The public squares in the neighbourhoods where we grew up are special places where anything can happen. In the square where the friends in this story go after school to practice their acrobatic skateboard moves, a park bench becomes the center of a heated dispute. The intervention of the parish council president has an unexpected outcome, which helps them understand what it means to live in a community and participate in the common good.
MISSION: DEMOCRACY is a series of 12 books published by the publishing house of the Portuguese Parliament to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. The collection is graphically coordinated by Planeta Tangerina and it features some of the most renowned authors and illustrators of Portuguese children's and young adult literature.
