Love & Gelato (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781481432542)

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A summer in Italy turns into a road trip across Tuscany in this sweeping debut novel filled with romance, mystery, and adventure.

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 get back home.

But then Lina 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 Lina, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her mother's footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept from Lina 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.

Author: Jenna Evans Welch
ISBN-10: 1481432540
ISBN-13: 9781481432542
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 05/03/2016
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.80w x 1.30d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.2
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 183269 / Love & Gelato


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 12/01/2015 pg. 117
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2016
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2016 - Recommended - Hard To Beat