Isabella Huffman is a precocious 8-year-old girl who can't seem to keep herself out of trouble on a visit to Naples, Italy, with her mother. She wants to be the president when she grows up. Or a ballerina. Or the president and a ballerina. She's dramatic. She sings on the bus, screams like a baby after tasting gorgonzola cheese and convinces her mom to buy five pair of new shoes for a big family. No matter how many times her mom asks her to just sit down like a normal little girl, she just can't help getting up to take more pictures of her adventures. When will Isabella ever sit down?

Le avventure di Isabella is a low-level novel for true beginners. It uses a vocabulary of only 200 Italian words to tell a 2,200-word story. It is repetitive and simple and uses many cognates.