Krig & konflikter

Welcome to Nowhere is a powerful and beautifully written story about the life of one family caught up in civil war by the award-winning author Elizabeth Laird, shortlisted for the Scottish Teen Book Award and winner of the UKLA Book Award. Twelve-...

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Ända sedan jag var liten har min mamma berättat för mig om den holländske pojken som kom och bodde nio månader i hennes familj efter andra världskriget 1945. Hon var tretton och han elva år då. Han blev som en extra bror och de behöll kontakten. J...

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Gunilla Bergströms berättelser speglar det vardagliga livet. Mänskliga beteenden och psykologiska situationer. Men trots realismen finns där något magiskt, mitt i det vardagliga. Gunilla Bergströms nyfikenhet och fascination för människan lyser ig...

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En judestjärna kastar Theo och Ramona in i andra världskrigets fasor. Till deras förvåning har någon annan rest med dem i tiden. En person som ställer till det rejält för dem i sin okunnighet om tidsresor. De hamnar direkt i allvarliga svårigheter...

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Aman växer upp i Afghanistan, ett land som rasat samman efter decennier av krig. När allt känns hopplöst och han behöver en vän som mest dyker en utmärglad hund upp utanför grottan där han bor. Aman tar hand om hunden och hon blir en trogen vän so...

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Mitt i ett brinnande krig hamnar Theo och Ramona när de förflyttas i tiden till ett ockuperat Frankrike under andra världskriget. Tyskarna sänder många av landets invånare till koncentrationsläger och motståndsrörelsen mot de tyska soldaterna växe...

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Att stå på fast mark igen och veta att man är i ett land där det inte är krig - det är också lyckan. Aldrig någonsin hade hon trott det, men nu visste hon. Så är det. Och att få en kopp varm choklad och en smörgås med korv på ... En av våra mest ä...

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An extraordinary true account of the enormous tragedy of the Syrian civil conflict. Since the civil war in Syria began in 2011, over 500,000 civilians have been killed and more than 12 million Syrians have been displaced. Rania Abouzeid, one of th...

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A powerful, unforgettable graphic novel from the world of Wonder, by globally bestselling and award-winning author R J Palacio. *Now a New York Times bestseller* To the millions of readers who fell in love with R J Palacio's Wonder, Julian is best...

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Ända sedan jag var liten har min mamma berättat för mig om den holländske pojken som kom och bodde nio månader i hennes familj efter andra världskriget 1945. Hon var tretton och han elva år då. Han blev som en extra bror och de behöll kontakten. J...

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'If you can imagine it, it exists ... somewhere.' The second incredible instalment of a spellbinding fantasy adventure from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Last Wild trilogy. It is 1984 and forty years since Simon, Patricia and Evelyn...

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Children's Choice Winner in the 0-7 catergory in the 2015 SLA Information Book Awards! This picture book tells the story of 10-year-old refugee Ali who, accompanied by his grandmother, flees his home country of Afghanistan to avoid the conflict ca...

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The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a s...

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Brought to you by Penguin. The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other...

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The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame. Rena Finder was only eleven when the Nazis forced her and her family - along with all the other Jewish families - into the ghetto ...

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'If you can imagine it, it exists ... somewhere.' A spellbinding adventure from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Last Wild trilogy. 1945. They have survived the Blitz, but when Simon, Patricia, Evelyn and Larry step through a mysteriou...

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This picture book tells the story of 13-year-old refugee Rachel who, along with her family, flees her home country to escape the persecution they suffer as Christians living in a predominantly Muslim country. Told in Rachel's own words, it documen...

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Shortlisted for the Scottish Teenage Book Prize Thousands of years ago, the Evernight came to the Silver Kingdom and turned everything to darkness and chaos. It was only defeated thanks to the skill and bravery of the Witches. But now the Evernigh...

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Young Adult edition - including new foreword and Q+A by the author plus further additional material The incredible bestselling true story. For readers of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Diary of Anne Frank Heart-breaking - a tale of love an...

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He who pays the piper calls the tune.When Peter and his little sister, Daisy, are evacuated from London to the countryside, they find themselves on an isolated farm in the middle of a treacherous marshland. As Daisy gets drawn deeper into the secr...

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A deadly contagion races through England... Isabel and her family have nowhere to run from a disease that has killed half of Europe. When the world she knows and loves ends for ever, her only weapon is courage. The Black Death of 1349 was the dead...

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With Impostors, master storyteller Scott Westerfeld returns with a new series set in the world of his mega-bestselling Uglies - a world full of twist and turns, rebellion and intrigue, where any wrong step could be Frey's last Frey and Rafi are in...

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Return to the stunning world of IMPOSTORS in this new book by global bestselling author Scott Westerfeld. When the world sees Frey, they think they see her twin sister Rafi. Frey was raised to be Rafi's double, and now she's taken on the role . . ...

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Michel Chikwanine was only five when he was abducted from outside his school by rebel soldiers in The Democratic Republic of Congo. In this thought-provoking graphic novel, Child Soldier depicts the story of his happy life before the abduction, hi...

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Sam's team are edging closer to the bottom of the league this season and team captain Jordan's bad attitude isn't helping anyone. When Sam spots Hasan playing on the refugee team, he can see that Hasan's got talent and invites him along to practic...

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It's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and hundreds of thousands are killed crossing borders. Half-Muslim,...

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This "New York Times" bestseller, now adapted for young readers, is the unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American history: the raising of the U.S. flag by Marines at Iwo Jima during World War II. 8-page photo ...

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En judestjärna kastar Theo och Ramona in i andra världskrigets fasor. Till deras förvåning har någon annan rest med dem i tiden. En person som ställer till det rejält för dem i sin okunnighet om tidsresor. De hamnar direkt i allvarliga svårigheter...

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An often hilarious and always relevant memoir about one teen boy's battle with brain cancer and his Starlight Children's Foundation wish: to meet Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia and plead for nuclear disarmament and world peace. It's 1986, and Jeff is...

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