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Author
Publisher
Aladdin Quix
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Watch out, Miss Mallard! Miss Mallard is a famous detective who just happens to be a duck! Her latest case takes her to Venice on a wild gondola chase. A museum masterpiece is missing and all signs point to the famous artist El Ducko, who once saved Miss Mallard's life. Will Miss Mallard be able to save her friend? Or is he really the thief?"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Tricked by their parents into taking a trip to Italy together, two brothers--one in high school and the other recently graduated from college--reflect on the directions of their own lives and on the distance that has grown between them. Sixteen-year-old Elijah is completely mellow and his 23-year-old brother Danny is completely not, so it's no wonder they can barely tolerate one another. So what better way to repair their broken relationship than...
Author
Series
Step into reading volume level 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Set in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera, Disney and Pixar's original feature film Luca is a coming-of-age story about one young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer filled with gelato, pasta and endless scooter rides. Luca shares these adventures with his newfound best friend, but all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water's surface.."--Amazon.
Author
Series
Alex Rider (Graphic novels) volume 5
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"After learning a terrible secret about his father, teen spy Alex Rider travels to Venice to uncover the truth about his past. But the truth lies with a criminal organization known as Scorpia. When he agrees to train as an assassin and is given a target that he knows well, Alex must make a choice: work with MI6 once more or betray everything he believes in"--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The touching, magical story of a boy in a war-torn country and the stone lion that rescues him. Renato loves his home in Florence, Italy. He loves playing with his friends in the Piazza della Signoria. He loves walking home by the beautiful buildings and fountains with his father in the evenings. And he especially loves the stone lion who seems to smile at him from a pedestal in the piazza. The lion makes him feel safe. But one day his father tells...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"She's a Capulet. He's a Montague. But when Romeo and Juliet first meet, they don't know they're from rival families-- and when they find out, they don't care. Their love is honest and raw and all-consuming. But it's also dangerous. How much will they have to sacrifice before they can be together? In a masterful adaptation faithful to Shakespeare's original text, Gareth Hinds transports readers to the sun-washed streets and market squares of Shakespeare's...
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio & Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
Merlin the magician will not eat or sleep or speak to anyone. The enchantress Morgan asks young Jack and Annie of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania for help. Jack and Annie know they have to search for one of the four secrets of happiness to help Merlin the magician find joy in his life again. And so they head off in the magic tree house for Florence, Italy, in the early 1500s, then to a misty island in the middle of nowhere, then to the continent of Antarctica....
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Paulina is delivering bread to her new friend Fabia's home when Mount Vesuvius begins erupting, but when Fabia's father leaves to help fellow Pompeii residents evacuate, the girls make their way through the city, helping others where they can. Includes facts about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
