Waiting for the queen : a novel of early America

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Title:

Waiting for the queen : a novel of early America

Author:

Higgins, Joanna, 1945-

Personal Author:

Higgins, Joanna, 1945-

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweed Editions, 2013.

Physical Description:

247 pages ; 21 cm

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.

Language:

English

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.1 8.0 161201.

Corporate Subject:

Shakers -- Juvenile fiction.

Conference Subject:

Revolution (France : 1789-1799) (OCoLC)fst01354514

Subject Term:

Frontier and pioneer life -- Pennsylvania -- Juvenile fiction.

Social classes -- Juvenile fiction.

Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.