Nic is immediately drawn to Battle and their friendship quickly becomes something more. Beautiful, elegant Battle with her flowing blonde hair and trouble expressing herself in words. There’s Katrina – excitable and obsessed with computers – and Isaac who seems pleasant enough but has serious family troubles. Yet it’s not long before she finds herself surrounded with an eclectic selection of people. Sure, she has theatre friends and orchestra friends but never just…friends. She’s never really been one for making friends. Nicola Lancaster only really has one thing in mind when she enrolls in the Siegel Institute Summer Program for Gifted Youth – to study hard and decide if she really wants to make a career for herself in archaeology. It also won 2002 Oregon Book Award for Young Readers Literature. The novel is the first part of the Battle Hall Davies series and is followed by The Rules for Hearts (2007). It is a contemporary romance, focusing on a teenager discovering her sexuality when she finds herself drawn to another girl at her summer school. Empress of the World was written by Sara Ryan and first published in 2001.
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