Paolo Antonio Livorati Libros

Live large with James Patterson's winning follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life. After sixth grade, the very worst year of his life, Rafe Khatchadorian thinks he has it made in seventh grade. He's been accepted to art school in the big city and imagines a math-and-history-free fun zone. Wrong! It's more competitive than Rafe ever expected, and to score big in class, he needs to find a way to turn his boring life into the inspiration for a work of art. His method? Operation: Get a Life! Anything he's never done before, he's going to do it, from learning to play poker to going to a modern art museum. But when his newest mission uncovers secrets about the family Rafe's never known, he has to decide if he's ready to have his world turned upside down.

In this dystopian world, books are replaced by mind-probes, unusable by narrator Spaz 15ish, because of the epilepsy he is named for. After the "Big Shake" apocalyptic earthquake fells "backtime" skyscrapers and civilization, Normals survive in the concrete-smog grey Urb by working for "cut your red" killer gang bosses. Sent to rob Ryter, the boy instead gains a mentor, "gummy" old mostly toothless writer, who guides their quest by the sun. Far away, where Spaz was banished for his illness, beloved unrelated younger sister Bean is dying.

Mentre è in volo per raggiungere il padre, Brian precipita insieme al Cessna 406 sul quale sta viaggiando. Nel giro di pochi istanti il ragazzo si ritrova perso nel selvaggio Nord con solo i vestiti che indossa, l'accetta che mamma gli ha regalato e il segreto che nasconde dal giorno del divorzio dei genitori... Ora Brian non ha più tempo per la rabbia, la disperazione o l'autocommiserazione. Tutto quello che sa, e tutto il suo coraggio, gli serviranno per sopravvivere. Età di lettura: da 11 anni.