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When I was growing up I absolutely loved these Royal Diaries books. Now that I'm getting my own middle school classroom I've been trying to read as many middle grade books as I can get my hands on to decide what I actually want to have in my classroom. This book was still really amazing, and held up over time. We follow Elizabeth I, her mother, Anne Boleyn is dead, but her father is alive and she's no longer exiled from court. The historical fiction is some of my favorite kind, told through diary entries but in a way you still feel like you know the characters and are involved in the story.

I've always loved royalty, and reading historical fiction books like these as a young kid really made me interested in times that weren't just the 1940's (which for some reason was always where I was most fascinated.) I feel like this is a great book for middle grade readers, and truthfully, not very triggering. I liked that at the end of the journal there's always a historical note that tells us about Good Queen Bess's rule of England and how because of her we have the Elizabethan era. I listened to the audio, and it was great as well!