The plague
By: by Joanne Dahme
Publisher: RP Teens
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780762433445
Subjects: Black Death; Plague; Impostors and imposture; Juvenile fiction; History; Fiction
Description: Fifteen year-old Nell bears an uncanny resemblance to King Edward the Third's daughter, Princess Joan.  The king brings Nell and her brother George from the murky streets of 14th-century London so that Nell can be the body double for the princess in times of danger.  When the plague takes the princess' life, Joan's brother, the Black Prince, forces Nell to continue in her role so he can marry her to the Prince of Castille in Joan's place. Nell, however, is determined to return to England to report the princess' death to the King.