Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Gifted

The Hired Girl

Daphne's Book

Counting on Grace

The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants

Witness

Trapped at TRIUMF

Flipped

Love & Gelato

“I made the wrong choice.”

Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for Italy’s famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She’s only there because it was her mother’s dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father isn’t around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is go back home.

But then she is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. Suddenly Lina’s uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. A world that inspires her, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her mother’s footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept for far too long. It’s a secret that will change everything she knew about her mother, her father—and even herself.

People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Gifted

Marilyn Kaye, 2009

The Hired Girl

Laura Amy Schlitz, 2015

Daphne's Book

Mary Downing Hahn, 1983

Counting on Grace

Elizabeth Winthrop, 2006

The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants

Ann Brashares, 2005

Witness

Karen Hesse, 2000

Trapped at TRIUMF

Sandra Price-Hosie, 2022

Flipped

Wendelin Van Draanen, 2001