Stravaganza
Author
Author
Series
Stravaganza volume 1
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
While sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making journeys to a place in a parallel world that resembles Venice, Italy, and he becomes caught up in the political intrigues surrounding the Duchessa who rules the city.
Author
Series
Stravaganza volume 2
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
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 3
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
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.
Author
Series
Stravaganza volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
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
Series
Stravaganza volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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.