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When eleven-year-old Kate and her younger brother Michael find a lost baby griffin with downy feathers and tufted fur in an Italian garden, they enter into a magical adventure.

 “…this child-centered fantasy is nicely grounded in reality and enhanced by its well-drawn Italian settings.” —Booklist

As the family gathers at her grandmother’s bed-and-breakfast for a murder mystery weekend, seventeen-year-old Jen confronts her ambivalent feelings about her mother, who disappeared fourteen years earlier, and about the possibility she might be dead.


“Intriguing, suspenseful fun!”

Kirkus

A thirteen-year-old American girl plays on a fiercely competitive boys’ soccer team during the year her family spends in Italy and experiences culture clashes both on and off the field.

“Soccer fans, especially girls, will appreciate the well-drawn action sequences and Irene’s feisty spirit.” —Horn Book Guide