Sondok, princess of the moon and stars

By Sheri Holman

Subjects: Princesses, Princesses, fiction, Astronomy, Sex role, Diaries, fiction, Diaries, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, Sex role, fiction

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.