Ages 9 to 12 years. Combining the romance and enchantment of princesses with a message of youthful female empowerment, these books are about girls who didn't just sit around waiting to be rescued. Against great odds, they changed their own lives -- and their worlds. Stories of princesses from different cultures and different epochs in history are richly illustrated with photographs, maps, and lovely pen-and-watercolour paintings that help bring these fascinating females to life. One minute Sacajawea was picking berries and the next her Shoshone tribe was being attacked by another tribe. As...