Kniha Waiting for the Queen Joanna Higgins

Waiting for the Queen

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Pevná
Vydavatel: Milkweed Editions
Dostupnost: 50 % šance
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A surprising friendship develops between Eugenie, an escapee from the French Revolution, and Hannah,...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydáno
2013
Stránek
256
EAN
9781571317001
ISBN
1571317007
Enbook ID
01348232
Vydavatel
Hmotnost
411
Rozměry
133 x 203 x 25

Kompletní popis

A surprising friendship develops between Eugenie, an escapee from the French Revolution, and Hannah, a Quaker girl, when they unite in the cause against slavery in this adventuresome tale of true nobility set amidst the rugged, eighteenth-century, Pennsylvania wilderness. Fifteen-year-old Eugenie de La Roque and her family barely escape the French Revolution with their lives. Along with several other noble families, they sail to America, where French Azilium, as the area came to be known, is being carved out of the rugged wilderness of Pennsylvania. Hannah Kimbrell is a young Quaker who has been chosen to help prepare French Azilum for the arrival of the aristocrats. In this wild place away from home and the memories they hold dear, Eugenie and Hannah find more in common than they first realize. With much to learn from each other, the girls unite to help free several slaves from their tyrannical French owner, a dangerous scheme that requires personal sacrifice in exchange for the slaves' freedom. A story of friendship against all odds, Waiting for the Queen is a loving portrait of the values of a young America, and a reminder that true nobility is more than a royal title.

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