Sheri Holman
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In a series of messages placed in her grandmother's ancestral jar, a seventh century princess and future ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla vents her frustration at not being permitted to study astronomy because she is a girl.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In a novel set in London during the Industrial Revolution, a prostitute borrows a blue dress to attract a higher class of client and is shadowed through the streets by an evil old woman hired by the dress' owner to keep an eye on her.