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A story about Internet bullying, the relationship between parents and children and pedophile networks is the plot of the first of the final novel of the newly created Youth Literature Prize Hache, a prize that comes under the arm of Mandarache Award for to involve boys and girls from 12 to 14 years.

The novel, 'Chats', has been reading over a thousand teenagers grouped in 180 reading committees, and its author, Andrew Martin, this morning visited Cartagena to meet the youth jury in the auditorium of the UPCT.

The novel, said Juan De Dios, one of the promoters of the prize, professor and poet, has all the ingredients for teenage audiences embrace it as a finalist.

Encounters with author, said, allow teens to experience the magical feeling of talking to the author of the book they are reading.

Andrew Martin, also author of the hit series Flanagan juvenile detective and an author of detective novels in the country, has said of his book Chats which is a reinterpretation of the story of Little Red Riding Hood: the forest, is the internet chat and , and the bad wolf, the dangers that lurk in the network.

This is, like the story of Little Red Riding Hood, to alert young people of the risks that exist in something they consider as innocent as a chat, where inhibition disappears and the kids they communicate often scandalous.

In this novel, Martin was assisted by his teenage daughter, who introduced him in this virtual world, and the police in Barcelona, at the time of writing the novel was struggling to find an Internet pedophile operation.

The writer has recognized that, in this case, truth is stranger than fiction.

He sweetened the novel, he said, although there have been many who have put the outcry by the topics covered in this story.

I have written about what teenagers are interested in, what threatens them.

We must warn them, not their parents or grandparents.

Andreu Martín has also recognized that the crime novel is now in their hour higher, after having spent many years in utter disgrace.

I hope that not being a fashion victim, he said.

The councilman of Youth, Javier Herrero, recalled that Mandarache Prize is the largest, with over 3,500 participants since has joined the Youth Literature Prize Hache, 12 to 14, and Reading Clubs for over 30 years.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena