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Mary Hoffman
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
This lovely two-volume set is a collection of 14 well-known myths and legends and 14 classic fairy tales from around the world. A First Book of Myths includes classics such as the Fall of Icarus, Andromeda, How Butterflies Began, and the Crocodile and the Baby. Perfect for reading aloud, Mary Hoffman's lively narratives and the delightful illustrations capture the amazing worlds full of gods and monsters. In A First Book of Fairy...
Author
Series
[Grace series] volume 1
Language
English
Description
Grace's class is putting on Peter Pan, and her classmates say she cannot play the role of Peter because she is a girl and is black, but her Ma and Nana say she can do anything she wants if she puts her mind to it.
Although classmates say she cannot play the part of Peter Pan in the school play because she is black and a girl, Grace discovers she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Grace wants to participate in her community festival's princess float, but first she must decide what sort of a princess she wants to be--from an African princess in kente cloth robes to a floaty pink fairy tale princess.
Author
Series
Stravaganza volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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
Series
Stravaganza volume 6
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2002.
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
Stravaganza volume 5
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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
Series
Stravaganza volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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.
10) City of secrets
Author
Series
Stravaganza volume 4
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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
Publisher
Dial
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
As Tyler and his family decorate the Christmas tree, he begins to wonder: Why are all the Christmas tree angels blonde-haired, pink-cheeked little girls? Aren?t there any black angels? No one can answer his question -- not his mom, not his dad, not even Carl, the mall Santa. As Tyler combs the stores looking for a black angel, he discovers there are none to be found. But sometimes Santa has a surprise or two in his sleigh . . . Beautifully written...
12) Boundless Grace
Author
Series
[Grace series] volume 2
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Hoffman's "Amazing Grace", Grace gets the chance to go to Africa to visit her father and his new family, but she feels strange about it. Nana says families are what you make them, and Grace decides to make the most of hers.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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.