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A Bank Street Best Childrens Book of the Year pick for 2023! With the mystery of Maureen Johnson and Brittany Cavallaro and the historical intrigue of Romanov, this genre-bending YA will pull readers into one girls journey of discovering the impossible tale of a long-lost auntand through her, the importance of being true to yourself. Its not every day you discover you might be related to Anastasia or that the tragic princess actually survived her assassination attempt and has been living as the woman you know as Aunt Anna. For Jess Morgan, who is growing tired of living her life to please everyone else, discovering her late aunts diaries shows her shes not the only one struggling to hide who she really is. But was her aunt truly a Romanov princess? Or is this some elaborate hoax? With the help of a supremely dorky but undeniably cute local college student named Evan, Jess digs into the century-old mystery. But soon Jess realizes theres another, bigger truth waiting to be revealed: Jess Morgan. Because if shes learned anything from Aunt Anna, its that only you can write your own story.
A Bank Street Best Childrens Book of the Year pick for 2023!
With the mystery of Maureen Johnson and Brittany Cavallaro and the historical intrigue of Romanov, this genre-bending YA will pull readers into one girls journey of discovering the impossible tale of a long-lost auntand through her, the importance of being true to yourself.
Its not every day you discover you might be related to Anastasia
or that the tragic princess actually survived her assassination attempt and has been living as the woman you know as Aunt Anna.
For Jess Morgan, who is growing tired of living her life to please everyone else, discovering her late aunts diaries shows her shes not the only one struggling to hide who she really is. But was her aunt truly a Romanov princess? Or is this some elaborate hoax?
With the help of a supremely dorky but undeniably cute local college student named Evan, Jess digs into the century-old mystery.
But soon Jess realizes theres another, bigger truth waiting to be revealed: Jess Morgan. Because if shes learned anything from Aunt Anna, its that only you can write your own story.