Seth Fishman – författare

"A smart and wonderfully throwback adventure. Philip Pullman fans take notice. Don''t miss."—Matthew Quick, New York Times Bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook and Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock. Nowhere to escape but below. Panic grips sixteen-year-old Mia Kish’s boarding school, Westbrook Academy, when a mysterious quarantine is suddenly enforced by a small army of soldiers who shoot first and ask questions later. The quarantine makes no sense—but then students and faculty inexplicably begin to break down. Their illness is an aggressive virus that ages its victims years in only a matter of hours. The end result? Death.No one can explain what’s going or has any idea what to do. Except Mia.Because she knows something that no one else does. And she knows the only place to escape to get answers...But what she finds may be even more horrific than anything that came before. * “The contemporary implications of the story ring unnervingly true. A fast-paced, thrilling adventure story that begs for a sequel.”—Booklist, starred review"Seth Fishman kills it in every possible way."—Margaret Stohl, New York Times Bestselling co-author of Beautiful Creatures and Icons."A crackling thriller that keeps you turning the pages until the very end."—Jennifer Smith, author of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight.

To escape Blake Sutton’s army at the end of the enthralling The Well’s End, Mia and her friends jump into the newly gurgling fountain of youth and swim to its very bottom. When they resurface, an astounding world awaits them—an entire underground civilization of humans, the Keepers of the Well. But instead of finding a safe haven, Mia and her gang are quickly embroiled in a dangerous, high-stakes battle royale. If Mia wants to save everyone she loves and make it back home alive, she’s got to get to the water’s Source before Sutton and his troops, who are still hot on her trail. With new characters and new threats, Seth Fishman has upped the ante fantastically and delivers another tense, fast-paced adventure in a richly imagined world just below our feet.

En este álbum ilustrado de no ficción Seth Fishman busca hacernos pensar en toda clase de números, desde los más inimaginablemente grandes hasta uno de los más únicos e importantes (al menos para nosotros): el 1. ¿Cuántas hormigas hay en el mundo? ¿Cuántos árboles? ¿Cómo podemos saberlo? Mediante textos e imágenes juguetones, tan lejanos de las áridas páginas de un libro de texto como pueda imaginarse, los autores nos hacen pensar en cómo cuantificamos las cosas que nos rodean, y cómo esas cifras cambian continuamente, desde la cantidad astronómica de estrellas de nuestro universo hasta el número de conejos que saltan sobre la Tierra. Los lectores aprenderán no sólo cómo se llaman esos números gigantescos y qué relación tienen unos con otros sino la importancia de la estimación, una de las herramientas matemáticas más útiles y socorridas pero también de las que menos se enseñan a los futuros amantes de las ciencias y las matemáticas.