Kathryn Laskys latest is a sleight-of-hand that will have you clapping your hands. With the brio and big-heart that characterizes all of Laskys work, this opening salvo of a new series can be heralded with trumpet fanfares and clouds of rose petals. Gregory Maguire, author ofWickedandEgg & SpoonFor 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 whofinds 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 grandmothers 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 amazinga 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?

 

 

This book features in the following series: Tangled in Time, Tangled in Time Series, 1 .

This book is aimed at children at US 3rd grade-7th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 400 pages in this book. This book was published in 2019 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc .

Kathryn Lasky was born in Indianapolis. She has two grown up children and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her photographer husband Chris Knight.