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  Title

  Leyla : the black tulip

  Author

  Croutier, Alev Lytle, 1944-  

  Publisher:

  Pleasant Co.,

  Pub date:

  c2003.

  Pages:

  196 p. :

  ISBN:

  1584858311

  • Holdings

    Type/Location	Call Number	Copies	Format
    Youth: Fiction	J CROUTIER	1	Book

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  Leyla : the black tulip
  Croutier, Alev Lytle, 1944-
  
  
  

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  Personal Author:

  Croutier, Alev Lytle, 1944-

  Title:

  Leyla : the black tulip / by Alev Lytle Croutier.

  Publication info:

  Middleton, Wis. : Pleasant Co., c2003.

  Physical description:

  196 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.

  Series Title:

  (Girls of many lands)

  General Note:

  "American Girl."

  Summary:

  While trying to help her financially destitute family, twelve-year-old Leyla ends up on a slave ship bound for Istanbul, then in the beautiful Topkapi Palace, where she discovers that life in the sheltered world of the palace harem follows its own rigid rules and rhythms and offers her unexpected opportunities during Turkey's brief Tulip Period of the 1720's.

  Children's subject:

  Slavery--Turkey--Fiction.

  Children's subject:

  Harems--Fiction.

  Children's subject:

  Tulips--Fiction.

  Children's subject:

  Kings, queens, rulers, etc.--Fiction.

  Geographic term:

  Istanbul (Turkey)--History--18th century--Fiction.

  Geographic term:

  Turkey--History--Ahmed III, 1703-1730--Fiction.

  Added author:

  Sano, Kazuhiko.

  key:

  ocm51306238

  ISBN:

  1584858311