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Diary of Melanie Martin: Or How I Managed to Survive Matt the Brat, Michelangelo, and the Leaning Tower of Pizza (Yearling Books) | 
| Author: Carol Weston
Publisher: Topeka Bindery
Category: Book
Buy New: $14.70
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 2097078
Media: School & Library Binding
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 144
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0613337514
EAN: 9780613337519
ASIN: 0613337514
Publication Date: October 2001
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Product Description
Dear Diary,
You will never in a million years guess where we're going.
Nope. Guess again. Never mind. I'll tell you. Italy! We're going to ITALY! In Europe!! Across the ocean!!! I even have a passport. It's really cool, except I'm squinting my eyes in the photo so I look like a dork. At least that's what my brother said. I call him Matt the brat. You would too. Trust me. . . .
Go ahead. It's not snooping, because you're invited to dig right into the private diary of Melanie Martin, age 10. Melanie is off to Italy on a family vacation with her art-obsessed mom, her grumpy dad, and her annoyingly cute 6-year-old brother. But Italy isn't exactly everything Melanie expects it to be. As she discovers Michelangelo, gelato, and the joy of penning poetry, she also discovers how much her crazy family really means to her. Maybe she won't trade them in after all.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
Melanie Martin Series; a great set of books! February 12, 2007
Melissa L. Lombardo
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My 10 year old daughter loves all four of the Melanie Martin books. She cannot put them down. Not only is she entertained, but also has learned a few things about other countries. As a teacher, I highly recommend the Melanie Martin books. I sure hope Mrs. Weston keeps adding more to this series.
Melissa Lombardo
Kid's reveiw February 8, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Diary Of Melanie Martin is a book about a young girl called Melanie. She flies to Italy with her family on an airplane when she had never been out of the U.S.A. She loved the thought going to a foreign country, but things didn't turn out how she expected... I liked this book and all the characters in it. My favorite part of the book was when Melanie just went back home to the U.S.A. She had realized a lot about her family and learned some important values. Melanie inspired me to be nicer to my sibling, as she did in the book. I definitely recommend this book to anybody who has a sibling, or who has never been out of his or her country. In this book, she gives the lesson about trying new things and taking risks. I am sure that anybody who reads this book will learn some useful information about life! Enjoy!
Great!!!!!! October 9, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I read melanie martin, and it was sensational!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I wanted to learn about Italy, and she helped me learn about it. Read this book, and you'll wanna read the other three book too.
The Diary of Melanie Martin May 11, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
A must read with the monalisa, sistin chapel, and boots the cat. Also it has ton of poetry. The book makes your mouth water for more.
Melanie on her own Roman Holiday March 15, 2005
Tara A. Rodman (New York, NY USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Having traveled to Italy with my family when I was twelve, The Diary of Melanie Martin called back dozens of similar memories of all the museums which were endured with the promise of gelato and of the delicious food which Weston describes to mouth-watering perfection. Reading this book, I kept on wishing it had been around for my family vacation so that my brother and I could have played "Point out the Naked People" during our museum tours; now I can only wholeheartedly recommend it to every member of a family planning a trip to Italy or just looking for a funny and truthfully-written book too perfetto to be missed.
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