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The Fifth Stone is a story of friendship, evolution and personal growth that relates very directly to the interests of readers between the ages of 10 and 12 years old. Readers will find in its pages some of the elements that make a YA novel particularly attractive: • a mystery that involves the reader who accompanies the protagonists in their discoveries throughout the book.

Miranda is an eight-year-old girl whose favourite pastime is to read books like this one, which tells the story of Amelia Earhart, a brave American who lived at the beginning of the twentieth century, and was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. As a girl she wanted to be the first to try everything, and she spent her whole life seeking out challenges to take on.

At the beginning of the seventies in the north of Mexico, a group of students known as Los Enfermos (The Sick) began a revolutionary movement with the aim of bringing about a new national order. The poet Juan Pablo Orígenes was part of the group. Forty years later, the Ministry for Culture employs Salomón to write the poet's biography to be published as a tribute alongside his complete works.

At some point in the second half of the twentieth century, Alfred Montsalvatjes, a young man with a deep cut to his hand, arrives at hospital in New York. He's a foreigner, he wants to be a writer and, in the eyes of Jean Rosenbloom, the nurse who tends to him, he is a fairytale prince.