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* [[Brother-Sister Team]]: Sparrow and Weasel
* [[Brother-Sister Team]]: Sparrow and Weasel
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Constantine and Mickle/Queen Augusta are both competent monarchs, but Mickle is a [[Tomboy Princess]] and Constantine tends to act like an [[Upperclass Twit]].
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Constantine and Mickle/Queen Augusta are both competent monarchs, but Mickle is a [[Tomboy Princess]] and Constantine tends to act like an [[Upperclass Twit]].
* [[Dressing As the Enemy]]
* [[Dressing as the Enemy]]
* [[Ermine Cape Effect]]: Inverted with Constantine
* [[Ermine Cape Effect]]: Inverted with Constantine
* [[Evil Chancellor]]: Cabbarus
* [[Evil Chancellor]]: Cabbarus
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* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Zara
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Zara
* [[The French Revolution]]: Draws heavily on this, including the establishment of a consular triumvirate at the end of ''The Kestrel''. (On the other hand, the monarchy and the rebels are ''allied'' against Cabbarus.)
* [[The French Revolution]]: Draws heavily on this, including the establishment of a consular triumvirate at the end of ''The Kestrel''. (On the other hand, the monarchy and the rebels are ''allied'' against Cabbarus.)
* [[Friend or Foe]]: In ''The Kestrel'', a battle-mad Theo shoots a Regian soldier before he realizes it's actually his queen (and, to make it worse, his betrothed) [[Dressing As the Enemy]].
* [[Friend or Foe]]: In ''The Kestrel'', a battle-mad Theo shoots a Regian soldier before he realizes it's actually his queen (and, to make it worse, his betrothed) [[Dressing as the Enemy]].
* [[Friendly Enemy]]: Florian is a republican, but he and Mickle are pretty good friends.
* [[Friendly Enemy]]: Florian is a republican, but he and Mickle are pretty good friends.
* [[Hair of Gold]]: Rina
* [[Hair of Gold]]: Rina
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* [[Significant Anagram]]: All of Las Bombas's aliases are anagrams.
* [[Significant Anagram]]: All of Las Bombas's aliases are anagrams.
* [[Street Urchin]]: Mickle, Sparrow, and Weasel.
* [[Street Urchin]]: Mickle, Sparrow, and Weasel.
* [[Suicide By Cop]]: {{spoiler|Zara}}
* [[Suicide by Cop]]: {{spoiler|Zara}}
* [[Tomboy Princess]]: Mickle
* [[Tomboy Princess]]: Mickle
* [[Voice of the Resistance]]: Keller's newspaper.
* [[Voice of the Resistance]]: Keller's newspaper.

Revision as of 13:02, 9 April 2014

Westmark by Lloyd Alexander
King Augustine of Westmark is ill, still grieving over his daughter's death years ago. Chief Minister Cabbarus controls the country. After illegally using a printing press, Theo finds himself on the run with Musket and Las Bombas, a team of con artists. They meet a street girl named Mickle who uses her talent for mimicry to aid their schemes. When Theo's guilt over deceiving people causes him to leave the group, he falls in with Florian's children, a group of revolutionaries who plan to end the monarchy.

The Kestrel
Westmark's neighbor Regia invades. Mickle leads her country's army in the war, and Theo becomes the bloodthirsty soldier known as the Kestrel.

The Beggar Queen
Mickle is now reluctantly Queen Augusta. Cabbarus has been banished from Westmark but plots his return. And Florian's revolutionaries still wish for the country to become a republic.

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