Young Adult Fiction
Jennifer Mason-Black Sometimes the Girl Eighteen-year-old Holiday needs to sort her life out. She’s still shaken from her brother’s recent suicide attempt; still pining over her ex, Maya; and still struggling to write again after a long dry spell. To earn enough money for a rebalancing trip with Maya, Holi gets a short-term job: organizing…
Emma K. Ohland Here Goes Nothing A fun yet thought-provoking modern reimagining of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. Eighteen-year-old Beatrice has never been a fan of her neighbor Bennie, but when Beatrice’s beloved younger sister starts dating one of Bennie’s closest friends, Beatrice is drawn into their social circle. As Beatrice wrestles with increasingly confusing…
Lyn Miller-Lachmann Torch Three teens struggle to carve out futures for themselves under a totalitarian regime. Czechoslovakia, 1969 Seventeen-year-old Pavol has watched his country’s freedoms disappear in the wake of the Soviet Union’s invasion. He’s seen his own dreams disappear too. In a desperate, fatal act of protest against the oppressive new government, he sets…
Lyn Miller-Lachmann Eyes Open Portugal, 1967. Sónia thinks she knows what her future holds. She’ll become a poet, and together she and her artist boyfriend, Zé Miguel, will rise above the government restrictions that shape their lives. The restrictions on what Sónia can do and where she can go without a man’s permission. The restrictions…
Kathrin Schrocke Freak City Welcome to the world of silence When Mika meets Lea, his life is turned upside down. She is direct, lively – and beautiful. But Lea has been deaf since birth and lives in a world that Mika finds difficult to access. Does their love stand a chance? Kathrin Schrocke’s award-winning and…
Jörg Isermeyer Never Mind was Yesterday A little hate on the mobile phone every day. A political coming-of-age story Everyone at school knows Finn and Lennard because of the funny videos they post on their social media channel. The two meticulously check the number of clicks, likes, and followers and dream of becoming famous. Everything…
Michaela Beck Me, My Awfully Nice Family and Other Disasters Family is really nice and sometimes really exhausting! Once again, 13-year-old Martha has to get used to another one of her mum’s boyfriends. She already has enough on her plate with her stepfathers, her two half-brothers Tobi and Justus and various grandparents. But this time…
Volker Surmann Leon Hertz and the Thing about Sadness Is this still normal, or already depri light? Leon Hertz is 13 3/4 years old and the third Leon in his class – pretty normal and unremarkable, in his opinion. But Rouven has noticed him, and not only that. He even helps Leon with his ethics…
Lena Hach Sweet-Salty Popcorn Everything like in a bad movie? Or worse, like in a romance novel Becoming Phil’s fake girlfriend is really the last thing Ruby wants. Because she’s sick and tired of worn-out clichés. But before she knows it, she and Phil are in the middle of a love story fit for a…
Petra Bartoli y Eckert Behind the Stars Real Close A touching coming-of-age novel about loss, grief, new beginnings and first love After her older sister Sina is killed in a car accident, her entire world falls to pieces for 15-year-old Felicitas. The only thing she has left of her sister is the shared chat. Feli…
Lars Meyer After Dawn – The Flowing Crystal The spectacular finale of the Young Adult dystopia: thrilling, gripping, enthralling. Ember is back in Dornwall after helping her family and best friend Ryan escape from the Dawn Empire’s Wandering City. Thanks to the green crystal, which they have retrieved, there is new hope for the people…
Kathrin Schrocke White Tears Is that racist already, or what? Lenni and Serkan are best friends. Until the new classmate Benjamin shows up, almost breaks up the theatre group, criticises a popular teacher and openly denounces racism. Lenni’s world turns upside down. Suddenly he has to take a stand. But for whom? Who is actually…
Lars Meyer After Dawn – The Wandering City “How are we going to free them? How are we even supposed to get into the city? And how can a whole city wander?” A major earthquake in the Grounders’ underground realm allows Ember and Devan to escape to the surface. At last, Ember is getting closer…
Lars Meyer After Dawn – The Hidden World “Our life is not easy. But it’s the only one I know – now I’m afraid that even that might be taken away from us.” The world is poisoned, in Dornwall the inhabitants have adapted to the inhospitable life. No one ventures out of the town without…
Nils Mohl Henny & Ponger Is it coincidence or just an extraterrestrially good love story? Henny and Ponger meet in the urban railway. Both are reading the same book. And then everything happens very quickly. Emergency braking, pursuit, journey by Buick and caravan to the island of Amrum. Ponger thinks this is a love story….
Inés María Jiménez A Little Confetti Does Not Make a Friend A moving novel about a toxic friendship between girls When 16-year-old Cecilia, called Cilia, arrives at her new school, she expects all sorts of things, but not this: On her very first day, she is approached by Hel and accepted into her clique. And…
A mysterious and compelling literary fantasy that weaves magic, mathematics, love, family—and riddles within riddles. Sixteen-year-old Canny Mochrie has always been different; she has a calculating, mathematical mind and she sees something extra. When she begrudgingly joins her stepbrother on a trip to research a 30-year-old coal mine disaster, she meets the alluring Ghislain Zarene,…
One moment—one disaster—one love Tara and Alún are attractd to each other. But an argument tears them apart. And before they can reconcile, a devastating chemical accident catapults them into a different life. Alún stays in the safely distant big city, risking his neck with his street art. Tara returns to the contaminated area and…
The action-packed monster hunt continues! Moritz and his sister Konstanze are looking for a powerful being with healing powers – the mock! Only the mock can release their friend Helene from the 300-year-old curse that condemns her to live as an undead. In the dark town of Bad Greifenstein, which suffers from the nocturnal visitation…
Full of humor and heart, author Kathrin Schrocke tells the story of Karl’s pubescent highs and lows – without disregarding the important questions in life. Ever since Karl’s Grandpa has appeared in his dream, he only has one plan: Becoming a famous YouTuber. But there’s always something coming up: his Grandma wants to move into…
Love in all colours—totally normal, right? Barnie‘s life is anything but straightforward. She is raised by two fathers who are still shockingly old-fashioned. Smartphones & Co. are absolutely taboo. Instead, she is given a dull diary for her 13th birthday. In this diary, she talks about her chaotic life, above all about the project at…
Berlin, in the middle of Kreuzberg: Lotte, new girl in town, exceptionally clumsy, wonderfully self-deprecating, averagely talented but crushing hard on Vincent of Green Gherkins. Which is probably not his name. Anyway, she has a crush on the guy who always shows up at the kiosk opposite her house on Mondays, buying exactly ten green…
Love story between the worlds of light and shadow Half-angel Anna lives a sheltered life in a convent and even though she loves the 16-strong group of nuns and her martial arts teacher Master Li like a family of her own, she feels increasingly restricted by the monotonous daily routine. In addition, she struggles with…
Monster hunt above the rooftops of Ravenbrück – dark, exciting and action packed! Moritz’s worst nightmare comes true when his sister Konstanze is abducted by a ghastly monster in the middle of the night. When the monster returns to Ravenbrück to carry off more girls, Moritz follows the monster hard on its heels. But he…
17-year-old Anna leads a sheltered life behind monastery walls, where the only highlight is the daily martial arts training with Master Li. Leo—dark, mysterious, attractive—suddenly appears out of nowhere. Not only does he confuse her feelings, but just like her he seems to be able to look deep into other people. But is there a…
They are looking for you, they are hunting you, but you will get them … The Great War dates back more than 20 years. Large parts of Berlin are destroyed and radioactively contaminated. 16-year-old Will manages to make a living as an illegal computer player. As one of the “Returns“—genetically optimised and sorted out because…
Bee Sabeena has a fine old life. She spends her afternoons in her parents’ café where there’s always something on the go. She plays board games with Jockel, the café’s rhyming regular, and gets old Frau Almut – she with the bright purple lips and silver rings in her ears – to read the cards…
Blond is for good girls Lu steals a bottle of pink hair dye from the drugstore. Her blond hair must go! Obstinate and gruff as she is, she continuously rubs people up the wrong way. Especially Christopher has it in for her and bullies her at school. Her only support is her invisible friend Rhys….
An insightful and authentic narrative Silence is not always golden Mimi collects perhaps-mothers. She stalks and photographs women who resemble her. The hair color, the shape of the nose, the profile of the face. Her own mother allegedly died while giving birth to her. At least, that is what Mimi’s father says, who has raised…
14-year-old Juni lives with her dad in Potsdam most of the time—fortunately! Her mother is a real control freak; there’s a fixed schedule for everything, there is no provision for leeway. Juni hates that so much! And now she is to spend her holidays at her mum’s place in Berlin, because her father needs to…
Little Mehrnousch and her three siblings, children of a surgeon, have a privileged childhood in the lovely city of Isfahan in Iran in the 70s. Like most others, the family celebrates the eviction of the Shah as a fortunate event—little do they expect that the new ruler Ayatollah Chomeini would establish a despotic rule and…
15-year-old Talitha and her family live in a village 30 kilometres north of Damaskus. Her father is a doctor, the mother, who used to work as an interpreter, looks after her and her two brothers. Everything is fine until Muslim rebels seize the village, destroy the cloisters and churches and perpetrate a bloodbath one day….
Science fiction nerds Max, Willi and Ben discover a light inside the ruinous mansion. Over night, a strange elderly lady seems to have moved in with her daughter Penelope. Penelope, a striking appearance with platinum blonde hair, rouses unknown feelings in Max. But then the boys discover that the girl has triangular hairs with serial…
Twelve-year old Joaquín lives on an island in Lake Nicaragua and thanks to his many jobs his family manages to survive. When he meets the fascinating German girl Rosa, daughter of an ethnologist, he delights in the opportunity to earn a little extra money with interviews given to Rosa’s dad. When Rosa discovers that he…
With a father more interested in money than family, a brother in prison, a sister with a secret, and a mother in denial, it’s no wonder Jeff buries himself in the safe world of mathematics. When a storm hits Wellington, a strange old woman is blown into Jeff’s life, challenging everything he thinks is true. by Joy Cowley “A high-drama…
Having finished high-school on the mainland, Cynthia returns to her native island in the Caribbean. A little paradise, actually: with white beaches and palm trees this is every tourist’s dream. Cynthia’s mother Mathilda runs a restaurant overlooking the most beautiful bay. But what Cynthia experiences and sees during the weeks of shrimp season has little…
In this moving and gripping tale of his life, Mbu recounts his childhood growing up in the shacks of some of the poorest townships in the Eastern and Western Cape; the battle to survive hunger, neglect and sleeping on the streets; the beloved older brother who took care of him as a toddler; the unwavering…
Together with her big brother Jando and her little sister Teya, Jeanne is well looked after as she grows up in Rwanda. Her parents—both teachers and members of the Tutsi—educate their children with affectionate rigour. But shortly after Jeanne’s eighth birthday her carefree childhood comes to a sudden end: in April 1994 the Rwandan genocide…