By Michelle Lovric
ISBN-10: 0375898611
ISBN-13: 9780375898617
Unique booklet: 2009
Teodora has continuously longed to go to Venice, and finally she has her likelihood. yet unusual and sinister issues are afoot within the appealing floating urban. Teo is readily subsumed right into a mystery international within which salty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses, ghosts strong and undesirable patrol the streets, statues converse, rats learn, and librarians fluidly become cats. And the place a publication, The Key to the key City, leads Teo immediately into the guts of the chance that threatens to break town to which she feels she belongs. An old proverb turns out to unite Teo with a Venetian boy, Renzo, and with the Traitor who has lower back from the darkish prior to wreak revenge. . . . yet who's the Undrowned baby destined to save lots of Venice?
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