Ten-year-old Amelia draws pictures and writes about her daily life in the journal she receives for her birthday.

Mira receives a postcard from her missing mother from Paris and she and her father travel to France to search for her, but while visiting Notre D

In the Russian shtetl where she and her family live, Hannah is given a diary for her tenth birthday, and in it she records the dramatic story of

To rescue her missing mother, thirteen-year-old Mira must travel to sixteenth-century Rome, where she befriends the painter Caravaggio and other