Queen Sophie Hartley
STEPHANIE GREENE, . . Clarion, $15 (136pp) ISBN 978-0-618-49461-3
Greene's (the Owen Foote novels) intermittently affecting novel introduces a nine-year-old who is saving up to buy a tiara. The middle child of five siblings, Sophie is convinced that she is not good at anything—except crying and keeping a list of all the things she does not do well. One of them is ballet, at which her frequently condescending 12-year-old sister, Nora, excels. In a comical family dinner scene, Nora snootily comments that Sophie "can't do
Reviewed on: 05/02/2005
Genre: Children's
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