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The Castle
Children's Books2021 · 160 pp · Age 9 - 12

The Castle

Agnar Lirhus

Twelve-year-old Tor and his friends break into The Castle one night to take revenge on Tommy who didn’t invite them to the year’s coolest birthday pool party for their class. The Castle is a luxury hotel and Tommy is the owner’s son. But what starts off as an innocent revenge suddenly develops into something far more dramatic. Because Tor spots a girl through the basement window who doesn’t look like a regular hotel guest. Tor sneaks inside on subsequent nights and eventually discovers that there’s something funny going on at the Castle. Why is million-dollar art disappearing? Why does the girl have to stay in the basement? And where do they come from, all those members of staff? The Castle is a novel about injustice, friendship and the stirrings of emotion between boy and girl.

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The Mindspinner
Children's Books2021 · 352 pp · Age 9 - 12

The Mindspinner

Vibeke Koehler

When Anna's parents suddenly have to leave to carry out an important mission overseas, Anna is sent to stay with her grandparents. One day, she sees Grandma leading a meeting where inexplicable things happen. It turns out that Grandma leads a secret society of witches and wizards who have spent hundreds of years hiding behind something thoroughly dull that actually turns out to be thoroughly magical. Along with two new friends, Anna gets to explore a mysterious, magical world and learns to use abilities that can help the secret society – although for Anna, these abilities may also be dangerous. The Mindspinner is a thrilling fantasy story that draws readers into a magical world packed with Norse mythology, ancient superstitions and scary baddies.This book is suitable for readers between 9 and 12 and is especially suited to anybody out there who likes the Harry Potter books. The Mindspinner is the first book in a trilogy. ‘Everything is at stake, the tapestry of life is falling apart. Vibeke Koehler establishes her fantasy universe with a close connection to the environmental challenges we are facing. … her children’s book debut builds on a simple, but genius idea.’ BERGENS TIDENE ‘Vibeke Koehler has created a complex world where myths and magic are intertwined with our reality. … The textile subject’s toolbox and vocabulary often appear in this magic world full of self-knitting knitting needles, “wool-ology”, talking dolls, ninja-socks and “spools of thread- spiders”. … Craft-inspired expressions and formulas are laid out as tiny Easter egg-surprises throughout the whole book.’ PERISKOP.no

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Trine’s Food for Young Cooks
Cook Books / Children's Books2021 · 240 pp · Age 9+

Trine’s Food for Young Cooks

Trine Sandberg

Trine Sandberg believes children should be allowed into the kitchen to make the food they like to eat. This book inspires the family’s 10–16-year-olds to spend more time at the kitchen counter, making food for themselves and their family. The book contains 50–60 recipes for children and young people. The dishes are designed to ensure that the household’s young cooks can make the food alone – everything from snacks to dinners and cakes. The recipes are divided into four main sections. In After School, you’ll find toast, wraps, salads and other yummy stuff to tickle your tastebuds after a long day at school. The leftovers can be saved for packed lunches or eaten when you’re training. The Dinner chapter contains delicious food that’s fun to serve up to the whole family. The Friday Fun chapter includes classics like tacos and pizza, as well as vegetarian food like summer rolls. The Cake chapter appeals to anyone with a love of baking and a sweet tooth.

Benny and the Ghosts of Nowhere
Children's Books2020 · 168 pp · Age 9 - 12

Benny and the Ghosts of Nowhere

Tom Erik Fure

Benny and the Ghosts of Nowhere finds Benny and the gang swept up in a new adventure brimming with humor, chills, and romance. Benny's world is turned upside down when his crush, Ken, arrives for a prolonged sleepover. Additionally, Benny has a new nemesis in the form of Magda-Rose’s ruthless daughter-in-law, who has sold Magda-Rose’s mansion and sent her off to an awful retirement home. With Magda-Rose quickly losing hope and withering away, Benny must do everything in his power to save her, vanquish her horrible daughter-in-law, come to terms with his feelings for Ken, and get rid of the new occupants of Magda-Rose’s mansion. And surely nobody wants to live in a haunted house, do they?

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Buffy By Gets Inspired
Children's Books2020 · 256 pp · Age 9 - 12

Buffy By Gets Inspired

Ingeborg Arvola

A new book about Buffy By, the a poor girl from rich Oslo! Buffy has given up her slalom dreams, but now she’s keen to go somewhere for the summer holidays. Can they persuade Mum to borrow Bolla’s holiday cabin? It isn’t not easy when Mum doesn’t want to end up owing other people favours. But Buffy isn’t one to give up, even though she has no boyfriend, no bus fare and no wheels on her suitcase. Buffy By is here to stay – and that’s a good thingBARNEBOKKRITIKK.NO

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Tarn of Death
Children's Books2020 · 120 pp · Age 9 - 12

Tarn of Death

Sigbjørn Mostue

Mathias and his sister Malin are taken on an overnight trip to a nature reserve by their eager, nature-loving father. But their father’s new girlfriend Ella Loudmouth and her daughter Birgitte are also coming along on the trip. The atmosphere is already grim from the time they’re in the car and Mathias foresees forced jollity with the bonus family out in the wilderness where there’s nothing to do. But it’s not long before mysterious things start to happen and Mathias receives a message saying that Malin is in danger. There turn out to be creatures living in the forest that are invisible to humans, unless they do what Mathias does: go through an uprooted tree and come out on the other side into a place where there are pixies and elves and a river sprite on the lookout for human food. Mathias faces enormous trials and the trip proves to be anything but boring. Sigbjørn Mostue has written a super intense novel for 9–12-year-olds that combines mythical creatures from Norwegian folklore with modern-day problems of conservation and climate issues. The book is illustrated by Ketil Bleidin.

The Edward Rubikon Mysteries: The Demon City
Children's Books2020 · 168 pp · Age 9 - 12

The Edward Rubikon Mysteries: The Demon City

Aleksander Kirkwood Brown

Ghostbusters meets Stranger Things in an adventure series for 7+. Edward Rubikon is a monster hunter. Together with his friends Kasper and Nadira, he tries to keep the little town of Grimsrud free of ghosts and other supernatural beings. But now Edward has got sick of it: he’s decided to shelve his investigations and become like everybody else. Unfortunately, the demons have other plans. Will Kasper and Nadira have to sort this one out alone?

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Glow and Goosebumps
Children's Books2020 · 120 pp · Age 9+

Glow and Goosebumps

Karolina Maria Griciute

Glow and Goosebumps – step-by-step makeup tips from Karolina Maria Griciute, winner of Glow Up Norge! The author is a well-known makeup influencer with over 550,000 followers on Instagram. In this book, she will teach you the tricks professionals use to achieve sheer makeup artistry. Norway’s new makeup star gives you all the makeup tips you’ll need for Halloween, everyday life and parties – whether you’re trying for a lovely, natural everyday look, glow and glam for parties or the year’s best Halloween horror. You don’t need to own a cosmetics shop to create these looks. Karolina also gives you tips about what equipment you’ll need – and the best way to look after it.

What happened to you?
Self Help / Children's Books2020 · 216 pp · Age 9 - 12

What happened to you?

Jenny Jordahl

Janne isn’t like the rest of her family. That’s what Grandma says. The others are slim, while Janne is big. What happened to her, really? Grandma isn’t the only one who comments on Janne’s appearance. People at school do too. Janne is comfort eating and cutting herself off from others, but suddenly her parents suggest a solution to the problem: She’ll get 100 kroner for every kilo she loses. Janne goes along with the agreement and slowly but surely, she gets smaller. But does she get any happier? And does it solve her real problems? What Happened to You? is a powerful, brave and thought-provoking graphic novel about friendship, being an outsider and living with eating disorders. Jenny Jordahl (best know as the illustrator of the international bestseller Women in Battle) delivers an important and absorbing story for children and young people aged 9 and older.WINNER OF THE 2020 BRAGE PRIZE FOR BEST BOOK FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG READERS!The Brage Prize Jury said: The winner of the category Children’s and Young Adult Literature addresses serious issues which leave an impression on the reader. Yet the book is easy to read and shows great concern for – and confidence in – its young readers. This year’s winning entry is an important work that engages the reader through different techniques: The succinct dialogue between the characters is illustrated with vivid drawings, and it is intense in both form and content. Clear use of colour, non-verbal features and the visual representation of the central character’s inner life all contribute to enhancing her range of emotions. The winner of this year’s prize is an established writer and illustrator with a book that lets us get close to a child with an eating disorder. Congratulations to Jenny Jordahl for winning the Brage Prize for her graphic novel: What Happened to You? Reviews: Strong as well as entertaining book on a difficult subject.AFTENPOSTENThis book can be used as a starting point for important talks both at school and at home. NRK

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Nobody but Us
Children's Books2020 · 144 pp · Age 9+

Nobody but Us

Mari Moen Holsve

Are you brave enough to go back to Norway’s most famous town of horror? Nobody but Us is a loose sequel to the books Nobody Sleeps Safe Tonight and Nobody Gets Away. It’s two years since Skymdal’s serial killer went on a rampage and a year since something scared the town’s young people into silence. Now it’s happening again.Who set fire to the school – and locked the classroom door from the outside? Who chopped off the finger that is lying in a box in the teacher’s cloackroom? Who is it that won’t let the inhabitants of Norway’s most famous town of horror live in peace? Håkon, Hares and Marie have just got back to normal, while Thale and Calmeyer have decided to stay. They’re sick of being scared, sick of looking over their shoulders. But if they want to find out who’s trying to scare away the people of Skymdal, they’ll have to team up – as well as defying their parents, the police and the fire service. Mari Moen Holsve won the 2019 Bokslukerpris award for her first book about Skymdal, Nobody Sleeps Safe Tonight.

Magnus Carlsen and the Chess Killer
Literature and Fiction / Children's Books2020 · 72 pp · Age 9 - 12

Magnus Carlsen and the Chess Killer

Aleksander Kirkwood Brown

Magnus Carlsen and the Chess Killer is a crime comic about a genius killer that can only be stopped by a chess genius. The works of a serial killer is shocking Oslo, and the police stands without a clue. All of the victims are found with a chess piece in their hand, but other than that they have nothing in common. Who can solve this mystery, if not Chess Legend Magnus Carlsen? The Chess Killer enters into a cat-and-mouse-game with Magnus and police investigator Maud, but the killer always seems to be a couple of moves ahead of them.

Now or Never, Rikka
Children's Books2020 · 144 pp · Age 9 - 12

Now or Never, Rikka

Maiken Nylund

About being ten, with a mum in one town and a dad in another – and a very sweet boy living next door. Just as Rikka walks out of the door, Jimmy comes cycling up the hill. Rikka bounds down the steps in two leaps and sits on the fence that separates their yards. She’s freezing, but that doesn’t matter. She hopes he’ll never leave. That he’ll stay here with her for the rest of the day. Maiken Nylund made her debut last year with Rikke for Real and Forever and this is the sequel. This time, there’s a bit more about being in love, but also about having divorced parents, about younger siblings and cousins, and about nasty classmates who’ll do pretty much anything to make sure that Jimmy won’t discover Rikka. Maiken Nylund has an incredible talent for dealing with the topics that concern her target group – and does it with a voice and intimacy that really hit home.

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