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Luca, a young Italian boy, is bored until he meets a playful dolphin who takes him on a ride through the Venice waterways.

The orphan Madeline catches a thief and makes a friend in Rome.

In Venice, Italy, second graders Ethan and Ella hope to find a stolen gondola and a hidden mosaic before their parents realize they are missing.

When the opera diva Madame SoSo gets laryngitis, her cat, Alma, fills in for her.

When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works.

A young girl finds music all around her as she walks about the city of Venice, and she shares her song with everyone she meets.

When her five grandchildren visit Nonni Lidia at Christmas, she tells them a story of her own childhood in Italy with her Nonna Rosa.

After eluding capture by the Nazis, seven-year-old Rebekkah and her mother are brought from Italy to the United States to begin a new life.

"A crocodile seeks revenge on Napoleon for taking him from his home, but instead becomes the talk of Venice high society."--

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...