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Primavera
By Beaufrand, Mary Jane
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-31601-644-5
- Publisher
- New York : Little, Brown, 2008.
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2008
Gr 6-9 Left by her family to garden and help her Nonna in the kitchen, Flora Pazzi feels like a throwaway child. While the household flutters around her older, classically beautiful sister, Domenica, Flora is destined for, if not resigned to, a future in the convent. As Botticelli paints Domenica, Flora surreptitiously stows away flawed diamonds stolen from her father in a plot to escape her destiny. Yet as the political struggle between 15th-century Florence's power families, the Pazzis and the Medicis, climbs ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2008
Flora is the least valued child in one of the most powerful families in Renaissance Florence. When her father's scheme to challenge the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
