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A bolstering blend of empowering and wish-fulfilling, this will be a splendid escape for those who can't quite swing the real Italian thing. Genres: Biographical Fiction Children/Young Adult. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Redheaded Princess: A Novel - 0060733748, Ann Rinaldi, hardcover at the best online prices. Depth accrues from implications about Hayley's mother's own youthful experiences and the way both positive and negative approaches to life can be transmitted down the generations, and it's also clear that Hayley's changes are more attitudinal than physical, so that the pudgy Santa Monican can indeed have the same body as the sexy visiting Americana in Italy. This is basically Enchanted April for YAs, and a fine romantic version it is too, expertly walking its heroine through the dreamy pleasures of a foreign idyll while keeping enough touch with reality to make the interlude seem achievable. Though she's initially floored by the absence of internet and phone contact with her best friend back home, Hayley soon falls in love with the relaxed pace of the Umbrian countryside, the simple pleasures of Italian family life-and Enzo, a handsome young local.

Summer brings a reprieve from the talking scale, however, with a summer trip to Italy, where she'll stay with the family of her mother's old friend. In a Santa Monica high school filled with slender blonde beauties, Hayley is a pudgy brunette ('woefully short on highlights of any kind') prone to binge eating when stressed, often made so by her healthy-eating mother's attempts to get Hayley to slim down.

The redheaded princess by ann rinaldi