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Plot Summary of Isabel: Taking Wing
"Isabel is a young girl growing up in Elizabethan England. It is a time and place with limited opportunities for girls. Isabel longs to see the world and have adventures. Will she be able to make her dream come true?"
Rebecca Herman, Resident Scholar



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Plot
Tone of book? - upbeat
Time/era of story - distant past/middle ages
Kids growing up/acting up? Yes
Internal struggle/realization? Yes
Struggle over - vague finding self/purpose in life (i.e. no plot to book)
Is this an adult or child's book? - Age 11-14
Parents/lack of parents problem? - rebelling against parent's expectations

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - wealthy
Age: - a kid
Ethnicity/Nationality - British
How sensitive is this character? - soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - society
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 5 ()
Europe Yes
Misc setting - fancy mansion

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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