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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002, 2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
After the death of her father, King Henry VIII, in 1547, thirteen-year-old Elizabeth must endure the political intrigues and dangers of the reigns of her half-brother Edward and her half-sister Mary before finally becoming Queen of England eleven years later.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Formats
Description
Tucked away in the country estate of her beloved father, Lord Calverley, young Nell de Lacey feeds her hungry mind with philosophy, language, and studies of science. Her mother, once a devoted lady-in-waiting to Henry VIII’s last wife, Katherine Parr, would rather her daughter stop dabbling in the grand affairs of men and instead prepare for her eventual duties as a wife.
But Nell’s heart yearns for something more, and a chance meeting...
But Nell’s heart yearns for something more, and a chance meeting...
Author
Series
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2010
Description
A wayward young man finds himself-and his faith-in the fight against Bloody Mary's Protestant persecution in the sequel to Honor in the Dust.
Mary I of England is determined to eliminate the Protestant faith by edict, sword, or both. In this turbulent time, young Brandon Winslow-the son of the royal falconer Stuart Winslow-finds himself in dire straits. Drummed out of the military for seducing the wife of his commanding officer, he sinks into...
Author
Publisher
Summit Books
Pub. Date
c1983
Description
Elizabeth was not just Queen, she was a ruler. In an age of male supremacy she, by sheer force of character, became not only the unchallenged leader of the English but also the first leader of an empire upon which the sun never set. Erickson's biography tells the truth about this extraordinary woman and profiles some amazing people, their personalities, and cultures.
17) Elizabeth I
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Formats
Description
Elizabeth's rival for the love of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and mother to the Earl of Essex, the mercurial nobleman who challenged Elizabeth's throne, Lettice Knollys had been intertwined with Elizabeth since childhood. They are both women of fierce intellect and desire: one trying to protect her country, and throne, the other trying to regain power and position for her family and each vying to convince the reader of her own private vision...
Author
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Description
In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread. Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, knows that the peal of bells she hears will summon her husband once more to power, intrigue, and a passionate love affair with the young queen. Elizabeth's excited triumph is short-lived. She has inherited a bankrupt country where treason is normal and foreign war...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Draws on new research to present the life of Elizabeth I as a ruler who saw herself as a Renaissance prince, and describes how she used Machiavellian statecraft to transform herself from a marginalized queen to England's first modern head of state.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Katherine Ashley, the daughter of a poor country squire, happily secures an education and a place for herself in the Tudor court of Henry VIII. As a dying favor to the doomed Anne Boleyn, Kat becomes governess and surrogate-mother to the young Elizabeth Tudor ... ultimately emerging as the lifelong confidante to Queen Elizabeth I.
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