The revolution of Sabine

By Ain, Beth Levine

Publishers Summary:
During Benjamin Franklin's visit to Paris in 1776, sixteen-year-old Sabine rails against the strict rules of society and her social-climbing mother by rejecting her arranged marriage and spending more time with servants and others who accept Franklin's political ideals and those she read in Voltaire's Candide.

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ISBN
978-0-76363-396-7
Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2008.


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on December 1, 2008

Gr 6-9 Sabine Durand, 16, knows that she should be preoccupied with balls, attending the opera, and attracting a suitable match. But lately she's had other things on her mindthings like free will, the ability to make choices and determine the course of one's fate, and equality regardless of class differences. Things that she's read in Voltaire's Candide and heard Mr. Franklin say about the uprising of the colo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Guide

Reviewed on January 1, 2008

Sabine is a teenage aristocrat in pre-revolution Paris. Rebelling against a social-climbing mother and disloyal best friend, Sabine ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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