Empress of the World
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Empress of the World is a young adult novel by Sara Ryan
. It was published in 2001. Its sequel, The Rules for Hearts, was published in April 2007. It won the 2002 Oregon Book Award for Young Readers Literature
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Ryan summarizes the book conceptually as "Friendship, love, and the sometimes blurry lines between the two."
Empress of the World tells the story of Nicola, a teenager girl who attends a summer program for gifted children, where she falls in love with a girl named Battle.
Sara Ryan
Sara Ryan is an American writer and librarian living in Oregon.-Biography:Ryan was raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she graduated from Pioneer High School in 1989. Her first novel, Empress of the World, was published in 2001 and is an ALA Best Book for Young Adults...
. It was published in 2001. Its sequel, The Rules for Hearts, was published in April 2007. It won the 2002 Oregon Book Award for Young Readers Literature
Oregon Book Award
The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by Literary Arts, Inc. for "the finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, drama and young readers literature." -History:...
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Ryan summarizes the book conceptually as "Friendship, love, and the sometimes blurry lines between the two."
Empress of the World tells the story of Nicola, a teenager girl who attends a summer program for gifted children, where she falls in love with a girl named Battle.
External links
- Empress of the World Information, from author's website
- Empress of the World, book details from LibraryThingLibraryThingLibraryThing is a social cataloging web application for storing and sharing book catalogs and various types of book metadata. It is used by individuals, authors, libraries and publishers....