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Charlotte's Christmas Château is the third book in The Three Sisters' series. With a witty and educational bent, this series is geared for readers with a spirit of adventure, travel, independence and old-fashioned fun. In The Three Sisters: Charlotte's Christmas Château, Charlotte, the youngest sister, goes to France with her sisters, Elizabeth and Katherine to meet her aunt who is the American Ambassador to France. For better or worse, her aunt is (once again!) otherwise occupied so the three sisters are tended to by her aunt's energetic and food-loving staff. The "staff" consists of Doodle (short for "Yankee Doodle," the French-American standard poodle), Madame de Sigy (the trusted bespectacled housekeeper) and Monsieur Duquette (the responsible chauffer/guide/friend). In auntie's absence, the girls go to a grand party at the Palace of Versailles for Christmas where there are festivities and food galore. While touring the splendid gardens, they lose a special and beloved Christmas decoration the Golden Bell. They must find it in order to celebrate Christmas and decorate the Christmas tree. The reader is brought along as the Three Sisters follow "The Golden Bell Trail" amidst the famous monuments and gardens of Versailles in their efforts to find it. In Charlotte's Christmas Château, the reader is brought along on an adventurous journey and learns many interesting facts about French history, culture, geography, food and language. Foreign language is introduced in a fun manner as the book contains a peppering of French and a "Dictionnaire" to learn and pronounce French words "with care" and the required "Parisian flare."