by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows
English History Meets Animorphs! (Uh...let me make sure that isn't a give-away...ok, no.)
This book is lively, silly, snickery, funny, and giddy. Call it "Facts gone wild". Starting with a few historical characters and a couple of historical events, this trio of nutty authors draw their broadswords (and brooms), chop up history and sweep it out of the window. Then the characters are free to fly!
And frequently do...or gallop, or whatever.
The authors could have written this story without a single reference to history, but I can imagine one of them reading the tragic story of Lady Jane Dudley and her Nine Days on the English Throne and feeling that her history deserved to be rewritten. A lot. What did she ever do to deserve her sorry fate?
I'm glad they did.
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