Stravaganza City of Secrets - Softcover

Hoffman, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747592500 ISBN 13: 9780747592501

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2008

Synopsis

When Matt is unexpectedly transported to the Scriptorium of Padavia (real-life Padua) University, he discovers he is a Stravagante who can travel through time using his talisman, a leather-bound book. Together with Luciano, now studying at the University, and Arianna, in disguise as a boy, he must fight the dangerous di Chimici clan who are on the verge of making a terrifying breakthrough into our world. A breathtaking and thrilling novel that will delight all Stravaganza fans.

About this title

Review:

`I have to rave about Mary Hooper's historical fiction'
--Guardian

Synopsis:

Matt is dyslexic and extremely intelligent. When he is unexpectedly transported to the Scriptorium of Padavia (real-life Padua) University, he discovers he is a Stravagante who can travel through time using his talisman, a leather-bound book. Together with Luciano, now studying at the University, and Arianna, in disguise as a boy, he must fight the dangerous di Chimici clan who are on the verge of making a terrifying breakthrough into our world. This is a breathtaking and thrilling novel that will delight all Stravaganza fans.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0747592500
• ISBN 13: 9780747592501
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400