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Sovay
By Rees, Celia
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2008
Gr 9-Up It's 1794, and the revolution in France is threatening to spill across the channel into England, where Sovay, the beautiful 17-year-old daughter of a gentleman, turns to holding up carriages while in disguise to break her boredom. Then her father disappears and is charged with treason, and, with the persuasion of the notorious highwayman Captain Greenwood and the American Virgil Barrett, she becomes embroiled in the political issues of the day, eventually traveling to Paris during the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2008
In England in the time of the French Revolution, well-born adventurer Sovay takes to highway robbery--first to avenge a ro...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on October 1, 2008
Sovay provides a rich depiction of late-eighteenth-century England and Revolutionary France. The book’s action moves from aristocratic mansions to humble inns to law offices, from brothels to street riots to jails, and includes fully draw...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
