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Even though the New Order, called NOM, maintains apparent stability with harsh repression, planet Earth is unfortunately on the brink of collapse. There is only one real solution: escaping to the orbiting space stations called NewEarths. There is only one way to be accepted on to them, via a ranking system. The Transformed are young people on the threshold of adolescence who show changes in their body or mind triggered by pollutants and radioactive substances, and they will will certainly be excluded. Normally, NOM abducts them without a trace. Three kids, Folco, Lulù, and Arthur, all have special talents they have kept hidden to escape NOM, and they now find themselves in a secret place where they are trained to become Perfectors, youths trained by the Resistance to carry out their missions on Earth …


Loredana Frescura is the 2006 Andersen Prize winner with her novel, The world in your eyes, written with Marco Tomatis. She has written many novels, both with Marco and on her own, which have received numerous awards. Marco Tomatis has worked for years as a screenwriter for comics and as an author of children’s books. In both cases his works have been published not only by the top Italian publishing houses, but also by some of the best publishers for children’s books around the world.

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