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        Children's & YA

        Snöfrid from Meadow Valley (3). The Hectic Hunt for the River Pearl

        by Andreas H. Schmachtl

        What a disaster! Snöfrid’s stream has disappeared during the night! Without water there can be no porridge, and Snöfrid doesn’t have to think twice. This problem must be solved immediately! The hunt for water begins with a wet meeting at the pond of the little nymph Flumina, but when it turns into a hunt for the mysterious river pearl, involving a submersible boat, the story quickly becomes an underwater adventure, and who knows how it will end? Magical adventure, great fun for boys and girls, by Spiegel bestselling author Andreas H. Schmachtl.

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        Children's & YA

        A Case for Kwiatkowski (27). Milk Carton Alarm!

        by Jürgen Banscherus/ Ralf Butschkow

        What a disaster! Kwiatkowski’s favourite milk tastes of mango and caramel. Who could have interfered with the milk cartons from the supermarket? Clearly there is something fishy going on here. Especially as the manager of the supermarket can only come up with the flimsiest of excuses. A famous private detective will certainly not allow himself to be fobbed off like this! And so very soon Kwiatkowski finds himself entangled in a mysterious case which requires all his great skills…

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        Children's & YA

        Magic Owls in Featherland (1). Athenaria's Secret

        by Ina Brandt/Irene Mohr

        Flora is very excited: together with her magic owl Goldwing, she is to be part of a new team. The owl rulers of the Magical Kingdom have summoned them to Featherland, a hidden place in a mysterious monastery. There they meet the snowy owl Nordis, the spectacled owl Claro and, of course, Jona, who always tries to compete with Flora. How will they ever manage to make a team? It’s not long before they are given their first job: during the night of the next full moon they must help one another to awaken the magic of Featherland – and this proves to be more difficult than expected. Because suddenly Claro disappears from the face of the earth. And without him, no magic can ever succeed…

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        Children's & YA
        March 2020

        Carla Chamäleon: Oh Schreck, ich bin weg!

        Carla Chameleon: How Miserable, I'm Invisible!

        by Gehm, Franziska

        Carla can't believe it, first her best friend Herta moved to Australia and now in the first lesson after the holidays Jole, the new kid in her class, sits next to her and makes embarrassing jokes. This is clearly too much for shy Carla – she becomes invisible and takes on the colour and texture of her surroundings.    Fortunately, nobody notices. Except Jole, who enthusiastically observes this transformation. Carla herself is horrified! She absolutely wants to be normal! Unfortunately, it doesn’t stop at this one transformation and soon a secret society also becomes aware of Carla's rare quality. “The Cavaliers" want to harness the power of Carla's transformation for themselves. When Herta finds out that Carla has severe chameliosis, she sends her a special pill. Unfortunately Carla’s penguin Mr. Ping swallows it, then develops a sling tongue and won’t stop talking in rhymes.... but this is just one of many problems Carla and Jole have to solve.   9+ years Vol.2 will be published in March 2021, vol. 3 will be published in June 2021 English sample translation available!

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        Children's & YA
        March 2020

        Nach vorn, nach Süden

        Forward, to the South

        by Jäger, Sarah

        Sometimes you have to leave your backyard to make life an adventure.   For a group of temporary employees of a local supermarket, the backyard of the discounter is more than meets the eye. It is a break room, a living room and sometimes also a party cellar. In the backyard you get your name, whether you like it or not. If you are lucky, you will be ennobled with an "our", just like “our Pavel”. Or you are unlucky. Like “Duckbutt”. She got her name from Jo, who disappeared months ago. His ex-girlfriend Marie, his best friend Can and the first-person narrator, “Duckbutt”, start looking for Jo and the reasons for his disappearance. Their only clues: stamps on the postcards that he sent to Marie.  The search for him develops into a wild summer trip through roaring hot July days. Without a plan, without air conditioning, further and further south.   14+ years Fast, funny, smart ... and also a love story.  Debut (road)novel of a highly promising rising German talent that radiates the feeling of youthful freedom and hot July days Awarded with the Lynx of the Month March 2020! For all fans of Wolfgang Herrndorf’s Tschick and Kirsten Fuchs’ Mädchenmeute. English sample translation available!

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        Children's & YA
        June 2020

        Das Herz der Zeit: Die vergessenen Geschichten

        The Heart of Time: The Forgotten Stories

        by Peetz, Monika

        Everything is lost. Lena’s enemies have taken over the invisible city and launched a witch hunt for time travellers. Together with Bobbie, Lena takes refuge in the future and tries desperately to find other rebels. The near future is already very different compared to her present life: in 2031 climate change is undeniable and people pay by using implanted memory chips, which is frightening enough. Then her chronometer picks up a faint signal – from Dante. Lena can hardly wait to see him again. But can she be sure the signal is genuine?  Things take a dark turn when she is visited by a group of time tourists; in a distant future, time travel is big business. But no one seems to care about the chaos and damage this kind of tourism can cause – or even that it could destroy humanity itself.   For Lena, everything is on the line: the existence of the invisible city, the fate of humanity’s forgotten stories – and even her love for Dante.     12+ years The finale of this enthralling fantasy trilogy. English sample translation available!

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        Children's & YA
        September 2010

        Tschick

        by Herrndorf, Wolfgang

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        Children's & YA
        October 2021

        Alice and the kind gorillas

        by Christine Warugaba/Valerie Bouthyette

        Alice is a young girl who out of curiosity, follows a tourist car and eventually gets lost. She lives in the forest on her own until she is found by kind gorillas.

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        Children's & YA

        Julian is an octopus

        by Felix Bruzzone

        A boy becomes an octopus overnight and must learn how to deal with it.

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        Children's & YA

        I’ll Be A Good Girl

        by Huang Beijia

        This is a novel that appeals to the kids as well as teachers and parents.  It depicts the school and home life of a primary school pupil Jin Ling, and tells of how this quick-witted, kind-hearted and upright girl, who is soon to graduate with probably a middling record, strives with great efforts, and even with some “contentions” to be a “good girl” in order to satisfy her parents and teachers.  It successfully creates some believable characters such as Jin Ling, her classmates, and many parents and teachers.  With its well developed artistic plot and fluent language, which reflect the characteristics of the time and the rich flavor of life, the novel is not only vivid and touching, but also gives much food for thought.

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        Children's & YA
        January 2019

        When I Was a Fox

        by Tanya Postavna (Author), Mariya Foya (Illustrator)

        Dive in to the magical world of childhood. A little girl with hair as red as those of a fox is growing up in an atmosphere of love under the care of her grandparents.  In the book she tells about her daily witty adventures, her most cherished dreams, and the unbelievable miracles that happen to her. The book is about building bridges between children and adults and about the rapid changes in life. The fox represents the love of life, the belief that every day is a true miracle. When I Was A Fox is an important book about the perception of the world that could be read and discussed by all family members.   From 6 to 9 years, 5414 words Rightsholders: n.miroshnyk@vivat.factor.ua

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        Children's & YA

        Searching for Little Green Men

        by Jin Bo

        The first installment of the ‘Little Green Men’ series --- a new full-length fairytale by famous children’s book author Jin Bo. The book centerson the cute fairytale image of ‘little green men’. It depicts a pair of good friends who hope to encounter mysterious little green men, their accidental discovery of them in the suburbs, and, finally, the adventures that occur after they invite the little green men to come to the human world. The book preserves Jin Bo’s beautiful and lyrical style, extols on the value of childlike innocence, and is a classic original fairytale.

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        Children's & YA

        Wu Diudiu’s Adventure

        by Jin Bo

        This is a beautiful fairytale in which the beauty is penetrated with sorrow. The book centers on the cute puppet image of “Wu Diudiu”, and unfolds a beautiful, yet sorrowful adventure through the use of a fourteen line poem narrative technique with a linked beginning and ending.   Wu Diudiu comes to life because he can bring children happiness. He cherishes the preciousness of life. He understands how to nourish life, and how to repay life with love…. Love lets Wu Diudiu come to life. Love makes the friendship between Wu Diudiu and the old poet sacred.

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        Children's & YA

        Talk with the tree

        by Jin Bo

        The book was a collection of prose by Jin Bo, a well-known children's literature writer. The author has devoted to children's literature creation for more than 50 years and produced a great many of classic prose. The book selected Jin’s works over the years. The articles of the book were written in standard modern Chinese. They are touching and graceful and are not just for young mothers but for adults to mouldtheir temperament. Many of the articles have been chosen by various Chinese textbooks in the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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        Children's & YA
        September 2020

        Hilfe, mein Handy ist ein Superschurke!

        My Super Evil Smartphone

        by Bertram, Rüdiger

        Franzi is overjoyed! She is finally given a smartphone – and then it is inhabited by artificial intelligence! Dandy Smart. He is egotistical and annoying and even mildly criminal. Anyone else would quickly try to get rid of the phone, but not Franzi.  Her parents don’t have much money. She only got it because she was the first in her family to get into a selective school – everyone there has a smartphone. So she has to make do with Dan, who wants to hack into the city’s biggest data centre to steal a super chip. But a real super flesh-and-blood villainess wants it, too … Rüdiger Bertram’s new series combines cheeky artificial intelligence with an object of desire for many children: the first smartphone of their own! Vol. 2 will be published in Autumn 2021 English sample translation available!

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        Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
        2018

        The New Girl Code

        by Niki Smit

        Tumi Letsatsi is a 13-year old melanin kween living in Rondebosch, Cape Town. Her favourite colour is yellow, she's still trying to figure out how not to dent her afro on the bus, and how one goes about (ahem!) “french kissing”. She’s a little awkward and a lot uncertain about her future, friendships and how to put together a cool outfit! But then she stumbles across the magic of coding and creates an app called “Project Prep” that goes viral and rockets her and her friends to fame. Then everything starts to fall apart, as she deals with a catfish who befriends her and steals her code, nasty rumours at school and the newfound attention of a crush. The New Girl Code (by Niki Smit, locally edited by Buhle Ngaba) is about the wonders of working in tech, aimed at girls and young women aged 9-15. The project is an initiative of Inspiring Fifty and based on an idea by Janneke Niessen.

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        Classic fiction (Children's/YA)
        August 2018

        Alice's Adventure in Wonderland

        A South African Edition

        by Carroll, Lewis / Bird, Megan

        Megan Bird has re-imagined this wonderful children's tale by Lewis Carroll to be a modern twist of maddened adventure. Alice's Adventure in Wonderland is about a curious little girl called Alice, whose curiousity leads her to fall down a rabbit hole and into a marvelously troublesome world. What follows is a series of colourful, excited, mad, and sometimes unfortunate, events... where Alice must decide of just what mind she's made up of, and how to get home.

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        Adventure stories (Children's/YA)
        August 2019

        Tilly & Thandeka

        The Crown of Ancient Ghana

        by Rimensberger, Nicole

        Adventures only happen to grown-ups and children in story books. Or do they? Tilly is a girl who dreams of adventures. When she is sent to live with her mysterious explorer Aunt in her old house atop a sugar cane hill, she has no idea what to expect. She finds a house full of books and strange artefacts, the odd delicious biscuit, an absent-minded aunt often away on adventures, a border collie called Livingston and Thandeka, a new friend. Then the valuable crown of ancient Ghana is stolen from a museum exhibition. Tilly and Thandeka begin to connect the dots and fall headlong into their first adventure, but will they be brave enough to make it through?

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