BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Orphans & Foster Homes - Juvenile Fiction | Royalty (kings queens princes princesses knights etc.) LC Subjects: -Orphans -Princes -Secrecy -Courts and courtiers -Impersonation -Secrets Awards: Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award | Nominee | Grades 6-8 | 2015 - 2015 ; Nutmeg Book Award | Nominee | Teen | 2015 - 2015 ; South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award | Nominee | Junior Book | 2014 - 2015 ; Golden Sower Award | Winner | Intermediate | 2015 - 2015 ; Georgia Children's Book Award | Nominee | Children's Book | 2015 - 2015 ; California Young Reader Medal | Winner | Middle School | 2015 - 2015 ; Iowa Teen Award | Nominee | Young Adult | 2016 - 2016 Dewey: FIC LC Call Number: PZ7.N5672 Series: Ascendance TrilogyIn the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.