Set in Talia, a parallel-world version of Italy, the Stravaganza series combines Renaissance court intrigue with time travel, subterfuge, romance, and revenge.  In this new story arc, we meet Matt, a painfully dyslexic and insecure boy (despite a beautiful and clever girlfriend!). Matt has just discovered that he is a Stravagante - someone capable of traveling between two worlds. A leather-bound book transports Matt from our world to Talia, where he meets Luciano.  Luciano has killed the head of the powerful di Chimici family in a duel, and has gone into hiding. The di Chimici are on the verge of making a terrifying breakthrough into our world, and it will fall to Matt, Luciano, and the other Stravaganti to stop them….

Mary Hoffman is the author of the Stravaganza series, Amazing Grace, and more than eighty other books for children.  She has three grown daughters and lives with her husband in Oxfordshire, England. The Stravaganza website is: www.stravaganza.co.uk

Imprint: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books
Distributor: MPS
Publication Date: 06-24-2008
Pages: 400
Measurements: 7.75in X 5.06in