Tween and YA highlights

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Year 2022, 2023 and 2024

Various authors

Year 2022 was written on the topic secrets and comprise:Ask med anything by Zakiya Ajmi.Same tune as last time by Conrad Fields.The Toilets by Sabine Lemire. A Mouneabit for Eileen Schmidt by Peter Nordahl (nominated for the Cultural Minist...

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Fatal Outcome

Lars Daneskov

The dead boy’s room is on the second floor at the end of the hallway. When Liva has friends over, that is always what they want to see. This was where her older brother, Victor, lived and behind the closed door, the room looks exactly lik...

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Happy Happy

Mette Vedsø

Happy Happy is a novel about 13-year-old, Ubbe, who is accidentally given a super expensive golf set and in a mix-up starts frequenting the golf club in the liebhaber part of town. Ubbe is dead set to keep this a secret to his dad. Because ...

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The Wood

Sarah Engell

16-year-old Ash has lost his mum to cancer and now lives alone with his dad. They don’t see much of each other because his dad is all-consumed by a big research project and has been so since he lost his wife. When Ash attends a graduation...

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The Chrystal Ship

Benni Bødker, Rasmus Bregnhøi

Kajsa is the city's best climbing thief. She lives in the sunken city, where all the houses and streets are flooded. Fortunately, her best friend, Isak, has a battered underwater boat, which they dream of repairing to sail far away together...

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The Silent Three: the Bell of the Dead (3)

Synne Kristine Eriksen

Eternal dusk. An army on the march. Trees that whisper about death.The Bell Maker, Myrhat, is scared.Scared of the Twilight that never lets go.Scared of the Shadows haunting her.Scared because Sigurd has rung one of the Magic Bells and now ...

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Nightshade: the Rosenholm trilogy (3)

Gry Kappel Jensen

“You took everything from me. You took my future, my story and my name. My life. But sweet is the revenge that I am owed. Revenge belongs to me…”After two hectic years at the Rosenholm Boarding School, Kamille, Kirstine, Victoria and ...

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The Moment You Doubt

Sarah Engell

Vigga is a talented skater; a young woman in a predominantly male sport who is used to standing up for herself. She spends all her spare time training intensively to prove that she is just as good as her male peers. That is until she meets ...

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...and then I Drown

Ditte Wiese

”Quick as a flash, cold shower, pony tail, beta blockers, coffee, green smoothie bowl on SnapStory and Instagram, car, psychology exam, A+, hug Miriam, change clothes, more beta blockers, car, parking, head on the wheel. And then deep bre...

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If Words were my Weapon

Kristina Aamand

A raw and gripping YA novel about falling in love with the wrong person and the price we sometimes have to pay for following our heart.17-year-old Sheherazade feels caught between her mother's expectations of her as a good Muslim girl and h...

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Grimm II

John Kenn Mortensen, Benni Bødker, Kenneth Bøgh Andersen

More scary retellings of Grimm’s fairy tales, accompanied by John Kenn Mortensen’s amazing drawings.Contains:“Snow White”“The Hand with the Knife”“Bearskin”“Summer- and Winter Garten”“The Blue Light”“The Three Appr...

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A Christmas Bestiary

John Kenn Mortensen, Benni Bødker

Christmas is full of traditions that we love to take part in, but that we ultimately do not know the background of. This wasn't the case for our ancestors. They knew that Christmas isn't just the season of joy, but certainly also a season o...

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When the Heart is a Hand Mixer

Mette Vedsø

Mette Vedsø has written yet another moving and thought-provoking tale, giving voice to a child in distress. She has previously written about friendship, coming-of-age and horses in her award-winning novel, Hest Horse Pferd Cheval Love and ...

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The Time Chase

Gertrude Kiel

This is a detective story. A murder mystery. But it's a rather different one. The killer is already known, you see. The problem is to find the killer and measure out a proper punishment. For the killer is time itself, and this is the story ...

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Volcano

Zakiya Ajmi

Nominated for the Nordic Literature Prize in 2022 and shortlisted for the Danish Cultural Ministry's Children's Book Author award 2021, bright young star, Zakiya Ajmi, has written an evocative tween novel about Anna, who is trying to start ...

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Interrail

Mette Klint

Junuz is leaving a turbulent year behind him; a year where he has got himself into life-threatening situations and destroyed relationships. He jumps on a train with an interrail ticket, nurturing a vague plan to seek out his father's roots...

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