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Edizioni EL
Einaudi Ragazzi
Emme Edizioni
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cover illustration: Little Women, by Beatrice Masini and Sara Not
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sirene
Mermaids is a series aimed at girls who are fond of reading. Passionate research and a close cooperation between writers and illustrators, publisher and editor, make it a unique collection of modern classics. Here very fine and highly perceptive writers have conjured up characters and situations,
settings and emotions to make fascinating biographies of women of the past as well as of the present.
Mermaids
age 9+, with full color illustrations, hard cover
Madams and Misses,
Greek Choral
A rebel heiress:
Peggy Guggenheim’s
life and adventures
By Beatrice Masini,
ill. by Octavia Monaco,
168 pages
By Sabina Colloredo,
ill. by Alessandra Cimatoribus,
128 pages
Rights sold:
Castilian, French.
Rights sold: Turkish.
At the Far End of the
World. The “other”
Margaret Mead
The sword and the
Heart. Biblical
Women
By Sabina Colloredo, ill. by
Vanna Vinci, 144 pages
By Beatrice Masini,
ill. by Octavia Monaco,
136 pages
Rights sold: Turkish.
The Red Rose. Rosa
Luxemburg’s dream
The Days of Love and
Hate. Cleopatra, queen
at 18 years old
By Vanna Cercenà,
ill. by Emanuela Orciari,
160 pages
By Sabina Colloredo,
ill. by Mara Cerri,
200 pages
The Fatal Dance. Mata
Hari’s mystery
The legend of Marlene
Dietrich, the disobedient
angel
By Donatella Bindi Mondaini,
ill. by Pierluigi Longo,
136 pages
By Lia Celi,
ill. by Alessandra Scandella,
128 pages
Rights sold: Castilian.
On the Children’s side.
Maria Montessori’s
Revolution
The fairest of them all.
Sissi, the Empress of
Austria
By Daniela Palumbo,
ill. by Vanna Vinci,
128 pages
By Vanna Cercenà,
ill. by Alessandra Scandella,
160 pages
Rights sold: Castilian.
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Margarete Buber
Neumann. Absolute
Witness
A Love for Words.
Life and passions of
Virgina Woolf
By Frediano Sessi,
ill. by Pierluigi Longo,
144 pages
By Beatrice Masini,
ill. by Emiliano Ponzi,
112 pages
Rights sold: Polish.
Frida Kahlo
Isadora Duncan
By Vanna Cercenà,
ill. by Marina Sagona,
128 pages
By Sabina Colloredo,
ill. by Anna and Elena
Balbusso,
128 pages
Rights sold: Castilian,
Lithuanian, Polish,
Turkish.
Rights sold: Turkish.
Anita Garibaldi
Pocahontas
By Lia Celi,
ill. by Gabriella Giandelli,
96 pages
By Sabina Colloredo,
ill. by Paolo D’Altan,
128 pages
Rights sold: Castilian.
Maria Callas
Marilyn Monroe
By Paola Capriolo,
ill. by A. Scandella,
128 pages
By Vanna Cercenà,
ill. by Grazia Nidasio,
128 pages
Rights sold:
Castilian, Turkish.
Rights sold: Castilian.
Indira Gandhi
Penelope
By Paola Capriolo,
ill. by A. e E. Balbusso,
128 pages
By Sabina Colloredo,
ill. by Cristiano Lissoni,
128 pages
Rights sold:
Castilian, Polish.
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carta bianca
A new collection of fiction for readers aged 12 to 14, compelling novels written by
authors of a new generation, children of the Internet and the new language of the young.
It is called Carte Blanche as it is a collection open to all topics and all literary genres.
Carte Blanche
age 12-14, no illustrations, soft cover with flaps.
Lo spacciatore di fumetti - The Comics Dealer
best
seller!
By Pierdomenico Baccalario, 256 pages
Sandor is 15 and he sells comics in Budapest in 1989. He crosses the city with the comics
hidden in a secret pocket in his jacket, making sure he doesn’t run into any police or spies.
Sandor takes refuge in a fantastic world to forget about a personal and social situation that
he doesn’t like. He invents fantastic stories that may one day even come true.
Rights sold: Castilian.
L’ombra del drago - The Shadow of the Dragon
By Pina Varriale, 224 pages
Shing came to Italy hidden in the haul of a ship loaded with illegal immigrants. Not long
afterwards, his father failed to come home one day. He starts looking for him, but none of
the Chinese people he asks will answer his questions. After various ups and downs, Shing
finds himself in many troubles. Will the love of Bao, the “Neapolitan Chinese girl” be
enough to save him? Is it really true that the Chinese never die? Shing can’t understand why
the police won’t help him. Luckily things aren’t at all what they seem…
Senso Zero - Zero Senses
By Elena Peduzzi, 256 pages
Marco is 14 and has an illness: he can’t feel pain. But he can’t feel caresses either. His life
is empty: no friends and no emotions. Until the day the kind and cheerful Lorenzo joins their
class. For the first time ever, Marco discovers what is meant by “normality”. And the two
become friends. Together they do something they should never do: they break into a neighbour’s house, where there is something mysterious drawing them in. But a fire breaks out,
Lorenzo is in danger, and Marco, who can’t feel pain, braves the flames to rescue his
friend…
Il libero regno dei ragazzi - The Free Kingdom of Boys
By Davide Morosinotto, 288 pages
Paolo is thirteen and lives with his parents in an ancient and typical Southern Italian manor
farm in the Salento. He doesn’t know as yet that he is about to become king: until one day
he discovers he is the last descendant of the notorious bandit Giovanni. A hundred and fifty
years ago, his ancestor declared the manor farm’s independence from the newly established
Kingdom of Italy. Paolo and his friends decide to follow in his footsteps and they thus establish the Free Kingdom of Boys.
Demoni e Predoni - Demons and Plunderers
By Guido Sgardoli, 288 pages
Joni and Jimi are about to experience a definitively out of the ordinary holiday to the
Maldives. There are many adventures and mishaps they will be facing, not to mention the
fact that nature itself seems to be revolting against humans. The two siblings find themselves having to tackle, in ever growing narrative suspense, the fear of loving their loved
ones and their own life.
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Il mondo nel palazzo - The World into a Building
By Michela Turra, 160 pages
Denise, Silvia, Aymen and Ostap are teenager coming from different ethnic
backgrounds who live in a council high-rise in the suburbs of a big Italian city.
A composite reality, an existential mosaic of today, taking shape in the urban
areas where the characters experience a meeting that becomes an exchange of
knowledge, friendship and cohesion.
L’estate delle falene - The Moth Summer
By Mario Pasqualotto, 192 pages
In a remote valley in Umbria, three mates befriend a Chinese boy, known to all
as Silkworm, who charms them with his tales on ancient China. The friends’
merry joyrides in the woods take on dramatic overtones the moment the four of
them chance upon a viol ant character who is spreading terror across the valley.
Only their friendship will allow them to get out of trouble.
Quaranta Gradi - Fourty Degrees
By Alessandro Gatti, 160 pages
Emi and Yù are two twelve-year-old friends who live in their own, special world.
From their secret place amongst the rooftops they observe those aliens called
“grown-ups”. In a broiling summer, this teenage cosmos explodes and their
game upon the rooftops becomes something different when the two friends, from
up there, witness a crime…
Rachele, la Rossa - Red Haired Raquel
By Elena Peduzzi, 224 pages
Rachele is twelve, and in the mountain village in which she lives everyone is convinced that she’s “the one who brings bad luck”. Grown-ups and peers treat her
with suspicion. Rachele hasn’t got many friends, and lives her loneliness as a
battle to be waged every single day. Until the moment when her luck turns…
Luce dei miei occhi - Light of My Life
By Zita Dazzi, 192 pages
On the background of the outskirts of Milan, in an ordinary family, there live two brothers, Arturo and Giovanni. Their parents are going through a difficult patch, made
worse by their father’s recent redundancy. Giovanni’s sudden eye disease further exasperates the family’s tensions. It will be Arturo, a witty and intelligent teenager, who
will establish a new way of communicating with his brother, and let the light of hope
shine again.
Un sogno lungo un’estate - A Summer’s Dream
By Barbara Baraldi, 224 pages
The story tells the adventures of thirteen year old Matilde, forced to spend her summer holidays with her parents in a forbidding and rather disquieting house in the
countryside. There the young girl, following a series of events, will find herself facing
the break up of her world of certainties and making choices that will bring her to a
deeper self awareness and a better understanding of her own life.
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Cuori di carta - Paper Hearts
By Elisa Puricelli Guerra, 224 pages
It all starts out with a message left inside a girl’s book. A boy finds it and the two start
writing each other without ever having met. They never sign with their real names,
using “Una” and “Dan”, the protagonist of the book. They try to figure each other out,
they argue, they flirt and they reveal themselves in a way that they never could have
in person. However, little by little, a strange and disturbing reality emerges. Where do
Dan and Una really live? What is the Institution that they attend with thousands of
other kids? Is it a boarding school? Is it a school for gifted children? Is it a reformatory? Why do they have to take a medicine that erases their memories everyday?
ONE SHOT
Enrichetto Cosimo alla ricerca del Manga Mangante
Little Eric Cosimo in Search of the Missing Manga
By Luca Raffaelli, illustrated by Andrea Cavallini, 216 pages
It’s not Indiana Jones, it’s not the Hulk, it’s not Superman… His name is
Cosimo, Little Eric Cosimo.
A novel? A comic book? A graphic novel? A comedy?
Little Eric Cosimo is all this and much, MUCH more!
Rhythm, exhilarating scenes, plot twists, plays on words, odd and unpredictable characters: these are only a few of the innovative elements that support the
amazing narrative where text, illustrations and comics blend to create a unique communication tool.
Rights sold: Catalan, Turkish.
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Ex libris
A young adults series with novels able to light deep emotions, stories that deal with engaging
subjects arousing questions, curiosity and interest. Stories for young adults who want to learn,
to dream and to take sides. Most of the authors are young well-known adult fiction writers.
Ex Libris age 12+
best
seller!
Storia di Iqbal - Iqbal’s Story
By Francesco D’Adamo, 160 pages
Iqbal Mashir was only 13 years old when he was shot to death in 1995 while walking the
streets of his native village in Pakistan. Nobody was ever arrested although it was clear
to all that the killers had been hired by the local “carpet mafia”. Like millions of other
children in Pakistan as well as in other third world countries, Iqbal was pawned by his
starving parents for a handful of dollars and compelled to work in a carpet factory as a
slave in order to pay the money back at the ridiculous rate of one Rupee a day. Iqbal had
managed to escape and after denouncing his boss and getting him arrested, he contributed to the liberation of hundreds of kids like him. In 1994 in Boston he received the
prestigious “Youth in Action” Award and a scholarship to an American University, thus
becoming an international symbol of the fight against the exploitation of children. Back
in his country one year later he was slain by unknown murderers.
A true story of rebellion against the powerful evils of humanity and one bound to stir up
strong and lasting emotions.
Rights sold: French, Castilian, Catalan, Basque, Korean, German, English (US and UK), Japanese,
Greek, worldwide film rights.
Bazar
By Francesco D’Adamo, 144 pages
The tragicomic epos of the boys and girls living in Bazar, the most multiracial
district in Milan - and perhaps in the world -, where 52 different peoples
(including uzbekis and magutts, the people from Bergamo, who are the only
ethnically pure ones) live together more or less peacefully stealing festivals,
recipes and customs. Our friends are determined to conquer the ghastly X
Zone, which has been enclosed and abandoned to rattlesnakes and nettles for
long years, and to obtain a safe place for playing football and organizing the
first interethnic World cup.
Apriti cielo! - All at once
By Sabina Colloredo, 136 pages
For most students, the last day of school is the first of a wonderful time: summer holidays! But not for Elisa.
For her it’s the beginning of an ordeal: junior secondary school’s final exams
and, after that, the usual, boring summer scene: she will be confined in an
isolated little town, strictly controlled by her Aunt and Uncle.
Elisa searches for some peace and, by sheer chance, she finds love. Not the
kind of love that makes you dream on in a starry night, but the one that makes
you cry, get angry, fight, the kind of love that makes you question everything
and makes you grow up so quickly that a month seems a life time. In a word:
the kind of love everyone warns you against...
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Trovami un giorno - Come and find me one day
By Valentina Misgur, 128 pages, age 13+
This is the story of a boy and girl who meet on a ferry crossing to an island.
They are both on the run. They both have a dream. They each need the
seaside to heal old wounds. Elisa has a strange relationship with the
water: her brother drowned and ever since then her family has been half
a family. Filippo sees his grandfather in the waves, the grandfather he has
never known, who ran away, leaving everything and everyone behind, to
pursue his love and passion for the sea. Their stories interweave and they
come together in one life, a very different life this time.
Come ti sequestro la Prof - How I Kidnapped my Teacher
By Francesca Longo, 128 pages, age 14+
The usual high school, students going in and out, some who study, some who
don’t, a place where you know, or maybe only recognize, a lot of other kids.
The usual high school day, pretty boring if it weren’t for the fact that the top
student kidnaps the teacher. That’s where adventure for a group of fifteen
teenagers begins: strangely enough, Latin becomes a means of finding friends.
Twenty-four hours to talk about personal things with the others, to break
open the shells of silence that characterize modern society. The novel is
a chorus of fifteen young voices that talk unpretentiously about their passions, their problems (music, family, sex, love, drugs, friendship, hopes
for the future), against a background of adults seen through pitiless eyes.
Rights sold: Castilian, Serbian.
In gita di distruzione - A Devastating Trip
By Francesca Longo, 128 pages, age 14+
Thirty Italian teenagers on a school trip to Barcelona. Thirty British
teenagers, Liverpool fans, in the same city for a Champion’s match. These
are the ingredients of the story, the tale of a school trip made up – as they
all are – of romance, practical jokes and hangovers. A trip that turns into
a nightmare for students, teachers and police, highlighting the contradictions of an adult world that doesn’t practice what it preaches and a young
planet that lives on the limits of legality, but with a strong sense of
belonging that protects them all from illegality.
Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan.
Camminare correre volare - Walk Run Fly
best
seller!
By Sabrina Rondinelli, 160 pages, age 13+
Asja is fourteen years old. She lives on a housing estate with her
depressed mother and she does badly at school. She steals from shops
and chats with older boys.
She creeps out of the house at night and attacks her classmate Maria, too
subdued, too studious, too perfect. Then one day she gets into trouble and
everything changes.
A story about bullying amongst girls, told from the point of view of the
‘bad girl’. Because often even bullies have their problems and, if they are
helped to grow, they may even learn to fly
Rights sold: Croatian, Serbian, Hungarian, Turkish.
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La nostra prima volta - Our First Time
By Sabrina Rondinelli, 192 pages, age 14+
A large city, a rainy grey winter, a squallid garage. Two lustful hands groping her under her
sweater, no love involved. No. That’s not how Viola had pictured her first time; green-eyed, shy
and resolute Viola who dreamed of becoming a photographer. No, this isn’t how she had pictured her encounter with sex, the love «of grown-ups», which should involve flesh and panting
and sweat, but also gentleness. Daniele, meanwhile, was dreaming about her, Viola, about love
at first sight, sex imagined as thousands of gestures, kisses and caresses becoming more and
more intimate. He wants to know if his dreams are right or wrong, he’d like to find the courage
to bare his heart and his body, to show himself for what he really is, taking the risk of her not
liking him, of being rejected or even scorned. Daniele and Viola move towards each other, surrounded by people who seem to know what’s what but who often muddle reality with a virtual
world made of empty and deceitful images. They move towards each other, filled with impatience and the fear of spoiling their first time.
O sei dentro o sei fuori - Are You In or Are You Out?
By Guido Sgardoli, 192 pages, age 13+
Franz had heard Gabri saying this so often. And each time, with his back up against the
wall, Franz answered I’m in, in the name of a debt that seemed to be impossible to cancel. Can you stay friends out of inertia? Can you be friends just out of habit? Franz is an
adolescent who loves maths, order and precision. He goes swimming, which is clean,
methodical and numerical and above all, allows him to spend some time alone thinking in
silence. Gabri is his exact opposite: chaotic, impulsive, highly creative, always dissatisfied.
They are like two complementary angles, different but pointing in the same direction.
During a summer that is different from all the others, an unpredictable, dangerous, lifechanging summer, in search of something undefinable, perhaps the answer to a question
as yet unasked, Franz finds out that an adventure isn’t enough to make you feel grown-up
and finally has the chance to reconsider his friendship with Gabri.
Rights sold: Turkish.
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WHITE
RAVENS
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NO - the Refusal that Defeated Racism
By Paola Capriolo, 96 pages, age 12+
The number of times the little word «no» has made history is countless.
Because «no» is often the first step towards the affirmation of a right, of
respect, of equality that has been denied for too long. In this particular story it was a young
American woman who said «no». Her name was Rosa Parks, she had dark skin and she had
just refused to give her seat up to a white man on the bus. As in all public places in the
South of the United States – schools, hospitals, trains, bars – that bus was split into two:
the best places were reserved for white people, the others for the blacks. It was the first of
December 1955, and handcuffs snapped around Rosa’s slim wrists and soon photographers’ cameras were flashing. This was the beginning of an amazing non-violent battle that put
an end to a racist and discriminatory regime. A battle that saw a humble seamstress like
Rosa alongside a great leader like Martin Luther King. And that led, half a century later, to
the first Afro-American being elected the President of the United States of America.
Rights sold: Castilian, Danish. Korean, Catalan.
Mojito.
By Francesca Longo, 96 pages, age 14+
This year, once more, it’s holidays at the seaside with their parents and little sister, or their grandparents, when what they would really like to do is to travel the world or at least stay in town with
their friends. Mojito and Pampero are sixteen now and expect more from life and so, condemned
to listening to pointless chit chat under the beach umbrella by day, together they decide to challenge the nights. By drinking. Drinking a lot, drinking to extremes. And it is a grandmother and a
little girl who then lead them back onto the path of enjoyment and not of destruction. This is a
story about a love that grows slowly, passing through boredom, pain, fear and the anguish of time
and space that characterize so many of the problems of the new generations. And it is also a crosssection of family lives common to so many youngsters, quarrelling with their parents, living by dissolute household habits plus their relationships with siblings or friends. It is an ironic, sometimes
distressing story, but it is also a “hard” book dealing unmoralistically with the subject of the sweep
of alcohol abuse amongst the young, alcohol which is often poor quality and used for getting high
and not for what it should be, that is, a pleasure to sip and treat with care.
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Il viaggio della speranza - The Journey of Hope
By Patrizia Marzocchi, 96 pages, age 11+
Jasmine is thirteen and lives in Morocco. She dreams of joining her father who, for reasons
unknown to her, moved to Bologna in Italy some time ago. When her teacher starts up a
correspondence with a class in Bologna, she can’t believe her luck. This is the first step
towards making her dream come true. Life, however, is unpredictable: her mother dies and
she is left in the hands of an uncle who makes her leave school and start working while
waiting to get married. Jasmine rebels and undertakes a very tough journey that brings her
face to face with prejudices of all kinds both in Morocco and in Italy. She finds herself in
the desert immersed in the magical world of the Tuareg, in a market next to a snake
charmer, on a boat adrift, locked in a car boot, on a beach next to a strange fisherman…
she meets many hostile people, but she also makes many friends and her journey towards
her dream is a painful, exciting path towards knowledge.
Non sono una bambola - I’m not a Baby Doll
By Gigliola Alvisi, 160 pages, age 14+
Lucrezia is thirteen and she lives with the Perfect Family. But things quickly change when
her mother is admitted to hospital for a high-risk pregnancy, and her father has to go to
Brussels on business. So the girl sets off for Puglia, where an aunt she had never heard of
before takes care of her, an aunt who lives with her husband and four sons, the oldest of
whom, Alfonso, treats her coldly and hostilely, because of something that her father hasn’t told her about that happened in the past. In her new surroundings, where everything is
unpredictable and she’s not used to anything at all, Lucrezia needs to find some stability,
throw light on the secret that has separated her family from her aunt’s family and, above
all, defend her identity from those who only see her extraordinary beauty, and consider her
a trophy to conquer by any means at all, even the most despicable.
Rights sold: Serbian, French, Polish.
Io come Te - Me like You
best
seller!
By Paola Capriolo, 128 pages, age 14+
A new novel by Paola Capriolo about a highly topical subject: racism
against those who are different, weak or socially excluded simply because
they are foreigners. It is about a fourteen-year-old’s realization that he can actually get to
know the
“others”, and see the world through the eyes of people we sometimes have a hard time
noticing.
A powerful, intense and dramatically topical novel by the awarded and best selling author
of NO, the refusal that defeated Racism.
Rights sold: Greek, Serbian, Danish.
Se - If
By Emanuela Da Ros, 144 pages, age 14+
If is almost a commonplace story: two young people meet, they make love. She gets pregnant. It only takes a moment for your life to change.
And it’s often a very tough choice: becoming a mother at 18 or growing up a little more
and choosing to have a child when you are mature enough? The story of Virginia and how
life has faced her with this choice, with an open-ended conclusion, because no one can
give advice either way.
The story of an unwanted pregnancy, the need to face a dramatic choice, becoming aware
of the possible consequences that every decision brings with it. For life.
Rights sold: Serbian.
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Rock sentimentale - Sentimental Rock
By Patrizia Rinaldi, 192 pages, age 14+
The tale of the friendship between two teenagers: Moo, a rock and metal fan and
Pisolo, his keyboarder friend. It’s told by the two characters themselves, and also
Maria Stella, Moo’s perceptive sister, and Mau, a sensitive and eccentric mother. A
multi voice chorus, a portrait of life in suburban Naples, amongst musical pieces,
lessons in philosophy and human misunderstanding, in an intense and original
novel.
Rights sold: Serbian.
Jimmy della collina - Jimmy from the Hill
By Massimo Carlotto, 80 pages, age 14+
This is the story of Gianni, nickname Jimmy, who wants an easy life and to make lots
of money with no effort. He will neither study, nor work. So he robs a bank and ends
up in a remand home. He’s not sorry for what he’s done and who he is. Jimmy is
alone, against everyone else, he’s a difficult subject. That is why he is sent to another remand home, in Sardinia, and thence to a rehabilitation centre: The Hill. There,
something happens to him…
Rights sold: worldwide film rights.
Mille pezzi al giorno - A Thousand Pieces a Day
By Francesco D’Adamo, 120 pages, age 14+
Leo is a hooligan from the suburbs, just out of remand home. He works in a sweat
shop factory, manned by immigrants, and is convinced there are only two sorts of
people: the fools and the smart, who can make easy money. Maristella, a stubborn
and determined girl, is convinced that there must be a better way to live. A story of
personal growth and of a strange, wild, sentimental education.
Sono solo Mia - I’m Just Mine
By Gigliola Alvisi, 224 pages, age 14+
Mia is a sixteen year old “angry young girl”. She is angry with her family, angry with
her school, with her peers. Behind her gruff attitude and her angry silence, however, she hides a quick mind and ready wit. She sort people in strictly defined groupings she wants no part in, Mia does, but she’ll soon have to face a reality, that of her
mother’s illness, which will cause an upheaval in her priorities and will force her to
come to an agreement with herself and the world. .
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Certi fiori stanno all’ombra Certain Flowers Dwell in the Shade
By Antonio Ferrara, 144 pages, age 14+
Clara and Moreno. Two names representing two different personalities: she’s outgoing and sunny; he’s reserved and aloof. Clara finds herself attracted to Moreno, but
she also likes another boy, who’s very different, character wise: Rosario, the school’s
heartthrob. The girl doesn’t know whom to choose: she’s aware that going out with
Moreno entails finding the courage to choose a complex, compelling relationship.
The flower of their affection will manage to bloom, delicate yet hardy, despite all difficulties.
Il mio domani arriva di corsa My Future will Rush Towards Me
By Giuliana Facchini, 96 pages, age 14+
Anna is 15, but she’s still only in eighth grade. She likes reading, and she could
have brilliant results at school with no effort, but she doesn’t like rules set by other
people. She only follows her own. This makes her a rather lonesome girl, and she
has no friends. The girls around her are far too well behaved for her standards. It will
be the arrival of Sarah, a new girl, that manages to breach her barrier of indifference
and save her from herself.
Stai con me - Stay With Me
By Zita Dazzi, 176 pages, age 13+
Some friends, her family, a boyfriend and a normal day-to-day life with regular habits
that are always the same. Mariasole is almost sixteen and wants to grow up, she
wants to expand her horizons. One day, in a hot summer, she runs into Nicola, a boy
who has been kicked out of school and has grown up on the streets. With his rough
manners, he accompanies her in the discovery of a part of the city she has never
seen before.
The outskirts of squatted houses, afternoons spent in bad company, a human underworld living on a shoestring. Danger is behind every corner and it isn’t easy to survive. The adults are in the background, far from the real emotions that their children
feel. For these two kids, this is the journey to adulthood. Suddenly, when everything
seems lost, things finally take a turn for the better.
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