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Alejandro is an adolescent who has just had his twelfth birthday and receives an unexpected «special» gift. His mother gives him a diary in which he can write down the interesting things that happen to him. Alejandro is so surprised he doesn’t know what to say, but he does know he is not about to write any more than he already has to for school. However, after a while he reconsiders and thinks it may be fun to write all his secrets in it, all those things he doesn’t tell anyone. So he decides to start writing, but instead of doing it every day he’ll do it once a week; instead of a «daily diary», he’ll call it a «weekly». As he writes, Alejandro begins to think about a lot of things: the thrill of his first love, the relationship with his new immigrant friends with the new friends he has made who were born in other countries, the fair sharing out of the household chores, how irrelevant money sometimes is for certain things, the true value of friendship and family… all told, the «weekly» is going to help Alejandro to consider a lot of things that went unnoticed before he started it: his dreams, discoveries, desires, doubts and worries, the real preoccupations of a twelve year old.

Implicit values:
The importance of family, of friendship and solidarity in many moments of the life of an adolescent.

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