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GREGORY, KRISTIANA Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile. Scholastic, 1999 222p (The Royal Diaries) illus. with photographs

ISBN 0-590-81975-5 $10.95 R Gr. 6-9

In this new series that obligingly creates diaries for those famous women who carelessly forgot to write one, Gregory gives voice to the thoughts of twelve-year-old Cleopatra, third daughter of the tottering King Ptolemy Auletes, who desperately needs Roman assistance to shore up his power. Her eldest sister's lethal intentions...