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Celebrity Sweetheart
Children's Books2022 · 240 pp · Age 9+

Celebrity Sweetheart

Kirsti Kristoffersen

What if the person you love suddenly became the most famous person in the country? Celebrity Sweetheart is the second book in a trilogy by Kirsti Kristoffersen, who probably knows more about fan culture that almost anyone else in Norway. In the second book, Mathias, Karoline’s summer boyfriend, becomes a superstar overnight. He becomes someone that everyone has an opinion about and is completely unreachable. When some private pictures leak, Karoline has to come to terms with a completely new everyday consisting of persistent fans, press, managers, TV broadcasts and attention she hasn’t asked for. Is it even possible to be with a superstar?

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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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From the Moment you Saw Me
Children's Books2020 · 224 pp

From the Moment you Saw Me

Eldrid Johansen

After a heavy year in high school, Karen is sent to take a break at a folk high school, where song, music, new friends and great experiences await her – as well as an existence free from her divorced parents. But the year turns out very differently than Karen imagined. She meets the love of her life and suddenly her world revolves entirely around him. The infatuation is a fact and Karen is convinced that the two of them will spend the rest of their lives together. The only trouble is, he isn’t one of her classmates… From the Moment You Saw Me is based on a true story from Norway’s folk high school world, and portrays the transgressive relationship between a teacher and a pupil. The book’s subject matter is extremely topical and especially important for young girls to read about in the wake of #metoo.

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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 Handyman
Literature and Fiction / Children's Books2018 · 136 pp · Age 6+

The Handyman

Øyvind Torseter

Mule boy has got a job as a handyman. And not any handyman. He even does work at the president’s house . If Mule boy does a good job, he may even be allowed to look after the nuclear suitcase one day! But problems emerge due to a lookalike. The handyman is an international political thriller. Or, not quite, then. However the book contains many amazing drawings.

Rights soldSold to 5 territories
Just play ball
Children's Books2018 · 256 pp

Just play ball

Michael Stilson

Fredrik is facing the most important game in his life. As long as he rages the side-lines of the field, like he usually does, the dream of becoming a professional soccer player is within reach. But things that take place in the days before the final changes everything.Just play ball is a book about loving the game of football, but not being prepared for the hard realities. It is about trying to forget about a girl, and getting on without a father. And it is about winning – without loosing yourself. Winner of Trollkrittet and Uprisen 2018

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The Blue Wolves
Children's Books2018 · 160 pp · Age 9+

The Blue Wolves

Ingvar Ambjørnsen

Pelle’s dad has finally made a breakthrough as an artist, but with the success the family is beginning to shatter and he runs off with a young woman. At the same time, Prof’s aunt is attacked on the street. Nothing is stolen, but as Pelle and Prof visit her at the hospital they see a large blue X spraypainted on her fur coat. Then she receives a bouquet of roses, adressed from The Blue Wolves. More women are attacked in the same way, and Pelle and Prof decide they need to find out who The Blue Wolves are. But sometimes, it’s not so easy to spot who the enemy is.

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Death at Oslo Central Station
Children's Books2018 · 160 pp · Age 9+

Death at Oslo Central Station

Ingvar Ambjørnsen

It was half past ten. We walked down towards central again. It wasn’t necessary for us to agree on anything now. Prof knew what I wanted. And I knew what Prof wanted. We wanted to find Lena. We had to find Lena. Even if it took us all night long, we had to track her down. Best friends Pelle and Prof have little to contend with, in comparison to the dangerous and cynical underground environment their friend Lena is part of. But they can’t back our now, Lena must be saved from the clutches of the grown-ups who are ruining everything for her. Even though it could be deadly, Pelle and Prof have to act!

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After the hurricane
Children's Books2018 · 176 pp · Age 9+

After the hurricane

Ingvar Ambjørnsen

Pelle and Prof are on Easter vacation on a farm in the woods, with thoughts of quiet days spent outdoors or in front of the fire place. However, even before they get to the farm their car is almost pushed off the road by a truck. Then a storm arrives, and a small plane crash lands next to the cabin. It soon becomes obvious that several myserious and suspicious episodes are connected, and as Pelle goes for help he runs into a thinly clothed girl from Sri Lanka all by herself out in the storm. She claims to have been smuggled into the country. It's clear to the "detectives" that a new mystery has landed in their laps, and that the vacation has to wait ...

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Flammer i snø
Children's Books2018 · 176 pp · Age 9+

Flammer i snø

Ingvar Ambjørnsen

Someone is setting old apartment blocks in Grünerløkka neighbourhood in Oslo on fire. Pelle and Prof suspect that the fires are related to hate crimes against homosexuals. This is personal to Prof, as his brother Leif is gay. Leif and his partner have been subjected to anonymous harrasment, such as accusations of taking advantage of underage boys. Pelle and Prof want to prove that these are lies, and to clear Leif’s name. This time, the boys have help from Jorunn, Prof’s girlfriend, who is sharp as a knife, and as ready to take a risk as the boys. Together, the three start investigation the fires, and the men they think might be behind them - men who think that homosexuality is a disease, and a good beating is the cure.

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Poisonous Lies
Children's Books2018 · 176 pp · Age 9+

Poisonous Lies

Ingvar Ambjørnsen

–Faster! I panted. –If he unleashes that beast, we’re dead! And I thought: He won’t. He’s not that mad. He can’t be that mad! But I still knew it: People have been bitten by guard dogs before, and they hadn’t even been breaking and entering. Pelle and Prof are in Steinsund in Southern Norway, visiting Lena at a rehabilitation centre. Prof meets Gerd there, a young nature activist working hard to uncover who is polluting the Steinsund fjord. It's full of poison. Pelle and Prof offer their help—together, can they discover the guilty party and save the fjord?

Rights soldSold to 5 territories