Children's & YA
You Can Count on Your Heart
by Andrea Maggi
Description
In a small high school in Italy, professor Elpidi’s class mostly includes self-important and disillusioned students, such as Valentina, who is eager to become a famous beauty vlogger; Renzo, a street dancer; Paola, who feels trapped in a life programmed by her parents. All these teenagers have one thing in common: they don't know who they are, so they don't have the slightest idea about what to do in the future.
Professor Elpidi tries to explain Socrates’ saying: “Know thyself”, in a completely original way: he organizes a retreat in a remote mountain hut, where they will all live together for a month in close contact with nature. They will have to learn to settle their differences and live in a community without wi-fi, cell phones or any other modern convenience.
A book that is both entertaining and thought-provoking, and speaks to young people in their language about their fragility.
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Sold to Russia (MANN) and Turkey (BAOBAB)
Author Biography
Andrea Maggi (1974) teaches literary subjects in secondary schools. He published three adult books with Garzanti: two historical novels (Morte all’Acropoli, 2014 and Il sigillo di Polidoro, 2015) both translated in Spain, and a thriller set in a country school (Niente tranne il nome, 2017).
As a teacher, he became popular as one of the main characters in the docu-reality Il Collegio (The Boarding school), a prominent Rai2 TV show based on the British format of That'll Teach 'em of Channel 4 (13-17 years old students are taken back to a 1950s/1960s style British boarding school).
The first two seasons aired in 2017, the third and fourth in 2019, the fifth will air from 26th October 2021. Il Collegio had a growing success with the public, starting from an initial audience rating of 6% and achieving an astonishing 10% in the fourth season: in November 2019 it reached more than 2 millions people and often defeated more established and successful tv programs. Rai 2 has broadcast a fifth, extended season (8 episodes), which debuted on 27th October 2020 with even more success.
Il Collegio has also become a big hit among middle grade kids: an average 52% of tv watching kids between 11 and 13 years old watch every single episode of Il Collegio.
Here you can watch some episodes of the latest seasons: <https://www.raiplay.it/raiplay/video/2019/02/Il-Collegio-47b4c9a1-d536-49af-969c-1f5078993aa3.html>
<https://www.raiplay.it/video/2019/02/Il-Collegio-2f48e794-a66a-46ff-9863-452b82a97558.html>
Here you can find some data about The Collegio audience rating: <https://www.davidemaggio.it/archives/172390/ascolti-tv-martedi-5-marzo-2019>
In the wake of his success as educator, Maggi several bestselling books for both Feltrinelli and Giunti
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View all titlesBibliographic Information
- Publisher/Imprint Giunti / ArYA
- Orginal LanguageItalian
- ISBN/Identifier 9788809896635
- Publication Country or regionItaly
- FormatPaperback
- ReadershipTeenage/Young Adult
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleConta sul tuo cuore
- Copyright Year2021
- Page size216
