Valley of the Moon: The Diary of María Rosalía de Milagros, Sonoma Valley, Alta Valley, California, 1846, (By:Sherry Garland) The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl (By:Ann Turner)Ī Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896 (By:Susan Campbell Bartoletti) Standing in the Light (By:Mary Pope Osborne)Ī Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence (By:Sherry Garland) I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865 (By:Joyce Hansen)ĭreams in the Golden Country (By:Kathryn Lasky) The Winter of Red Snow (By:Kristiana Gregory) A Journey to the New World (By:Kathryn Lasky) This entry was posted on, in 2008, General, Young Adult Fiction. Read it if you’re a collector and fan of any and all books about Elizabeth. Rinaldi’s American historical novels or her book, Mutiny’s Daughter, about the supposed daughter of HMS Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian, over this fictionalized biography of Elizabeth I. Red-headed, rich, intelligent, and popular, none are a guarantee of either virtue or amiability. I probably wouldn’t have enjoyed being friends with the real Elizabeth, but the person portrayed in this book is just petty and not very pleasant. She’s jealous of Lady Jane Grey and only mildly sad when Miss Jane is put to death. But she doesn’t bother to write him either, maybe because she thinks it would be too dangerous for her. Her good friend Robin Dudley is in the Tower, accused of treason, and Elizabeth wonders if she’ll ever see him again. Elizabeth’s servants are arrested, and although she’s terribly upset about it all, Elizabeth doesn’t even write a letter in their behalf. Rinaldi’s book could find was a rather ugly one. Every time I started to like her, Elizabeth would do something that she really did do, and the only motivation that Ms. I felt as if the author wanted to make Elizabeth likable, but was constrained by the facts of history. It just wasn’t very attractive to read about. I suppose most absolute monarchs, or those who think they might become absolute monarchs, tend to be all about power and self-preservation. Rinaldi’s Elizabeth was a lot too ambitious and self-serving for me to want to be anywhere near her. I didn’t find myself attracted to her character, and indeed I thought Ms. I didn’t get any new perspective on Elizabeth the princess or Elizabeth the queen. Rinaldi’s latest about Princess Elizabeth Tudor, the red-haired daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, was just O.K. We’re big Ann Rinaldi fans around here, and I’m fascinated by the Tudor kings and queens of England, but Ms. Maybe I’ve read too many books and seen too many movies about the Tudors.
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