Daughter of Venice

In 1592, Donata is a noble girl living in a palazzo on the Grand Canal. Girls of her class receive no education and rarely leave the palazzo. In a noble family, only one daughter and one son will be allowed to marry; Donata, like all younger daughters, will be sent to a convent. Donata longs to be tutored like her brothers and to see the Venice she has glimpsed only on the map. What is the world beyond her balcony, beyond what she sees when she glides, veiled, in a gondola down the canal? She dresses as a boy and escapes the palazzo on the Grand Canal to see the world before she is shut away, and to try to find a way to escape her fate. Donata risks everything; she changes her life, and her family's life, forever when she walks through the door and encounters a Venice she never knew existed.

Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound
Publisher: Rh Childrens Books
Published: 12/09/2003
ISBN: 9780440229285
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 7.10h x 4.30w x 0.80d

Review Citations: PW Notes and Reprints 01/19/2004 pg. 79
Kliatt 03/01/2004 pg. 21
Publishers Weekly 01/19/2004
Publishers Weekly 01/26/2004

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 58678 / Daughter of Venice
Reading Level: 4.9 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 10