num_pages: 238
description: Anne was a witch; I never doubted it. Month upon month I lived in terror of poison being slipped into my cup. Yet an hour before the blade bit into her flesh, they say she prayed for my forgiveness. Would I have forgiven her? No. Never.Mary Tudor's world falls apart when her father, King Henry VIII, abandons her mother and marries his mistress, Anne Boleyn. Banished to a cold lonely castle, far from family and friends, Mary wears rags instead of silk and longs for her old, privileged life at the court. Her humiliation is complete when Anne orders her to serve as maid to her half-sister, Elizabeth, the new princess and heir. Yet even as she sees her future snatched away, Mary is determined to reclaim her destiny...Blood is thicker than water-unless the kind decrees otherwise.
language: English
title: Mary, Bloody Mary
titlecomplete: Mary, Bloody Mary (Young Royals, #1)
characters: Henry VIII of England, Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon, Elizabeth I of England, Mary I of England
genres: Middle Grade, 16th Century, Historical, Historical Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Young Adult Historical Fiction, Tudor Period, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 7637
places: United Kingdom
series: Young Royals
awards: awardedAt: -62167190400000
name: Young Readers' Choice Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award
category: Intermediate
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers