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Author:
Higgins, Joanna, 1945-
Title:
Waiting for the queen : a novel of early America / Joanna Higgins.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
Milkweed Editions,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
247 p. ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Frontier and pioneer life--Pennsylvania--Juvenile fiction.
Social classes--Juvenile fiction.
Friendship--Juvenile fiction.
Shakers--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.
ISBN:
1571317007
9781571317001
LCCN:
2012042167
Locations:
AGPE046 -- Drake Public Library (Centerville)
XFPB697 -- Stanton Public Library (Stanton)

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