http://www.randomhouse.com/category/ www.randomhouse.com 2006-03-13T11:23:00-05:00 www.randomhouse.com <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780763634643"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780763634643" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780763634643">Cassandra's Sister</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=70437">Veronica Bennett</a></h3><b>Hardcover</b>, 240 pages | Candlewick | Juvenile Fiction - Biographical - European | <b>$15.99</b> | 978-0-7636-3464-3 (0-7636-3464-6)<p><b>How did a country girl named Jenny become the celebrated novelist Jane Austen? A highly engaging historical novel by the author of ANGELMONSTER.</b><br><br>Young Jane &#8212; or Jenny, as she is called &#8212; is a girl with a head full of questions. Surrounded by her busy parents and brothers, Jenny finds a place for her thoughts in the companionship of her older sister, Cassandra. Theirs is a country life full of balls and visits, at which conversation inevitably centers on one topic: marriage. But the arrival of their worldly-wise cousin disrupts Jenny&#8217;s world, bringing answers to some of her questions and providing a gem of an idea. Veronica Bennett invites us into a society where propriety and marriage rule hand in hand, a milieu in which Jenny finds inspiration to write the masterpieces PRIDE AND PREJUDICE and SENSE AND SENSIBILITY &#8212; a world where a clever young girl will one day become the beloved Jane Austen.</p><br clear="all"> http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780763634643 2007-08-14T00:30:00-05:00