With her trademark lyricism, spare prose, and strong young heroine, award-winning author Gloria Whelan has again taken a chapter from history and transformed it into compelling historical fiction. Now, as Katya’s once-certain future begins to dissolve, she must seek to understand what is happening to her beloved country and, for the first time in her life, take charge of her own destiny. But outside the palace, a terrible war is sweeping through Europe, and Russia is beginning to crumble under the weight of a growing revolution. Katya Ivanova, as companion to the Romanov children, has. In Angel on the Square, a young girl joins Russian Tsar Nikolai II, Empress Alexandra, and their children when her mother becomes one of the empress's ladies-in-waiting.

The daughter of a lady in waiting to the Empress, Katya spends all her time with the Grand Duchesses, and the royal family feels like her own. Gloria Whelan manages to take the fly-on-the-wall approach one step further in her latest piece of historical fiction. In the fall of 1914, safe behind palace walls, Katya Ivanova sees St. Petersburg Author Gloria Whelan Publisher HarperCollins Release 06 October 2009 Subjects Historical Fiction Young Adult Fiction Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive.

Gripping, accessible historical fiction that's perfect for schools and classrooms, as well as for fans of Ruta Sepetys and Elizabeth Wein. Petersburg By Gloria Whelan Read a Sample Format ebook ISBN 9780064408790 Series St. Katya lives with Tsar Nicholas and Empress Alexandra because her mother is a lady in waiting to the Empress. Over the course of the story, which takes place over several Katya changes from a spoiled little girl to a mature young woman with a greater awareness of the world around her.

From the author of the National Book Award-winning novel Homeless Bird comes “an absorbing saga”* about a young heroine coming of age in the tumultuous years leading up to the Russian revolution. Angel on the Square (Russian Saga) 9.99 Author: Gloria Whelan Publisher: HarperCollins Publication Year: 2003 ASIN: 0064408795 ISBN: 0064408795 FROM SARAH: The first in a series about a family during the fall of Imperial Russia. It provides two views of the Russian Revolution. Angel on the Square is one of my favorite books by Gloria Whelan.

Angel on the square by gloria whelan