Mary Hoffman

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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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...

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...

"Think of the future. Can you imagine our planet as beautiful as it used to be? You could be the one to help make it beautiful again, with the things you do and the ideas you have. Your planet needs YOU!" From a simple introduction to our home in Space, the authors explain what we need for life on Earth, and show the importance of the rainforests and the oceans; they stress the need to look after our planet and show how some of the things we take...

Features illustrations and descriptions of different types of families and how their lives are similar and different.

Dramatic retellings of stories from Arthurian legend, from the perspectives of Guinevere, Igrayne, Nimue, and the other women whose actions drive the legends through love, hate, enchantment, and tragedy.

Miss Nelson Has a Field Day (Viola Swamp decides to whip the football team into shape when they can't win a game); Miss Nelson Is Back (the kids miss their teacher when Viola Swamp takes over for Miss Nelson); The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash (when Jimmy's snake gets loose on a field trip, things aren't quite so boring!); The Dot (one simple drawing becomes something big at the art show); and Amazing Grace (a little girl learns that anything is possible)....