Down the Mine
Igor De Amicis, Paola Luciani
The You
Adventure
The story of how Blu met Luka and what happened next.
This is the story of a girl called Blu and her four friends: Abel, Tilly, Cameron and Luka. Abel has always been Blu’s best friend; Tilly lives in another city but is constantly video calling her; Cameron is American and has just arrived in town; and Luka doesn’t remember how he got there, but has superhuman strength and is invisible.
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A tale of courage, adventure and friendship that thwarts challenges and overcomes the fear of the other.
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Elements of adventure, fantasy and coming-of-age writing with echoes of the big screen.
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Shortlisted for The Strega Children’s Prize.
Publisher:
Rizzoli
Target:
10+
Year:
2020
Author
Davide Morosinotto
An author whose books have been translated into 25 languages, in Italy Davide Morosinotto won the Super Andersen Prize in 2017 with Il Rinomato Catalogo Walker&Dawn (The Pocket Watch Gang), Mondadori, and the Strega Children’s Prize 2021 with La Più Grande (The Greatest), Rizzoli, with which he also entered the IBBY Honour List 2021. A finalist at the prestigious Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and winner of the Penzberger Urmel in Germany, he has also won the Prix des Bouquineurs en Seine and the Grand Prix des Lecteurs du Journal de Mickey in France, the Vlag en Wimpel and the Zilveren Griffel in Holland, the KJV in Flanders, the Protagonista Jove prize in Catalonia and he was nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2022 in the United Kingdom.
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