1002 Fantasmas (Em Portugues do Brasil)

1002 Fantasmas (Em Portugues do Brasil)icon

by Heloisa Prieto

Publisher
Heloisa Prieto Publishing
Publication
Mar 08, 2022
Format
Paperback/Softback
Illustrated
No
Price
$29.50
Dimensions
5.51 x 8.27 x 0.39 in
ISBN
978-8555341939
ASIN
8555341930
Pages
112
Age
10 - 12 years
Category
Coming of Age

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Description

This is a thrilling, epistolary mystery novel highligting the affection between sisters and the power of imagination.

When the teen age twin sisters, Catriona and Caroline come across a floating, screaming ghost at the window of their roof top flat, their lives seem to turn into one of the creepy, horror plays they enjoy perfoming at their Youtube channel. After all, is there space for phantasmagoric visits in a regular girl's life?
To make matters worse, this terrifying encounter messes up with Carol's mind and she not only starts keeping secrets from her sister as she now acts in a very peculiar manner: she sings ancient songs in a forgotten, foreign language, and she definitely doesn't act as her own self anymore.

After several sleepless nights, worrying about her twin and the ghost at the window, Catriona finally writes to a millenary secret society: The 1002 Ghosts.
From that moment on, ancient riddles, benign ghosts and evil humans will invade the girl's lives who will find themselves having to face the most daring and spooky situations. In order to cope with such unusual challenges they will rely upon the support of new, unexpected friends and the comfort that only true artistic crafts can really provide.

Target readers: YA (middle grade)





Awards & Endorsements

isto é review

1002 ghosts has been adapted as a very succesful play by Cia do Grito company, in São Paulo. This is review by prestigious Isto é magazine.

https://istoe.com.br/companhia-o-grito-estreia-espetaculo-em-que-sauda-fantasmas-do-teatro

review by Tadg Paul, Irish poet and playwright
A flying woman appears at the bedroom window of twin sisters in São Paulo. One hears a song. The other, terror. The gap between them is the wound 1002 Ghosts opens, and it is one of the most quietly assured openings in children's writing I have read in years. Heloisa Prieto knows what her young readers can carry, and she trusts them with it.
The book arrives by letter - from Dublin, Salvador, Bexiga, the family theatre, the family flat - "...and builds its world through correspondence the way Scheherazade and Dumas built theirs through nested stories. Theatre runs through the book - its mother an actress, its daughters writers and performers, its climactic confrontation a play staged to wake an enchanted parent. As an Irish reader I felt the Banshee plot strike home with surprising force; Prieto's instinct for Irish folklore is exact, and the way the guardian ghost crosses water with the O'Neill family to São Paulo is among the most generous pieces of cultural attention to Ireland I have encountered from anywhere.
The villain of 1002 Ghosts is not a ghost. It is a woman who wants to clean the imagination out of children, to throw away their fairy tales, to convince a tired mother that her daughters need to be silenced and tidied. Prieto draws her with patience and precision - funny, frightening, entirely recognizable. This is a children's book about adults who would police what children are allowed to dream, and about the network of friends, living and dead, who refuse to let them. Anglophone readers have been slow to receive Brazilian children's writing of this quality. They should not be slow with this one.
- Taḋg Paul, Irish poet and playwright

MEC - MINISTRY OF EDUCATION - brazil

1002 ghosts has been listed by the ministry of education in Brazil (MEC) as one of the best YA (middle grade) books for readers and has been included in the public schools site for free reading.

https://meclivros.mec.gov.br/search/view-work?id=1001954

São Paulo city hall

1002 ghosts, the play, has been awarded and staged at the city hall free theater. (CEU)

Author(s)

Heloisa Prieto

Heloisa Prieto

Dr. Heloisa Prieto is one of Brazil's most celebrated children and YA authors. She has sold over two million books in her native country. Her Mano series of YA novels inspired the awarded Time Warner movie “The Best Things in the World”. In 2022 she published The Musician, in the US, an acclaimed novel of magical realism, its rights were sold to the traditional publishing house, Editora Nova Fronteira, in Brazil.
Also in 2022, she had 8 titles selected for the PNLD Public Book-Purchasing Programme, including The Wind Riders, a YA magical realism novel co-written with Irish writer and illustrator, Adrienne Geoghegan.
Previously, she published the best selling YA series 1001 and 102 Ghosts at Editora Seguinte (Penguin/Brazil)
Unapologetically infatuated by the fantastic genre, especially thriller, Heloisa Prieto presents her readers with two narratives full of mysteries and a unique poetry.
Heloisa Prieto has spent a lifetime researching myths and legends-both ancient and modern-and organizing and curating collections of cross-cultural interest. She has created and organized numerous creative writing workshops for children, teenagers, and adults. She also has a PhD in French literature (University of São Paulo) and a master's degree in semiotics (Catholic University of São Paulo).
Her 103 titles include fantasy, fairy tales, gothic novels and contemporary fables and daily life fiction.

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