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It is easy to hook the young reader.
Juan Ramon knows well Barat, who has devoted many years to this teaching.
Although it does have several tricks up his sleeve is saved and used to write Leave the dead in peace.
It is a thriller loaded with large doses of mystery, intrigue, fear and love.
Those who have ventured into this story are readers Hache Award, it is one of the finalists who chooses to win this curious literary contest.
This teacher vocation is the second author of this category Mandarache Awards Contest visiting Cartagena.
Already did in December responsible for creating Manolito Four Eyes, Elvira Lindo.
Thirty young people from the Intercultural Center for Children, coordinated by the Department of Social Services, held a meeting with Juan Ramón Barat which he qualified this morning beyond wonderful.
And it was surprised by the difficult life they had these little further confessed how proud one of those guys had read as his first book.
I was extremely excited to learn that he had been able to delve young in the literature, the writer explained.
Early this morning the early risers of IES Juan Sebastián Elcano had the opportunity to meet the author and expose all doubts about the story.
It would be later when more than 600 students from different schools it concentrated in the auditorium of the UPCT to listen to Barat.
As he had, knows what students want, what they like and what they dislike.
For reading, there are few who dare to bring you near the end of the book, not even open the first page.
Hence, the short chapters, the modern language and themes of love and intrigue that appear in his novels, as in the case of Let alone the dead.
The trick is to listen to young people, I always ask my students to guide the story I'm writing, sure.
His works not only through the filter of his pupils, but also for their friends and, especially, that of his wife: I know you're ready to book when my wife gives the nod.
And is that the best, according to this author, is to go with the boundless imagination of others, especially the younger ones.
The inspiration for these stories will come from all over.
They are small snippets of his life, his family and his students.
In Let alone the dead, for example, the names of the protagonists, and Daniel Ángel, are those of their children, as they kept telling myself that wanted to be in any of my novel.
And the name of Daniel, Villena, a poster of a town through which he passed with his family when they drove.
And so, a wink after another.
Leave the dead alone tells the story of teenager Daniel Villena who meets a boy his age, soon discover that a little over 6 months who had died.
After receiving a threatening letter reads Lay off the dead or soon will be one of them, the protagonist of this story will serve as a detective to uncover the truth on this network.
In addition to the fantasy world, reference to drug trafficking along the story is also done.
With more than 1,700 students who participate this year in this category, Hache Award, which has reached its highest level of participation.
These adolescents between 12 and 14 are responsible for choosing the winner from the three finalists.
The last author is left for visiting Cartagena to reconnect with your readers is Pedro Ruiz Garcia, who will next February.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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