Carolyn Meyer

This journal-style account offers young readers a look at the life and turbulant times of this young royal and the Romanov family. 125,000 first printing.

Anastasia, the Last Grand Duchess

A Young Royals Book

Mary, Bloody Mary

While waiting anxiously for others to choose a husband for her, Isabella, the future Queen of Spain, keeps a diary account of her life as a member of the royal family.

Jewel of Castilla

Isabel

A novel in diary form about Kristina, the young queen of Sweden.

Kristina, the Girl King

Through diary entries, reveals the life of Britain's strong-willed and short-tempered Queen Victoria from the age of eight through her twenty-fourth birthday, up to her third wedding anniversary with her beloved Albert in 1843.

Victoria Rebels

After the death of her father, King Henry VIII, in 1547, thirteen-year-old Elizabeth must endure the political intrigues and dangers of the reigns of her half-brother Edward and her half-sister Mary before finally becoming Queen of England eleven years later

Beware, Princess Elizabeth

Drowning her unhappiness in luxurious parties and scandalous fashions when she falls short of impossible court standards and expectations, Marie-Antoinette incites the wrath of her impoverished French subjects and her disapproving mother. By the award-winning author of Doomed Queen Anne.

Rules and Instructions for Marie-Antoinette

The Bad Queen

Princess Cleopatra, the third (and favorite) daughter of King Ptolemy XII, comes of age in ancient Egypt, accumulating power and discovering love.

Cleopatra Confesses

A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.

Anastasia and Her Sisters

A Young Royals Book (Young Royals)

Doomed Queen Anne

While her tyrannical family is out of favor in Italy, young Catherine de Medici is raised in convents, then in 1533, when she is fourteen, her uncle, Pope Clement VII, arranges for her marriage to prince Henri of France, who is destined to become king.

Duchessina, a Novel of Catherine de Medici

In 1501, fifteen-year-old Catharine of Aragon arrives in England and marries Arthur, the eldest son of King Henry VII, but when Arthur unexpectedly dies, her future becomes the subject of a bitter dispute between England and Spain.

Patience, Princess Catherine

A fictionalized autobiography of Marie Van Goethem, the impoverished student from the Paris Opéra ballet school who became the model for Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, "The Little Dancer."

Marie, dancing

In Stratford-upon-Avon in the sixteenth century, Anne Hathaway suffers her stepmother's cruelty and yearns for love and escape, finally finding it in the arms of a boy she has grown up with, William Shakespeare.

Loving Will Shakespeare

The acclaimed author of "Mary, Bloody Mary" has penned a powerful historical novel about a little-known but gifted musician who becomes lost in the shadow of her younger brother.

His Sister's Story

In Mozart's Shadow

When renowned beauty Helen runs off to Troy with Prince Paris, her enraged husband, King Menelaus, starts the Trojan War, leaving their plain daughter, Hermione, alone to witness the deaths of heroes on both sides and longing to find her own love and place in the world. Includes historical notes.

The Story of Hermione and Helen of Troy

Beauty's Daughter

A young woman with dreams of becoming a journalist leaves her Kansas home in 1926 to become a waitress in a Harvey House in New Mexico.

The Not-so-glamorous Life of a Harvey Girl

Diary of a Waitress

Having been taken as a child and raised by Comanche Indians, thirty-four-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker is forcibly returned to her white relatives, where she longs for her Indian life, and her only friend is her twelve-year-old cousin Lucy.

The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker

Where the Broken Heart Still Beats

White Lilacs

The young Queen Victoria was brought up hidden from the world she would one day govern. In 1829, aged ten, Princess Victoria is a lonely little girl, but she is about to make a startling discovery. She is closer to the throne than she ever imagined. Spanning a year in Victoria's life, My Royal Story offers a fascinating insight into the childhood of a young princess.

Carolyn Meyer

About

Books

Join the club