![]() ![]() But the knight’s new family scorns her peasant manners. With the help of her godmother and three enchanted gifts, she sets out on a journey in disguise that will lead her to a destiny far greater than any she could have imagined. Bella is the daughter of a knight, but she is brought up by peasants, because her mother died in childbirth, and her father doesn’t want to have to deal with heruntil she’s grown and he has remarried. Soon Bella is caught up in a terrible plot that will change her life - and the kingdom - forever. 184 CHAPTER 5 Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir Stanley, D., & Bagram, I. Now he wants her back, so Bella is torn from her beloved foster family and sent to live with her deranged father and his resentful new wife. Then it is revealed that she is not the peasant she believed herself to be: She is Isabel, the daughter of a knight who abandoned her in infancy. ![]() Bella is a blacksmith's daughter her friend Julian is a prince - yet neither seems to notice the great gulf that divides his world from hers. ![]() ![]() Blessed with a kind family and a loving friend, she manages to create her own small patch of sunlight in a dark and dangerous world. In the little village of Castle Down, in a kingdom plagued by war, lives a peasant girl called Bella. Diane Stanley is the author and/or illustrator of more than sixty books for children, noted especially for her. ![]()
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