Secondary

(13-16 years)

Martín Casariego, Y decirte alguna estupidez, por ejemplo, te quiero, Barcelona, Anaya, 1995, 154 pp. Juan thinks that the love is a solemn stupidity, but, even so, he/she falls in love with Sara, the new girl of its class, nothing else to begin the new course: Second of BUP. Juan is such an ironic boy as reserved, and in and of itself he keeps secretly, or he believes this way it him, his love that he doesn't admit neither to his most valuable friends. Although, neither he/she dares to be admitted it to the interested one. With everything, Juan is a normal boy, Sara it is more thrown and special: it confuses Juan continually, to the one that alternating it attracts and it drives away. When Sara intends him to steal the exams, he doesn't know how to say that not to the adventure that she proposes him, because you/he/she is put in another adventure, that of her secret love. This is also the history of the step from the adolescence to the maturity: in the year of the farewell of Butragueño, an idol for Zac, his small brother, Juan is learning how to value that that calls you "the small things".

Andreu Martín y Jaume Ribera, Flanagan Blues Band, Barcelona, Anaya, 1996, 214 pp. Andreu Martin and Jaume Ribera are the authors of the adolescent detective's series Flanagan that Anaya is publishing in its collection" Space Open" with great welcome between the readers and the readers. In Flanagan Blues Band, the already famous detective Flanagan, alum of the teenager Juan Anguera, will witness a murder in its own neighbourhood. He will have to try to demonstrate the detective's innocence Oriol Lahoz like I murder of the parish priest of the neighbourhood, the mosén Roberto. The jewels of the family Garreta will be the motive of the murder and the reason that our detective enters in quarrels with police, with the granddaughter of the Garreta, with the antique dealer Martin Elegance and, in another parallel history, with Pingüín Fedorento. As it is already habitual in the series Flanagan, in this new delivery doesn't lack literary ingredients as the sense of humour that impregnates the whole narration, the alternation of serious situations and comedians (combining masterfully several parallel plots), the abundance of anticipatory elements of the plot and the use of a current and near colloquial language to the world of the boys and small of today.

Jesús Gilabert Juan (ed.), Los mejores relatos históricos, Madrid, Alfaguara, 2000, 189 pp. The volume here present is an anthology, in charge of J. Gilabert Juan, in which are deployed, in opinion of the compiler, the best historical stories so far. We will find in this copy, authors like the Brown Bazán, Pedro Antonio of Alarcón, Francisco Ayala, Jesus Fernández Santos, Arturo Uslar Pietri, among the Spanish-speakers, and to Washintong Irving, Joseph Conrad, and Herman Hesse, among the authors of non Hispanic speech. Gilabert, besides the anthology, offers us a brief foreword where tries from the beginnings of the historical novel with Walter Scott, until the last author that is part of this book. In definitive, a well-begun compilation that it takes us to know and to experience events of our history, but from a literary point of view.

Juan Farias, Ronda de suspiros, Barcelona, El Barco de Vapor, 1994, 119 pp. Located past at one time, when, still, the ships tossed smoke and the poorest were illuminated with a lamp, Juan Farias narrates us the history of the inhabitants from the Puebla del Viento that all immerses walked in their loves, and whose sighs were heard Ronda's Walk all told. Each chapter is devoted to one of the characters of the town, and to the fears and passions that hound them. Although, the san image Benitiño that there is in the church, a building that presides over all the corners of the town, should make some thing to change lapsing of the time and of the lives of the inhabitants from Puebla del Viento.

Gabriel Janer Manila, Samba per a un «Menino da Rua», Barcelona, edebé, 2000, 126 pp. This novel leads us to a different, unknown world, and, even, stranger. This novel is about the extermination a group that act looking for the boys that live for the streets of Brazil at night. To the pages gives rue (children of the street) they kill them to shots; but, sometimes, it runs over them a car. Those that are caught with life take them to the police station and they torture them until they no longer can more. The strongest only survive. This is a novel that, with a horrified look, he/she talks us about the children that survive in the streets of the cities of Brazil.

Xavier P. Docampo, Quan de nit truquen a la porta, Barcelona, Barca Nova, 1996, 80 pp. There are four mystery stories here in charge of Xabier P. Docampo. These are histories that when we read them, it seems that we are hearing them, fact that causes that our fear increases and, also, we can remember our more remote nightmares: the wind that blows the trees, the snow that he/she called us to walk and that he/she went covering our footfalls with the consequent risks of getting lost, the darkness that doesn't allow us to see the beings that hide... With the structure characteristic of the stories of oral transmission, the author believes these four stories that try to freeze to the reader in the deepest terror.

Joan Manuel Gisbert, L’arquitecte i l’emperador d’aràbia, Barcelona, altadelta, 1990, 118 pp. The protagonists of this history are: an emperor, an architect, a construction, a blind poet and a boy who accompanies to him. History is clear in principle. An emperor who wishes a monumental work so that he is remembered in the posterity. A fame architect that is going it to make. The emperor imposes conditions to him: it will not be able to speak with anybody while the work lasts. A day nevertheless is before its store a blind poet whom it notices to him: "you do not entrust yourself in the emperor since when you finish its work, you will lose most valuable that you have and it is not your life". The emperor commands to catch the blind person and he until death condemns it by those words… So that? Everything a mystery solved with one nails poetic surprising.