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"... en helt underbar bok att läsa högt ur eller sätta i händerna på nån som precis har börjat läsa kapitelböcker själv." Yukiko Duke "En rolig tvist på längtan efter husdjur!" Kulturnytt i P4 "passar perfekt till högläsni...

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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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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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New York. Juni 1983. Beth flyttar från sin lilla småstad till ett dallrande varmt Manhattan för att göra praktik på en prestigefylld tidning. Allt är nytt och främmande, och inte alltid så härligt. I rummet Beth hyr finns kackerlackor men ingen ai...

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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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The Peachey family is in crisis. No one cooks dinner, no one picks up the dirty washing and thekids are always late for school. All because Mum has resigned from being Mum and taken up yogainstead. She's in the tree pose; everyone else is in ...

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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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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARD 2020 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARDS 2021 'Brilliant and impactful' - Pandora Sykes This is the story of one family, one dreamy summer the summer when everything changes. In a holid...

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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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New York City. June, 1982. When eighteen year old Beth arrives in Manhattan for a prestigious journalism internship, everything feels brand new - and not always in a good way. A cockroach-infested sublet and a disaffected roommate are the least of...

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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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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, 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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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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'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 earth and the beasts of the field and the creatures of the sea, and twenty-five million other species including lots and lots of gorgeous girls. And all of this, he created in jus...

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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 h...

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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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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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After a heart-pounding scare with his brother, 15-year-old David Case realizes the fragility of life. He changes his name, his appearance, makes new friends, and dares to fall in love with the seductive Agnes Day. With his imaginary dog Boy in tow...

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Set in the 1960s at an English boarding school, this novel chronicles an unlikely friendship between two boys and a scandal that shatters the idyll that has shielded and nurtured their relationship.

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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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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 g...

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The final novel from Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet is a sweeping coming-of-age adventure, with all the characteristic beauty and strenth of his prose. Both harrowing and life-affirming, the final novel from Carnegie Medal-winning author M...

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The final novel from Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet is a sweeping coming-of-age adventure, with all the characteristic beauty and strenth of his prose.Both harrowing and life-affirming, the final novel from Carnegie Medal-winning author Ma...

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