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Critical Thinking
Children's Books2026 · 128 pp · Age 12+

Critical Thinking

Hilde Hagerup

In a world full of fake news, algorithms, and manipulation, children and young people have never had a greater need for critical thinking skills. Critical Thinking offers a vibrant and accessible introduction, guiding young readers through this essential landscape. Through personal conversations, expert encounters, and fun challenges, readers gain tools to navigate an increasingly complex information world. Hilde Hagerup explores topics like language and power, emotions and decisions, statistics, fallacies, social media, and echo chambers, making them understandable and relevant. Dialogues between a mother and son, alongside insights from knowledgeable voices, create a safe space for exploring complex ideas and diverse perspectives. Critical Thinking invites curiosity, encourages asking questions, and champions the courage to change one's mind with new knowledge, while acknowledging the practical difficulties. Renowned author Hilde Hagerup conveys complex topics credibly and engagingly, taking young readers seriously. "The visual style, complete with speech bubbles and other comic book elements, ensures that critical thinking does not come across as something abstract and difficult. Additionally, each chapter has a concrete and down-to-earth approach to what one should be on the lookout for."Barnebokkritikk.no

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Dick pics and other disasters
Children's Books2025 · 264 pp · Age 12+

Dick pics and other disasters

Michael Stilson

Jonas is head-over-heels for Manuela, the new girl at school. But he has zero experience with girls – and even less of a clue about how to get their attention. Then he overhears some classmates talking about how effective sending dick pics can be. Desperate and wildly misguided, Jonas decides to give it a try. But taking a decent pic turns out to be harder than expected – bad lighting, awkward angles, hiding behind a curtain so no one sees him... and then, disaster: he sends it to the wrong person. Not just anyone – he sends it to his mum. It's already the worst thing that’s ever happened to Jonas. But then it gets worse: his phone is confiscated for the rest of the day. No scrolling, no games, no chats. Just a full Saturday – offline. With Brutus. His weirdest friend. What do people even do without a screen? Go outside? Play hide-and-seek? Ding dong ditch? Steal apples?One disaster leads to another… until, a miracle happens. This outrageous, laugh-out-loud novel takes place over the course of a single day. A day full of poor choices, absurd moments, and one unforgettable miracle. With sharp humor and big heart, Michael Stilson captures both the horror of sending the world’s worst text and the strange, unpredictable freedom of being offline. Inspired by Stilson’s year-long participation in NRK’s Avlogga project, where he lived without a smartphone, the book is a bold, timely look at teenage life, social media addiction, and what happens when the signal goes dead – and real life kicks in.

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Born Free
Children's Books2025 · 120 pp · Age 12+

Born Free

Marta Breen

Religious control and women's fight for freedom – an important book for young readers Born Free is a fascinating and thought-provoking graphic novel about the impact religion has had, and continues to have, on women's freedom. It explores how religious practices have restricted women’s rights and shaped their lives across different cultures and societies. In the wake of the women-led uprising in Iran and the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan, religious control over women’s lives has become more visible than it has been in decades. Acclaimed feminist and author Marta Breen places these current events in a broader historical and global context, showing how religious fundamentalism continues to threaten women’s rights even in Western societies. Based on thorough research, Born Free tackles topics such as forced marriage, education bans, dress codes, and female genital mutilation in a respectful yet direct manner. The book’s core message is clear: everyone has the right to decide over their own life, while also respecting freedom of religion, as long as it does not violate basic human rights. Born Free is a vital book that encourages reflection and conversation about the role of religion in society and the position of women within the world’s faiths. Sunniva Fluge Hole’s striking illustrations make complex topics accessible for readers aged 12 and up. The book builds on Marta Breen’s international bestsellers Women in Battle and The Fall og the Patriarchy, sold to 30 and 14 countries respectively. While these dealt with general discrimination against women, Born Free focuses specifically on religious oppression and control over women's bodies and lives.

Written by internationally known feminist Marta Breen
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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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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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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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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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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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Women in Battle
Children's Books2018 · 128 pp · Age 12+

Women in Battle

Marta Breen / Jenny Jordahl

150 years ago, women and men led very different lives. Women could not vote or make their own living. They had no control over their own bodies. The father would make a woman's decisions until she was married. Then her husband would take over. This changed when women began to organize. In this book writer Marta Breen and illustrator Jenny Jordahl tell the story about the women's movements many dramatic battles. Breen and Jordahl have cooperated about a number of book projects, amongst others The F word. 155 reasons to be a feminist a title for which they received the Norwegian Cultural Ministry non-fiction award in 2015, and the bestseller 60 Women you should have known (2016).Graphic novel Women in Battle offers a whirlwind tour through 150 years of the fight for women’s rights. Marta Breen’s witty text and Jenny Jordahl’s dynamic art covers topics including reproductive rights, gay marriage and the #MeToo movement. International and inclusive in outlook, it’s both relevant and inspirational.THE GUARDIAN - Best Children´s Books of 2018Women in Battle is a straightforward, solid and exciting introduction to the history of the Women´s movement. Not least is the book a celebration of the courage and will of those who has walked the path before us, sheading light on some of the women on whose shoulders we are now standing. Women in Battle reminds us how much "the other sex" has achieved when it comes to rights during the last 150 years, and at the same time remind us that many battles are still to be won. PROSAWomen in Battle is a combination of a textbook and a manifest, a book that has a mission and also underlines the will to say something with a solid presentation. SERIENETTWomen in Battle - 150 years fight for freedom, equality and sisterhood presents the reader to a playful and whole picture of the cases that has defined the fight for women´s right´s through times. It manages to be a celebration of those who fought the fights, and at the same time remind us to never take these rights for granted. EMPIRIXBreen and Jordahls depiction of the history of feminism as a cartoon feels fresh and liberatingly free from self-righteousness. To be able to flip through 150 years of history in stylish, striking and affirming illustrations, interpretations and drama makes for a fascinating read. The eye rests well on details that provide associations and food for thought. There is humour and wit in this work by Breen and Jordahl, in content, context and line.NY TID

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Smashed
2018 · 112 pp · Age 12+

Smashed

Brynjulf Jung Tjønn

Oda's dad puts her bike in the garage. She will not be using it anymore. She has such a poor balance and this was the defiitely the last time that she should fall and hurt herself. That is the story Oda tells anyone who asks. But both she and her mother know that the truth is something completely different. That the truth is a story that Oda is unable to tell anyone. Not dad. Not the teacher. Not even her best friend Milad, even if he has experienced things much worse before he came to the small village where Oda lives. Smashed is a book that hurts, for young readers wanting to do well.

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Emily’s Crochet Book
Crafts and Hobbies2014 · 48 pp · Age 12+

Emily’s Crochet Book

Emily Thorbjørnsen

Amigurumi characters are small, personalised, crocheted mascots. This is a hobby that is becoming increasingly popular, and Emily's cute characters have a fresh, Nordic style. All those who have never crocheted before can learn to do so now. The most important techniques are explained using text and pictures in Crochet School at the front of the book – the simplest first and the most advanced at the end. It's easy to become enchanted by Emily's characters, and this book is also suitable for young adults who want to try their hand at a small (and feasible) handicraft project. Emily Thorbjørnsen has written an inspiring crochet book for young girls.

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