Vicky Alvear Shecter is the author of Alexander the Great Rocks the World (Darby Creek), a VOYA Honor Pick for Nonfiction; Cleopatra Rules! (Boyds Mills, 2010); and “Cleopatra Finds her Voice,” Highlights Magazine, January 2009. This is her first novel.

Please visit www.vickyalvearshecter.com



CLEOPATRA’S MOON
Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, Spring 2011
(Translation with publisher, SJGA has UK/Commonwealth)
Genre: Young Adult
Agent: Courtney Miller-Callihan

Historical sources confirm that Cleopatra Selene II was the only child of Cleopatra’s four children to survive the tragedies that befell her family and country. After the suicides of her parents, Cleopatra and Mark Antony, Cleopatra Selene was dragged off to Rome by a Roman conqueror. At sixteen, her Roman enemy married her off to a king of a remote African province where she later thrived as a powerful ruler in her own right.

In this fast-paced historical novel, we experience Cleopatra Selene’s story from her own point of view: her pride at being a princess of the most powerful woman in the world, and her despair at the destruction of her world after her parents’ defeat in Actium. Inheriting her mother’s intelligence and cunning, she plots her way to reclaiming the throne of Egypt and escapes assassination when she fails. Cleopatra Selene refuses to abandon her dreams and finds that the Goddess rewards her faith in herself with a gift she could have never anticipated—one of love and power.