Title: Leona, a love story
Description: In early nineteenth-century Mexico, sixteen-year-old Leona Vicario, loyal to Spain and engaged to a wealthy widower, struggles to come to terms with her growing revolt against Spain's harsh treatment of Mexicans and her love for a young revolutionary lawyer.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Mexico, history, wars of independence, 1810-1821, fiction
Places: Mexico
People: Leona Vicario (1789-1842)
Time periods: Wars of Independence, 1810-1821