Maju, You are not the Center of the Universe!

I’m so angry, I’m about to burst!
And before anyone tells me, I already know that it’s wrong to accuse someone of cheating without any proof. But I don’t have any doubt that he is a complete cheat!
I’m sorry, none of you must understand a thing I’m saying! It’s just that I speak a bit fast and beat around the bush without realising it. I’m talking about Gerónimo’s (my classmate and friend) uncle, whose name is Damián.

Maju is eight years old. She loves ice cream, peanuts, and chewy candies, but what she loves the most —besides talking — is being a soccer referee. She gets bored learning the multiplication tables, but that changes when she learns the method that his friend Geronimo uses: the rap of the tables! That’s why, the day the teacher announces the final math test, Maju is sure she’s going to do really well. However, things don’t turn out the way she imagined.

Key points

• Best-selling author, more than 100,000 copies of her works sold.

Cecilia Curbelo

2019, 2017, 2014 – Woman of the Year Award in Literature, Uruguay
2018 – Florencio Award for Best National Author Screenplay
2016 – Woman of the Year Award for World Peace
2015-2012 – Won four years in a row the Golden Book Award for Best-selling Book from Uruguayan Book Chamber
2012 – Bartolomé Hidalgo Revelation Award

Javier Joaquín

2022, 2016 – Cuatrogatos Foundation, 100 Recommended Books
2022 – Destacados de ALIJA Award, Editorial rescue
2022 – Mention in National Literature Awards (Uruguay), Children’s and Young Adult’s Literature
2011 – 300 iberoamerican books