Three Friends On Holiday – vol. 2
Gisella Laterza, Giada Pavesi
Three Friends, One Last Year
Romance
Coming of age
How to survive your final year of middle school without smartphones — but with your best friends beside you.
The final exams are getting closer, teachers keep asking about high school choices, and the experimental smartphone ban is still in place. So Lola, Zoe and Isi continue sharing their secret Friends’ Diary, filling its pages with fears, crushes, disasters and dreams for the future. Between theatre rehearsals, karate lessons, broken hearts and difficult family expectations, the three girls will discover that growing up means learning to trust their own voices — even when the future feels uncertain. Because sometimes the only way to survive middle school is to write everything down together.
- A unique shared-diary format: told through handwritten entries, notes, drawings and conversations, the novel captures the emotional immediacy of teenage friendship in an engaging and accessible way.
- Three authentic and relatable protagonists: Lola, Zoe and Isi each face different fears, dreams and emotional struggles, allowing readers to identify with multiple perspectives on growing up.
Publisher:
Piemme
Target:
12+
Year:
2026
Author
Giada Pavesi
Giada Pavesi is a writer from Cremona, where she lives with her snobbish cat and a few too many plants—but whenever she gets the chance, she grabs her yellow suitcase and sets off on a trip. To justify reading all day, she began studying foreign languages and literature at the University of Milan, and later in Leicester, England. She has worked as a waitress, entertainer, translator, librarian... and probably a few other things too.
Author
Gisella Laterza
Gisella Laterza lives in Bergamo—or more precisely, in a café downtown where she spends her time writing. When she’s not writing, she teaches Italian and Latin at a high school and leads creative writing workshops for kids and teens (ages 6 to 99!). She has published novels, short stories for school anthologies, biographies, and a children’s adaptation of The Divine Comedy (Einaudi Ragazzi). Among her most popular series is Tre amiche per un diario (Il Battello a Vapore). Under the pseudonym Ella Archer, she wrote Abissi e incanto, a fantasy romance currently being translated into French, Dutch, and Spanish. The novel is a finalist for both the ILfest Award (Munich, 2025) and the Romance Book Party Awards (Naples, 2025).
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