by Yaël Hassan, Tom Tirabosco · CASTERMAN · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782203158122
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«L'ami» is a children's and young adult novel by Yaël Hassan, illustrated by Tom Tirabosco, published by Casterman in paperback (112 pages, in French).
Samir, born in anonymity, has always lived in a foster home. There he meets Pierre, separated from his mother, Lili Lafleur, and they form an inseparable friendship. When Samir is placed with a foster family, their paths diverge. The novel is a tribute to friendship and hope, and to the bonds that survive distance.
Published in 2006.
Aimed at children and young readers aged 9 to 12, especially those seeking novels about friendship and life in foster homes.
Yaël Hassan is a French-Israeli writer born in Paris in 1952. She spent her childhood in Belgium, her adolescence in France, and her youth in Israel. She returned to France in 1984 with her family. Making the most of the time of a very long immobilization, she writes her first novel, A Grandfather Fallen from the Sky, which won the Youth Novel Prize in 1996 from the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Young Readers Grand Prize from PEEP in 1998 and the Sorceress Prize in 1998.
