Leyla: The Black Tulip (Girls of Many Lands)
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Leyla: The Black Tulip (Girls of Many Lands) by Croutier, Alev Lytle. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781584857495.
While trying to help her financially destitute family, twelve-year-old Leyla ends up on a slave ship bound for Istanbul, and then in the beautiful Topkapi Palace, where she discovers that life in the sheltered world of the palace harem follows its own rigid rules and rhythms and offers her unexpected opportunities during Turkeys brief Tulip Period of the 1720s.Twelve-year-old Leyla ends up on a slave ship bound for Istanbul, then in the beautiful Topkapi Palace, where she discovers that life in the sheltered world of the palace harem follows its own rigid rules and rhythms.
