Girls of many lands
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[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1711, twelve-year-old Cœecile Revel unexpectedly gets the chance to serve Louis XIV's sister-in-law at the palace of Versailles, but instead of a dream come true, life at court proves to be complicated and precarious.
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c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
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In 1592, twelve-year-old Isabel dreams of adventure and finds it, not only on her journey from her London home to her aunt's manor house in Northamptonshire, but also through the healing arts her aunt teaches her.
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Kathleen: the Celtic knot
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[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
While trying to help her financially destitute family, twelve-year-old Leyla ends up on a slave ship bound for Istanbul, then in the beautiful Topkapi Palace, where she discovers that life in the sheltered world of the palace harem follows its own rigid rules and rhythms and offers her unexpected opportunities during Turkey's brief Tulip Period of the 1720's.
8)
Saba: under the hyena's foot
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