Antonello Dalena

Country: Italy

Ernest and Rebecca #1: My Best Friend is a Germ

By: Papercutz

ISBN: 9781597072861 (48p.) (2011) Format: Hardcover

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Rebecca is a six and a half year-old girl who is out of luck - her parents are on the verge of divorce and she is always getting sick due to a weak immune system. One rainy day Rebecca's luck changes when she meets a magical microbe named Ernest, who becomes her best friend! Ernest is no regular germ-he's about the same height as Rebecca and he can talk. Can Rebecca keep her parents together with the help of her new friend? And can anyone really have a friend who belongs in a Petri dish?

Ernest and Rebecca #2: Sam the Repulsive

By: Papercutz

ISBN: 9781597072991 (48p.) (2012) Format: Hardcover

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Life isn't easy for 6-year old Rebecca. Rebecca's parents are at each other's throats; her big sister is totally absorbed with her own problems, and her uncle is intent on Rebecca taking her medicine. It's a hard luck life! Complicating things further, her health isn't so good and her parents keep her home all the time. Ernest, the bacterium who's become her best friend, hopes to reconcile her parents. But things get complicated when a new virus named Sam shows up and threatens Rebecca's health!

Ernest and Rebecca #3: Grandpa Bug

By: Papercutz

ISBN: 9781597073530 (48p.) (2012) Format: Hardcover

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Rebecca and her older sister Coralie are sent to spend the summer in the countryside with their grandparents, away from their mother and father, without Ernest. Lost and scared without her friend, Rebecca misses her parents, experiences nightmares, and misbehaves in order to deal with her anxieties. Things begin to change when Rebecca begins spending time with a dog named "Missile" and her "Grandpa Bug," both of whom want nothing more than to be her friend. The only way for Rebecca to break out of her misery is to accept their offer of friendship and learn to live without Ernest.

Ernest and Rebecca #4: The Land of the Waking Stones

By: Papercutz

ISBN: 9781597074001 (48p.) (2013) Format: Hardcover

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Rebecca is spending time in the country with her father, and Ernest of course, when things begin to change. Rebecca befriends a boy who is her age, and she sees her sister leave to return to the city on her own. Will Ernest & Rebecca's friendship survive?

Ernest and Rebecca #5: The School of Nonsense

By: Papercutz

ISBN: 9781629910451 (48p.) (2014) Format: Hardcover

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Rebecca's cold is gone and along with it, Ernest, her microbial best buddy. Rebecca wants him to come back so much. But at school, there's another virus threatening the children, a zombie virus: the flu! Will Ernest return to save Rebecca and her classmates?

Sybil the Backpack Fairy #1: Nina

By: Papercutz

ISBN: 9781597072854 (48p.) (2011) Format: Hardcover

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Nina is a girl in middle school with a little brother and a single mom who barely has enough time to spend with her. Put down at school by nasty cliques, Nina's life is not much fun. All this changes when a magical fairy named Sybil turns up in Nina's backpack! Sybil and Nina have a blast giving Nina's tormentors a taste of their own medicine. There's only one problem: demons from the magical world that Sybil comes from have followed her to our dimension, and they're out to cause some damage of their own!

Sybil the Backpack Fairy #2: Amanite

By: Papercutz

ISBN: 9781597073059 (48p.) (2012) Format: Hardcover

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Nina loves having her fairy friend Sybil around - she's the only person who can see or hear Sybil and the two have formed a special bond. When Sybil unexpectedly disappears, a new fairy named Amanite mysteriously appears to take her place. Amanite tricks Nina into following her to a magical underwater world, where Nina is transformed into a tiny mermaid at the mercy of hungry sea monsters. How will Nina survive without her friend Sybil?

Sybil the Backpack Fairy #3: Aithor

By: Papercutz

ISBN: 9781597073691 (48p.) (2012) Format: Hardcover

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Having a fairy friend can be fun, but it's not easy. When Nina first met the fairy Sybil and her companion Pandigole, she had no idea the fate of the world would end up resting in her hands. After her defeat the black fairy Amanite has teamed up with the King of Evil, Aithor, planning to destroy the "trees of life" that are found throughout the world of the Fairies. If these trees are destroyed, not only will the fairy world fall, but the world of humans, as well. In response, the King and Queen of the fairies charge Sybil and Nina with the task of stopping Aithor and Amanite, as Nina gets closer to discovering the truth behind a mysterious prophecy that seems to foretell her future.

Sybil the Backpack Fairy #4: Princess Nina

By: Papercutz

ISBN: 9781597074155 (48p.) (2013) Format: Hardcover

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When Nina is assigned a history report, she and Sybil decide that the only proper way to research is to travel through time and see history for themselves! Though they have a great time meeting Ramses II, Leonardo da Vinci, and Napoleon, the evil fairy Amanite is observing from the sidelines. While Amanite schemes to turn their adventure against them, Nina and Sybil have to figure out a way to stop her . . . or risk being lost in time forever.

Sybil the Backpack Fairy #5: The Dragon's Dance

By: Papercutz

ISBN: 9781629911717 (48p.) (2015) Format: Hardcover

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When you've got a fairy friend like Sybil (or an imagination like Nina's) life is never boring. But sometimes boring is all Nina wants. When Sybil and Pandigole get Nina in to trouble again - this time with a dragon! -will she have finally had enough?