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THE MAGIC PIANO
Carlos Vila Sexto
Mario is the youngest son of Kapitän Meier, an officer of the Wehrmacht, the Nazi army. We are in Prague in 1941 and Mario is twelve years old. His mother, who has recently died, played the piano in a "magical" way and taught it to her children, so the great pain that grips the heart of the Kapitän, leads to banning music in his house.
One day after school, Mario finds himself by chance in...
SALVA LA TERRA!
Paola Cereda, Nicola Nurra
Tardillo non è un invertebrato qualunque: è un tardigrado, un minuscolo essere capace di sopravvivere al caldo, al freddo e a molto, molto di peggio grazie ai suoi superpoteri. La Terra, però, a causa della sfrenata attività umana, sta soffrendo e Tardillo vuole intervenire prima che sia troppo tardi, ma ha bisogno dell’aiuto di tutti. Si trasforma così in un’irresistibile guida...
MISSIONE REPORTER
Gabriela Jacomella
Una guida che aiuta i ragazzi a orientarsi nel caotico mondo dell’informazione. Per diventare dei veri reporter o semplicemente capire finalmente la realtà in cui viviamo.
Il mestiere del giornalista, così come il mondo dell’informazione, sono un universo complicato. Le notizie fanno talmente parte della nostra giornata, che non ci accorgiamo neanche più di esserne sommersi. Missione...
IL SEGRETO DELLA BALENA
Sara Rattaro
Tra le onde del mare c’è un segreto che solo le balene conoscono. Samuele è davvero fortunato: non tutti hanno una mamma che di mestiere fa l’etologa e studia gli animali del mondo! E così per lui nuove avventurose scoperte sono sempre dietro l’angolo. Infatti, quando mamma Sara riceve una telefonata urgente dalla Nuova Zelanda, Samuele non vede l’ora di partire per uno straordinario...
INSIEME NELLA FORESTA
Sara Rattaro
LA NATURA È IN PERICOLO, IL CONTRIBUTO DI OGNUNO PUÒ FARE LA DIFFERENZA. ANCHE QUELLO DI UN SOLO BAMBINO.
La scuola è finita e per Samuele è tempo di un nuovo viaggio in- torno al mondo con la sua mamma veterinaria. Destinazione Gabon, Africa Centrale. Qui Samuele dovrebbe obbedire agli adulti e non cacciarsi nei guai, ma cosa succede se dal cuore della foresta un rumore sembra chiamare...
RESURRECTA
Vic Echegoyen
November 1st, 1755 - All Saints' Day - dawns as a radiant feast day in Lisbon, Europe's most prosperous capital. Neither the King and his family, nor the court or the city's inhabitants, military officers and engineers, the prisons' convicts, surgeons, friars and nuns, prostitutes, diplomats and the common folk, can image they are about to experience the greatest natural disaster ever to hit the...
EL CORAZÓN DEL DIABLO
Carlos Vila Sexto
1798
That is the destiny that the Mirror of Tears has chosen for Miguel.
A hundred kilometers from Pazo Quiroga, off the coast of Cabo Lázaro, the armies of Spain and France try to kill the pirate known as the Devil, a ruthless murderer surrounded by a halo of mystery that no one has been able to unravel.
Only Miguel knows that Eduardo Quiroga is under the pirate's mask. That is why he...
LA LISTA DELLE COSE SEMPLICI
Lucia Renati
Camilla e Sara sono gemelle. La lista delle dieci cose più importanti da fare nella vita l’hanno stilata insieme, a nove anni: arrivare a cento salti, dire la verità, baciare solo per vero amore... Quando Sara, appena undicenne, viene a mancare tragicamente, Camilla si trova a dover crescere senza la sua metà, a dover ricalcolare la rotta della sua vita.
Ma come si riparte dopo un dolore...
LA HABITACIÓN IMPOSIBLE
Carlos Vila Sexto
Miguel has trouble. Again.
He has cheated the wrong people and now he has no choice but to do what he always does when he is cornered: run away. In need of money and a place to hide, he accepts the proposal of a mysterious individual to be part of an expedition dedicated to assessing the works of art of a strange place known as Pazo Quiroga.
Seven people with no apparent connection between...
LA VOZ Y LA ESPADA
Vic Echegoyen
Julia D’Aubigny is an orphan and the lover of the most powerful man in the court of the “sun king”. Chiripa (“sparkle”) is a child prodigy of fencing. Giulio Aubini is a gelded man who is wanted for theft, fire setting and grave robbing. Maupin, the first contralto in the history of Opera, is a disguised bisexual, the muse of composers and poets and the lover of princes, nuns, generals...
IL CACCIATORE DI SOGNI
Sara Rattaro
Albert Sabin has been my hero and that’s why I decided to illustrate his life the way it deserves to be told, as a story tale, because “Il cacciatore di sogni” has a lot to teach us, still today.
Sara Rattaro
Luca, who dreams of becoming a pianist when he grows up, has a broken hand, a quite annoying older brother, a mom that is a drag and a plane to catch in order to go back to...
BEYOND THE ADVENTURE
Carlos Vila Sexto
BEYOND ADVENTURE (10+)
Ed is a normal boy who lives with his family in a small village where some strange phenomena begin to occur, while two teachers of the school appear dead at the foot of the church bell tower, without any violence.
Ed and his friends, Otto «cakes-eater», the nice Crispín and Samuel the valiant, as well as Julia (Ed's little sister), are involved in an adventure that...
HUGO Y EL LADRÓN FANTASMA
Carlos Vila Sexto
Hugo loves The X-men comics. He dreams of being one of its heroes, concretely professor Charles Xavier. As the fiction character, Hugo needs a wheelchair to move around his new school.
At the beginning Hugo is discouraged: "again I have to invent the usual stories about what happened to me. What a hassle!" he thinks, but this time Eric (another Marvel geek) and Olivia (also with a disability),...
EL LIRIO DE FUEGO
Vic Echegoyen
France, during the Thirty Years’ War: When Cardinal Richelieu sends Léon Bouthillier, his Secretary of State and chief spy, on a hazardous personal mission into enemy territory, Léon cannot anticipate he will have to track down and destroy a woman who is extremely dangerous to France’s interests, in order to recover a batch of letters which compromise the very safety of the realm.
This...
EL ENIGMA DE CARONTE
Carlos Vila Sexto
CHARON'S ENIGMA (14+). A tragic accident in the cliffs of Cabo Lázaro, a small town of the Galician coast, ends with the death of a boy of the town.
Dani, his great friend, feels bad when realizing that he does not show so sad as other people who were not so close to his friend. At the same time he does not believe the explanation of the accident, much less that of suicide, so begins a secret...
AS SETE MORTES
Carlos Vila Sexto
A wounded old man knocks at Jacobo's door, with just the time to give him and ancient parchment before dying on his arms. Jacobo use his contacts to reach Natalia the only person who can help to decipher it. What they will discover will be difficult to accept, even for Jacobo.
Meanwhile, the police find evidence that Jacobo might be involved in other similar deaths, and the hunting begins. But...
ALBANUMA, LA CIUDAD PERDIDA
Jorge Vivanco
José, a boy from Albanuma, wakes up on a dune of an infinite sand sea. He doesn’t know why he is there, but starts walking aimlessly until he hears a girl screaming: it's Maria. Her father has just turned into a giant scorpion -a «jauriyashka»- and is attacking her.
This is how this new age bildungsroman with pre-Columbus reminiscences starts. It is set in a devilish desert that reminds...
EL PASAJERO 19
Carlos Vila Sexto
Vol. 1 of the Las crónicas del viajante trilogy.
It is the maiden voyage of "El tren del norte", an Orient Express of our time, made by Ismael Docampo, who goes through the northern Spanish coast under the buffeting of Hortensia, the biggest hurricane the country has experienced in decades.
A man wakes up in one of the compartments. He doesn’t remember what he is doing there, he cannot...