City of Swords (Stravaganza #6)

By Mary Hoffman

Subjects: Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Italy, fiction, Emotions, fiction, Renaissance, Fiction, Children's fiction, Renaissance, fiction, Self-mutilation, Space and time, Adventure and adventurers, Space and time, fiction, Emotional problems

Description: When desperately unhappy Laura, who secretly performs self-mutilation, finds her talisman and transports to Fortezza, a parallel world that resembles the Italian Renaissance city-state of Lucca, she faces battles on the field and of the heart.