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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
This heartwarming tale of love, life, and friendship by the Newbery Medalist tells the story of how Granny Torrelli's warm words and secret recipes mend a rift between 12-year-old Rosie and her best friend.
With the help of her wise old grandmother, twelve-year-old Rosie manages to work out some problems in her relationship with her best friend, Bailey, the boy next door.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While traveling in 1883 with her Italian-American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.
Author
Series
Diamond of the Rockies volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"Crystal, Colorado, is known as the diamond of the Rockies, a mining town where what lies beneath is the only thing truly valued. Overrun with men seeking their fortune and women bound by circumstance, it hosts both dreams and nightmares with little surety for tomorrow. Yet Crystal is surrounded by beauty of a natural kind and offers an independence that Carina Maria DiGratia could never find at home. Driven by hope and vengeance, Carina is old enough...
8) The Italians
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the history, traditions, and contributions of Italian immigrants who have come to live and work in the United States and Canada.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In a companion book to the four-hour PBS series, stereotypes and nostalgia are stripped away to tell the complicated, centuries-long story of the Italian-American experience and to explore and celebrate the rich legacy of Italian-American life.
11) The immigrants
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1977
Language
English
Description
The saga of three families living in San Francisco during the earthquake, World War I and the Depression.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella’s childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents—moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella’s own mother is convinced that her daughter is cursed or haunted. In her rugged Italian village, Stella is considered an oddity—beautiful and smart, insolent and cold. Stella uses her peculiar toughness...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
Max Desir loved his Italian-American family - even after his iron-willed father exiled him from its intimate inner circle. Max Desir loved his lover, Nick, with whom he openly took up life, first amid the enchantment of Rome, then amid the realities of New York. Two loves so deeply felt - in a man so painfully divided.
14) An Italian wife
Author
Language
English
Description
In turn-of-the-century Italy, fourteen-year-old Josephine, sheltered and naive, is forced into an arranged marriage to a man she doesn't know or love who is about to depart for America, where she later joins him. Bound by tradition, Josephine gives birth to seven children. The last, Valentina, is conceived in passion, born in secret, and given up for adoption. Josephine spends the rest of her life searching for her lost child, keeping her secret even...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Language
English
Description
This book provides and in-depth look at the Italian immigrant experience in America. It explains how early arrivals helped make conditions better for later immigrants. It also examines the prominent role Italian Americans have had in shaping the society we live in today.
17) American too
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Because Rosie, who lives in Little Italy, wants to be a modern American girl, she finds a way to make her dream come true while celebrating the feast of St. Gennaro.
18) Villa Mirabella
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jason Mirabella was a young hotshot marketing genius for a medical company until his boss persuaded him to bury the numbers of bad clinical studies for their latest money-making device. Losing everything, Jason heads back home to Rhode Island, where his dad, sister, and brother run the family's faltering bed and breakfast together. As he works out his demons, he struggles to earn the trust of his siblings and to find true happiness in the town he...
19) A piece of Eden
Publisher
Digiview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When a New York press agent tries to bring some show-business pizzazz to revitalize his ailing father's Indiana fruit farm, things go a little haywire.
20) The end
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Language
English
Description
"A small, incongruous man receives an excruciating piece of news. His son has died in a POW camp in Korea. It is August 15, 1953, the day of a tumultuous street carnival in Elephant Park, an Italian immigrant enclave in Ohio. The man is Rocco LaGrassa, and his many years of dogged labor, paternal devotion, and steadfast Christian faith are about to come to a crashing end. He is the first of many characters we meet that day, each of whom will come...
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