Leyla : the black tulip
2003
Book
While trying to help her financially destitute family, twelve-year-old Leyla ends up on a slave ship bound for Istanbul, then in the beautiful Topkapi Palace, where she discovers that life in the sheltered world of the palace harem follows its own rigid rules and rhythms and offers her unexpected opportunities during Turkey's brief Tulip Period of the 1720's.
Item Details
ISBN: 1584857498
Description: 196 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Other Title: American girl (Middleton, Wis.)
Notes: "American Girl."
LCCN: 2002155612
Control Number: 113616
Publisher: Middleton, Wis. : Pleasant Company Publications, [2003]Series:
Subjects:
- Harems -- Fiction.
- Harems -- Juvenile fiction.
- Heads of state -- Fiction.
- Heads of state -- Juvenile fiction.
- Istanbul (Turkey) -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.
- Istanbul (Turkey) -- History -- 18th century -- Juvenile fiction.
- Kings and rulers -- Juvenile fiction.
- Slavery -- Turkey -- Fiction.
- Slavery -- Turkey -- Juvenile fiction.
- Tulips -- Fiction.
- Tulips -- Juvenile fiction.
- Turkey -- History -- Ahmed III, 1703-1730 -- Fiction.
- Turkey -- History -- Ahmed III, 1703-1730 -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Fiction.
Other Authors: Sano, Kazuhiko.