by Marieke Nijkamp and Sylvia Bi
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Content: There are some intense moments. It’s in the Middle-Grade Graphic Novel section of the bookstore.

Cinzia is a printer’s apprentice in the fictional city of Siannnerra, where her master is insistent that the city’s people need to know the Truth. But when she puts out an avvisi about the Lord Councilman, the principessa’s brother, it gets her arrested, and Cinzia is on the run. She makes an unusual friend – the principessa’s daughter – and the two of them work together to find the proof that the Lord Councilman really is as corrupt as the avvisi says he is. It’s not easy, especially for a couple young girls who are on the run from the soldiers.

I really liked this graphic novel. I like the historical feel of it – it feels like medieval/Renaissance Italy, even though the setting is fictional. And I liked that the girls worked together with the people of the city – the ones those in power ignore – to bring down a corrupt official. There was enough tension and action to keep the pages turning, and I liked how the girls’ characters came across.

I haven’t read Nijkamp’s other books, and I think I need to fix that.