n+1 relation table

[Gregg D Bolinger]

I've search the archives and have found a few similar issues but nothing conclusive to what I am doing.  I can only assume no one else has this problem because they know what they are doing and I don't (most likely) or no one is simply doing things the way I am doing them.  At any rate...

I have a table called items and this table contains a fk to a type_id from a table called type.  I then have a 3rd table called items_types which contains an item_id and a type_id.

Got that?  So in my Item class I will need to get a List<Type> of types.  I know how to do the n+1 solutions but  by adding in this third table I am at a loss on how to map it.  If anyone could point me into the right direction, I would appreciate it.  A link to an archived question, a page in the user docs, etc. 

Thanks a bunch.

Gregg