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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Falsely accused of plotting to overthrow King Claudio, scholarly Mangus the magician, along with his street-smart servant boy, Fabrizio, face deadly consequences unless they can track down the real traitor by the stroke of midnight.
Author
Series
Stravaganza volume 1
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
While sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making journeys to a place in a parallel world that resembles Venice, Italy, and he becomes caught up in the political intrigues surrounding the Duchessa who rules the city.
Author
Series
Stravaganza volume 2
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Fifteen-year-old Georgia, who loves horses as much as she hates her bullying stepbrother, buys a figurine of a winged horse and finds it has magical powers that transport her from present-day London to the sixteenth-century world of Talia where, in the city of Remora, similar to Sienna, Italy, she finds danger and intrigue as well as friendship and a chance to perfect her riding skills.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love.
Author
Series
Stravaganza volume 4
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Night after night, a ghost appears in the royal castle of Pergamontio, terrifying the princess. Mangus the Magician doesn't believe in ghosts, but still the King charges him with finding this one and freeing his daughter from its torment. If he can't, Mangus will pay with his life. The magician's only hope is his faithful, street-smart servant boy, Fabrizio, who must solve the mystery of the ghost using logic and reason -- and a bit of magic of his...
Author
Series
Stravaganza volume 6
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
When desperately unhappy Laura, who secretly performs self-mutilation, finds her talisman and transports to Fortezza, a parallel world that resembles the Italian Renaissance city-state of Lucca, she faces battles on the field and of the heart.
Author
Series
Stravaganza volume 5
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Feeling inferior to her talented twin brother, teenaged Isabel is transported to a parallel world that resembles the Italian Renaissance city-state of Ravenna, where she tries to save the city from attack by the fierce Gate people.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"August, 1943. Fourteen-year-old Massimo is all alone. Newly orphaned and fleeing from Rome after surviving the American bombing raid that killed his parents, Massimo is attacked by thugs and finds himself bloodied at the base of the Montecassino. It is there in the Benedictine abbey’s shadow that a charismatic and cryptic man calling himself Pietro Houdini, the self-proclaimed 'Master Artist and confidante of the Vatican,' rescues Massimo and brings...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
What Philippa Gregory has done for Tudor England, Jeanne Kalogridis does for Renaissance Italy. Her latest irresistible historical novel is about a countess whose passion and willfulness knew no bounds-Caterina Sforza
Daughter of the Duke of Milan and wife of the conniving Count Girolamo Riario, Caterina Sforza was the bravest warrior Renaissance Italy ever knew. She ruled her own lands, fought her own battles, and openly took lovers whenever she...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
At the art museum, while her grandmother dozes, Katie steps into the painting of the Mona Lisa and together they have adventures with the characters from four other well-known Renaissance paintings. Includes informationabout the artists.
Author
Series
Italian Renaissance volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Naples 1633 Aqua Tofana One drop to heal. Three drops to kill. Giulia Tofana longs for more responsibility in her mothers apothecary business, but Mamma has always been secretive and refuses to tell her the hidden keys to her success. But the day Mamma is arrested for the poisoning of the powerful Duke de Verdi, Giulia is shocked to uncover the darker side of her trade. Giulia must run for her life, and escapes to Naples, under the shadow of Mount...
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Geronimo Stilton travels back in time to the ice age, ancient Greece, and Renaissance Italy, where he experiences wild historical adventures.
Geronimo Stilton travels back in time to the ice age, ancient Greece, and Renaissance Italy. He encounters woolly mammoths, writes and stars in a play, and even helps put a bad guy in prison! But when the portal started malfunctioning, will Stilton and his family be able to get back to the present day, or would...
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