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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...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
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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.
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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
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.
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Series
Rose (Holly Webb) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
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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.
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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.
10) Rome reframed
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English
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Traveling through Europe with his parents and two younger brothers, eighth-grader Lucas misses his home in Austin, Texas, and is doing poorly in his remote schooling until an odd-looking coin thrown in the Trevi Fountain transports Lucas back to ancient Rome.
11) Inkheart
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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.
12) The eternal city
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Laura Martin is on a class trip to Rome when Mercury, a dark-eyed boy with wings on his heels, appears to give her a message, and Laura soon realizes that she is at the center of a brewing battle between the gods and goddesses--and only she and her friends can unravel the mystery behind what is happening.
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English
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A talented young runner, Santino, lives in Palermo, Sicily - a beautiful region of Italy that's dominated by the Mafia. With Santino's first communion approaching, his father and grandfather carry out a theft to pay for the party - but they steal from the wrong people. A young, cocky, Mafioso summons them to a meeting, and they bring the boy. As Santino wanders off into the old abandoned neighborhood, he hears shots and runs back to see two armed...
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Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 78
Language
English
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Description
Nancy travels to Venice to investigate the kidnapping of a famous glassblower and the disappearance of an artist.
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
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.
19) Ciao from Rome
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Series
Hannah Montana on tour volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miley Stewart is spending the summer on Hannah Montana's world tour. Her first stop is Rome, where she meets a girl named Daniella who helps her track down the perfect outfit for her concert finale. But will Miley's adventures make her late for the concert?
20) The Pope's cat
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Series
Pope's cat volume 01
Language
English
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Description
"The story of a stray cat that was born on the Via della Conciliazione in Rome. She is adopted by the Pope, and she then runs the Vatican from museum to floorboard." --
No one has a closer view of what's happening in the world's tiniest nation, Vatican City, than Margaret. She reveals the Pope's daily doings, Swiss Guards, a state visit with the Queen of England, even a few Italian phrases and foods. Yum! She wasn't always the Pope's cat, however....
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