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Nonna's Book of Mysteries
by Mary Osborne
ISBN 978-1-936181-16-2
352 pages, trade paperback

Chicago Sun-Times 2010
Summer Reading Pick

Grand Prize Winner of the
2010 Paris Book Festival

Best Teen Book 2010 San
Francisco Book Festival

In Renaissance Italy, apprenticeships for young women do not exist. Yet in Florence, fourteen-year-old Emilia Serafini dreams of becoming a painter. The odds appear stacked against her until she receives a fascinating book, A Manual to the Science of Alchemy. It once was her grandmother's and Emilia turns again and again to the Manual for guidance. Infused with the mysticism of alchemy, Nonna's Book of Mysteries is an exciting portrait of a young woman who defies convention to seek her destiny.