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186 pp.
| Houghton |
July, 2010 |
TradeISBN 978-0-547-22308-7$16.00
(4)
YA
In nineteenth-century England, Bet's decision to impersonate a boy and attend boarding school leads to an unexpected set of learning experiences, since bullying and sports have too prominent a place in the curriculum. Like the Shakespearean and Dickensian heroines she admires, however, Bet is graced not only with energy and wit, but a string of improbably fortunate plot-twists that enable her to triumph.