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Children's Books902Literature and Fiction722Narrative Non-fiction336Self Help179Crafts and Hobbies146Mystery and Crime143Cook Books107UpLit82

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2025 and newer2020–20242015–20192014 and older

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Picture books318Easy read235Read-aloud184Children's novels238Young adult121Children's non-fiction181Comics33

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173 titles in the catalogue

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Death Hotel
Children's Books2024 · 136 pp · Age 9+

Death Hotel

Mari Moen Holsve

Sanna, her big sister Oksana and her friend Robin are driving along deserted country roads on their way to Mum’s house to celebrate Halloween. Suddenly something in the car starts beeping and they have to stop for the night. They check into a hotel where they are the only guests. In the evening, the boy on reception goes home for the night. They are all alone an old hotel. Or are they really all alone? Suddenly Oksana vanishes and the hotel starts to change. Or is it just Sanna and Robin’s imagination? They hear footsteps, the walls seem to start moving, and a mysterious grey girl appears and asks them for help. Then they find Oksana – but she’s in one of the many class pictures on the wall. Something is wrong. Terribly wrong! Sanna, who loves horror films, realises that they’ve ended up in a scary movie – and they won’t be able to escape until they find out what the hotel wants from them. It may help to know every horror movie trick and tip in the book – but that doesn’t make it any less scary to be trapped in a living, crazy and super-scary hotel with a bunch of schoolkids from the days of the Second World War.

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Real Sports Heroes
Children's Books2024 · 128 pp · Age 9 - 12

Real Sports Heroes

Marius Lien

The coolest heroes are the ones who are brave enough to take action off the field too. The biggest sporting stars are major celebrities. They have masses of fans who’ll cheer them on whatever may happen. That gives them an opportunity to make an impact on the world around them. Some of the biggest stars choose to use that opportunity. They want to make the world a better place. And they choose to do so in different ways. In this book readers will meet heroes like Muhammad Ali, who was jailed for opposing the Vietnam War, Marcus Rashford who fights for free school meals in the United Kingdom, and Ingrid Olsdatter Vestby, the first female ski-jumper, who paved the way for other women. The book tells the story of fifty heroes in a variety of different sports from across the globe.

The Fall
Children's Books2024 · 144 pp · Age 9 - 12

The Fall

Øyvind Torseter

An elephant boy is running through the forest, fleeing from someone or something. Is he being kept prisoner in a castle? He escapes by leaving his shadow behind in his place. He goes on to become a successful businessman in a big city. But something is missing. What will happen when he meets his shadow again? A picture-based adventure from Øyvind Torseter, one of our most critically acclaimed and garlanded illustrators and authors. «... a new and exciting addition to Torseter's extensive catalogue.»DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV «He is one of the most extinguished illustrators we have, with the ability to stack different techniques and elements on top of each other, in a way that would have collapsed by most other artists.»BARNEBOKKRITIKK.NO «... Torseter's neat line is as alive and expressive as previously, and it enables him to tell a story mainly through graphics like few other Norwegian series creators can.»SERIENETT.NO

The von Humbug Family: The Miracle Powder
Children's Books2024 · 304 pp · Age 9 - 12

The von Humbug Family: The Miracle Powder

Karen Kilane

Do you like stories with a good moral and a happy ending? Are you looking for a book without tall tales and humbug? Then this is not the book for you! All her life, Lucy has dreamed of a grandfather who can look after her, bake buns and make her hot chocolate with whipped cream. But when her long-missing Grandpa von Humbug finally appears, Lucy quickly realizes that he is not like other grandfathers. Grandpa loves to invent and travel, but above anything he loves to make quick money – no matter the cost. Grandpa and his new girlfriend, Vanessa Jones, get their hands on Lucy's latest invention, a miracle powder that makes things young and new and shiny. It's a disaster waiting to happen! The Miracle Powder is the first book in the series about the Familien von Humbug, written by debut author Karen Kilane and illustrated throughout by renowned artist Hans Jørgen Sandnes, known from the series Detective Agency No. 2 and Krypto. «The book is charming and concrete, with fantastic images – and a lot of tongue-in-cheek. Karen Kilane and Hans Jørgen Sandnes have created a universe you'll want to stay in, and a kid you'll learn to love.»PERISKOP

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Felix
Children's Books2024 · 160 pp · Age 9 - 12

Felix

Felix Baldauf / Eren Gjægtvik / Michael Stilson

Powerful graphic novel about finding your way out of the darkness through sport Felix moves from Germany to Kristiansund with his mum and little brother. He can’t speak a word of Norwegian and can’t quite seem to settle in. And he can’t invite anyone back home either because he doesn’t know what will be waiting for him there. What state will Mum be in? Will she be drunk? Will she even be conscious? Felix feels different. He is burdened by a dark secret, a secret he doesn’t want to share with anyone. But the new wrestling trainer Gekken understands him in a totally different way. Even if he comes late, is in a bad mood or doesn’t deliver his best performance, he’s still welcome in the locker room. It’s a place where he’s on the same footing as everyone else, and where he feels safe. Slowly but surely, Felix comes out of his shell and turns out to be an incredibly talented wrestler. But with everything that’s going on at home, can he get as far as he wants to in the sport he loves?

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Hilda Bumblevik and the Secret of the Diary
Children's Books2024 · 252 pp · Age 9 - 12

Hilda Bumblevik and the Secret of the Diary

Irmelin Persdatter Gustavsen

In Søderdal Mum is nursing a broken heart, and a threat hangs over Hilda and her friends: the town’s children may be sent away. Mum has disappeared into her bedroom and into herself after the scandal of the wedding day when she nearly got married to Timian. Hilda feels lonely and downhearted until she finds a black leatherbound book among Timian’s stuff. It turns out to be a diary that Timian kept when he was twelve years old. While Hilda’s friends and allies try to work out how to stop Vendela from sending the children to China and from becoming a popular media personality, Hilda finds herself becoming fascinated by the boy in the diary. He seems almost like a perfectly ordinary boy. The diary also turns out to conceal a dark secret. A secret that may have huge consequences for the Søder family and for Hilda herself. Hilda Bumblevik and the Secret of the Diary is the third and final book in the series about Hilda. The Hilda books are full of humour, mysteries and some genuinely scary scenes, as well as being packed with great dialogue and really wonderful depictions of faithful friendship.

In the Maw of the City
Children's Books2024 · 162 pp · Age 9 - 12

In the Maw of the City

Arne Svingen

Sebastian and Aksel are playing football in the backyard. An irritated father tells them to play somewhere else so they won’t wake his sleeping child. The boys have a bright idea: they decide to scare the father by moving the pram with the baby inside it out of the yard and onto the street. When they come back an hour later, they find the neighbourhood crawling with police. In the Maw of the City is the story of two boys who get caught up in a deadly dangerous crime drama and try to solve the mystery for themselves.

Totally True Love
Children's Books2024 · 144 pp · Age 9 - 12

Totally True Love

Vigdis Hjorth

Some grown ups think that you cannot fall in love before you´re thirteen. But you can. When Anne was in fourth grade she was so in love with Jørgen that she almost wrecked the fence in the Bandit Garden. And she slept behind a rock all night when they broke up. But Ellen with the long ponytail also wanted to be Jørgens girlfriend. That's when Anne wrote the false love letter... This is the most IN LOVE book you could ever imagine. Totally True Love has been the favourite book of thousands of girls – and boys! – since it was first published in 1984.

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The Orchestra Book
Children's Books2024 · 160 pp · Age 9 - 12

The Orchestra Book

Anne Haugland Balsnes / Linda Cecilie Halvorsen

What’s it like playing in an orchestra? In this book, you can read about instruments, the roles of the conductor and producer, the day-to-day life of an orchestra and masses of other things besides. And you’ll get plenty of tips about orchestral music you can listen to and learn from. A beautiful book for orchestral musicians of all ages – and anyone else who’s curious!

Dad and Other Terrorists
Children's Books2024 · 168 pp · Age 9 - 12

Dad and Other Terrorists

Ingvild Bjerkeland

All Erle wants is to have an ordinary holiday like ordinary people do. A trip to Costa del Sol, for example! But instead, her journalist father Rehman drags her off on a work trip to London where he’s covering the Climate Conference. Erle only has one afternoon to play tourist before Dad starts fussing about work again. And he’s constantly busy with weird phone calls. While Erle and Dad are eating dinner, they hear shots. Dad tells Erle to hide under the restaurant table and stay there. Meanwhile, he runs outside towards the gunfire. A second later, there’s an explosion. A bomb has gone off close by. Erle wakes up in hospital with a broken arm. Dad is in a coma. What has happened? Who is behind the bombing? Why did Dad leave Erle in the restaurant – did he know something about the attack?

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The Gingerbread House
Children's Books2024 · 224 pp · Age 9+

The Gingerbread House

Gaute Brochmann

Don’t tell anyone but children get eaten in this book! What are you supposed to do when the health clinic where you’re due to spend Christmas turns out to be very different from what you expected? When the kind grownups who are supposed to help you be the best version of yourself clearly have other plans for your stay? They probably want you to be as good as you can be – but good for who? The Gingerbread House is about a 13-year-old outsider, Jonas Rusten, who is struggling with his weight. One day, he’s offered a stay at Dr. Dirk’s Health Clinic, which he thinks will solve all his problems. It starts off fine: the people are great and the food is good. Surprisingly good, in fact. But bit by bit, he starts to feel a creeping suspicion. Shouldn’t they be exercising a bit more? Eating a bit less? Why do the others call him Balder? And what is that weird girl actually trying to tell him?

Puck off!
Children's Books2024 · 160 pp · Age 9 - 12

Puck off!

Bjørn Tore Grøtte

Kim is a talented ice hockey player from Fredrikstad. But then his family moves six hours north, to Trondheim. It’s tough getting a place on the Eagle team. The star player is Arnt who’s in the same class as Kim. And he’s not keen on the competition. Can you really switch hockey teams? And what matters most – winning or fair play? Puck off! is a book full of tough tackles, lightning fast shots and lots of heart. It's the first book in a trilogy.

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