Showing Nine Days a Queen: The Short Life and Reign of Lady Jane Grey by Ann Rinaldi

Paperback. Pub Date: 2006 Pages: 240 in Publisher: Harper Collins the I had freckles I had sandy hair I was too short. Would my feet even touch the ground if I sat on the throne These are the words of lady Jane Grey. as imagined by celeated author Ann Rinaldi. Jane would become Queen of England for only nine days before being beheaded at the age of sixteen. Here is a eathtaking story of English royalty with its pageantry. privilege. and surprising cruelty. As she did in her previous novel Mutiny's Daughter. Ms. Rinaldi uses powerful. evocative writing to ing to life a teenage girl caught in the grip of stirring times. Ages 12 +