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A biography of the military genius who crowned himself Emperor of the French and whose empire covered most of western and central Europe.

Young Elizabeth I gets valuable advice from her father the king when she tries to teach her pony to jump over a wall.

A biography of the tsar who began the transformation of Russia into a modern state in the late seventeenth-early eighteenth centuries.

In sixteenth-century Florence, in what would become Italy, Antonio and Donatella flee the wrath of Duke Cosimo de Medici from whom Antonio has stolen a sprig of jasmine, and they use that rare plant to make a fresh start. Includes facts about the duke and Italian history.

A biography of Elizabeth I, Queen of England, describing her relationship with her father, King Henry VIII, and her sister, Queen Mary I. Highlights the key events of her long reign. Includes a timeline, glossary, and resources.

Uses the letters of the alphabet to provide an account of Queen Elizabeth's annual holiday, known as a "royal progress.".

Follows the life of the strong-willed queen who ruled England in the time of Shakespeare and the defeat of the Spanish Armada.

Gracie, a poor eleven-year-old girl whose life begins to mysteriously change when Napoleon Bonaparte is exiled to her island, is shocked to learn that the fallen emperor--the monster in the frightening stories she has heard all her life--is her benefactor.

A biography of the general who used his skills to carve out the largest and wealthiest empire the world had seen since the fall of Rome.