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Waiting for the queen a novel of early America

In 1793, fifteen-year-old Eugenie de la Roque, her family, and other nobles barely escape the French Revolution and arrive in Pennsylvania, where homesick young Hannah Kimbrell, a Shaker, is among those charged with preparing New France for the aristocrats' arrival.

Main Author: Higgins, Joanna, 1945-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweed Editions, 2013.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Frontier and pioneer life > Pennsylvania > Juvenile fiction.
Social classes > Juvenile fiction.
Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Quakers > Juvenile fiction.
Slavery > Juvenile fiction.
Pennsylvania > History > 1775-1865 > Juvenile fiction.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Juvenile fiction.
Summary: In 1793, fifteen-year-old Eugenie de la Roque, her family, and other nobles barely escape the French Revolution and arrive in Pennsylvania, where homesick young Hannah Kimbrell, a Shaker, is among those charged with preparing New France for the aristocrats' arrival.
Physical Description: 247 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 9781571317001 (alk. paper)
1571317007 (alk. paper)
Author Notes: Joanna Higgins is the author of A Soldier's Book , Dead Center , and The Importance of High Places (Milkweed Editions), a collection of short stories. She received her PhD from SUNY-Binghamton, where she studied under John Gardner. An adoptive mother of two children, Higgins lives with her family in upstate New York. Waiting for the Queen is her fist book for young readers.

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