Cleopatra VII
Daughter of the Nile

It is 2022, and this is my first foray into the Royal Diaries. I spent a substantial portion of the '90s reveling grimly in the bitter fates of Dear America's mill girls and Dust Bowl sufferers, but the Royal Diaries I refused. I don't know why - maybe it was a senseless prejudice against spin-offs......more

Recently, one of my bookish (as well as IRL) best friends mentioned a book series she loved as a middle-grader and it was a spin-off series from a series I was obsessed with, "Dear America" books. This series of "Royal Diaries" are epistolary in style and organized in the form of a diary from an anc......more

Earliest I remember loving historical fiction. One of my favorite books on Cleopatra.......more

I picked this book for my 3rd-5th grade literature class at our homeschool co-op to read because I am focusing on the importance of settings this year. I'm having the class read books set in a variety of places and times so that we can see how books expand our horizons, and how a book's setting can......more

Trying to remember the very first books I was introduced to, I remember reading The Royal Diaries sometime in my childhood. I remember reading a few of them such as Elizabeth I, Marie Antoinette, and Cleopatra VII. But unlike certain books that I read (such as Animorphs, Harry Potter, and Warriors.)......more