{"product_id":"the-birthday-ball","title":"The Birthday Ball","description":"\u003cp\u003eA wry, dry, laugh-out-loud princess tale by the hilarious Lois Lowry, with illustrations by Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrincess Patricia Priscilla is bored with her royal life and the excitement surrounding her sixteenth birthday ball. Doomed to endure courtship by three grotesquely unappealing noblemen, she adopts a peasant disguise and escapes her fate—for a week.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this tale of mistaken identity, creamed pigeons, and young love, the two-time Newbery medalist Lois Lowry compares princesses to peasants and finds them to be exactly the same in all the important ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when a princess trades her tiara for bare feet and a day at the village school?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRoyalty in Disguise:\u003c\/b\u003e Princess Patricia Priscilla isn’t just bored—she’s trading places with her chambermaid to live as a peasant girl named Pat.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHilarious Suitors:\u003c\/b\u003e Forget Prince Charming. Patricia is doomed to choose between a weeping warthog-like Duke, a preening prince, and a pair of bickering, conjoined counts.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA First Crush:\u003c\/b\u003e At the village school, ‘Pat’ meets Rafe, the handsome new schoolmaster who has no idea he’s teaching a princess.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLaugh-Out-Loud Humor:\u003c\/b\u003e A witty, funny middle grade story from two-time Newbery medalist Lois Lowry, perfect for readers who love clever fairy tales with a twist.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Lois Lowry","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":51670357934386,"sku":"9780547577104","price":7.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0988\/7934\/0850\/files\/9780547577104.jpg?v=1787959203","url":"https:\/\/53rdstreetbooks.com\/products\/the-birthday-ball","provider":"53rd Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}