The Boy on the Subway: Poems for Young People in Eight Slaughters or Chapters

Divided into eight massacres—or chapters—with countless poems, "The Boy on the Subway" portrays a 16-year-old train maintenance apprentice whose life is upended by a wave of violence in his neighborhood. The victims are his neighbors and friends, and a twist of fate forces the young man to witness—and document—one of these murders, proof of a neighborhood abandoned to its fate. With the footage of such a brutal act captured on his camera, the boy begins to fear for his own life. • A writer with over 30 published books, especially for children and young adults, Sérgio Capparelli has won the Jabuti Award from the Brazilian Book Chamber four times, three times for literature and once for essay in Human Sciences - Television.