Bibliograph

City of secrets, Mary Hoffman

Type

Label

City of secrets, Mary Hoffman

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

City of secrets

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

781969284

Responsibility statement

Mary Hoffman

Series statement

Stravaganza, 4

Summary

17-year-old Nick discovers that he has the power to travel between his home in contemporary London and 16th-century Talia, a country in which some magic and sorcery is possible. In his own time, Nick struggles with dyslexia and is insecure about his relationship with popular, beautiful Ayesha. In Talia, he reads effortlessly and is apprenticed to a printmaker in the city-state of Padavia, where he befriends Luciano, a teenager from his own time. Together, the two young men and Luciano's betrothed must find a way to stop a plot by the powerful de Chimici family to take over Talia

Target audience

adolescent

Classification