Title: Eleanor, crown jewel of Aquitaine
Description: Author of the best-selling Royal Diaries title, Cleopatra VII, Kristiana Gregory now takes readers to twelfth-century France and introduces Eleanor of Aquitaine, who becomes queen at age 15.

Fourteen-year-old Eleanor of Aquitaine lives in a castle in Poitier, France, with her father Count William of Aquitaine (son of William the Conqueror), and her 12-year-old sister Petronilla.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Childhood and youth, History, Diaries, Kings, queens, rulers, Heads of state
Places: France
People: Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of England (1122?-1204)
Time periods: Louis VII, 1137-1180