El medallón de la luna

Balaguer, 1938. The Civil War rages furiously across the Segre, but Xavier feels safe and each day he takes his bicycle out to explore the town and its surroundings. In one of his trips he meets Matthew, a sixteen-year-old boy who is the son of an anarchist and is about to join the front. When Xavier, son of an engineer under the order of Franco, discovers the secret weapon that helped his father prepare to wipe out the Republican side, it will pose the most critical dilemma of his life.

Sometimes the protagonist of this novel feels like a boy and other times like a girl. Gender identity can be even harder to deal with when your father is a conservative politician in the middle of a campaign. This very realistic novel will have readers contemplating how they view themselves and others.

Una novela de fantasía protagonizada por un personaje muy especial. Asesinos, ladrones, amor y... una despiadada lucha por la supervivencia. Un grupo de asesinos. Una audición para convertirse en el nuevo asesino de la Reina. Y Sal, criminal de género fluido en busca de venganza. Sallot Leon se ha criado entre ladrones y criminales, malvive con lo poco que consigue robar y su futuro no es nada prometedor. Pero todo cambia cuando cae en sus manos un anuncio que puede brindarle una vida mejor: la Reina busca un nuevo miembro para la Mano Izquierda, su colección personal de asesinos. Es su...

Oscar Dunleavy is a generous, intelligent, optimistic kid who knows how to make the best apple tarts in the world. One day, he disappears and everyone assumes he has died. Only his best friend Meg and his younger brother Steve refuse to believe it. The two decide to look for him and find out what truly happened.