num_pages: 304
description: Sophie FitzOsborne lives in a crumbling castle in the tiny island kingdom of Montmaray with her eccentric and impoverished royal family. When she receives a journal for her sixteenth birthday Sophie decides to chronicle day-to-day life on the island. But this is 1936 and the news that trickles in from the mainland reveals a world on the brink of war. The politics of Europe seem far away from their remote islanduntil two German officers land a boat on Montmaray. And then suddenly politics become very personal indeed.
language: English
title: A Brief History of Montmaray
publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers