Aurora Chen and the Killer Slipper Crew

Adventure
Crime

They’re back, times have changed and now they’re not alone!

An adorable gang of elderly ex-cons, full of aches and pains, a young girl, and her best friend.

Milan will always be Milan — but after forty years behind bars, the three old-timers from the Gasometer Gang hardly recognize it. It’s up to a Chinese — but very Italian — girl to help them reopen the case and, between sore joints, a rebellious set of dentures, and a few social media mishaps, lead them to the hidden loot. Will they finally uncover the whole — really whole — truth?

  • Milan has never been this fun, not even in a noir-tinged adventure.
  • A lively and ironic story that blends mystery and humor, showing how friendship can overcome any generational or cultural divide.
Publisher: Fabbri Editori
Target: 8-10
Year: 2019
Author
Pierdomenico Baccalario

Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica, and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.

 

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Author
Alessandro Gatti

Alessandro Gatti was born in 1975. As a young man, he studied a lot of philosophy but then he thought it was best to start writing novels for children. He is the author of the Klincus Corteccia books (Mondadori), which have just been adapted into a cartoon series. Along with Pierdomenico Baccalario and Lucia Vaccarino, he is also the author of the novels in the Sherlock, Lupin & Io (Sherlock, Lupin & Me) series, Piemme, translated into several languages. For a few years he has also been a comic book writer for Disney.

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