Grade 5-8-Isabel, 12, lives under the rule of her strict Aunt Elinor. Dreaming of freedom and adventure, she sneaks across the Thames to see a play at the Rose Theatre, but is discovered and sent to live with her Aunt de Vere. On the journey to her aunt's country estate, Isabel is robbed and left alone in the forest. Disguised as a boy, she not only finds protection in a traveling actors' troupe, but she performs...
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