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Gr 6-8 This gripping 17th-century odyssey takes 12-year-old Filippo Veroneo from Venice to Hindustan. He has never seen his father, a jeweler, who left before his birth. Now the Veroneos are in the clutches of their guardian, Bernardo Pagliarin, Filippo's brother-in-law who is trying to gain the family's wealth, most especially an extremely valuable diamond. The Veroneos learn that a high ransom is needed to secure the jeweler's release from prison, and Filippo goes to Hindustan with the diamond ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

A gorgeously detailed historical novel set in the early seventeenth century takes a young Venetian from his home to the Hindu Kush to ransom his father, a jeweler, from the prisons of an Afghan warlord. Twelve-year-old Filippo has never known his father, who left for Hindustan in pursuit of adventure and riches before he was born. When Filippo's thuggish brother-in-law, the family's guardian, determines to plunde...Log In or Sign Up to Read More