LowFantasy low]], being small-scale, low magic, and sometimes gritty or violent, but also featuring unambiguously good and evil characters and traditional happy endings. They can be [[SlowPacedBeginning a little slow in the beginning]], but they are [[SoCoolItsAwesome always worth the effort]].
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* WorldBuilding: All of Hale's countries are ''very'' lovingly crafted. This results in the above [[GetOnWithItAlready slow-to-start-ness]], but makes it worth your while by being ''fascinating''.
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Author of mostly young adult fantasy novels, notable for her consistent inclusion of strong female protagonists and unique, subtle magic systems. Her books straddle the line between HighFantasy and [[LowFantasy low]], being small-scale, low magic, and sometimes gritty or violent, but also featuring unambiguously good and evil characters and traditional happy endings. They can be [[GetOnWithItAlready a little slow in the beginning]], but they are [[SoCoolItsAwesome always worth the effort]].
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Author of mostly young adult fantasy novels, notable for her consistent inclusion of strong female protagonists and unique, subtle magic systems. Her books straddle the line between HighFantasy and [[LowFantasy low]], being small-scale, low magic, and sometimes gritty or violent, but also featuring unambiguously good and evil characters and traditional happy endings. They can be [[GetOnWithItAlready [[SlowPacedBeginning a little slow in the beginning]], but they are [[SoCoolItsAwesome always worth the effort]].
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* Two books (so far) in the ''Franchise/EverAfterHigh'' franchise - ''The Storybook of Legends'' and ''The Unfairest of Them All.''
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* ''The Princess in Black'', written with Dean, illustrated by LeUyen Pham. A perfect little princess in sparkling pink is secretly a costumed vigilante who protects her land from dim-witted, goat-eating monsters.
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* ''The Princess in Black'', written with Dean, illustrated by LeUyen Leuyen Pham. A perfect little princess in sparkling pink is secretly a costumed vigilante who protects her land from dim-witted, goat-eating monsters.
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* ''The Princess in Black'', written with Dean, illustrated by LeUyen Pham. A perfect little princess in sparkling pink is secretly a costumed vigilante who protects her land from dim-witted, goat-eating monsters.
* ''The Princess in Black'', written with Dean, illustrated by LeUyen Pham. A perfect little princess in sparkling pink is secretly a costumed vigilante who protects her land from dim-witted, goat-eating monsters.
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** ''Dragonfly ''The Forgotten Sisters'' (2015)
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* ''Film/AustenLand'' and its sequel, ''Midnight in Austenland''. Now a film starring Keri Russell.
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* ''Rapunzel's Revenge'' and its sequel, ''Calamity Jack'', written with her husband Dean Hale and illustrated by artist Nathan Hale (no relation).
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* ''Rapunzel's Revenge'' ''Comicbook/RapunzelsRevenge'' and its sequel, ''Calamity Jack'', written with her husband Dean Hale and illustrated by artist Nathan Hale (no relation).
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Author of mostly young adult fantasy novels, notable for her consistent inclusion of strong female protagonists and unique, subtle magic systems. Her books straddle the line between HighFantasy and [[LowFantasy low]], being small-scale, low magic, and sometimes gritty or violent, but also featuring unambiguously good and evil characters and traditional happy endings. They can be [[GetOnWithItAlready a little slow in the beginning]], but they are [[SoCoolItsAwesome always worth the effort]].
''Note'': The Books of Bayern now has it's own [[Literature/BooksOfBayern separate page]]. Tropes from the series on this page has been moved there.
Some of her works include:
* ''The Goose Girl''. 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. Halfway there, she is betrayed by her company as they attempt to murder her and replace her with her lady in waiting, Selia. Ani escapes, but then must make her way to Bayern alone. Fearful of Selia and her guads, 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. Three sequels feature the friends Ani meets among the city workers; the series is called Books of Bayern.
** ''Enna Burning''
** ''River Secrets''
** ''Forest Born''
* ''Literature/PrincessAcademy'' (2005). Miri lives in a village of miners on Mt. Eskel, far removed from the rest of the Kingdom of Danland. 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. 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. A sincere and realistic take on IJustWantToBeNormal, and a Newbery Honor winner.
** ''Palace of Stone'' (2012)
** ''Dragonfly Sisters'' (2015)
* ''Book of a Thousand Days''. 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. Saren is betrothed to Lord Khasar, who terrifies her senseless for an unknown reason, but instead wishes to marry the benevolent Khan Tegus. The book is presented as Dashti's diary, documenting her encounters with Khasar and Tegus, her attempts to keep her and Saren alive and sane in the tower, and their adventure thereafter. Relatively short, but absolutely packed with story.
* Two books (so far) in the ''Franchise/EverAfterHigh'' franchise - ''The Storybook of Legends'' and ''The Unfairest of Them All.''
Adult books:
* ''Austenland'' and its sequel, ''Midnight in Austenland''. Now a film starring Keri Russell.
* ''The Actor and the Housewife''
Graphic novels:
* ''Rapunzel's Revenge'' and its sequel, ''Calamity Jack'', written with her husband Dean Hale and illustrated by artist Nathan Hale (no relation).
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* AlphaBitch: Katar, who at least averts being BookDumb by being Miri's rival for the top grade.
* BrideAndSwitch: Saren convinces Dashti to take her place in ''Book of a Thousand Days''.
* DamselInDistress: Lady Saren will drift into DamselScrappy and TooDumbToLive territory for some readers. Unlike all the other female characters in this series, she is the only one that can't get herself out of trouble.
* DamselOutOfDistress: Nearly all of the girls that Shannon writes get captured or in trouble, and all of them keep their heads and end up rescuing themselves. Except for Saren, as seen above.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Dan]] in ''Princess Academy''
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Some of the books' endings are made of [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heartwarming]], but only after the protagonists are made to suffer the worst lives ever.
* EverybodysDeadDave: What Dashti finds upon returning to [[spoiler:Titor's Garden]].
* FairyTale:''Book of a Thousand Days'' is based on "Maid Maleen."
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: (''Thousand'') have their grisly ends depicted in the books.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Bayern for Germany, Danland for Scandinavia, and the Eight Realms for Mongolia.
* IAmSpartacus: Used in ''Princess Academy'' where all of them claim to be the princess.
* MagicMusic: In ''Book of a Thousand Days''.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane
* MeaningfulName: Khasar, from a Mongolian root meaning [[spoiler:terrible dog]]. Also used in-universe, as in ''Thousand'' there's a whole naming language. Saren, means 'moon light' and she's a much softer character than the rest.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Miri befriends Knut, the academy cook.
* ParentalAbandonment: Miri, and Dashti.
* PluckyGirl: Hale's heroines in general tend to be, but especially Dashti. She has enough determination to keep herself ''and'' TheLoad going.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Not really of the magical variety, but friendship and teamwork are always important themes.
* PrinceAndPauper: Dashti and Saren
* PrincessForADay: Dashti
* RagsToRoyalty: Both played straight and inverted.
* SadistTeacher turned SternTeacher: Olana
* SavageWolves: In ''Book of a Thousand Days'' there are some ''definitely'' bad wolves.
* SurvivorGuilt: Ani struggles with this after the murders of the men who were loyal to her. Also Talone to some extent, when he thinks Ani is dead.
* TakeAThirdOption: In Palace of Stone, Miri's eventual solution [[spoiler: both to the ethics problem posed on her first day of class, and to the larger situation concerning the revolution. She close to says these exact words at the end of the book, after working it out.]]
* AndThenWhat: Batu to Dashti, on her plan to [[spoiler: Defeat Khasar]]
* WorldBuilding: All of Hale's countries are ''very'' lovingly crafted. This results in the above [[GetOnWithItAlready slow-to-start-ness]], but makes it worth your while by being ''fascinating''.
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''Note'': The Books of Bayern now has it's own [[Literature/BooksOfBayern separate page]]. Tropes from the series on this page has been moved there.
Some of her works include:
* ''The Goose Girl''. 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. Halfway there, she is betrayed by her company as they attempt to murder her and replace her with her lady in waiting, Selia. Ani escapes, but then must make her way to Bayern alone. Fearful of Selia and her guads, 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. Three sequels feature the friends Ani meets among the city workers; the series is called Books of Bayern.
** ''Enna Burning''
** ''River Secrets''
** ''Forest Born''
* ''Literature/PrincessAcademy'' (2005). Miri lives in a village of miners on Mt. Eskel, far removed from the rest of the Kingdom of Danland. 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. 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. A sincere and realistic take on IJustWantToBeNormal, and a Newbery Honor winner.
** ''Palace of Stone'' (2012)
** ''Dragonfly Sisters'' (2015)
* ''Book of a Thousand Days''. 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. Saren is betrothed to Lord Khasar, who terrifies her senseless for an unknown reason, but instead wishes to marry the benevolent Khan Tegus. The book is presented as Dashti's diary, documenting her encounters with Khasar and Tegus, her attempts to keep her and Saren alive and sane in the tower, and their adventure thereafter. Relatively short, but absolutely packed with story.
* Two books (so far) in the ''Franchise/EverAfterHigh'' franchise - ''The Storybook of Legends'' and ''The Unfairest of Them All.''
Adult books:
* ''Austenland'' and its sequel, ''Midnight in Austenland''. Now a film starring Keri Russell.
* ''The Actor and the Housewife''
Graphic novels:
* ''Rapunzel's Revenge'' and its sequel, ''Calamity Jack'', written with her husband Dean Hale and illustrated by artist Nathan Hale (no relation).
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* AlphaBitch: Katar, who at least averts being BookDumb by being Miri's rival for the top grade.
* BrideAndSwitch: Saren convinces Dashti to take her place in ''Book of a Thousand Days''.
* DamselInDistress: Lady Saren will drift into DamselScrappy and TooDumbToLive territory for some readers. Unlike all the other female characters in this series, she is the only one that can't get herself out of trouble.
* DamselOutOfDistress: Nearly all of the girls that Shannon writes get captured or in trouble, and all of them keep their heads and end up rescuing themselves. Except for Saren, as seen above.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Dan]] in ''Princess Academy''
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Some of the books' endings are made of [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heartwarming]], but only after the protagonists are made to suffer the worst lives ever.
* EverybodysDeadDave: What Dashti finds upon returning to [[spoiler:Titor's Garden]].
* FairyTale:''Book of a Thousand Days'' is based on "Maid Maleen."
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: (''Thousand'') have their grisly ends depicted in the books.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Bayern for Germany, Danland for Scandinavia, and the Eight Realms for Mongolia.
* IAmSpartacus: Used in ''Princess Academy'' where all of them claim to be the princess.
* MagicMusic: In ''Book of a Thousand Days''.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane
* MeaningfulName: Khasar, from a Mongolian root meaning [[spoiler:terrible dog]]. Also used in-universe, as in ''Thousand'' there's a whole naming language. Saren, means 'moon light' and she's a much softer character than the rest.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Miri befriends Knut, the academy cook.
* ParentalAbandonment: Miri, and Dashti.
* PluckyGirl: Hale's heroines in general tend to be, but especially Dashti. She has enough determination to keep herself ''and'' TheLoad going.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Not really of the magical variety, but friendship and teamwork are always important themes.
* PrinceAndPauper: Dashti and Saren
* PrincessForADay: Dashti
* RagsToRoyalty: Both played straight and inverted.
* SadistTeacher turned SternTeacher: Olana
* SavageWolves: In ''Book of a Thousand Days'' there are some ''definitely'' bad wolves.
* SurvivorGuilt: Ani struggles with this after the murders of the men who were loyal to her. Also Talone to some extent, when he thinks Ani is dead.
* TakeAThirdOption: In Palace of Stone, Miri's eventual solution [[spoiler: both to the ethics problem posed on her first day of class, and to the larger situation concerning the revolution. She close to says these exact words at the end of the book, after working it out.]]
* AndThenWhat: Batu to Dashti, on her plan to [[spoiler: Defeat Khasar]]
* WorldBuilding: All of Hale's countries are ''very'' lovingly crafted. This results in the above [[GetOnWithItAlready slow-to-start-ness]], but makes it worth your while by being ''fascinating''.
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