Royal diaries | McKinney Public Libraries

1) Cleopatra VII, daughter of the Nile

Author

Gregory, Kristiana

Series

Royal diaries

Pub. Date

1999.

Language

English

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Historical Fiction- MID/ JF

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While her father is in hiding after attempts on his life, twelve-year-old Cleopatra records in her diary how she fears for her own safety and hopes to survive to become Queen of Egypt some day.

2) Elizabeth I, red rose of the House of Tudor

Author

Lasky, Kathryn

3) Anastasia, the last Grand Duchess

Author

Meyer, Carolyn

Series

Royal diaries

Pub. Date

2000.

Language

English

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A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.

4) Isabel: jewel of Castilla

Author

Meyer, Carolyn

5) Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles

Author

Lasky, Kathryn

6) Nzingha, warrior queen of Matamba

Author

McKissack, Pat

Series

Royal diaries

Pub. Date

[2000]

Language

English

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Presents the diary of thirteen-year-old Nzingha, a sixteenth-century West African princess who loves to hunt and hopes to lead her kingdom one day against the invasion of the Portuguese slave traders.

7) Kaiulani: the people's princess

Author

White, Ellen Emerson

Series

Royal diaries

Pub. Date

2001.

Language

English

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Follows the life of Victoria Kaiulani Cleghorn from 1889 to 1893 as she studies to be a better princess, even as Hawaii's monarchy, and her throne, are being undermined by American businessmen.

8) Lady of Ch'iao Kuo: warrior of the South

Author

Yep, Laurence

Series

Royal diaries

Pub. Date

[2001]

Language

English

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In 531 A.D., a fifteen-year-old princess of the Hsien tribe in southern China keeps a diary which describes her role as liaison between her own people and the local Chinese colonists, in times of both peace and war.

9) Victoria, May blossom of Britannia

Author

Kirwan, Anna

10) Eleanor of Aquitaine

Author

Gregory, Kristiana

11) Jahanara, Princess of Princesses

Author

Lasky, Kathryn

12) Mary, Queen of Scots: queen without a country

Author

Lasky, Kathryn

13) Sondok, princess of the moon and stars

Author

Holman, Sheri

Series

Royal diaries

Pub. Date

[2002]

Language

English

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In a series of messages placed in her grandmother's ancestral jar, a seventh century princess and future ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla vents her frustration at not being permitted to study astronomy because she is a girl.

14) Elisabeth of Austria: the princess bride

Author

Denenberg, Barry

15) Kristina, the girl king

Author

Meyer, Carolyn

16) Weetamoo: heart of the Pocassets

Author

Smith, Patricia Clark

Series

Royal diaries

Pub. Date

[2003]

Language

English

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The 1653-1654 diary of a fourteen-year-old Pocasset Indian girl, destined to become a leader of her tribe, describes how her life changes with the seasons, after a ritual fast she undertakes, and with her tribe's interaction with the English "Coat-men" of the nearby Plymouth Colony.

17) Kazunomiya: prisoner of heaven

Author

Lasky, Kathryn

Series

Royal diaries

Pub. Date

[2004]

Language

English

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Princess Kazunomiya, half-sister of the Emperor of Japan, relates in her diary and in poems the confusing events occurring in the Imperial Palace in 1858, including political and romantic intrigue.

18) Lady of Palenque: flower of Bacal

Author

Kirwan, Anna

Series

Royal diaries

Pub. Date

2004.

Language

English

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In 749, the Maya princess Green Jay, of the Kingdom of Bacal, writes in her diary about her arduous journey to Xukpip to meet King Fire Keeper, her future husband.

19) Anacaona, Golden Flower

Author

Danticat, Edwidge

Series

Royal diaries

Pub. Date

[2005]

Language

English

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Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana, and as a warrior battling the first white men to arrive in the West Indies, ravenous for gold.

20) Catherine: the great journey

Author

Gregory, Kristiana