One for all / Lillie Lainoff.
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TextPublisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First editionDescription: 389 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780374314613
- 0374314616
- Women fencers -- France -- Juvenile fiction
- Schools -- France -- Juvenile fiction
- Conspiracies -- France -- 17th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Murder -- Investigation -- Juvenile fiction
- Fencing -- Fiction
- Schools -- Fiction
- Adventure stories
- Conspiracies -- Fiction
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- Murder -- Fiction
- Vertigo -- Fiction
- Paris (France) -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction
- France -- History -- Louis XIV, 1643-1715 -- Fiction
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"There are no limits to the will--and the strength--of this unique female hero." -- Tamora Pierce, writer of the Song of the Lioness and the Protector of the Small quartets
One for All is a gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers , in which a girl with a chronic illness trains as a Musketeer and uncovers secrets, sisterhood, and self-love.
Tania de Batz is most herself with a sword in her hand. Everyone thinks her near-constant dizziness makes her weak, nothing but "a sick girl." But Tania wants to be strong, independent, a fencer like her father--a former Musketeer and her greatest champion. Then Papa is brutally, mysteriously murdered. His dying wish? For Tania to attend finishing school. But L'Académie des Mariées, Tania realizes, is no finishing school. It's a secret training ground for new Musketeers: women who are socialites on the surface, but strap daggers under their skirts, seduce men into giving up dangerous secrets, and protect France from downfall. And they don't shy away from a sword fight.
With her newfound sisters at her side, Tania feels that she has a purpose, that she belongs. But then she meets Étienne, her target in uncovering a potential assassination plot. He's kind, charming--and might have information about what really happened to her father. Torn between duty and dizzying emotion, Tania will have to decide where her loyalties lie...or risk losing everything she's ever wanted.
Lillie Lainoff's debut novel is a fierce, whirlwind adventure about the depth of found family, the strength that goes beyond the body, and the determination it takes to fight for what you love. Includes an author's note about her personal experience with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome.
Grades 10-12. FSG Books for Young Readers.
In 1655 sixteen-year-old Tania is the daughter of a retired musketeer, but she is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls; when her father is murdered she finds that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Académie des Mariées in Paris, which, it turns out, is less a school for would-be wives, than a fencing academy for girls--and so Tania begins her training to be a new kind of musketeer, and to get revenge for her father.
France, 1655. Tania, the daughter of a retired musketeer, is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls. When her father is murdered she learns that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Académie des Mariées in Paris. It is no finishing school: it is an academy for female Musketeers, socialites on the surface but dangerous, well-trained women who wish to protect France from downfall. Tania begins her training determined to get revenge for her father... but in doing so she risks losing everything she's ever wanted. -- adapted from jacket