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Leyla: The Black Tulip
(2003)Girls of Many Lands
(A book in the American Girl of the Year series)
A collection of stories by Alev Lytle Croutier
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 1720s. Simultaneous. 100,000 first printing.
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
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