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Uniform Title IJzerkop. English

Title Ironhead, or, once a young lady / by Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem ; translated by Kristen Gehrman.

Publication Info.

Montclair : Levine Querido, 2022.

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
PHS Fiction	HI F VAN RIJCKEGHEM	---	Available

Description	419 pages ; 24 cm
	text txt rdacontent
	unmediated n rdamedia
	volume nc rdacarrier
Note	Originally published in Dutch by Querido in 2020 under title: IJzerkop.
Indexed In:	Junior Library Guild
Summary	In 1808 Ghent, eighteen-year-old Constance runs away from an arranged marriage to a much older man and by stealing his clothes, sneaking out of the house disguised as a man, and joining Napoleon's army.
Audience	Ages 14 & Up.
	Grades 9 & Up.
Awards	A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG)
Subject	Coming of age -- Juvenile fiction.
	Gender identity -- Juvenile fiction.
	Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Juvenile fiction.
	Coming of age -- Fiction.
	Gender identity -- Fiction.
	Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction.
	Coming of age -- Fiction.
	Gender identity -- Fiction.
	Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction.
	Ghent (Belgium) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction.
	Ghent (Belgium) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
	Ghent (Belgium) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Added Author	Gehrman, Kristen, translator.
Added Title	Ironhead
	Once a young lady
ISBN	9781646140480 (hardcover) : 17.85