In small books, you find the greatest adventures!
Samurai and witches, explorers and tsars, Vikings and pirates: unforgettable stories, boundless and spanning every era and continent, telling the most fascinating characters in History, both past and present, full of emotion, suspense, mystery, and just the right amount of humor!
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A beloved series of adventure books written by the best Italian authors of bestsellers for young readers.
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Stories with the flavor and atmosphere of great classics, but completely original.
ARRIVE THE HOOD BROTHERS
Guido Sgardoli
Missouri, 1863. Frank and Jesse Hood are two brothers who cannot stand the mistreatment of farmers during the American Civil War. So they organize a gang of young bandits who will give the Northern army a hard time. Until the end of the war puts everything back in its place…
BLACK POWDER
Miriam Dubini
China, 1275. Qing is thirteen years old and wants to become an alchemist like her father, Shu, an expert in gunpowder. When her father is kidnapped, she joins a convoy of travelers from far away. Among them is a seventeen-year-old named Marco Polo…
THE TERRIBLE WILL OF JEREMY HOPPERTON
Davide Morosinotto
There’s always a good reason to sneak aboard a ship headed for the atolls of the Pacific Ocean. Especially if you’re a young lady from a good family. Especially if you want to escape conventions. And find out who killed your sister.
TRAVELING WITH THE TSAR
Pierdomenico Baccalario
Who is this young man you must accompany without asking questions? He claims to be a prince, but he walks with the weight of peasants. He sniffs the horizon as if it were forbidden. And he dreams of a great train capable of uniting what has been and what will be. Ask him, when you are alone.
A MYSTERIOUS VIKING
Sabina Collaredo
They came at night, like cowards, attacked, and killed your family. Meanwhile, you quietly repeated the spells of the runes. Because you knew, you knew, they didn’t. That only those who know how to read the letters of the world will discover it one day.
THE QUEEN OF PIRATES
Eduardo Jáuregui
Not everything returns. Deceive me and I will not lie to you; chain me and I’ll set you free. Cover me with rags, and I’ll be one of the seas. Forget me, and you will hear my story in every port in the world.
THE ANDES ROUTE
Christian Hill
No matter how high those mountains are, or how old this plane is. There’s only one thing that matters in the heart of an airmail pilot: every letter must reach its destination in time. And if there’s a package too heavy, named Ricardo, it will arrive with the Airmail. No matter the cost.
HIRO OF THE MONKEYS
Giuseppe Festa
Hiro finds himself on the other side of the world, in the jungle, being chased, he who carries Japan in his blood and has studied the life of monkeys. And he understands what’s hidden in the heart of every cell phone: a cry for help. The only problem is that from down there, no one hears it.
BATTLE NAME MAGDA
Andrea Pau
“You run, fight, even learn to shoot, while tanks destroy your city. But then, when you stop to breathe, and look at the boys in your battalion, a crazy idea forms: what if we took that tank shooting at us? What if we used it against them?”
JOURNEY TO THE FORBIDDEN CITY
Elisa Purricelli Guerra
There’s an unexplored kingdom beyond the mountains. Conquering it is no game. It’s about growing up and traveling. And you have a treasure among many: tea leaves. So yes, Dad, I’ll come with you.
THE WITCH OF LIATH LOCH
Silvia Roncaglia
Inside the forest are gods and remedies, every danger and every wonder. If you want to enter, ask yourself who you are, and what others will think of you. Prepare to be judged and condemned. Yet only you, witch, can find the solution. And heal them.
RICO THE COURAGEOUS
Luisa Mattia
How big this city is, only I know. It’s at war, starving, exhausted. And it’s never been more alive. If you’re looking for gods, emperors, cowards, and heroes, you’ll find them in Rome. I know it like no one else. And I run much faster than you.
THE YOUNG SAMURAI
Igor De Amicis, Paola Luciani
If a storm decides to save you, Tom, it’s because off the coast of Japan, your language and your skills are utterly meaningless. And also because in your red hair, it recognized the destiny of someone who will stir up storms larger than itself.
THE MYSTERY OF THE ULDA
Daniele Nicastro
The ice is alive, vibrating. Mysterious. It guards distant shadows that wander the woods. Some say they’ve spoken to them and received magical gifts. But the Ulda are just legends for children. Or are they?
LENA THE MOUNTAIN ANCHOVY
Marco Magnone
There’s salt on your skin, running and hiding. The woods are your home. You don’t need maps, nor other people’s dreams, to know which direction the sea sparkles in. And with just enough breath and a wooden stick, you’re the queen of the world.
THE EMERALDS OF SUMATRA
Christian Antonini
That man came from Singapore. He doesn’t know that by diving into certain books, you go so deep you don’t come back up. It’s a secret between you and your father. A secret solid, strong, like a diver’s suit. Like what you’re about to do, to go search for him.
DISAPPEARANCE ON THE ICE
Giulia Gubellini
There’s a white world where you can walk on water. Where the only sound you hear is the earth breaking apart. Where fire doesn’t warm, and the air bites your face. At night, the frozen pack sings to the moon. Even though the one in the sky doesn’t look like the moon. The sun, Finnán, you don’t even remember. But you’re here. You and Abel and all the sailors and officers of Her Majesty’s ship. Don’t worry, ma’am: this is the Polar Winter. And with every Winter, comes the return.
THE REVENGE OF FRANCES FARMER
Lucia Vaccarino
You don’t just need four days, one hundred fifty dollars, and the Nirvana concert tickets you’ve hidden in your room all this time. You need much more: the courage to run away from home, and follow the road, alone or with whoever is there, out there. Until the end. Until December 13, 1993.
THE BLACKBIRD SINGS FREE
Andrea Tullio Canobbio and Alessandro Gatti
It all happened in one night. They celebrated, they shot, they burned the city. And Dad didn’t come back. So, Halima, you’re a girl, what can you do? Either you stay quietly at home, waiting for this so-called Arab revolution to pass, and everything returns to the way it was, including your father. Or… Halima? Halima! Where did you go?
THE STRAYS OF KLONDIKE
Sarah Rossi and Tommaso Percivale
It’s cold up here, Bone. Enough to freeze your toes in your shoes. If we had shoes. We’re hungry again, always hunting. For rabbits, for wild animals. And for those even more dangerous animals, the men who sift the frozen rivers looking for gold. Fine, Bone, I’ll stop, I’ll stop. I’ll do like the others: and keep quiet. But only for a while.
