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No Lies Can Save Me Now
Children's Books2024 · 208 pp · Age 12+

No Lies Can Save Me Now

Magnus Buen Halvorsen

Gustav can’t face going to school and for the past few months he’s mostly been home-schooled. His parents are at their wits’ end and, in desperation, they sign Gustav up to a support group for young people who are school refusers too. There he meets Julia, a girl with zero boundaries, who tells him about a place where you don’t have to feel like an idiot all the time. She calls this place The Garage. When Gustav visits The Garage he discovers a new and fascinating world on the margins of society where the kids are just like him. Just as Gustav is regaining his self-belief, he realises that he is also caught up in a web of lies that is impossible to escape. No Lies Can Save Me Now is a compelling YA novel about being an outsider and belonging – and just how hard it can be to do something as simple as going to school.

Buddy
Children's Books2024 · 262 pp · Age 12+

Buddy

Fabian Christensen

If it wasn’t for his best buddy Mikkel, Jørgen would probably have died of a stomach ulcer. Or loneliness. Or making an absolute fool of himself in front of the prettiest girl at school. But as long as Mikkel has his back, things are mostly fine, according to Jørgen. Still - it's not easy to be fourteen and living in the shadow of your picture-perfect best friend. During their last days of 9th grade, Jørgen and Mikkel's friendship will be put to the test in more ways than one. At the same time, Jørgen must navigate his crush on Mikkel's cousin, becoming the joke of a TikTok meme, and some deadly serious family matters. And in the end, maybe the time has finally come for Jørgen to be Mikkel's lifesaver. Buddy is an impressive debut by Fabian Christensen, the winner of Cappelen Damm’s New Voices Manuscript competition 2023. It's a novel full of heart, dramatic twists and turns - and plenty of awkward, situational comedy that will have you both cringing and howling with laughter. All the while underscoring the importance of honest conversations.

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Let's Turn the Town Upside Down
Children's Books2024 · 187 pp · Age 12+

Let's Turn the Town Upside Down

Tor Åge Bringsværd

Several centuries ago, the world as we know it was destroyed by wars, corrosive rain and a deadly plague. Aivar (13) from The Badger Tribe is forced to flee when the travelling city of Berlin comes too close to their winter settlement. He and Uri, his best friend’s little sister, are the only survivors of an attack by the Bears several days later. Vira (13) loves climbing. She grows up on the first storey of Berlin among the people who keep the whole city running. Up top live the important folk, the ones with responsibility. When Vira is caught climbing too high – all the way up to the sixth storey – she is forced to start spying and informing on her own people. Because there are a lot people in Berlin who want to harm the city. We follow Aivar and Vira for a few years until they eventually meet during a long-planned attack on the travelling city of Berlin. But neither of them knows exactly what they’ve got themselves involved in. A high-octane, thrilling vision of a dystopian future – with hope!

Hex
Children's Books2023 · 192 pp · Age 12+

Hex

Sigbjørn Mostue

Diana is in her final year of high school and has always been good at most things – except for getting friends. Or a boyfriend. One day a new boy shows up at school, called Simon. He’s handsome and better than her at maths, and when Simon shows interest in Diana she doesn’t know what to do. She can’t understand why this charming boy everyone is talking about is interested in her. At a party Simon sneaks something into Diana’s drink and takes advantage of her while she's intoxicated. When Diana wakes up again, she discovers something awful: her reflection in the mirror shows an ugly, old woman. A witch. The witch in the mirror takes turns between comforting and yelling at Diana, and the difference between fantasy and reality is slowly dissolved. Diana’s behaviour makes those around her react negatively, and she slowly becomes more and more isolated. Online Diana looks for answers about what has happened to her and stumbles across an online community that believes witchcraft is real. Diana becomes convinced that she’s made a deal with the Devil himself, after everything that happened with Simon, and she decides to get revenge. But nothing goes according to Diana’s plan. Sigbjørn Mostue has written a dark and thrilling novel for young adults about the border between superstition, psychosis and intoxication.

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Block to block
Children's Books2022 · 128 pp · Age 12+

Block to block

Jonathan Castro / Don Martin / Felipe Orellana Castro

Block to Block is about ending up where you are, not because of, but despite of. Don Martin, Castro, and Fela are famous Norwegian rap artists, who are now sharing their stories and taking the readers into their block of flats, behind their music and lyrics. This is a vivid and tough depiction of growing up from East Oslo. It’s original and quick-mouthed, uncompromising, and important. These are vital voices that deserve to be heard. The book is a cool, commercial, and original book about a rough life on the Eastside of Oslo. At the same time, it’s a vulnerable family story about suicide, and not least the story of when hip hop came to Norway. This graphic novel is based on the hip hop show Block to Block with Don Martin, Fela and Castro, which was a breakout success at Det Norske Teatret. Reviews for the show"Block to Block is about keeping your pride when others try to bring you down. About finding your own rhythm when life doesn’t have any. (…) An experience that’s bigger than a concert and richer than a normal show."Aftenposten "Block to Block is a personal and important show, told by those who could have fallen outside of society."Morgenbladet

The Golden Star
Children's Books2022 · 208 pp · Age 12+

The Golden Star

Lena Lindahl

The Golden Star is set in Narvik and details the situation of the Russian prisoners in the labour camps. A little-known part of our war history imparted with knowledge and intensity. 15-year-old Harald is sneered at and shunned because his parents are members of Nasjonal Samling. He becomes fascinated by NS ideology after attending meetings and is soon offered the opportunity to accompany NS higher-up Pedersen to the quarry where the Russian prisoners work so that he can learn how to treat so-called sub-humans. In the labour camp, Harald encounters a boy his own age, Viktor, who he soon realises is in mortal danger. Viktor has no one to help him, no one apart from Harald. But what can Harald do when he realises that Viktor needs to be smuggled out of the camp and over the border into Sweden? For a few fraught months towards the end of the war, Harald is put to the test as a friend, as a son and as an NS youth. An action-packed story about escape, double agents, ideology and making the right choices.

Like me: The first time
Children's Books2022 · 240 pp · Age 12+

Like me: The first time

Anne Wisløff

How do you even have sex? What if you don’t want to have sex, while everyone else acts like it has to happen now? How do you cope if the person you like likes someone else? This book is based on the sixth season of the TV series Like me. The kids are sixteen, and it’s time for sexual education at school. Sex is a subject the teenagers pretend they know all about aand have a big interest in, but what happens when it’s time to try it out in real life with someone? Neither the experience nor the emotions around it may be as expected, and what happens when everyone else thinks they know what happened and it gets shared on social media? The vulnerability of being young and inexperienced in sexuality and love are recurring themes for the characters in this book. Like Me: The First Time is about being sixteen, about unrequited love, about being naked and scared with someone else, about exploring the scary and unknown. And about trying to like yourself when everyone else does something different. Guaranteed to cause butterflies. REVIEWS ‘Anne Wisløff’s Like Me: The First Time can be the teenager’s most lovely, awkward, but also the most important reading experience of the summer.’ ‘The novel is a thorough sexual education, which in 240 pages has time to touch upon pretty much everything about sex. Consent, contraception, fetishes, toys, rape, porn, pregnancy and so on. And everything is done on the teenagers's premises.’ BOK365, ***** ‘Anne Wisløff’s new young adult novel is a sure-fire tale of the youth’s conflicts, fears, dilemmas and loves. […] In this book everything is refreshingly up to date.’ DAGBLADET, *****

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Backyard Dog
Children's Books2021 · 160 pp · Age 12+

Backyard Dog

Magnus Buen Halvorsen

Balal is 14 and runs a YouTube channel with three pals, where they play innocent pranks on people in the street. But traffic on the channel is pretty low, and they realise they have to do something that will really attract attention. That’s when they come up with the idea of a stunt at subway station in central Oslo at rush hour on a Friday – a so-called terror challenge. Balal isn’t sure whether this is a step too far, but his friends are already in full swing, firing up the comment field and promising to livestream the action to their subs. But the terror challenge is far from successful and has an impact on Balal’s parents, who are already burdened by their traumatic experiences. Now his father is convinced that terrorism has come to Norway and that war will follow. He builds a shelter in the flat and refuses to leave it. And even when the police quickly confirm that the action subway station was just a stunt, it does no good. Because, as his father asks, who on earth would be so idiotic as to joke about something like that? Over several hectic weeks, the story from their homeland unfolds and Balal is seriously put to the test. Backyard Dog is a fast-paced YA novel about belonging and friendship, and about carrying on with life when you are burdened by difficult histories.

The Shadow Bride
Children's Books2021 · 384 pp · Age 12+

The Shadow Bride

Anne Elvedal

What did Rebekka and Martin set in motion with the old spirit board in their previous life? Helene's foster sister May-Liss disappears on her way back from the store. Helene blames herself, she was meant to watch her sister. To learn if May-Liss is still alive, Helene defies the warning to never use her ability to communicate with the dead – and gets thrown into a dangerous game controlled by dark forces. Who is the dead girl Helene talks to? Who is rocking the old doll bed at night? Can she trust the sheriff's son, who claims to also have special powers? And most importantly: Can Helene trust herself? The Shadow Bride is the second book in Anne Elvedal's paranormal horror trilgy.

Alone Through
Children's Books2020 · 256 pp · Age 12+

Alone Through

Michael Stilson

An action-packed YA novel about soccer, performance anxiety, dreams, doubts and hopes. Fredrik from Just Play Ball is 17 and already a star player for Mjøndalen. Rumours are flying about bigger clubs and generous contracts, and one day his father turns up with an offer from top German club Hertha Berlin. Fredrik travels to Germany, but soon he discovers that something doesn’t add up. Why has he been picked to play at the Bundesliga series opener, against no less than Bayern München, just days after arriving in Berlin? What’s up with agent Marko? And why has Hertha spent so many millions on bringing over a player when nobody in the club knows who he is? Fears and dreams collide in front of 75,000 spectators at the Allianz Stadion, and there’s a fine line between success and disaster. Is the price Fredrik is paying for life as a professional footballer too high? And what happens if he lets down his team, his father, his manager and Line? Who really cares about Fredrik? Are millions in the bank really any help against loneliness and the fear that everyone will forget you when the storm is at its height?

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Listen up!
Children's Books2020 · 176 pp · Age 12+

Listen up!

Gulraiz Sharif

It’s the summer holidays and 15-year-old Mahmoud pictures long days outside his block of flats. Norwegian Norwegians go off on their summer holidays, but what do penniless foreigners do? All the same, though, this summer will be different because the family has a visit from Uncle Ji from Pakistan, and Mahmoud is given the job of showing his uncle around Oslo. Uncle Ji is amazed by Norway, but then he starts to wonder what’s wrong with Ali, Mahmoud’s little brother – the one who plays with Elsa dolls and doesn’t behave the way Pakistani boys are supposed to. Listen up! is a firework of a novel. It renders a community of minorities in a truly original and distinctive voice. WINNER OF LUCHS OF THE YEAR 2022 (Germany)WINNER OF LO’S LITERATURE PRIZE 2021 WINNER OF THE CULTURAL DEPARTMENT’S DEBUTANT PRIZE LITERATURE PRIZE 2021 NOMINATED FOR THE BRAGE PRIZE 2021 NOMINATED FOR THE BOOKSELLER’S AWARD 2021 NOMINATED FOR THE YOUTH PRIZE 2021 NOMINATED FOR THE BOOK BLOGGER PRIZE 2021 REVIEWS Cheeky novel about trans child in Norwegian-Pakistani settingSomething as rare as a hilarious, Norwegian-Pakistani coming-of-age novel about poverty and a trans child, full of distinction and linguistic punch.He will remain one of this fall’s foremost, sassiest and most entertaining new voices.AFTENPOSTEN (Norway) Very, very good book! *****A powerful and noisy book debut that forces both its protagonist and its readers to confront their own prejudices head on.This is a truly good and important YA novel, almost impossible to put down.VG (Norway) Charms the readers off their feetGulraiz Sharif’s book must be the freshest breath of air among this fall’s titles.This is YA literature with an effect – also after the last page has been turned.NRK (Norway) Hilarious YA novel about a Norwegian-Pakistani family, as seen through 15-year old Mahmoud’s attentive eyes *****... this debut should be purchased in class sets for junior high students.... a fresh style that is both hilarious and serious!ADRESSEAVISA (Norway) Mahmoud's got a big mouth. And he's funny, clever, cynical, confused, overwhelmed - but always straight forward and honest. Political correctness? Screw that! With the result that "Ey hör mal" takes a refreshingly relaxed look at concepts like gender, identity, racism and social justice. Precisely because the book also risks playing with role models, stereotypes and prejudices in order to ultimately debunk them as totally absurd.SÜDDEUTSCHE (Germany)

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