Prisoners in the palace : how Victoria became queen with the help of her maid, a reporter, and a scoundrel-- a novel of intrigue and romance

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Label

Prisoners in the palace : how Victoria became queen with the help of her maid, a reporter, and a scoundrel-- a novel of intrigue and romance

Title remainder

how Victoria became queen with the help of her maid, a reporter, and a scoundrel-- a novel of intrigue and romance

Statement of responsibility

by Michaela MacColl

Creator

• MacColl, Michaela

Subject

• Historical fiction
• Household employees -- Fiction
• London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950 -- Fiction
• Orphans -- Fiction
• Great Britain -- History -- William IV, 1830-1837 -- Fiction
• Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction
• Young adult fiction
• Self-reliance -- Fiction

Genre

• Historical fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Recently orphaned and destitute, seventeen-year-old Liza Hastings earns a position as a lady's maid to sixteen-year-old Princess Victoria at Kensington Palace in 1836, the year before Victoria becomes Queen of England

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 12 and up
• 630

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

• MG+
• 6-8

LC call number

PZ7.M13384

LC item number

Pr 2010

Literary form

fiction

Reading level

• 5.0
• 3.5

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader AR
• Reading Counts RC

Target audience

adolescent