num_pages: 304
description: "Think, my dear -- just think what it will be like, to be known as the girl who freed the great Napoleon Bonaparte!"Fourteen-year-old English girl Betsy Balcombe and her family have an unusual Napoleon Bonaparte, former emperor of France and the most feared man on earth. Once lord and master to eighty-two million souls, now, in 1815, Napoleon is a captive of the British people. Stripped of his empire and robbed of his young family and freedom, he is confined to the forbidding, rat-infested island of St. Helena.The one bright star in Napoleon's black sky is Betsy, a blazingly rebellious teenager whose family is reluctantly housing the notorious prisoner. Betsy is the only foreigner Napoleon's ever met who is not impressed by him -- and Napoleon is more than intrigued.An unexpected alliance is formed. And a remarkable friendship between emperor and girl spawns gossip, and inspires Betsy to hatch a daring and dangerous scheme that could threaten both their lives and shake entire empires to their foundations.
language: English
title: Betsy and the Emperor
titlecomplete: Betsy and the Emperor
characters: Betsy Balcombe, Napoléon Bonaparte
genres: Historical, Childrens, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Novels, School, Romance, Historical Fiction, 19th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 1249
places: St. Helena
publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books