The Court of the Stone Children (1973)

Who was Dominique? The day that Nina, lonely and adrift in San Francisco, played her imaginary game in the museum with the court of the stone children, she first saw her. And soon the question became, what was this strange, beautiful girl? The answer, Nina gradually discovered, lay in the past - when the museum was still a chateau in France; when Napoleon ruled; and when Dominique was a young girl! Eleanor Cameron, author of "A Room Made of Windows" and other fine books, has woven a fascinating story of mystery and treason, in which the web of the past must be untangled in the present, and the two become strangely one.