by Yaël Hassan · Syros · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782748512632
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«Momo des Coquelicots» is the young adult novel by Yaël Hassan, published by Syros in paperback (128 pages, in French).
Momo is in sixth grade and dreams of becoming a writer; his friendship with Émilie and the memory of Monsieur Édouard support him as his father falls ill and his brother Ahmed becomes authoritarian. The story addresses intergenerational friendship, immigration, family, and overcoming adversity.
Published on May 3, 2012 in France, it is part of Syros's Tempo collection. The book includes illustrations by Beatrice Alemagna.
Recommended for readers aged 9 to 12, especially those seeking young adult fiction with social sensitivity.
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.
