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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
While on a mission to prove to Merlin that they can use magic wisely, Jack and Annie travel to seventeenth-century Venice, Italy, to save the city from disaster. Merlin has asked Jack and Annie to help on another Merlin Mission. This time they head back into history to Venice, Italy, in the 1700s. With the help of some new friends, a research book, and a mysterious rhyme from Merlin, the heroes will save the beautiful city from a flood! Yet another...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Escaping the aunt who wants to adopt only one of them, two orphaned brothers run away from Hamburg to Venice, finding shelter with a gang of street children and their leader, the thirteen-year-old "Thief Lord," while also eluding the detective hired to return them to Germany.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
NC 1110L
Language
English
Description
The King of France gives Helena the hand of any man she wants in marriage, but the one she chooses, Bertram, flees to Tuscany, and she must use her wits to get him back. Includes an introduction, notes, and discussion of the theatrical world of Shakespeare.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
410L
Language
English
Description
"Their magic tree house takes Annie and Jack to Pompeii just as Vesuvius is about to erupt, and they must find a Roman scroll before everything is covered with burning ash" --Title verso page.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Mangus the Magician and his thirteen-year-old servant, Fabrizio, are commanded to go to Venice, on pain of death, to find a book by Friar Luca Pacioli that reportedly contains a magical means of making money; but Venice is a strange and dangerous city, and someone else is also after the book--then Mangus is arrested, and taken to the prison, and Fabrizio and Bianca, an orphan he has met, must find a way to secure the book, save Magnus, and themselves"--Title...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Each summer in the ancient hill town of Siena, Italy, there erupts one of the most extraordinary, exciting and dangerous horse races in the world--the Palio. This is the story of Giorgi Terni, a boy of the Maremma Marshes, who rode a half-Arabian cart horse in the Palio.
Author
Series
Olivia books (Ian Falconer) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On a family vacation in Venice, Olivia indulges in gelato, rides in a gondola, and finds the perfect souvenir.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 590L
Language
English
Description
"Paolo the dachshund is trapped. Though he lives in Rome, a city filled with history and adventure, he is confined to a hair salon. Paolo dreams of the sweet life--la dolce vita--in the Eternal City. And then, one day, he escapes! Paolo throws himself into the city, finding adventure at every turn. Join our hero as he discovers the wonders of Rome: the ruins, the food, the art, the opera, and--of course--the cats. Readers will cheer the daring of...
Author
Series
Dodsworth volume 4
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
360L
Language
English
Description
Dodsworth and his duck companion have a lovely time in Rome, even though the duck tries to improve the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and takes all the coins from the Trevi Fountain.
11) Midnight magic
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
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...
12) Scorpia
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 1110L
Language
English
Description
"The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies. Each edition includes: - Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play -Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play&;s famous lines and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare&;s language -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play -Fresh images...
Author
Series
Greetings from somewhere volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Sarah keeps a journal of her pilgrimage to Rome with her eccentric grandmother, Z, her evolving relationship with best friend Curtis, and daily conversations with Curtis's sister and star athlete, D.J.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Geronimo is taking his Benjamin on a trip to Rome to learn the city's history (and keep him from failing fifth grade), but when they arrive they are immediately pulled into the investigation of the "ghost" of a gladiator that seems to be haunting the Colosseum and scaring tourists away.
Author
Series
Flashback Four volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
"Sent back in time to 79 AD, on a mission to photograph the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the Flashback Four race to get their picture"--WorldCat.
19) Moving target
Author
Series
Moving target volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Cassie Arroyo is a student in Rome, but her life changes when a secret organization, the Hastati, shoots her father--and she learns that she is a member of an ancient bloodline that enables her to use the Spear of Destiny, a legendary object that can alter the future.
20) Inkspell
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 29
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
When Dustfinger finds a crooked storyteller who can read him back to Inkscape, he leaves his apprentice Farid behind. Farid seeks out Meggie and the two follow him back into the enchanted book. Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of Inkheart the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return to the tale has become desperate. When he finds a crooked...
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