The Counter World
Jacopo Olivieri
Beblade. Bebe Vio and Her Team
Adventure
Wherever you go, a battle awaits.
Mia is fifteen and has always loved a challenge. “Call me when you’re ready,” the man with the green hat said. So she did. Mia is now in a strange place, involved in a bloody battle between Hunters and Prey.
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A spine-tingling drama that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.
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Bebe Vio, an Italian champion wheelchair fencer – who won an incredible gold medal at the RIO 2016 Paralympics – emerges as the protagonist and model of willpower in this heart-stopping adventure.
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Heart and courage make the impossible possible.
Publisher:
Piemme
Target:
8-10
Year:
2018
Author
Pierdomenico Baccalario
Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica, and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.
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