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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
220 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
221 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While her father is in hiding after attempts on his life, twelve-year-old Cleopatra records in her diary how she fears for her own safety and hopes to survive to become Queen of Egypt some day.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the diary of thirteen-year-old Nzingha, a sixteenth-century West African princess who loves to hunt and hopes to lead her kingdom one day against the invasion of the Portuguese slave traders.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
237 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in her studies, and agonizes over her father's health.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
236 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1769, thirteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
238 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of Victoria Kaiulani Cleghorn from 1889 to 1893 as she studies to be a better princess, even as Hawaii's monarchy, and her throne, are being undermined by American businessmen.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Lexile measure
950L
Physical Desc
187 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a series of messages placed in her grandmother's ancestral jar, a seventh century princess and future ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla vents her frustration at not being permitted to study astronomy because she is a girl.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
186 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beginning in 1627, Princess Jahanara, first daughter of Shah Jahan of India's Mogul Dynasty, writes in her diary about political intrigues, weddings, battles, and other experiences of her life. Includes historical notes on Jahanara's later life and on the Mogul Empire.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
1080L
Physical Desc
186 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana, and as a warrior battling the first white men to arrive in the West Indies, ravenous for gold.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
202 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mary, the young Scottish queen, is sent a diary from her mother in which she records her experiences living at the court of France's King Henry II as she awaits her marriage to Henry's son, Francis.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (4.5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the bizarre court of Henry VIII, where even a princess fears losing her head like her mother. Elizabeth hides her tenacious personality from everyone, especially her father. Your 21st-century kid will enjoy Elizabeth's "treasonous thoughts" and glimpse the daily life of a young woman who ascended the throne at 25 and went on to rule her country for 45 years.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
156 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Princess Kazunomiya, half-sister of the Emperor of Japan, relates in her diary and in poems the confusing events occurring in the Imperial Palace in 1858, including political and romantic intrigue.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Lexile measure
1150L
Physical Desc
131 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The diary of Princess Elisabeth, written in 1853-1854, describing her engagement and marriage to her cousin Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria. Includes historical notes concerning her life as Empress.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
187 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The diary of Eleanor, first daughter of the Duke of Aquitaine, from 1136 until 1137, when at age fifteen she becomes queen of France. Includes historical notes on her later life.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
300 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 531 A.D., a fifteen-year-old princess of the Hsien tribe in southern China keeps a diary which describes her role as liaison between her own people and the local Chinese colonists, in times of both peace and war.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
930L
Physical Desc
219 pages : illustrations, portraits, 1 genealogical table ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1829, nine-year-old Victoria begins a journal chronicling her life as an English princess. Includes information on the reign, marriage, and family life of Queen Victoria and English civilization during that period.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Lexile measure
1050L
Physical Desc
203 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The 1653-1654 diary of a fourteen-year-old Pocasset Indian girl, destined to become a leader of her tribe, describes how her life changes with the seasons, after a ritual fast she undertakes, and with her tribe's interaction with the English "Coat-men" of the nearby Plymouth Colony.