Queenie Chan

Identical twins Jeanie and Amber are new students at Greenwich Private College, that lies on the edge of virgin bushlands. The school is run by its vice principal, who has a prejudice against twins - in fact, she rejects all twins' applications. The girls were only able to get in by saying that they are just regular sisters, born 11 months apart.

"The first great woman of history of whom we are informed Hatshepsut - throne name Maatkare - was one of the greatest pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. And remarkably - a woman. In a civilisation that didn't allow women to rule, how did Hatshepsut ascend to the throne? What did she achieve, and what were her policies as a female politician? What makr did she make on Egypt as its female king? What his her story?"--Back cover.

In the fourth of the "Women Who Were Kings" series, we follow a German princess' travels to the vast, distant lands of Russia, where she would be joined in a loveless marriage to its future Emperor. Neglected by her husband and refusing to accept a barren future where she has no influence, the woman who became known to the world as Catherine the Great would seize the throne from her husband in a bloodless coup, and go on to lead Imperial Russia into...

Just as authors create books, books create authors — and these essays by thirty-one writers for young people offer a fascinating glimpse at the books that inspired them the most.
What if you could look inside your favorite authors' heads and see the book that led them to become who they are today? What was the book that made them fall in love, or made them understand something for the first time? What was the book that made them

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