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  About the Mary Hoffman

  Mary Hoffman has written more than ninety books for children and young adults. She also reviews regularly for the Guardian and other newspapers and journals. She blogs weekly at www.maryhoffman.co.uk, where you can also find her tips on writing.

  Mary’s passion for Italy is well known and she still studies Italian once a week in Oxford. She has three grown-up daughters and lives with her husband and three Burmese cats in a converted barn in the Cotswolds. And yes, she does have an Aga.

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  THE STRAVAGANZA SEQUENCE

  By Mary Hoffman

  Stravaganza: City of Masks

  Stravaganza: City of Stars

  Stravaganza: City of Flowers

  Stravaganza: City of Secrets

  Stravaganza: City of Ships

  Copyright © 2003 by Mary Hoffman

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

  First published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

  Published in the United States of America in October 2003

  by Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers

  E-book edition published in February 2011

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  The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available upon request

  ISBN-13: 978-1-58234-839-1 • ISBN-10: 1-58234-839-1 (hardcover)

  ISBN 978-1-59990- (e-book)