Meg Rosoff - Böcker

När vi fick vår nya bebis, hade han sammetsmjukt skinn och stora bruna ögon. Han åt kvistar och blad. Istället för fötter hade han fyra perfekta klövar. Och hans näsa sen! Jag tyckte synd om de andra bebisarna. De såg likadana ut allihop. När fami...

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Femtonåriga Daisy skickas från New York till den engelska landsbygden för att tillbringa sommaren med en moster och fyra kusiner som hon aldrig tidigare har träffat. När mostern åker bort blir de fem kusinerna ensamma i det stora huset. Kort däref...

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How I Live Now is an original and poignant book by Meg Rosoff How I Live Now is the powerful and engaging story of Daisy, the precocious New Yorker and her English cousin Edmond, torn apart as war breaks out in London, from the multi award-winning...

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Årets ALMA-PRISTAGARE 2016! Femtonåriga Daisy skickas från New York till den engelska landsbygden för att tillbringa sommaren med en moster och fyra kusiner som hon aldrig tidigare har träffat. När mostern åker bort blir de fem kusinerna ensamma i...

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Winner of the 2007 Carnegie Medal, the captivating and darkly-comic novel Just in Case is a thrilling coming-of-age story - described by The Times as a modern The Catcher in the Rye - from the bestselling author of How I Live Now Meg Rosoff. Every...

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Meg Rosoff, 2016 års ALMA-pristagare! "Meg Rosoff har en osentimental men intensivt nära kontakt med den pubertala människan som följer med långt upp i åldrarna." Kvällsposten En disig morgon på 1960-talet, en strand någonstans utmed den...

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Daisy, an American girl is sent from New York to stay with her charmingly shambolic family of British cousins. Daisy has had a troubled background but slowly begins to piece herself together with the the help of her super-eccentric and slightly ps...

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Familjen Peachey har semester! Naturligtvis vill alla i familjen åka till helt olika ställen. Men när den yngsta dottern Ava föreslår att de ska ge sig ut och campa, får hon medhåll från mamma Peachey, som plötsligt minns en campingtur innan hon t...

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Sjuttonåriga Jess är säker på att hon ska klara av alla de prövningar det innebär att bli tonårsförälder. Hon ska oförskräckt hantera barnmorskans dömande blickar, sin mammas besvikelse och pojkvännens föräldrars ogillande. Hon är beredd på allt. ...

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"ALMA-pristagaren Meg Rosoff skriver med glödande penna när hon berättar om kärlek, vänskap och svek inom en familj. Helhetsbetyg: 5/5" - BTJ, häfte 19 2020   En varm, drömsk sommar på landet anländer bröderna Godden. Kit, den äldst...

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Meg Rosoff är 2016 års ALMA-pristagare! "Meg Rosoff har en osentimental men intensivt nära kontakt med den pubertala människan som följer med långt upp i åldrarna." Kvällsposten Tänk om Gud är en lat, slapp och likgiltig tonårskille som ...

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Det här är en spännande bok med mycket humor och kärlek mitt i tragedin. Kulturnytt i P4 Den första Mila var en hund. Den andra Mila, som är 12 år, vet inte riktigt varför hon blivit döpt efter en hund. Men hon vet många andra saker. Hon ser ledtr...

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Sedan urminnes tider har djuren varit ett självklart inslag i barnkulturen och nästan lika länge har naturen stått som symbol för den goda barndomen. Men på senare år har någonting hänt. Visst förknippas djur och natur fortfarande med glädje, men ...

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This is the story of one family, one dreamy summer - the summer when everything changes. In a holiday house by the sea, our watchful narrator sees everything, including many things they shouldn't, as their brother and sisters, parents and older co...

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'This summer's must read' - The Times 'An irresistible account of female friendship ... Nobody describes the strength, pain and comedy of being young as elegantly and eloquently as Meg Rosoff' - Amanda Craig 'A wonderful, captivating writer' - Dai...

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In a riveting debut, Rosoff pens a novel told from the point of view of 15-year-old Daisy, an American girl who is sent to her aunt's farm in England. When London is attacked and war breaks out, Daisy forges an extraordinary bond with her cousins.

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Meg Rosoff, multi award winning author of How I Live Now, explores the pain of first love and coming-of-age in her compelling novel What I Was, which was once described by The Times as 'Samuel Beckett on ecstasy.' Shall I tell you about the year I...

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With its brooding and atmospheric nineteenth century setting, Meg Rosoff's The Bride's Farewell is a romantic novel that continues to haunt and captivate the reader long after reading. On the morning of her wedding, Pell Ridley creeps out of bed i...

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There Is No Dog is the new, astonishing novel by Meg Rosoff. In the beginning there was Bob. And Bob created the heavens and the earth and the beasts of the field and the creatures of the sea, and twenty-five million other species including lots a...

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Picture Me Gone is the compelling new novel by the author of How I Live Now, Meg RosoffMila is on a roadtrip across the USA with her father. They are looking for his best friend but Mila discovers a more important truth. Sometimes the act of searc...

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Picture Me Gone is the compelling new novel by the author of How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff Mila is on a roadtrip across the USA with her father. They are looking for his best friend but Mila discovers a more important truth. Sometimes the act of sear...

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'I was at boarding school in East Anglia, my third. I didn t want to be there. But if there had been no school, there would be no Finn. He lived in a hut on the coast. He was like the hut, in fact it took a while for both of them to warm up. But t...

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In the beginning there was Bob.And Bob created the heavens and the earthand the beasts of the field and the creatures of the sea, and twenty-five million other speciesincluding lots and lots of gorgeous girls.And all of this, he created in just si...

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What if Fate were out to get you? The day David Case saves his brother's life, his whole world changes. He must hide, become an entirely new person to escape Fate . . . if he can.This stunning, thought-provoking and darkly comic novel for teenage ...

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How I Live Now is an original and poignant book by Meg Rosoff, now a film tie-in edition to celebrate the release of the major film starring Saoirse Ronan.How I Live Now is the powerful and engaging story of Daisy, the precocious New Yorker and he...

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On the morning of her wedding, Pell Ridley creeps out of bed in the dark, kisses her sisters goodbye and flees - determined to escape a future that offers nothing but hard work and sorrow. She takes the only thing that truly belongs to her: Jack, ...

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This National Book Award finalist from a Printz Award-winning author is a gorgeous, unforgettable page-turner about the relationship between parents and children, love and loss. "A brilliant depiction of the complexity of human relationships ...

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When the beautiful Lucy prays to fall in love, God, taking the form of an irresponsible youth named Bob, chooses to answer her prayer personally, to the dismay of this assistant, Mr. B who must try to clean up the resulting catastrophes.

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With an introduction by Meg RosoffWilliam Golding's final novel, left in draft at his death, tells the story of a priestess of Apollo. Arieka is one of the last to prophesy at Delphi, in the shadowy years when the Romans were securing their grip o...

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From Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet comes a sweeping coming-of-age adventure, both harrowing and life-affirming. Born of a brief encounter between a Liverpool prostitute and an African soldier in 1907, Beck finds himself orphaned as a youn...

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