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7th July 2008ISBN
9780747595694Children's Author 'Like-for-Like' recommendations
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Stravaganza: City Of Masks
Mary Hoffman
Part of the 'Stravaganza' Series
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When you enter the world of Stravaganza you enter a world of treachery and danger, spine-tingling drama and two worlds and time frames where nothing is quite as it seems. Transported to the 16th century in another world, Lucien is somebody who can time travel with the help of a talisman and appears to be the only person who can save the place from complete disaster but he must unmask deception and treachery all the way. This is the first in the Stravaganza Sequence. The 2nd is City of Stars, the third is City of Flowers and the fourth is City of Secrets but it’s not essential to read them in order by any means.
Synopsis
Stravaganza: City Of Masks by Mary HoffmanSet in a parallel world, where Italy is called Talia and Venice is called Bellezza, this title takes you into a dangerous world of thrills, political intrigue and the danger of assassination attempts both foiled and successful.
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Reviews
'City of Masks is a poignant, touching and exciting novel, difficult to put down. This is one of the best time-slip stories that I have read in recent years. Without doubt a masterwork of contemporary children's literature'Edgardo Zaghini, Children
's Literature Officer, Booktrust 'One of the most exciting adventures I've read in years'
Wendy Cooling, Best Books for Christmas in the Children
's Bookseller 'The writing has a rich, lyrical quality and the plot is hugely imaginative'
Waterstone
's Guide to Kid's Books'
About The Author
Mary Hoffman has written around 90 books for children. Amazing Grace, commended for the Kate Greenaway medal, has sold over 1.5 million copies. Its sequel, Grace & Family, was among Junior Education 's Best Books of 1995 and shortlisted for the Sheffield Libraries Book Award 1996. Mary lives in Oxfordshire.
You can read her contributions to The History Girls blog by clicking here.
Mary Hoffman's Ten Things You Didn't Know About Me:
I had my appendix taken out by Enid Blyton's husband! (Fortunately he was a surgeon)
My first book was read in manuscript by Richard Adams, author of Watership Down and he suggested sending it to his publishers, Rex Collings, after a dozen others had turned it down. They took it.
I didn't change my surname when I got married.
Amazing Grace and Boundless Grace (which is what Grace and Family is called in the US) were both turned into musical plays and performed in Minneapolis in 1995 and 1998.
When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a garage mechanic.
I didn't learn to drive until I was over fifty.
My husband is half-Indian. His mother was a Parsee, born in Bangalore.
One of my great-grandfathers was German, another Irish.
I am learning Italian and would love to have a house in Italy.
I never wear or own anything blue.
Photo by Jess Barber (©Jess Barber)
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