A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver

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A National Book Award Finalist

Thoroughly bored of Heaven, Eleanor of Aquitaine passes the time by looking back over her long and complicated life in this charming and wryly humorous speculative middle grade novel from E.L. Konigsburg, the Newbery Medal–winning author of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife to two kings, mother to two others, has been waiting in Heaven a long time—eight centuries, more or less—to be reunit...