This was my first time reading a book about the French Revolution.
Inspired by an actual friendship between the French princess and a commoner who became her companion, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley offers a vivid portrait of life inside the palace of Versailles - and a touching tale of two friends divided by class and the hunger for equality and freedom that fueled the French Revolution. How can Isabelle reconcile the ugly things she hears in the town with the kind family she knows in the palace? And which side is she truly on? But this facade begins to crumble when rumors of starvation in the countryside lead to whispers of revolution.
Thrown into a world of luxury, Isabelle is living a fairy-tale life. At the palace she is playmate to a princess. At home she plies her needle under her grandmother's disapproving eye. Isabelle is given a fashionable name, fashionable dresses - a new identity. Before Isabelle can believe it, she has a new job - companion to the queen's daughter.
One day as she delivers lace to the palace, she is almost trampled by a crowd of courtiers - only to be rescued by Marie Antoinette. Eleven-year-old Isabelle is a lacemaker in the town of Versailles.
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