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(0)Mary Hoffman
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Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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The new installment in the critically acclaimed Stravaganza series transports readers to a world much like our own-but where magic and piracy come to life in the Italian town of Classe. The new Stravagante is Isabel, a visitor from our world who befriends Flavia, a successful female merchant of spices, silks, and tapestries. But Flavia soon finds herself an outcast and a pirate, while Isabel learns that Classe is under threat of attack by the fierce...
2) Troubadour
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
A story of persecution and poetry, love and war set in 13th century Southern France. As crusaders sweep through the country, destroying all those who do not follow their religion, Bertrand risks his life to warn others of the invasion. As a troubadour, Bertrand can travel without suspicion from castle to castle, passing word about the coming danger. In the meantime Elinor, a young noblewoman, in love with Bertrand, leaves her comfortable home and
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Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
When a talisman transports her to the Talian city of Fortezza, Laura finds herself falling in love with a young Talian man named Ludo. But soon a rivalry erupts between two factions in Fortezza, and Laura and Ludo find themselves on opposite sides! Secret meetings and divided loyalties drive the sixth book in the Stravaganza series to its satisfying conclusion.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Set in Classe (Ravenna in our world), the Stravagante is Isabel, a younger twin by a matter of minutes. Her talisman is a pouch of silver mosaic tiles and she stravagates to Classe, where she is met by Flavia, a successful female merchant who trades spices, silks, tapestries, and whose son is an outcast and a pirate. Isabel finds that Classe and Bellezza are under threat from attack by the fierce Gate people. What can she do to help save the city?...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Georgia is an ordinary girl, living in London with her mother, stepfather, and bully of a stepbrother, and coping with the difficulties of growing up. But her life takes a sudden change when she buys a tiny figurine of a winged horse, and suddenly finds herself swept up into the world of the Stravagante. The tiny horse becomes her magical time-travel talisman and transports her to Remora, the Talian parallel to the city of Siena, Italy. There she...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in Talia, a parallel world very similar to 16th-century Italy, the narrative follows Lucien, who in our world is very ill. Given a marbled notebook to use as a diary, the notebook is the unexpected means that transports Lucien to this dangerous new world; a world that thrills to the delight of political intrigue and where a life can be snuffed out with a flash of a merlino blade. The city of Bellezza (Venice in our world) is astonishingly evoked,
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
While sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making journeys to Belleza, a place in a parallel world that resembles Venice, Italy, and becomes caught up in the political intrigues surrounding the Duchessa who rules the city
Author
Series
Amazing Grace (Picture books) volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sky joins Georgia and the other Stravagante, "who travel between worlds and do what is required," when he leaves London for Giglia, a city similar to Renaissance Florence, and becomes involved in ancient feuds and palace intrigue
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Matt, painfully dyslexic and insecure, discovers that he can travel between worlds after being transported to Talia, where he joins Luciano and other Stravaganti in trying to prevent the di Chimici family's breakthrough into our world
11) Boundless Grace
Author
Series
Amazing Grace (Picture books) volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Grace is invited for a visit with her father and his new family in Africa
Author
Series
Amazing Grace (Picture books) volume 4
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When her grandmother takes in a stranded family at Christmas, Grace is reluctant to share her favorite holiday with strangers, even though the visiting family includes a "real live ballerina."
17) Henry's baby
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English