The King's Daughter

by Suzanne Martel

Book Overview

-- A historical novel that realistically depicts life in 17th-century Quebec from the point of view of a French teenager This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888992181
• ISBN13: 9780888992185
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Groundwood Books
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 10 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 10

Customer Reviews

I Loved It!!!!!

This is one of my favorite books. I was completely obsessed with it for about a month, which is a record for me. It's terrific.Best for young adults ages 12-16, The King's Daughter by Suzanne Martel tells the story of Jeanne, an eighteen-year-old French orphan. She travels to Canada as a King's Daughter, passage paid by the king so that she might marry one of the settlers. By chance she is married to Simon, a young man with two children. His previous wife Aimee was killed by the Iroquios and he needed someone to look after his son and daughter.It takes time and patience, but Jeanne comes to love Simon and Simon comes to love Jeanne. They both struggle with doubts about each other throughout the book until everything is resolved at the end. There are plenty of various adventures (Jeanne travelling to the nearest settlement as a man, for example, or the risk of Iroquois attacks) which make the book very exciting. The story is touching and fun, and historical fiction buffs will love it, as will anyone.The King's Daughter was translated from French to English, I believe. Since I cannot speak or read French, I was delighted to find an English version at my bookstore. I liked this book very, VERY MUCH and I would encourage ANYONE to buy it.

Awsome Novel

After learning so much in school about Quebec history is was really cool to read this book. It's exciting and interesting and it gives you a sense of life at that time. I want to read it in french also.

BEST french book around!

most french books (...), but this one really kept me reading! it has excellent vocabulary and true facts. Thank goodness i found this book to let me see that french books can be good too!

A great historical novel

"The King's Daughter" was a great book, and very interesting! It told about Jeanne, a French orphan in the 1600s, who goes to New France (Canada) as a "king's daughter". That is what the French girls who went to marry the men in New France were called, and they were very important in history. Jeanne hopes to marry a kind military man, but instead marries a poor, rough hunter, and she fears that he loves his dead wife more than she. Times are hard in New France, but she continues to try to find happiness in her new home and life.This book was very exciting and interesting, and I'd recommend it for ages 10 - 14. The text is somewhat simple sometimes, however, because it was translated from French, but other than that I loved it! I would also recommend "Calico Bush", about a French girl in young America, and "A Coal Miner's Bride", a "Dear America" novel about an immigrant in an arranged marriage.

An excelent story.

This well written book is a story about Jeanne Chatel who is orphaned at 10 and is taken into a convent, as was the custom in the late 1660's and early 70's. But a convent is no place for the boundless energy that Jeanne has. So when she is invited to go to New France (Qubec) to be a wife to a man there, she hastly agrees, her sense of adventure rousing inside of her, and after 8 years living in a dull convent she was ready for some excitment. So she leaves France. When she arrives she expects to find a gallant military man but instead a hunter/architect comes to pick her up. The story of Jeanne's courage and bravery in New France and with the new family she comes to love and care for is truely worth reading.