Imagine how you would feel if you were a girl in London and always had to be good and always stay at home. Good etiquette – being gentlemanly – would be a must, as would knowing how to work with a needle. Girls would be required to stay at home and do household chores. Meanwhile the boys had fun outdoors, having many adventures. Isabel Taking Wing, written by Annie Dalton, describes these scenes exactly. This historical fiction is set in London, England and the Northamptonshire countryside. It takes place in 1592, during the time of the plague. The main characters in this book are Isabel, Aunt Elinor, Aunt de Vere, Meg, and Hope. Isabel is an adventurous and thoughtful 12-year-old girl. He's also obedient...BUT only sometimes! Isabel is so determined to go out into the world and have an adventure of her own, just like the boys. Aunt Elinor is a very serious woman. She is brought up as a good woman and tries to teach Isabel these ways. This is very similar to those who are perfectionists. Aunt Elinor criticizes Isabel's manners, etiquette and above all her strong curiosity. Aunt de Vere is an intelligent, young, tall, blonde woman with blue eyes, who always wears a simple gray dress. She is respected by many when it comes to medical matters and her vast estate even has its own chapel! Meg has brown hair and a rosy color on her face and is about the same age as Isabel. Meg and Isabel become best friends and are very upset when the time comes for them to break up for an unknown amount of time. Hope is Isabel's little sister. She has a constant cough and is very ill; this disease has led people to believe that he has the plague. The main plot of the book... center of the paper... there are parts of this book with a lot of action but also parts with no action at all. Those who appreciate these qualities in the books they read will enjoy this book as much as I did. I think many people will benefit from this book because it involves different parts of different Christian qualities. It can impact someone in the way a Christian can and should act. Considering the difficulty of this book, I think that's about right. There were a couple of words that I didn't understand but if I kept reading the sentence sometimes it explained the meaning to me, but not always. I always like a challenge and this book was somewhat of a challenge. I think the amount of words I didn't know was a good amount. Neither too much nor too little; a great way to develop my vocabulary! This book will impact not only my life, but the lives of others in the future.