"Kathryn Lasky's latest is a sleight-of-hand that will have you
clapping your hands. With the brio and big-heart that characterizes all
of Lasky's work, this opening salvo of a new series can be heralded with
trumpet fanfares and clouds of rose petals." --Gregory Maguire,
author of Wicked and Egg & Spoon
For fans of the Royal Diaries series and Gail Carson Levine, Newbery
Honor-winning author Kathryn Lasky delivers the first enchanting
adventure in a compelling new middle grade series about a newly orphaned
girl who finds herself time-travelling between the present day and the
court of the two most memorable English princesses in history.
Life used to be great for Rose: full of friends, a loving mom, and a
growing fashion blog.
But when her mother dies in a car crash, Rose is sent away to live with
a strange grandmother she hardly knows and forced to attend a new school
where mean girls ridicule her at every turn.
The only place Rose finds refuge is in her grandmother's greenhouse. But
one night she sees a strange light glowing from within it. She goes to
investigate...and finds herself transported back five hundred years to
Hatfield Palace, where she becomes servant and confidant of the banished
princess Elizabeth, daughter of King Henry VIII.
Rose soon discovers something else amazing--a locket with two mysterious
images inside it, both clues to her own past. Could the greenhouse
portal offer answers to the mysteries of her family...and their secrets?
