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28 ratings, 3.79 average rating, 3 reviews
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published
September 2003
by American Girl
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Paperback, 198 pages
isbn
1584857498
(isbn13: 9781584857495)
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Part of the Girls from Many Lands series distributed by American Girl magazine. Leyla is about a Turkish girl growing up during the Ottoman Empire. Her family falls upon hard times after her father disappears during the war. Leyla, thinking she is selling herself to be married, unwittingly sells herself into slavery in order to bring her family money. She finds herself as part of a harem where her love of gardening and painting become both her only solace and her salvation. This is a melanc...more
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This was really really good. I love the stuff with the tulips.
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