Betsy and the Emperor (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781416913368)

"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.

Author: Staton Rabin
ISBN-10: 141691336X
ISBN-13: 9781416913368
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2006
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 7.00h x 4.22w x 0.79d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 82396 / Betsy and the Emperor


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/06/2006 pg. 77