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Title: Daughter of Venice by Donna Jo Napoli ISBN: 0-385-32780-3 Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books Pub. Date: 12 March, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.06 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A noble girl, out to see the the world before it is too late
Comment: Donata is a young noble girl who lives in Venice during the late 1500s. She is fortunate to be rich, but she is locked away from the world outside her palazzo and is not educated. After finding out that she will not marry and will instead be sent to a convent, she comes up with a plan to escape and see the world outside her palazzo, before she is locked away forever.
I recommend this book to girls ages 10 and up. Boys may read it too, but they might not enjoy it as much since some seens describe how a girl is feeling as she talks to the man she secrely has a crush on. So if you are looking for a book that is realistic fiction, you will absolutly enjoy, and will educate you on Venice in the 1500s, then this book is for you.
Rating: 5
Summary: The story of a remarkable girl with big dreams
Comment: Fourteen-year-old Donata is fortunate to be the daughter of a noble family. However being the daughter of a respective family has its problems for headstrong Donata. She is protected from the outside world and all noble's daughter will not get an education. Being not the oldest daughter, Donata will not marry either, her destiny is to confined in a covent for the rest of her life. But because she has a twin sister Laura, Donata clings onto the hope that her father might find a husband for both of them. When her hopes are dashed, Donata comes up with the plan to see Venice, the Venice outside of her palazzo, before she is shut away forever. Her choice will bring many changes to her family and will alter many people's lives, including her own.
This was a wonderful historical fiction book by Donna Jo Napoli seen through the eyes of a remarkable girl with big dreams of the future. I read this book in one sitting and it was way better than I ever dreamed it would be. It illustrates perfectly the hopes and aspirations of a girl who wants to see the outside world---a world she has never known.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing Story of A Young Girl In Historical Venice
Comment: The year is 1592, and fourteen-year-old Donata would do anything to escape from her family's palazzo, which is located on Venice's infamous Grand Canal. As in every Italian noble family, only one son and one daughter will marry, meaning that Donata and her twin sister, Laura, will be forced to live out their days in a convent. Donata prays every night that she will be able to escape her fate, and that she will finally be allowed to be tutored like her brothers, and to see the whole of Venice, that she has only been able to see on a map. Soon Donata comes up with a plan, one that will help her to escape her palazzo, and see the world of Venice that she has been shut away from since birth. Soon she is confronted with the hardships that Venetians face, poverty, hunger, different religions, etc. It is these things that will change her life, and her family's life forever as they know it.
Donna Jo Napoli has created a character that will be loved by readers of all ages, young and old. Donata is a spirited, hard-headed, determined young girl, who dreams of seeing the outside world that she has never had the opportunity to experience. She is caring, and wants nothing more than to help the poverty-stricken, as opposed to being locked up in a convent where she will do nothing but worship her days away. The descriptions of historical Venice are beautiful, and at times you feel that you are right there with Donata. Basking in the Venetian sun, and running along the paved Venetian roads. This is a must have book for anyone interested in historical fiction, or Italy / Venice.
Erika Sorocco
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Title: Zel by Donna Jo Napoli ISBN: 0141301163 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Sirena by Donna Jo Napoli ISBN: 0590383892 Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Magic Circle by Donna Jo Napoli ISBN: 0140374396 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Prince of the Pond: Otherwise Known As De Fawg Pin by Donna Jo Napoli, Judith Byron Schachner ISBN: 0140371516 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Spinners by Donna Jo Napoli, Richard Tchen, S. November ISBN: 014131110X Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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