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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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Sudden depths
Children's Books2019 · 224 pp · Age 12+

Sudden depths

Elin Viktoria Unstad

Vilja drowned. Three months ago she was dead for 23 minutes. Since then, nothing has been the same. As she tries to find her way back into life, something happens. She is kidnapped – and wakes up on an unknown island. The day after, she's back home again. What happened? Why doesn't anyone believe her? She was kidnapped after all – wasn't she? Vilja becomes more and more confused. But surely there must be a natural explanation… Elin Viktoria Unstad has written an unpleasant psychological thriller for YA readers.

Helsesista #vågåvære
Self Help / Children's Books2019 · 240 pp · Age 12+

Helsesista #vågåvære

Tale Maria Krohn Engvik

In her book Health Sister Tale Krohn Engvik writes about the issues that many children and teenagers are wondering about, themes that can be difficult to talk openly about, such as questions about chaotic thoughts, suicidal thoughts, body, sex and love – here nothing is taboo! Her goal is to inspire her followers to think differently and be confident in themselves; to break taboos and make it easier for young people to contact their school nurse.

What will people say?
Children's Books2019 · 112 pp · Age 12+

What will people say?

Hilde Hagerup / Iram Haq

What will people say? is a novel inspired by the Oscar-nominated film about growing up with an immigrant background. 16-year-old Nisha is living a double life. When she’s with her friends, she’s a Norwegian teen, but at home with her family she’s the perfect Pakistani daughter. When her father finds out that Nisha has smuggled her Norwegian boyfriend into her room, two worlds collide and Nisha is sent to stay with the family in Pakistan.Iram Haq and Hilde Hagerup wrote this novel based on the Oscar-nominated film of the same name.

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Literature and Fiction / Narrative Non-fiction2019 · 64 pp · Age 12 - 18

SABOTEUR - OPERATION MUSKETOON

John S. Jamtli

A dramatic war story unlike anything you've read before! We're in Northern Norway in 1942. It's a dark and cold September evening. Suddenly a submarine – Junon – rises out of the water, and twelve commandos on a sabotage mission appear. Operation Musketoon is underway. It's a very risky job. A team consisting of two Englishmen, one Canadian and two Norwegians row quietly into the fjord. Their target: the Glomfjord power station. Their guide is a young soldier from Linge-company, Sverre Granlund. This is his story. While Saboteur, John S. Jamtli's first critically acclaimed graphic novel about WW2, was a tall story based on reality, Saboteur – Operation Musketoon is the story as it really happened. But it is no less dramatic! Readers get to follow the saboteurs closely, over the mountain, through storms and fog, with the enemy hot on their heels. Based on the experiences of Sverre Granlund – who went from being a local guide in Northern Norway to carrying the whole operation on his shoulders.

The Troll Hunter
Children's Books2019 · 64 pp · Age 12+

The Troll Hunter

Håvard S. Johansen

When a farm in Telemark finds one of their stabburs has been dramatically relocated, a mystical man shows up to investigate. He hunts through the night with illegal weapons, and people say he is working for the government. Is he plain nuts, or is he there to prevent something from being discovered – something that the Norwegian people aren't supposed to find out about? And how has teenager Frida, who is indifferent to everything, ended up in the middle of everything?

Otherwise I’m not a Human Being
Children's Books2018 · 272 pp · Age 12+

Otherwise I’m not a Human Being

Agnar Lirhus

Mathilde is fourteen. She doesn't want to go to school. Mom doesn't understand what's going on – even when Mathilde ends up in the hospital. Mathilde doesn't have any friends other than a dog named Eddi, and Xiu, a friend she plays with online. But Xiu also has his, or her, own problems. Otherwise I'm not a Human Being is about being bullied, but still standing up for yourself, for others, and for the world. And about the fact that most things are the grown ups' fault. Nominated to the Critic's Prize 2018

The River
Children's Books2018 · 144 pp · Age 12+

The River

Anna Fiske

The River is a quiet and beautifully illustrated novel about the big and small things that make life difficult for teenage Helena. She feels like she's just washing away, like the water beneath the ice in the river she sees each day on her way to school. Helena wishes she could take up more space, that she could say what she thinks and feels. That she could manage to comfort her dad, or dare to talk to Andreas in the other class. Then one spring day, the ice starts to break – and something dramatic happens.

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