Las Zeta generations (born between 1996 and 2010) and alfa (born from 2010) We grew surrounded by digital devices. Some were born with the computer at home, others saw him arrive in our first years of childhood. Of all, the same was expected: that We would replace reading onlinemobile and social networks. The data show that, far from speculation, the books remain one of the great interests in this age of this age.
The barometer of Reading and Book Habits 2024 He has been in charge of breaking all the myths that surround the idea that the Zeta and the Alfa do not read. According to report data, the population between 15 and 24 years It is still the More reader of our country. 75 out of every 100 young people read booksten points more than the general average of Spain (65.5%).
On the occasion of the Book Day, which is celebrated this April 23, in UWU we have collected a list of five readings that we recommend to the younger readers of our diary. If you don’t know what book to start or you are in a reader block, this can be a good starting point.
‘Vallesordo’, by Jonathan Arribas
If you like books written in the first person, where the narrator’s orality prevails, this is your book. Jonathan Arribas has written a tender and endearing book on Nico and his childhood in a PZamora. Our protagonist has 10 years And he lives in Vallesordo, where he plays with his friends, goes by bike and spends his afternoons dancing. Because Nico is very fan of Fame, to dance!the dance program of four that many Zeta will remember. The first Arribas novel, published in the publishing house Asteroid booksstands out for the child’s child voice, capable of reflecting the imagination, emotions and discoveries of a child born in the 2000s.
‘Dawn in the harvest’, by Suzanne Collins
The new book of the universe of The hunger games it’s a must For the followers of this saga of youth books. The novel is set 24 years before the events of the original trilogy, and focuses on the Second vassalage of the twenty -five. The protagonist of the story is Haymitch Abernathywho will later become the mentor of Katniss and Peeta. Like the rest of the books in this dystopian universe, Dawn in the harvest addresses issues such as handling of the narrative by the can o to endurance individual against oppression. A novel that, beyond fiction, allows us to reflect on political and current matters.
‘La Trenza’, De Laetitia Colombani
Smita lives in the Indiahe makes a living cleaning latrines and dreams of a different future for his daughter. Giulia She is a young woman from Sicily who works in his family’s wig workshop and faces the economic crisis after an accident of his father. Saraha successful lawyer of Montrealshe is diagnosed with cancer and rethinks what she wants to do with her life. The stories of these Three women They intertwine in The braidthe first novel by the French author Laetitia Colombani in which the Social and gender inequalities and the resilience They are also protagonists. Some consider it a recommended reading even for high school and high school students.
‘The bad habit’, by Alana S. goalkeeper
Alana’s literary debut is probably one of the most important books that Spanish literature has given in recent years. The bad habitpublished in 2023 by Seix Barraltell the life of a Trans girl growing in the San Blas Obrero neighborhoodin Madrid, during the 80s and 90s. Of his childhood, marked by misunderstanding, we pass to her adolescence, where the protagonist will find a refuge in the clandestine nights of the center of Madrid. Gender identity and diversity They are present in this novel in which the narrator will try to understand not only the world that surrounds her, but to herself. It is the book that every person, young and older, should read.
‘Persépolis’, De Marjane Satrappi
We couldn’t finish the list without a graphic soap operaand what better than a classic. Persepolis It is also autobiographical. The novel tells the Childhood and adolescence Marjane, one Iranian youngduring and after the Islamic revolution in Iran (70s and 80s). The story begins when the protagonist is 10 years old, but throughout the book we know how her country changed when the Islamic regime arrived, what repression women suffered, how was their exile to Europe and what cultural clash had at that time. An essential book that addresses issues such as identity, feminism, freedom, culture, religion and adolescence.
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