Leyla
Subtitle: the black tulip
By: by Alev Lytle Croutier.
Contributors: Sano, Kazuhiko, ill.
Series: Girls of many lands
Publisher: Pleasant Co.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Middleton, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Slavery -- Turkey -- Fiction.; Harems -- Fiction.; Tulips -- Fiction.; Kings, queens, rulers, etc. -- Fiction.; Istanbul (Turkey) -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.; Turkey -- History -- Ahmed III, 1703-1730 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: While trying to help her financially destitute family, twelve-year-old Leyla ends up on a slave ship bound for Istanbul, and then in the beautiful Topkapi Palace, where she discovers that life in the sheltered world of the palace harem follows its own rigid rules and rhythms and offers her unexpected opportunities during Turkey's brief Tulip Period of the 1720's.
Notes: "American Girl."