description: In the hottest summer of the twentieth century, in a down-at-the-heels hamlet in rural Italy, six children take to their bikes across the scorched countryside. When they arrive at an abandoned farmhouse, one of them, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano, discovers what appears to be the body of a boy his own age. He is too frightened to tell his friends, and his father refuses to listen. When he returns to the site and discovers that the boy is weak but alive, he brings the boy food and water, and learns the terrifying tale of a kidnapping. Told through the eyes of Michele, the story follows his efforts to draw upon his own humanity as the adults around him reveal their increasingly compromised choices.
language: English
title: I'm Not Scared
titlecomplete: I'm Not Scared
characters: Michele Amitrano
genres: Literature, Crime, School, Italian Literature, Novels, Thriller, Italy, Fiction, Contemporary, Mystery
ratings_count: 27671
places: Acqua Traverse
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Premio Letterario Viareggio Rèpaci
publisher: Books on Tape