Love & gelato /
Welch, Jenna Evans,
Love & gelato / Love and gelato - First Simon Pulse paperback edition. - 389 pages ; 21 cm
Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn't in the mood for Italy's famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She's only there because it was her mother's dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father isn't around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is get back home. But then Lina is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. Suddenly Lina's uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. A world that inspires Lina, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her mother's footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept for far too long. It's a secret that will change everything Lina knew about her mother, her father -- and even herself. People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more.
9781481432559 1481432559
Secrecy--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept)--Fiction.
Mothers--Death--Fiction.
Absentee fathers--Fiction.
Italy--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Romance fiction.
Love stories.
Fiction.
Young adult works.
PZ7.1.W435 / Lo 2017
[Fic]
Love & gelato / Love and gelato - First Simon Pulse paperback edition. - 389 pages ; 21 cm
Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn't in the mood for Italy's famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She's only there because it was her mother's dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father isn't around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is get back home. But then Lina is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. Suddenly Lina's uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. A world that inspires Lina, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her mother's footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept for far too long. It's a secret that will change everything Lina knew about her mother, her father -- and even herself. People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more.
9781481432559 1481432559
Secrecy--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept)--Fiction.
Mothers--Death--Fiction.
Absentee fathers--Fiction.
Italy--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Romance fiction.
Love stories.
Fiction.
Young adult works.
PZ7.1.W435 / Lo 2017
[Fic]