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Happy Happy

Mette Vedsø

Happy Happy is a novel about 13-year-old, Ubbe, who is accidentally given a super expensive golf set and in a mix-up starts frequenting the golf club in the liebhaber part of town. Ubbe is dead set to keep this a secret to his dad. Because ...

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Silver Bloom

Cecilie Eken

Jonas and his best friend, Simon, have a secret den in the big, overgrown garden on the other side of the woods. One day, Jonas spots the owner, an elderly lady, being taken away in an ambulance and she doesn’t return. Her house with the ...

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Night Bloom

Cecilie Eken

Mia has moved to a new town with her mother, her little brother and her stepdad. She has a new house and a new school and she hates it all and just wants to go back to her old life, where her dad and the dog, Matti, were a part of her daily...

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The Fish Girl

Søren Jessen

In a house on a hilltop, the autistic boy, Frede, and his older sister are home alone. A violent storm has hit their area and all land around them has been washed away by flooding, leaving their hilltop house on a small island in the sea. T...

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Liv Life Leben Vie Love

Mette Vedsø

"Taxa has stripes of mascara on her face. Black transparent clouds under each eye. Maybe she had them already when they were singing and riding down the cobbled street. ‘In a way, I feel I have to save you,’ Naja says. ‘In a way, I fe...

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When the Heart is a Hand Mixer

Mette Vedsø

Mette Vedsø has written yet another moving and thought-provoking tale, giving voice to a child in distress. She has previously written about friendship, coming-of-age and horses in her award-winning novel, Hest Horse Pferd Cheval Love and ...

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It will be a Long Life

Stine Spedsbjerg

It will be a long life is a collection of spot-on comic strips, describing a teenage girl’s life with its happiness, sorrow and worries. The book is jam-packed with humorous energy and recognisable situations which both daughters and pare...

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Tales from the Sky: Science Stories for Children

Gertrude Kiel, Gunvor Rasmussen

If there is one thing that children and scientists have in common, it is their curiosity. Curiosity about the world around us, our role in it and the meaning of it all.William is nine years old and fed up. It is school holiday and his paren...

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The Time Chase

Gertrude Kiel

This is a detective story. A murder mystery. But it's a rather different one. The killer is already known, you see. The problem is to find the killer and measure out a proper punishment. For the killer is time itself, and this is the story ...

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Come Along

Marianne Iben Hansen, Lilian Brøgger

A flow-rhymed tale about a friendship that suddenly isn't so simple anymore."You were youWe were usWe were togetherWhich was fineUntil the day I saw you standing with the others in a line"

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Hate you, Hate you Not

Glenn Ringtved

Kim lives with his dad and his older brother, Kenneth. Kim and Kenneth are both good at boxing. Dad is good at cheering when they are in the ring.But even so, Kim hates everything. Maybe it is because his mum passed away. Maybe it is becaus...

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The Cherry Girl

Tomas Lagerman Lundme

A painful and strong depiction of a young girl's first unreciprocated love. The first-person narrator is desperate to make the boy she loves love her back. Her insistence scares him off and she develops an obsession. But can you make someon...

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