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The latest story in the Stravaganza series unravels amid ever-more-dangerous politics and intrigue. Sky, a new Stravagante, is whisked away from his dreary life in London to Giglia, the Talian version of Florence. Featuring favorite characters from the first two titles in the series, including Georgia and Falco, as well as a host of exciting new characters, this breathtaking adventure will not disappoint.But beware-in the beautiful City of Flowers, much that seems beautiful is in fact poisonous...
Lexile Measure: 900L (What's this?)
Series: Stravaganza
Hardcover: 250 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens; 1st US Ed edition (May 13, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1582348871
ISBN-13: 978-1582348872
Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 1.6 x 8.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #896,040 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #40 in Books > Teens > Historical Fiction > Renaissance #57 in Books > Children's Books > Literature & Fiction > Historical Fiction > Renaissance #11697 in Books > Teens > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy
Age Range: 12 and up
Grade Level: 7 and up
This, the third book in the "Stravaganza" series, is almost twice the size of the first installment City Of Masks and I can't help but feel that its pacing suffers as a result. Though still rich in detail and description, "City of Flowers" feels rather sluggish at times, with none of the intrigue or urgency that filled the pages of its predecessors. It picks up considerably toward the end of the novel, with weddings and feuds and floods and murders most foul, but the getting there seems to take forever.The Stravaganza books are built on the conceit that certain people from our world are able to "stravagate" in their sleep to an alternative-world version of Italy, a country made up of several city-states known collectively as Talia. There are several conditions in place for stravagation to occur: travellers first have to be in possession of a talisman specially chosen to allow transportation, they cannot stay in Talia overnight due to the fact their earthly bodies are in a comatose-state whilst they are away, and once they reach Talia they are identifiable by their lack of a shadow. Likewise, Talian citizens are able to stravagate into our world, and throughout the series Mary Hoffman has explored the implications and consequences of such journeys back and forth, adding new characters each time.This time the new Stravagante is Sky Meadows, a teenager who is being raised by a single mother. He has never met his father, a famous rock-singer known as the Rainbow Warrior (and how a rock singer builds a career on that name is a mystery to me).
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