Titles
- Amaranta (YA novel)
- Milena Pato (children series)
- Tengo tanto que contarte (YA novel, with Angeles Escudero)
- Crypta (YA novel)
- Bel (YA novel)
- Se vende mamá (children)
- Dos Lunas (young readers)
- Los ojos del lobo (YA novel)
- Un camello en la cornisa (children)
- El genio ifigenio (children series)
- Arcanus (children series)
- Non-Fiction
- Fiction
Young readers 14+
Amaranta
Amaranta is the only daughter of the directors of Bancomundo, who try to educate her to follow their steps. However, she is a free spirit: she wants to have a normal life and be a stage actress … For Amaranta’s eighteenth birthday, her mother organizes a big party, and invites the country’s high society. But Amaranta feels very lonely among so much luxury. She is more interested in Isma, the mysterious and handsome bartender, than in Sergio, the boy whom her parents would like her to date. On top of it all, her grandfather, the founder of Bancomundo, reveals that he has carefully designed the rest of her life …
Will Amaranta follow the path that has been planned for her, or will she manage to go her own way and discover her destiny?
Spain: Montena (Spanish), 2014 (249 pp.); Grup 62 (Catalan) (Awarded with Jaen Prize for Young Adult Novels 2014)
Children series
Milena Pato Series #01: La rastreadora de historias (The history tracker)
Milena Pato is a ten-year-old girl. She would be perfect, except for the fact that she’s always in trouble because she’s too used to do what she mustn’t do. Since her grandmother told her that she would be a writer one day, she has started to look for stories with the help of her best friends, Frida and Sarai, and her cousin Teo. In this first adventure, they help Diana and Nadia, two eccentric and very absent-minded twins.
Spain: Montena (Spanish), 2012 (112 pp.); Base (Catalan)
YA novel
Care Santos & Angeles Escudero
Tengo tanto que contarte (There are so many things to tell you)
Do you know Olvido Rus?, someone asks Abril. This simple question unravels fantastic memories: Olvido and Abril, inseparable friends when they were teenagers, now distanced by the power of time . Olvido is a famous actress, and Abril just discovered the meaning of her existance. Although they don’t know it, their lives are closely linked …
Abril is about to get married and needs Olvido at her side. However, nothing is easy: rivalries, envies, love and the circumstances of life. This novel is about the power of friendship, the difficulties to take care of human relationships and the emotions it causes, but also about the passage of time and things for which it is worth fighting.
Spain : Destino, September 2013
YA novel
Crypta
The truth, my beloved Natalia, is that it would take volumes and volumes to crumble my adventures on Earth and in any case interesting things would remain in the inkpot. You know the world is ours, the Dark Ones’. The others have never existed. Everything is a story, a fantasy invented by mortals. Life is ours, like death and the universe and all that existed and will exist. The Devil Eblus is not going through its best moment. Degraded by his worst enemy and deprived of his power, it must win back its former position. At the same time, it must fight against the strangest, most annoying and embarrassing fact that ever happened to him: it has fallen in love. And not just with anyone. Natalia, a sixteen year old mortal does not pay it any attention. With the most ambitious and unscrupulous human being it has ever known… In Crypta, Care Santos gives us a unique story that blends fantasy with dark humor to describe a terrible world that is very similar to ours. Written with a perfect style by one of the most read writers among the youth of our country, this novel will not leave anyone indifferent.
Spain: Espasa Calpe, 2010
YA novel
Bel
A girl named Bel (Belinda), sixteen years old, comes back home after some time. She watches what is going on there. Everything has changed. Her room is tidy. Her mother has left work and she is really slim. Her father doesn’t make breakfast as always, when he came from work (he is a policeman and has the night shift) and her dog growls every time she approaches. When she enters her parents room and fins her mother bag she discovers what has happened: she is death. In her mother bag she finds her own death notice. From now on, Bel journey is a journey to find the truth. She doesn’t remember what happened. Her parents talk about an accident. Her best friend, Amanda, talks about suicide. She just remembers that the afternoon she died, she was at a funfair with her boyfriend and her friend. They got on a roller coaster and there they found Amanda’s boyfriend. After that, she was dead and her boyfriend in coma. Bel wants to know the truth. This is why she follows everyone she knows, specially Amanda, in order to know what happened. But it won’t be until she finds Alma , a medium, when she will get to the truth. A truth that maybe would be better not to know, because it only leads to one thing: revenge.
Spain : SM (Spanish), Cruilla (Catalan); France: Du Seuil; Germany: Baumhaus; Portugal (Planeta)
Children
Se vende mamá (Mum for sale)
Thirty year old, second-hand, very beautiful mum for sale. She makes a wonderful lasagne, four cheese pizza and Spanish style soft salami. She is very affectionate and has a pleasant voice. She almost never scolds me. Why am I selling her? Since Garbanzo was born, she does not love me like before.
Spain: SM (Spanish, Catalan, Basque); Germany: Baumhaus; Korea: Better Books
(Se vende papá)
Science Fiction Novel, young readers
Dos Lunas (Two moons)
A razed world
An inexorable dictator, who rules with an iron hand, obsessed with extinguishing the Clan of Las Dos Lunas, the only inhabitants of the planet who can put him in the shade.
Two children are the last hope of civilization.
A fortress in the middle of the ocean.
An owl that is a lot more important as it seems to be.
A special girl lost in a world of shades and doubts.
Spain : Randomhouse Mondadori , 2008
YA novel / thriller
Los ojos del lobo (The eyes of the wolf)
You are on your way home from a party. It is late at night. You can hear a car driving slowly, watching you. Your mum phones your mobile. It is the last she hears from you. Your neighbors, your friends and your family start an anxious desperate search which will result in every character having to face their own fears, hope and contradictions .
Spain : Ediciones SM 2004, 197 pages (Awarded with Premio Gran Angular 2004)
Children, illustrated
Un camello en la cornisa
For Èlia the worst day of the year is when Christmas holidays end and she has to pick up the toys she earned from Magi. But this year the girl will receive a very special visit. Right after going to school, Èlia listens to someone coughing at her window. Who can it be if it is so cold outside?
Spain : McMillan Iberia 2009
Children series, illustrated
El genio Ifigenio (The genius Ifigenio)
Ifigenius is a trainee genius. Modern, resolute and very dynamic, he is part of a new generation of geniuses that are no longer squeamish about showing up everywhere: from a carton of milk to a cup of chocolate, he appears if children rub enough, of course. Ifigenius wears a suit and a tie and a badge on the flap, has a mobile phone to call the office if he has doubts with some bizarre desires (children have so many strange thoughts!) and a List of Approved Wishes (LAW). But even if Ifigenius has all this, he still lacks the most important thing: experience. So he has to learn from his clients, the children whom he shows up to, with the aim to grant them their wishes. And although boys and girls, more than once, get him into big trouble, Ifigenius always ends up accomplishing his missions.
Spain: Macmillan Iberia 2010
Children series, illustrated, age 9 to 11
Arcanus
In different parts of the world 12 Arcanos are born every 144 years (12×12). The twelfth born is the main character of the series. They discover they are part of the Arcanus before they are 12. There is a person who has to call these 12 children to form the “club”, a travel circus which will allow them to travel, get to know other countries and take part in the adventures. Their mission is fighting against evil, as if they were the saviours of some secret prophecy. Each of every title is dedicated to one of the Arcanus.
The books always end presenting an enigma to solve.
- Arcanus 1: Maddox descubre el camino ( Maddox dicovers the way ), Destino 2007
- Arcanus 2: Wiktor hypnotiza a las fieras ( Wiktor hypnotizes wild animals ), Destino 2007
- Arcanus 3: Ekki domina las tinieblas ( Ekki masters he darkness ), Destino 2007
- Arcanus4: Heuria provoca tempestades ( Heureca provokes storms ), Destino 2008
- Arcanus 5 Lure transmite energía ( Lure transmits energy ), Destino 2008
- Arcanus 6: Nebbit lee el pensamiento (Nebbit reads the thoughts), Destino 2009
- Arcanus 7: Aika está en todas partes ( Aika is everywhere ), Destino 2009
- Arcanus 8: Luca habla con animals ( Luca talks with animals )
- Arcanus 9: Ula mueve el mundo ( Ula moves the world )
- Arcanus 10: Shaima encuentra tesoros. ( Shaima finds treasures)
- Arcanus 11:Nel habla con los muertos. (Nel talkes with the dead).
