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Daughter of Venice Mass market paperback - 2003
by Donna Jo Napoli
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- Paperback
A distant world takes on a startling immediacy when seen through the eyes of a remarkable girl in this powerful story of the hunger for freedom and education.
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- Title Daughter of Venice
- Author Donna Jo Napoli
- Binding Mass Market Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Random House Children's Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2003
- Features Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0440229286I2N00
- ISBN 9780440229285 / 0440229286
- Weight 0.31 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 7.1 x 4.3 x 0.8 in (18.03 x 10.92 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 12 to UP years
- Grade levels 7 - UP
- Reading level 720
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 16th Century
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Sex role, Jews - Italy - Venice - History - 16th
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
In 1592, Donata is a noble girl living in a palazzo on the Grand Canal. Girls of her class receive no education and rarely leave the palazzo. In a noble family, only one daughter and one son will be allowed to marry; Donata, like all younger daughters, will be sent to a convent. Donata longs to be tutored like her brothers and to see the Venice she has glimpsed only on the map. What is the world beyond her balcony, beyond what she sees when she glides, veiled, in a gondola down the canal? She dresses as a boy and escapes the palazzo on the Grand Canal to see the world before she is shut away, and to try to find a way to escape her fate. Donata risks everything; she changes her life, and her family's life, forever when she walks through the door and encounters a Venice she never knew existed.From the Hardcover edition.
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In 1592, Donata is a noble girl living in a palazzo on the Grand Canal. Girls of her class receive no education and rarely leave the palazzo. In a noble family, only one daughter and one son will be allowed to marry; Donata, like all younger daughters, will be sent to a convent. Donata longs to be tutored like her brothers and to see the Venice she has glimpsed only on the map. What is the world beyond her balcony, beyond what she sees when she glides, veiled, in a gondola down the canal? She dresses as a boy and escapes the palazzo on the Grand Canal to see the world before she is shut away, and to try to find a way to escape her fate. Donata risks everything; she changes her life, and her family's life, forever when she walks through the door and encounters a Venice she never knew existed.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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Citations
- Kliatt, 03/01/2004, Page 21
- Publishers Weekly, 01/19/2004, Page 0
- PW Notes and Reprints, 01/19/2004, Page 79