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Book cover THE GIRL WHO WANTED TO BE A TURTLE
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LA NIÑA QUE QUERÍA SER TORTUGA

Silvia and Fabio are classmates. For her, Fabio is a superficial posh boy who thinks he can solve everything with his snake charmer's smile. He sees Silvia as a haughty girl who considers herself superior to her classmates. There is little chance of them becoming friends. And yet, when the social studies teacher pairs them up to do an assignment, they discover they have more in common than they thought.

Then war breaks out in Yemen. Fabio's friend, Amina, the girl who once wanted to be a turtle, suddenly finds herself under the bombs, in an extreme situation. Fabio and Silvia will try to help her. But is it possible to help someone who is trapped in a war six thousand kilometers away?

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ISBN: 978-84-683-5600-6
Code: 135148
Publication date: 12/07/2022
264 pages
Size: 13.0cm x 20.5cm. Paperback
Cover price: 13.50 
Recommended subjects:
Geography and History
Civic and Ethical Values
Theme:Children's / Teenage fiction and true stories
Biography
Riera, Pedro

Pedro Riera (Barcelona,1965) has a degree in Communication Sciences. He has worked in television, film and advertising. He has published a dozen children’s and young adult books that have obtained different awards, among them the Edebé Young Adult award with La tumba de Aurora K (2015). As a comic scriptwriter, he has published three graphic novels about the situation of women in Yemen, Islamophobia and racism for which he has received several awards among them the French state network France Info for best current affairs comic and report in 2011.

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