DAVID By: Mary Hoffman

DAVID  By: Mary Hoffman
All Gabriele wanted was to come to Florence, make an honest wage as a stonemason, and return to his hometown to get married. But that was before he caught the eye of the famous sculptor, Michelangelo. Everyone knows who Gabriele is now, the model who posed for Michelangelo's David. Young, handsome, and naive, he could never have guessed how much his life would change because of  one statue. But change it does. Suddenly Gabriele finds himself trust into a world of spies, secrecy, and murder, where being in conspicuous is a matter of life or death. But it's hard to stay hidden in a city where everyone knows your name. Ages 14 and up. *Sex- not graphic. $17.99  Bloomsbury  Reviewed by Maggie age 16.