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Luca, terza media, è costretto a pagare un tributo a due bulli che lo aspettano tutte le mattine sulla strada verso la scuola. Non ha il coraggio per ribellarsi né per denunciarli, e si confida solo con la sua amica Deba. Ad aiutarlo non sarà suo padre, un uomo violento e distratto, né i compagni impotenti, né gli insegnanti disorientati. Ci riuscirà invece, con le parole e con i fatti, Davide, lo zio di Deba arrivato dall'Africa: un uomo misterioso, dallo sguardo saggio e dalla rara capacità di ascoltare. A Deba, Luca e a tutti i loro amici Davide lascerà una lezione e un esempio di dignità, coraggio e umanità. Postfazione di Antonio Faeti. Età di lettura: da 12 anni.
About the author
Steven Knight is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter. The Last Words of Will Wolfkin is his first book for children.
Summary
It's funny. If you're born a certain way, you don't really understand how it is to be any other way.
So it has been for Toby Walsgrove—paralyzed since birth, unable to move or talk, with no known family, he has spent his entire life at a Carmelite convent in London. That is, until the day that his cat, Shipley, starts talking to him. Shipley has been watching over Toby his whole life and tells him they must go to Langjoskull, a city of exiles buried deep below the surface of Iceland. Because Toby is no ordinary boy—he's a descendant of the great king Will Wolfkin, and his kingdom needs him.
Toby has never wielded a sword that can stop time. He has never shifted into his kin creature. He has never even walked on his own two legs before. Ready or not, though, he has a destiny, a responsibility, even a family—and not all of them are happy to meet him. . . .
