★English copyright has been sold worldwide!
★For readers who like "Anne's Diary", "Just a Girl" is definitely not to be missed!
★Lia Levi is one of the most relevant Italian writers, beloved by adults as well as children, winner in 2018 of Premio Strega Young Readers.
★Just a Girl adult edition has been published in 1994 and since then it has been reprinted dozens of times, becoming a recommended book for high schools. The classic edition sold more than 100.000 copies!
★Lia Levi’s works convey to readers a strong sense of confidence in the possibility of transmitting historical memory to future generations.
★The story of a girl growing up under the racial laws.
★A significant and authentic classic story that every child should have on the shelf, enriched by original four-colored pictures by awarded Polish illustrator Zosia Dzierżawska.
★English sample available.

25 years after the first publication of "Just a Girl", Lia Levi traces back her history at the time of racial laws and gifts today's children with this gem. Lia has just finished the first grade school, when her mother tells her that, in September, she won't be able to go back to class. Mussolini, who rules over everyone, no longer wants Jewish children in schools. Actually, he does not want Jews in Turin, where Lia lives with her family, neither in Milan nor in Rome. He doesn't want them anywhere. With suitcases always in hands, in Lia's head grows every day a question “Why?”: Why did dad lose his job? What does Mussolini care if some children go to school and others do not? Why can't nanny Maria be with them anymore? Why can't she be just a girl, just a girl?

Lia Levi was born in Pisa in 1931, in a Jewish family of Piedmontese origins. Lia Levi is best known as the author of several works of fiction largely dedicated to Jewish themes. In her long career, she has published many books for children. When she was a child, she had to face the problems of war and racial persecution. She integrated her experience into literary creation and published many popular adult and children's books. Lea Levi is famous for her Jewish-themed novels. The most famous is her debut and masterpiece: "Just a Girl" published in 1994, which later became a classic. This book is one of the first autobiographical stories to talk about the traumatic effects of persecution on Jewish children in Italy. "Just a Girl" won the 1994 Island Procida of Arturo-Elsa Morante Prize. She won:
　　•2001 Grinzane Cavour Prize
　　•2005 Italian Andersen Award
　　•2005 Rodari Prize
　　•2011 Moravia Award
　　•2012 Pardès Prize for Hebrew Literature
　　•2018 Strega Prize for Teenagers

Zosia Dzierżawska is an illustrator, cartoonist, lives in Warsaw, Poland. She is a member of Armad'illo, a creative workspace studio in Milan. She has cooperated with "The New York Times", Oxford University Press, Rizzoli Press, Panini Press, etc. She won.
　　•New York Illustrators Association Illustrator 56 Exhibition (2013)
　　•Bologna Illustration Exhibition (2013,2014,2016)
　　•Munich Comics Festival Comics aus Polen Exhibition (2015)
　　•The Polish Children’s Literature Festival Sto nóg stonogi Fruzi Book of the Year Award (2016)
　　•St. Petersburg "The Past of Russia" Exhibition (2016)