The Lacemaker and the Princess

By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Subjects: Princesses, Lace makers, Lace and lace making, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, Friendship

Description: In 1788, eleven-year-old Isabelle, living with her lacemaker grandmother and mother near the palace of Versailles, becomes close friends with Marie Antoinette's daughter, Princess Therese, and finds their relationship complicated not only by their different social class but by the growing political unrest and resentment of the French people.