Experience the sumptuous wealth and the unforgettable drama within the Moghal Dynasty of seventeenth-century India through Newbery Honor-author Kathryn Lasky’s diary of Princess Jahanara.

		I am tempted to write this in the smallest letters, for this is very secret. Dara and I have done something very bad, but maybe it is not that bad. You see, Dara said he thought about what I had said — how Allah had made our stomach to nourish our bodies and praise him. Then he thought about what Satty had said when she scolded me. He put them together and decided we should try to sneak some food. Why should we not be able to praise Allah or listen to the music of the heavens? Why must we starve ourselves in order to praise Allah and find true enlightenment? We cannot even concentrate on our studies because of our thoughts of sweetmeats. Is this reverence? So we eat. Dara is close to one of the eunuchs who is close to one of the cooks. He sneaks us little dishes of sweetmeats and when he is able, cups of julabmost. We are both doing ever so much better in our studies and there is less than two weeks left of Ramadan.