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Overview

"Think, my dear -- just think what it will be like, to be known as the girl who freed the great Napoleon Bonaparte " Fourteen-year-old English girl Betsy Balcombe and her family have an unusual houseguest: Napoleon Bonaparte, former emperor of France and the most feared man on earth. Once lord and master to eighty-two million souls, now, in 1815, Napoleon is a captive of the British people. Stripped of his empire and robbed of his young family and freedom, he is confined to the forbidding, rat-infested island of St. Helena. The one bright star in Napoleon's black sky is Betsy, a blazingly rebellious teenager whose family is reluctantly housing the notorious prisoner. Betsy is the only foreigner Napoleon's ever met who is not impressed by him -- and Napoleon is more than intrigued. An unexpected alliance is formed. And a remarkable friendship between emperor and girl spawns gossip, and inspires Betsy to hatch a daring and dangerous scheme that could threaten both their lives and shake entire empires to their foundations.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781416913368
  • ISBN-10: 141691336X
  • Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
  • Publish Date: March 2006
  • Dimensions: 7 x 4.22 x 0.79 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.33 pounds
  • Page Count: 304
  • Reading Level: Ages 10-13

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