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Stinas jojk
AvMats Jonsson
Inbunden, Svenska, 2024, 9-12 år
4,9 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(9)
198 kr
"En av de stora kulturupplevelserna för mig i år." Lisa Wall, P1 Kultur
"Det här är så välgjort och han är en sådan mästare på att berätta en historia som är komprimerad i serieformat. Det är helt unikt." Monica Lindgren, Go kväll
"en personjojk som tål omkväden." Erika Hallhagen, Svenska Dagbladet
"Mats Jonsson vet att inte förenkla och sätter hög tilltro till barnläsaren. Samtidigt som han låter Stinas jojk och livsberättelse ljuda genom tid och rum, 170 år efter hennes död. Det är riktigt skickligt gjort." Alexandra Sundqvist, Dagens Nyheter
"en varm och inkännande berättelse som genialt skrivs fram som en jojk." Regine Nordström, Västerbottens-Kuriren
Stinas jojk är den fascinerande berättelsen om Stina Larsdotter, sameflickan som inte slutade växa.
När hon levde i mitten av 1800-talet var det inte ovanligt att människor med udda utseenden visades upp mot betalning, och Stina lät sig övertalas. Den fattiga renskötardottern från Malå blev en attraktion i både stim-miga ölkällare och fina salonger.
Så småningom blev hon känd över hela Europa, och med tiden alltmer självständig. Stina, som började som ett offer för sin samtid, blev en driven affärskvinna som under sitt korta liv både kunde hjälpa sina föräldrar ekonomiskt och köpa ett eget hemman.
Stina mättes och undersöktes under sin levnad, bland annat av rasbiologen Anders Retzius, och efter sin död 1854 ställdes hon ut på Karolinska Institutet. I år, 2024, begravs Stinas kvarlevor i Malå.
MATS JONSSON skildrar i text och bild på sitt alldeles unika sätt historien om Stina och hennes samtid. Alla som läst den hyllade och prisbelönta serieromanen När vi var samer fick redan där en glimt av Stina och hennes liv. Stinas jojk är Mats Jonssons femte bok för unga läsare. Den senaste, Blod i gruset, skildrar hur en historisk händelse (Ådalen -31) kan påverka livet för människor i flera generationer.
Sadako och de tusen papperstranorna
AvEleanor Coerr
Inbunden, Svenska, 2021, 9-12 år
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
102 kr
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Sadako Sasaki växer upp i Hiroshima i Japan. När hon är två år släpps en atombomb över staden. De som inte dör på en gång utsätts under resten av sina liv för den osynliga men dödliga strålningen som bomben för med sig. Sadako blir så småningom en livlig, atletisk flicka och hon är den stora stjärnan i skolans löparteam. Tills yrselanfallen börjar. Sadako har drabbats av atombombssjukan - leukemi.
Enligt en japansk legend kan den som viker tusen tranor av papper få en önskan uppfylld. Tillsammans med sina klasskamrater sätter Sadako igång att vika. Detta blir hennes livs viktigaste lopp ett lopp mot tiden.
Berättelsen om Sadako är baserad på en verklig händelse. Du kan besöka Barnens Fredsmonument i Fredsparken i Hiroshima. Där, på toppen av ett paradisberg, står en staty av Sadako som med utsträckta händer lyfter en trana mot skyn. Nedanför monumentet kan man läsa: Detta är vårt rop, detta är vår bön; fred i världen.
Sju nyanser av våld
AvGulistan Kavak
Inbunden, Svenska, 2026, 9-12 år
209 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Har du utsatt någon för våld, eller själv blivit utsatt? Vilken typ av våld handlade det om?

I den här boken lär vi oss om olika former av våld. Vi får följa Selma och Elia, två kompisar som ibland är snälla mot varandra men ibland gör saker som inte är okej.

Berättelsen baseras på verkliga händelser från barn och boken visar att våld kan se ut på många olika sätt.
Wir sind Wölfe
AvKatrina Nannestad
Häftad, Tyska, 2024
139 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
We Are Wolves
AvKatrina Nannestad
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
103 kr
Tillfälligt slut
A heartbreaking, untold story of World War II from award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad, perfect for 9+ readers and fans of Michael Morpurgo, Goodnight Mr Tom and I am David. 'It's the small acts of human kindness that make this book sing. Heart-swelling, and with characters that won't be forgotten.' Zana Fraillon, award-winning author of The Bone Sparrow When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of the Second World War, the Wolf family must flee. Liesl, Otto and their baby sister Mia find themselves lost and alone, in a blizzard, in the middle of a war zone. Liesl has promised Mama that she will keep her brother and sister safe.But sometimes, to survive, you have to do bad things. Dangerous things. Wild things.Sometimes to survive, you must become a wolf. A story of hope, survival and the refugee experience that is both timeless and incredibly timely, and set to become a modern classic.
Beware, Princess Elizabeth
AvCarolyn Meyer
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
131 kr
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A matter of life and death – and the Throne of EnglandCompanion volume to Mary, Bloody Mary. Set in the 16th Century, this tells of the danger and conflict Elizabeth Tudor faced after the death of her father, Henry VIII. Once again told from a young girl's point of view, we follow Elizabeth's teenage years through the turbulent reigns of her young brother Edward, and then her half-sister Mary who becomes her mortal enemy.
Bombs on Aunt Dainty
AvJudith Kerr
E-bok
Engelska, 2012, 9-12 år
69 kr
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Partly autobiographical, this is the second title in Judith Kerr’s internationally acclaimed trilogy of books following the life of Anna through war-torn Germany, to London during the Blitz and her return to Berlin to discover the past…It is hard enough being a teenager in London during the Blitz, finding yourself in love and wondering every night whether you will survive the bombs. But it is even harder for Anna, who is still officially classified as an “enemy alien”. Those bombs are coming from Germany – the country that was once her own. If Hitler invades, can she and her beloved refugee family possibly survive?This was previously published as The Other Way Round.
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
AvJudith Kerr
E-bok
Engelska, 2012, 9-12 år
69 kr
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Partly autobiographical, this is first of the internationally acclaimed trilogy by Judith Kerr telling the unforgettable story of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second World WarSuppose your country began to change. Suppose that without your noticing, it became dangerous for some people to live in Germany any longer. Suppose you found, to your complete surprise, that your own father was one of those people.That is what happened to Anna in 1933. She was nine years old when it began, too busy with her schoolwork and toboganning to take much notice of political posters, but out of them glared the face of Adolf Hitler, the man who would soon change the whole of Europe – starting with her own small life.Anna suddenly found things moving too fast for her to understand. One day, her father was unaccountably missing. Then she herself and her brother Max were being rushed by their mother, in alarming secrecy, away from everything they knew – home and schoolmates and well-loved toys – right out of Germany…
Beware, Princess Elizabeth
AvCarolyn Meyer
E-bok
Engelska, 2011
77 kr
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A matter of life and death – and the Throne of EnglandCompanion volume to Mary, Bloody Mary. Set in the 16th Century, this tells of the danger and conflict Elizabeth Tudor faced after the death of her father, Henry VIII. Once again told from a young girl's point of view, we follow Elizabeth's teenage years through the turbulent reigns of her young brother Edward, and then her half-sister Mary who becomes her mortal enemy.
Lost Diary of Annie Oakley’s Wild West Stagehand
AvClive Dickinson
E-bok
Engelska, 2013
55 kr
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The twelfth Lost Diary about this famous entertainer. Set from 1885 the year in which Annie joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show to 1893 when Annie reached the high point of her career at the Chicago World’s Fair.Annie Oakley `s rags-to-riches story is engaging and exciting. She began shooting to provide for the family pot and was soon selling her surplus game to hotels in Cincinnati. Within two years she had made enough money to repay the family mortage! Her name is closely linked with other celebrities of the Old West most notably Buffalo Bill and the great leader of the Sioux nation, Chief Sitting Bull who addopted her as his daughter into the Sioux nation and gave her the nickname Little Sureshot. She was the star attraction in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Circus in 1885. A role-model for young women in the American West she was also widely admired by boys and young men for her shooting skills.
Lost Diary of Christopher Columbus’s Lookout
AvClive Dickinson
E-bok
Engelska, 2013
59 kr
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The eleventh Lost Diary detailing Columbus’ first voyage across the Atlantic and his historic landing in the `New World’. As told by Luc Landahoya who tries to work out where he’s going.The diary tells the story within a 12-month span from Spring 1492 when Columbus got the official go-ahead from Ferdinand and Isabella, to the Spring of 1493 when he returned in triumph following his `discovery’ of the New World.Life aboard ship, New World discoveries that still survive today tobacco, hammocks, barbecues, canoes, maize etc. The power of the `press’ – printed accounts of Colubus’ triumphs spread fast and coming at the end of the 15th Century, the 1492 voyage was part of a significant turning point in european and world history. There are plenty of good-natured laughs in this story – Columbus was convinced he was sailing to China and Japan. He was also convinced he was travelling to a land of untold riches but took along cheap glass beads of worthless trinkets and glass beads as gifts.
Lost Diary of Montezuma’s Soothsayer
AvClive Dickinson
E-bok
Engelska, 2013
55 kr
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Humorous historical `faction’ in diary format. Montezuma – last Emperor of the Aztecs – lived in a palace and was deemed so holy that he never put his feet on the ground!His soothsayer or priest was naturally with him every day – from his worship to the Sun God, to his death at the hands of his own people following their defeat by Cortes and the Spaniards. His diary reveals the truth about a powerful emperor and a once mighty empire.
Jenny Valentine - 4 Book Award-winning Collection (Finding Violet Park, Broken Soup, The Ant Colony, The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight)
AvJenny Valentine
E-bok
Engelska, 2013
170 kr
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Four extraordinary stories from Guardian award-winning author, Jenny Valentine.“Valentine writes so beautifully and so convincingly that you're instantly swept into the mystery of people's lives." Amanda Craig, The TimesFinding Violet Park:When sixteen-year-old Lucas Swain rescues Violet Park’s ashes from a mini-cab office, he sets out to discover who she was, and finally faces up to the question of his missing father…Broken Soup:When a stranger gives a dropped photo negative to Rowan, she’s sure it’s all a big mistake. Who is he? Why did he give it to her? The mystery only deepens when the photo is developed and the inconceivable appears.The Ant Colony:For Sam and Bohemia, number 33 Georgiana Street is a place to disappear. Like ants, the residents scurry about their business, no questions asked. But it doesn’t take much to upset the balance. Dig deep enough and you’ll find that everyone has something to hide…The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight:An explosive mystery and the story of a boy who assumes the identity of a missing teenager and in-so-doing unearths a series of shattering family secrets – and the truth about who he really is.
Lost Diary of Robin Hood’s Money Man
AvSteve Barlow,Steve Skidmore
E-bok
Engelska, 2014
33 kr
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The tenth Lost Diary – a real milestone! Robin Hood has always been an enormously popular figure, but was he real? The mad middle-ages will feature in this real account of his life.It’s Sherwood Forest and one man is looking after the nation’s money. No, not Robin Hood, but his money man – Leonard du Somoney [Len d for short] While Robin robs the rich, someone has to control it before it’s doled out to the poor. Friar Tuck, Maid Marian and that evil Sheriff of Nottingham will naturally make guest appearance as well as Richard the Lionheart and the Crusades, knights, castles, dungeons . Plenty of information about the measly middle ages as well as the odd joke or two about robin’ banks!The Sherwood Forest Visitors’ Centre is the second most visited tourist attraction outside London, after Alton Towers. There is an enormous amount of interest in Robin Hood worldwide, but particularly amongst children in England.
Island of Lost Horses
AvStacy Gregg
Häftad, Engelska, 2015, 9-12 år
106 kr
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Two girls divided by time, united by their love for some very special horses – an epic Caribbean adventure!On a remote tropical island, twelve year-old Beatriz is about to embark on an epic journey, through hurricanes and across the high seas and back to the time of Christopher Columbus…When Beatriz stumbles across a wild mare with strange markings in the jungle she can’t believe it is real. Yet from that moment on the strongest connection grows between them, and she begins to uncover an incredible history. For centuries ago, Felipa and her horse, Cara Blanca, were running for their lives.As the fates of Beatriz, Felipa and their horses become entwined, Beatriz realises that the future of the world’s rarest horses depends on her.Based on the extraordinary true story of the Abaco Barb, a real-life mystery that has remained unsolved for over five hundred years.
Island of Lost Horses
AvStacy Gregg
E-bok
Engelska, 2014, 9-12 år
60 kr
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Two girls divided by time, united by their love for some very special horses – an epic Caribbean adventure!On a remote tropical island, twelve year-old Beatriz is about to embark on an epic journey, through hurricanes and across the high seas and back to the time of Christopher Columbus…When Beatriz stumbles across a wild mare with strange markings in the jungle she can’t believe it is real. Yet from that moment on the strongest connection grows between them, and she begins to uncover an incredible history. For centuries ago, Felipa and her horse, Cara Blanca, were running for their lives.As the fates of Beatriz, Felipa and their horses become entwined, Beatriz realises that the future of the world’s rarest horses depends on her.Based on the extraordinary true story of the Abaco Barb, a real-life mystery that has remained unsolved for over five hundred years.
Star Dogs
Beyond the Stars
AvRoddy Doyle
E-bok
Engelska, 2014
16 kr
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An imaginative short story inspired by real events, taken from the collection, BEYOND THE STARS, and written and illustrated by two award-winning talentsTold from the perspective of the Russian dog Tsygan, this is the story of the first living creatures to be sent into space – the `star dogs’ of the title.Roddy Doyle’s typically accessible voice is complemented by the illuminating illustrations of Steve Simpson, together immersing a new generation of young readers in the incredible true story of the Soviet space dogs, one of the twentieth century’s true feats of science.
Glitter Collection
Glitter, a Million Angels, Shine, a Sea of Stars and Invisible Girl
AvKate Maryon
E-bok
Engelska, 2014, 9-12 år
109 kr
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The complete Kate Maryon collection:GlitterA Million AngelsShineA Sea of StarsInvisible Girl5 stories from Kate Maryon, featuring a cast of sparkling, unforgettable characters. Meet super-rich Liberty, who must learn that not all that glitters is gold when her dad loses his job, Jemima whose dad is away fighting in the war, Tiffany whose mother is a thief, Maya and Cat whose worlds collide in a story of friendship and family, and Gabriella who runs away from home and must find her beloved brother Beckett.
Pudding Lane
Band 16/Sapphire
AvDavid MacPhail
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
149 kr
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Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available.September 1666.Grace and her brother Simon are on their way to London to claim their inheritance. As a great fire breaks out, Simon is kidnapped. Can Grace rescue her brother and escape the flames?Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.Text type: A story with a historical settingIdeas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.On Sunday 2nd September 1666, a spark in a baker’s shop ignited one of the most famous fires in history, the Great Fire of London. David Macphail wrote this story because he loves history and is interested in how people used to live and how children would experience such an important historical event.
Street Child
AvBerlie Doherty
Häftad, Engelska, 2031
106 kr
Kommande
My Soul, A Shining Tree
AvJamila Gavin
Häftad, Engelska, 2025, 9-12 år
117 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
🌟One of the Telegraph’s 50 BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF ALL TIME🌟The stunning novel from Jamila Gavin, bestselling and award-winning author of Coram Boy and The Wheel of Surya.“Flawless” — TelegraphBased on the true story of Indian WWI gunner and recipient of the Victoria Cross, Khudadad Khan. The story is told from four perspectives: Lotte, a Belgian farmgirl whose village is the flashpoint for a battle; Ernst, a German teenage cavalry soldier whose grandiose dreams of war lie in tatters; Khudadad Khan, the gunner fighting with the British Army; and a wild walnut tree.When Lotte’s farm is destroyed in the fighting, she and her sister flee with their young neighbour Michael, to take refuge beneath the walnut tree on the ridge — a ridge currently being defended from the encroaching Germans by Indian gunner Khudadad Khan. There, they are joined by traumatised German soldier Ernst, whose horse lies lost in the trenches of the battle raging below. As their perspectives converge, their shared humanity emerges as a light in the darkness of war, safe beneath the branches of the walnut tree that shelters them all.Perfect for fans of War Horse and The Skylarks’ War
My Soul, A Shining Tree
AvJamila Gavin
E-bok
Engelska, 2025, 9-12 år
69 kr
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🌟WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S FICTION 2025 🌟🌟One of the Telegraph’s 50 BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF ALL TIME🌟The stunning novel from Jamila Gavin, bestselling and award-winning author of Coram Boy and The Wheel of Surya.“Flawless” — TelegraphBased on the true story of Indian WWI gunner and recipient of the Victoria Cross, Khudadad Khan. The story is told from four perspectives: Lotte, a Belgian farmgirl whose village is the flashpoint for a battle; Ernst, a German teenage cavalry soldier whose grandiose dreams of war lie in tatters; Khudadad Khan, the gunner fighting with the British Army; and a wild walnut tree.When Lotte’s farm is destroyed in the fighting, she and her sister flee with their young neighbour Michael, to take refuge beneath the walnut tree on the ridge — a ridge currently being defended from the encroaching Germans by Indian gunner Khudadad Khan. There, they are joined by traumatised German soldier Ernst, whose horse lies lost in the trenches of the battle raging below. As their perspectives converge, their shared humanity emerges as a light in the darkness of war, safe beneath the branches of the walnut tree that shelters them all.
Becoming Grace
AvHilary McKay
Häftad, Engelska, 2025, 9-12 år
106 kr
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Award-winning Hilary McKay brings the childhood of Victorian heroine Grace Darling to life in this heartfelt reimagining of her life up to and including the Forfarshire shipwreck. Despite her fear of boats, Grace Darling loves her life as the daughter of a lighthouse keeper and spends fun-filled childhood days with her three sisters, four brothers, numerous goats, chickens, cats and her beloved dog, Happy.The only shadows come from the many shipwrecks caused by the poor location of their lighthouse, a problem that seems to be fixed when a new one is built further out on the remote Longstone Rock.But in September 1838, a steamship called the Forfarshire is wrecked on the dangerous Harcar Rock. Grace alerts her father to survivors, but can she find the courage to help him row out through the mountainous waves to rescue them? Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 8.
Angel of Grasmere
From Dunkirk to the Fells
AvTom Palmer
E-bok
Engelska, 2024, 9-12 år
75 kr
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Tarn grapples with the loss of her brother at Dunkirk as she faces the threat of Nazi invasion in the Cumbrian countryside in this gripping wartime tale from Tom Palmer. July 1940 – as Tarn struggles to come to terms with the loss of her beloved brother in the chaos of the British retreat at Dunkirk, she and her friends scour the hills around their Lake District home, watching for any signs of the long-dreaded Nazi invasion.But as the war drags on, with little good news from the front, the locals become aware of someone carrying out anonymous acts of kindness, such as saving a flock of sheep from a snowdrift and getting help for an injured farmer who might otherwise have died.With no one claiming credit, they come to think of this unidentified stranger as a kind of guardian angel, but when his identity is finally revealed, can Tarn come to terms with the truth…?
Elixir
AvLindsay Galvin
Häftad, Engelska, 2025, 9-12 år
106 kr
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With a witchfinder skulking about town, gifted healer Ann and a young Isaac Newton must be careful not to draw too much attention in this high-stakes story from Lindsay Galvin. Will the discovery of the Elixir of Life lead to a death sentence for a talented young healer?Ann Storer has inherited her grandmother’s mysterious gift of healing, which she shares through the special tinctures she dispenses in her family’s apothecary shop. When she combines her talents with the genius of a young Isaac Newton, recently arrived to board above the shop, the two create an incredible elixir with seemingly unlimited powers.But seventeenth-century England is a dangerous place to display any special abilities, and Ann must hide all evidence when witchfinder Abel Geach arrives in town.So when the plague starts to run rife and those she loves are in danger, will Ann risk everything to help them? Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 8.
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
AvJudith Kerr
Häftad, Engelska, 2024, 9-12 år
119 kr
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This semi-autobiographical classic, written by the beloved Judith Kerr, tells the story of a Jewish family escaping Germany in the days before the Second World WarSuppose your country began to change. Suppose that without your noticing, it became dangerous for some people to live in it any longer, and you found, to your surprise, that your own father was one of those people. This is what happened to Anna in 1933.Anna is too busy with her schoolwork and tobogganing to listen to the talk of Hitler. But one day she and her brother Max are rushed out of Germany in alarming secrecy, away from everything they know. Their father is wanted by the Nazis. This is the start of a huge adventure, sometimes frightening, very often funny and always exciting.Judith Kerr wrote When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit fifty years ago, based on her own journey, so that her own children would know where she came from and the lengths to which her parents went to keep her and her brother safe. It has gone on to become a beloved classic that is required reading for many children all over the world and is an unforgettable introduction to the real-life impact of the Second World War.
Bombs on Aunt Dainty
AvJudith Kerr
Häftad, Engelska, 2024, 9-12 år
118 kr
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Partly autobiographical, this is the second title in Judith Kerr’s internationally acclaimed trilogy of books following the life of Anna through war-torn Germany, to London during the Blitz and her return to Berlin to discover the past…It is hard enough being a teenager in London during the Blitz, finding yourself in love and wondering every night whether you will survive the bombs. But it is even harder for Anna, who is still officially classified as an “enemy alien”. Those bombs are coming from Germany – the country that was once her own. If Hitler invades, can she and her beloved refugee family possibly survive?This was previously published as The Other Way Round.
Becoming Grace
AvHilary McKay
E-bok
Engelska, 2025, 9-12 år
60 kr
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Award-winning Hilary McKay brings the childhood of Victorian heroine Grace Darling to life in this heartfelt reimagining of her life up to and including the Forfarshire shipwreck. Grace Darling nearly drowned when she was eight years old, leaving her with a fear of boats and the sea. But it’s a fear she has to overcome as the daughter of a lighthouse keeper, living on the Longstone Rock with her parents, four brothers, three sisters and her beloved dog, Happy.Losses at sea bring shadows to an otherwise idyllic childhood, but everything Grace learns growing up on the coast is put to the test in 1838, when The Forfarshire is wrecked on the Harcar Rock, and she has to row out through the storm to the rescue.
Elixir
AvLindsay Galvin
E-bok
Engelska, 2025, 9-12 år
60 kr
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With a witchfinder skulking about town, gifted healer Ann and a young Isaac Newton must be careful not to draw too much attention in this high-stakes story from Lindsay Galvin. Will the discovery of the Elixir of Life lead to a death sentence for a talented young healer?Ann Storer has inherited her grandmother’s mysterious gift of healing, which she shares through the special tinctures she dispenses in her family’s apothecary shop. When she combines her talents with the genius of a young Isaac Newton, recently arrived to board above the shop, the two create an incredible elixir with seemingly unlimited powers.But seventeenth-century England is a dangerous place to display any special abilities, and Ann must hide all evidence when witchfinder Abel Geach arrives in town.So when the plague starts to run rife and those she loves are in danger, will Ann risk everything to help them? Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 8.
Coram Boy
AvJamila Gavin
Häftad, Engelska, 2025, 9-12 år
106 kr
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The Whitbread 2000 Book of the Year is a haunting and captivating work of historical fiction for children.The Coram man takes babies and money from desperate mothers, promising to deliver them safely to a Foundling Hospital in London. Instead, he murders them and buries them by the roadside, to the helpless horror of his mentally ill son, Mish.Mish saves one, Aaron, who grows up happily unaware of his history, proving himself a promising musician. As Aaron's new life takes him closer to his real family, the watchful Mish makes a terrible mistake, delivering Aaron and his best friend Toby back into the hands of the Coram man.It tells the story of a dark time in English history. Fans of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Goodnight Mr Tom will love this. A great read for children aged 10+.Look out for Jamilla's other titles:The Eye of the HorseThe Robber Baron's DaughterThe Track of the WindWheel of SuryaCoram Boy won the 2000 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year, was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and has been adapted into a highly acclaimed stage play.Jamila Gavin was born in Mussoorie, India, in the foothills of the Himalayas. With an Indian father and an English mother, she inherited two rich cultures which ran side by side throughout her life, and which always made her feel she belonged to both countries.The family finally settled in England where Jamila completed her schooling, was a music student, worked for the BBC and became a mother of two children. It was then that she began writing children’s books, and felt a need to reflect the multi-cultural world in which she and her children now lived.

Bioigrafier och sanna berättelser 9-12 år

Stinas jojk

Sadako och de tusen papperstranorna

Sju nyanser av våld

Wir sind Wölfe

We Are Wolves

Beware, Princess Elizabeth

Bombs on Aunt Dainty

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Beware, Princess Elizabeth

Lost Diary of Annie Oakley’s Wild West Stagehand

Lost Diary of Christopher Columbus’s Lookout

Lost Diary of Montezuma’s Soothsayer

Jenny Valentine - 4 Book Award-winning Collection (Finding Violet Park, Broken Soup, The Ant Colony, The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight)

Lost Diary of Robin Hood’s Money Man

Island of Lost Horses

Island of Lost Horses

Star Dogs

Glitter Collection

Pudding Lane

Street Child

My Soul, A Shining Tree

My Soul, A Shining Tree

Becoming Grace

Angel of Grasmere

Elixir

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Bombs on Aunt Dainty

Becoming Grace

Elixir

Coram Boy