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Learn Italian
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Learn Italian: Reading
Beginning Italian Readers
Easy Italian reader : a three-part text for beginning students
Author: Saggese, Riccarda.
Pub Info: New York : McGraw-Hill, c2009.
Kids' books
UW Libraries has a small collection of Italian language children's books.
Intermediate and Advanced Italian Readers
Mercurio : an intermediate to advanced reader in Italian language and culture
Author: Fedi, Andrea.
Pub Info: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.
The Italian American reader : a collection of outstanding fiction, memoirs, journalism, essays, and poetry
Edited by Bill Tonelli ; foreword by Nick Tosches
Pub Info: New York : W. Morrow, c2003
The Italian Renaissance reader
Edited by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Mark Musa
Pub Info: New York : New American Library, c1987
Polyglot reader, and guide for translation : consisting of a series of English extracts, with their translation into French, German, Spanish, and Italian : the several parts designed to serve as mutual keys
Author: Roemer, Jean, 1815?-1892
Pub Info: New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1855-1856
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Other Local Libraries
Biblioteca Italiana Seattle (BIS)
The Italian Cultural Center,
Il Punto
, in Seattle offers a
free library
to the community, which includes a section dedicated to kids and teens.
King County Library System
KCLS has Italian-language books at the Bellevue and Shoreline branches.
Seattle Public Library
Seattle Public Library has a
World Languages
collection at the Central branch.
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