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Learn on Your Own Time at Home or On the Go
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1070L
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.
6) Mac
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Three brothers in a volatile Italian-American family struggle to scrape together enough money to start their own business in Queens, New York, in the 1950s.
8) Uncle Nino
Language
English
Description
Overworked executive Robert Micelli has little time for his loving wife, rebellious teenage son Bobby, and 12-year-old daughter Gina. Uncle Nino, an old-world Italian, unexpectedly arrives on their doorstep and transforms their disconnected lives with his simple, old-fashioned ways.
Author
Series
Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie volume Band 375
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
11) An Italian wife
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An Italian Wife is the extraordinary story of Josephine Rimaldi?her joys, sorrows, and passions, spanning more than seven decades. The novel begins in turn-of-the-century Italy, when 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...
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
By day, Dominic Pyzola is a corporate raider and by night, an Italian pastry chef. Upon learning that his neighbor Bella is seriously ill, he is determined to see her long-time dream come true. When he plots to marry Bella's daughter, two worlds collide.