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    <body><![CDATA[Dear Kristiana Gregory<br/>This book was really well put together. To think that this is what really went on in young “Catherine’s” life. Her real name was Sophie and it was changed by Empress Elizabeth of Russia. This was an amazing diary because it talked about historical events as well as ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39819924">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ I decided to read Catherine: The Great Journey, Russia, 1743 as an IR book. Thsi girl named Sophia she is 14 and she is an Prussian princess. She gets mixed up in her mothers arrangement to marry a young german duke named Charles-Peter who is also the nephew of Russian Empress Elizabeth. She has to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59334168">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It is 1743, and fourteen-year-old Sophie is a princess of Anhalt-Zerbst in Prussia. Sophie's father is not royalty, and her cruel mother, Princess Johanna Elizabeth, is obsessed with improving her own status through her daughter's marriage. To that end, she is determined to do everything possible in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51207555">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>&quot;Now I am in the window seat of a Russian palace, bethrothed to my cousin. Mother has made an enemy of just about everyone, and Papa is forbidden to visit me. I have a new name, a new religion, a new title. Gifts of diamonds and jewels are at my fingertips, and I may become the empress of all R...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52469282">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The slightly annoying thread that I notice running through these &quot;Royal Diaries&quot; books is that they stop just when the story is getting really interesting.  It's a pity.  I loved Catherine's voice in this, though.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my 2nd most favorite book. This is on Catherine The Great as a child. Her mother is both physically and verbally abusive, a terrible woman, really. But Catherine triumphs over it all and winds up being a charming, strong child. I pick this up and read it every now and then. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this book was really good. wow, i can't believe this could be close to what actually happened to her! i can't remember much from the book cause i read it a while ago but i remember that.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book. But whenever I look at the cover i feel cold!?!?!?!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[reading AGAIN]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[it was really sad how bad this girl was treated and if a horse dide while carrying the princess the would just leave it <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288.The_Road" title="The Road by Cormac McCarthy">on the road</a>!! but it was an amazing adventure book]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is good, all of the royal diaries are. I wouldn't read them forever, because their kinda boring, i mean there isn't as much suspense as in other books.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the Royal Diaries back when I was in middle school.  They are all wonderful reads and I suggest them all to everyone.  Happy Reading!!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Finally finished this book that I started last year, a Royal Diaries book, it was okay if you want to learn about Russia in the 1700's.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was good, but OMG~!!! Shes did some real good things for people during her reign!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!!!!  Historical, educational and wonderful!!!]]></body>
    
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