Napoli, Donna Jo

Spending the summer in Venice with his family turns confusing for Percy when he meets a beautiful, politically radical Venetian girl who wants him to help sabotage his father's engineering project in order to drive tourists out of the city.

After learning sorcery to become a healer, a good-hearted woman is turned into a witch by evil spirits and she fights their power until her encounter with Hansel and Gretel years later.

One day when Albert is at his window, two cardinals come to build a nest in his hand, an event that changes his life.

Grieving over her father's death from cancer, a young girl celebrates their last year together by making a book that includes mementos and a story.

After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater along with other Italian boys including his Jewish friend, Roberto is forced to work in Germany, escapes into the Ukrainian winter, before desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice.

Fourteen-year-old Calogero Scalise and his Sicilian uncles and cousin live in small-town Louisiana in 1898, when Jim Crow laws rule and anti-immigration sentiment is strong, so despite his attempts to be polite and to follow American customs, disaster dogs his family at every turn.

Elaborates on the tale of "The Pied Piper," told from the point of view of a boy who is too ill to keep up when a piper spirits away the healthy children of a plague-ridden town after being cheated out of full payment for ridding Hameln of rats.

Elaborates on the tale of "Beauty and the Beast," told from the point of view of the beast and set in Persia.

Adapted from the fairy tale Rapunzel, the story is told in alternating chapters from the point of view of Zel, her mother, and the prince, as Zel falls in love with a young prince, and her mother tries everything she can to prevent Zel from leaving her.

The gods grant immortality to the mermaid Sirena when she rescues a human man from the sea and they fall in love, but his mortality creates great conflict between love and honor when he is called to defend Greece in the Trojan War.