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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"Florence, Italy, 1944: The city is under heavy Nazi occupation, but for thirteen-year-old Paolo, war is a long and boring wait. Too young to fight for the resistance, yet desperate for action and adventure, he sneaks out each night to ride his bicycle along the darkened city streets. For Paolo, the risk is thrilling. But when he is accosted by Partisans--covert members of the anti-Nazi movement--thrilling quickly becomes dangerous as Paolo and his...
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
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
After saving the lions from evil Maccomo, Charlie, a boy with the ability to speak the language of cats, goes to Venice to search for his parents and solve the mystery of their kidnapping with help from Bulgarian King Boris.
Author
Series
Rose (Holly Webb) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mask of unimaginable power is stolen from the royal palace, perhaps by dark magicians, and the race to stop the thieves takes Rose to the mysterious city of Venice, where nothing is quite what it seems.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Irene Benenati, a top soccer player on the girl's team at her Missouri school, plays on a fiercely competitive boy's soccer team during the year her family spends in Italy and experiences culture clashes both on and off the field.
8) Return fire
Author
Series
Moving target volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just after Cassie Arroyo found the Spear of Destiny in Rome, it was stolen from her, so now she and her friend Asher must recover it--but when she used the Spear before she set the world down a dangerous path, and if she recovers it she will have to decide whether to risk using it again.
9) Three days
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
When her father suddenly dies while on a business trip leaving her alone on an Italian highway, eleven-year-old Jackie worries what will happen when she is picked up by two men with unknown motives.
10) 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.
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) Inkheart
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Falsely accused of plotting to overthrow King Claudio, scholarly Mangus the magician, along with his street-smart servant boy, Fabrizio, face deadly consequences unless they can track down the real traitor by the stroke of midnight.
14) Ring of fire
Author
Series
Century quartet volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Four seemingly unrelated children are brought together in a Rome hotel where they discover that they are destined to become involved in a deep and ancient mystery involving a briefcase full of artifacts that expose them to great danger.
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The mysterious box that Ranger the golden retriever found in the garden transports him back to first century Rome, where he must rescue Marcus, a young servant boy, and Quintus, a volunteer gladiator, from the brutal world of the Colosseum.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
After moving to Rome with her father, thirteen-year-old Beatrice witnesses a shadowy figure steal the turtle sculptures from a fountain located outside her window and is determined to solve the crime herself when no one believes her story.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 66
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Join Geronimo on his tastiest adventure yet! Geronimo is having a fabumouse family holiday in Milan - home to delicious Italian dishes. Fabumouse, that is, until a thief dressed just like him starts stealing precious items around the city. Who is trying to frame Geronimo, and can they be stopped?
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her father leaves and marries the glamorous Ava Pomme, Madeline blames her mother for their difficult new life, but in spite of the twelve-year-olds efforts to achieve sainthood, it takes a summer trip to Italy to put her family into perspective.
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