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The Night of the Stag Beetles
A group of children’s return to nature when the world powers down. Two teenage sisters, driven from their city by war and an unprecedented energy crisis, set out on a dangerous journey to their grandparents’ mountain village. Among the peaks, they find Ginepro and his band of self-reliant children — and a new way of living, built on trust, courage, and…
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Dedalo & Dharma
It’s a summer evening when, without even realizing it, Dharma comes out of the cinema screen to escape certain death and meet that very spectator, Dedalo, who comes to the Kazan Cinema every single day to see her. Dedalo is thirteen and has an unbridled passion for films and Dharma, who’s the same age, is a character who escaped a destiny which,…
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The Pikes of Lake Road
Thirty-three days of secrets, dares, and the summer that changed everything. With all the spontaneity of his thirteen years, Mauri retraces the thirty-three days that have made him grow up, starting on that 14th June when his best friend, Brando, dives into the lake and never resurfaces. But incredulous grief soon gives way to doubt: mysterious notes written in Brando’s…
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Draconis Chronicon
Five children on a journey. A legendary dragon. An epic adventure in a magical Middle Ages. Salerno, 1066. A preacher wanders the streets announcing the end of the world: “The Beast is stirring again! Fear the dragon, because the day of the eclipse is near!” The young Barliario doesn’t pay attention to those words of doom, but that same evening his…
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Like Cicadas
The summer Teresa turns twelve, everything feels out of sync. Her friends talk about nail polish, crushes, and growing up—while she still clings to old games and scraped knees. At the family’s usual seaside village, she braces for the loneliest summer ever. Then she meets Agata: quiet, magnetic, and unlike anyone she has ever met before. What begins as a…
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Three Friends On Holiday
One summer. Three best friends. One travelling diary that keeps them together. Lola, Isi and Zoe are inseparable—but this summer, each will be far from the others: one at a theatre camp in the mountains, one in a fancy resort by the sea, and one on a family trip to Scotland. To bridge the distance, they invent the “Friends’ Diary”—a travelling journal…
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Three Friends, One Diary
If you can’t use your phone, how do you survive at school? With a diary for you and your friends! There’s a new rule at Locatelli middle school: students won’t be allowed to use their mobile phones for a whole school year, neither in class nor at home. How will Zoe, Isi and Lola cope with life at school without texting each…
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We Are Fire
When love burns, nothing is safe, not even the friendships we thought would last forever. A heady, sun-drenched summer in Puglia. A legendary friendship. A girl who changes everything. Charming and reckless, Nicolas is used to getting what he wants. His quieter best friend, Alex, has always followed him. But when they both fall for the same girl, Mia, their loyalty is…
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The Summer of My First Kiss (Maybe)
Three boys. One pact. Zero experience. A laugh-out-loud summer story about friendship, first crushes, and total humiliation. It’s the first day of the summer holidays, and Dado, Pippo, and Martino have sworn a solemn oath (sealed with spit and snot): before the end of the summer, all of them must kiss a girl. In order to prove the kiss really happened,…
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Hach3r
Raffaele is fifteen, a tech nerd with two passions: AI and Alina, the most intriguing girl at school. But while he’s fluent in programming, he’s hopeless when it comes to people. When he discovers Alina follows a social media group for aspiring writers, he joins and starts posting stories. They’re… not great. Until one day, something strange happens: a new story…
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Nothing Ever Changes Here
Two summers interweave on the page leaving a secret question, like a wish written in the sand: can first love be an eternal coming back? Stolen kisses, diving from canoes, pool matches, shooting stars to pin our wishes on if we can’t even confess them to ourselves, and secret crushes revealed in the half-light of a tent. They may sound…
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I’ll Be Waiting For You in Saint Something
Sometimes, it may happen that you have to move to a place that you did not know and you even did not want to know. This is what happened to Simone too, who in September arrives at a deserted village, where he will have to attend the high school. He knows nobody, his father is always at work, and his…
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