A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland
by Jeanette Eaton
Nonfiction · ages 10–14 · grades 5–9 · 850L · 324 pages · 1929
Why we'd hand it over
A serious, sympathetic portrait of a woman at the center of the French Revolution; the 1929 prose is formal and demands attention, but the historical stakes are genuine and the subject matter is genuinely instructive about political conviction.