Betsy and the Emperor - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 141691336X ISBN 13: 9781416913368

Verlag: SIMON PULSE, 2006

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"Fascinating...."
-- Kirkus Reviews

"An interesting and intimate look at the life of one of history's most famous men."
-- School Library Journal

Reseña del editor:

"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.

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• Verlag: SIMON PULSE
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 141691336X
• ISBN 13: 9781416913368
• Einband: Libro de bolsillo
• Anzahl der Seiten: 294