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France, 1655. Tania, the daughter of a retired musketeer, is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls. When her father is murdered she learns that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Académie des Mariées in Paris. It is no finishing school:...

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Main Author: Lainoff, Lillie (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2022.
Edition: First edition.
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Summary: France, 1655. Tania, the daughter of a retired musketeer, is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls. When her father is murdered she learns that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Académie des Mariées in Paris. It is no finishing school: it is an academy for female Musketeers, socialites on the surface but dangerous, well-trained women who wish to protect France from downfall. Tania begins her training determined to get revenge for her father... but in doing so she risks losing everything she's ever wanted. -- adapted from jacket
Physical Description: 389 pages ; 22 cm
Audience: Grades 10-12.
ISBN: 9780374314613
0374314616
Author Notes: Lillie Lainoff received her BA in English from Yale University, where she was a varsity fencer and one of the first physically disabled athletes to individually qualify for any NCAA championship event, and her MA in Creative Writing Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia. She has also won the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Award for Short Fiction, was a featured Rooted in Rights disability activist, and is the founder of Disabled Kidlit Writers on Facebook. She lives in Washington, DC.