Thursday, June 16, 2005
Stravaganza II: City of Stars by Mary Hoffman
City of Stars is the second in the Stravaganza series. Set in both our world and the alternate universe in the country of Talia the Stravaganzas are the link between time and space.
Georgia is unhappy. She lives in London with her mother, step-father, and stepbrother Russell. Russell is a bully and hates Georgia. He takes every advantage to belittle her and make her life miserable. Georgia buys a small statue of a black winged horse and when she sleeps with it clasped in her hands she wakes up in Talia. Luckily (!) she happens on a family of Stravaganzas and into the stable where a winged black horse has just been born. She is astonished to find out that not only has another person from London come to Talia, Lucien from Stravaganza I, but she knows him and had a wonderful crush on him before he died in her world.
Through her friendships in Talia and her double day horseback riding work, Georgia develops self-confidence and finds her way to friends in her own world as well. Georgia and her friend Cesare become friends with two diChemici princes and Georgia arranges to take one of them back to London with her so that he can access modern medecine. The decision to leave his fmily forever is very difficult for Falco but he can only imagine the pain and anguish his father suffers and the anger that follows that grief.
Georgia is unhappy. She lives in London with her mother, step-father, and stepbrother Russell. Russell is a bully and hates Georgia. He takes every advantage to belittle her and make her life miserable. Georgia buys a small statue of a black winged horse and when she sleeps with it clasped in her hands she wakes up in Talia. Luckily (!) she happens on a family of Stravaganzas and into the stable where a winged black horse has just been born. She is astonished to find out that not only has another person from London come to Talia, Lucien from Stravaganza I, but she knows him and had a wonderful crush on him before he died in her world.
Through her friendships in Talia and her double day horseback riding work, Georgia develops self-confidence and finds her way to friends in her own world as well. Georgia and her friend Cesare become friends with two diChemici princes and Georgia arranges to take one of them back to London with her so that he can access modern medecine. The decision to leave his fmily forever is very difficult for Falco but he can only imagine the pain and anguish his father suffers and the anger that follows that grief.
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