Nicole Mahne Forget Forever! Being in love is terribly beautiful – and terribly awful! 14-year-old Flora finds her puberty-induced physical changes creepy. She wraps herself in baggy jumpers and wears a cap to hide the pimples on her forehead. But that’s not Flora’s only problem: her mother is currently trying out a course in positive…
Middle Grade Fiction
Christine Werner Silver Rain Does Not Glitter “Help, I need somebody!” Emely loves quiz shows and especially loves watching them with her mother. For her, her mother is the “Queen of the Silver Rain”, or was. Because instead of answering questions, she’s more likely to raise them at the moment. Why does she sleep so…
Birge Tetzner & Karl Uhlenbrock Fred in the Ice Age Fire Magic Fred has already travelled to many countries and past cultures. He would never have thought that his next adventure would be in Germany of all places. During a cave tour in the Swabian Alb, a spark of fire whisks him through time: to…
Birge Tetzner & Karl Uhlenbrock Fred among the Vikings Jarl Ragnald’s Legacy Somewhere on a fjord in Denmark, many, many years ago, lived the Viking boy Ivar. The day Fred comes to him is a sad day for Ivar: Odin has taken his father to Valhalla – and the village no longer has a leader….
Will Gmehling The Kiosk on Elser Corner – The Bukowskis Keep Going Here they are again, the Bukowskis: Alf, a real boxer by now and still in love with Joanna. Katinka, his annoying but ingenious sister, always busy with the fashion world. And the dreamy Robbie, who should never be underestimated. Things are going well…
Tino Schrödl When We Went to Catch a Panther and Found Something Much Bigger Three boys, a panther and the feeling of deep friendship 11-year-old Nico, a city kid and loner, finds his life complicated. His parents are on the verge of divorce and he himself has no friends at school. But now it’s the…
Julia Willmann & Jens Rassmus Rascha and the Door to Heaven For Rascha, Ima is the dearest person. There is always a smile on his grandma’s face, even when she looks serious. Ima doesn’t say many words – and when she does, they are sentences like boulders, so powerful that no one can get past…
Lena Hach Mission Hollercamp – The Missing Snake Let’s go: A new adventure at Holler Lake This can’t be true! A real tiger python at Holler Lake? At first, the three friends Emily, Jakub and Leon don’t believe the rumours. But when they discover the gigantic snake skin on the lakeshore, they panic. Where did…
New mission: Treasure hunt What the hell is going on in Hollercamp this autumn? What at first looks like an invasion of moles turns out to be digging holes by crazy treasure hunters. But what is it about the pirate treasure that is supposedly buried on the campsite? Does it really exist? The three friends…
Wieke is angry. She likes neither Xandra, her dad‘s new girlfriend, nor her annoying little daughter. And now she is supposed to spend her holiday in an Italian mountain village with them! When Ken comes along, the refugee boy from Nigeria for whom Xandra has taken over guardianship, Wieke has had enough. As it happens,…
Lua feels so alone since her father‘s heart has stopped beating. One day she finds a magic marble that shows her the way to a circus. When she enters this magical world and looks behind the life of the circus’ artists, she finds a way to get closer to her father‘s memory. He had given…
Out into nature! Into a new reading adventure! Peace, joy and happiness on the campsite? That was once upon a time. After Leon, Emily and Jakub successfully fought off the creeps from the village during the last holidays, they are now out for revenge. But the three of them have other worries: they have to…
A stowaway in the apartment building Grounded for four weeks for a warning letter from the school! What is he supposed to do with himself, wonders Roderich. He‘s not even allowed to go to his football training. But then he hears strange noises from behind the wall inside the elevator.—a ghost? Suddenly frightened, Roderich drops…
Summer holidays – time for Hollercamp! Each year, Leon, Emily and Jakub meet at the camping site. The prospect of heavenly weeks full of sun, swimming and icecream are spreading before them. But this time, the idyllic holidays are overshadowed by mysterious events. Who is the strange man sneaking around the campground? And what’s the…
Why do apples fall from the tree? That’s the simple opening question posed by world-famous physicist Isaac Newton. More than 300 years later it is Albert Einstein who lets us take on a different perspective on this question. 12-year-old Limbradur enters the famous Albert Einstein Museum at night. He meets Alby X3, a little quirky…
The land holds the truth … the maps will reveal it. Sal, Joe, Francie and Humphrey Santander are mapmakers looking for their father, a famous explorer who disappeared on his last expedition. Their search leads them to a curious new land and a township under siege. The all-powerful Grania Trading Company plans to uproot the…
On the edge of a small town, at the end of the very last street, there is a creepy house. No one knows anything about the resident. Mr. Pasternak is nothing more than a shadow behind tattered curtains. A little girl named Anabel lives just across the street. Of course, she would never dream of…
What is the Alpaca doing in the senior citizens‘ flat share? Mr. Rippel, one of the residents from the supervised senior citizens‘ flat in Mia‘s street, suddenly turns up with an alpaca in tow. Did he kidnap it? Or did it run to him? Carer Holger wants to get rid of the animal as quickly…
Deceptive wilderness—What lurks beneath the surface? 11-year-old Jorin dreams of an exciting life as an agent with undercover missions and surveillance assignments. But instead he is only bored in the allotment garden where he has gone into hiding with Agent Smuts. Things suddenly change when a mysterious video from the Arctic Circle emerges in which…
The girl on the book was me A middle grade novel about the power of language and literature When Lama’s mother leaves for Morocco to trace her roots, the eleven-year-old girl feels abandoned. Even more so because her best friend has also moved away. If that hadn’t been the case, the stupid thing wouldn’t have…