secondhand Gkntoup! The Secret Diary of Lina used

Used • Language: Greek

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GNDUP! THE SECRET DIARY OF LINA

My name is Lina and I hate being asked how I'm doing in school. It's the dumbest question after what grade I'm in. Wrong, the dumbest question is whether I'm a good girl. As if I would tell them if I wasn't.
BANG!
The secret diary of Lina, who is nine years old and thirty-nine days. She counts the days and not the months because the days go by faster, and she notes her questions about everything that concerns or confuses her. Normally, you are not allowed to read it, but... anyway.
A book that stands out for its witty humor and addresses contemporary social issues with honesty, responsibility, and sensitivity. (From the presentation on the back cover of the book)

Using the diary as a tool for an authentic first-person narrative, the author has the freedom to address many topics through his heroine, such as: parent-child relationships, the mother-daughter conflict, school, friends, death, God, sex, love and the right to it, diversity, lies, divorce, and family life, especially the child's life after that. He provides convincing answers, without rambling, and mainly through the lens of tolerance, respect, and understanding. Lina, created by Lyo Kalovyrnas, despite the polar temperatures of her parents' third-degree fights, endures the "bangs" and stands on her childhood feet walking towards adolescence with the most important asset, love.
Why children will love it:
Children will love it because the heroine thinks with their minds and speaks their language. She writes things they have thought about, lives a life that resembles theirs in many ways, and narrates it in a charming, light-hearted, and optimistic way. Because everything that 9-year-old Lina experiences, thinks, and writes sometimes resonates in their own heads, making a strong "Bang!", without always having an "Uncle Kostas" or an "Aunt Louisa" to provide first aid.
Why parents should prefer it:
To offer their children a book that will give them the opportunity to meet a peer and engage mentally with her with humor and immediacy in a creative and familiar language for them, without any linguistic compromise. And most importantly, because Kalovyrnas addresses the topics he chooses directly, without didacticism, far from prejudices or stereotypes. (Eleni Korovila, BookPress.gr, 31/3/2013)