Isabel : Jewel of Castilla / by Carolyn Meyer.
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. Segovia -- 12th of April 1466. After Mass this morning, I climbed the narrow, winding stone steps to a window high in one of the castle turrets. I often come up here to see what lies beyond my prison. Segovia is surrounded by four thick walls, each with a heavy wooden gate. The aqueduct built by the Romans more than a thousand years ago stretches to the horizon. Far below the castle, the Eresma River rushes through a narrow gorge. Across the river, flocks of sheep seem to flow like a river themselves. The sheep bleat, their bells tinkle -- I know this, even if I cannot hear them. In the fields beyond the walls, little green shoots of wheat are pushing up. How I yearn to be there instead of here.
Record details
- ISBN: 0439078059
- ISBN: 9780439078054
- Physical Description: 204 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Scholastic Inc., [2000]
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- Target Audience Note:
- 860L Lexile
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.6 5 41554.
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