How I Live Now is an original and poignant book by Meg Rosoff. How I Live Now is the powerful and engaging story of Daisy, the precocious New Yorker and her English cousin Edmond, torn apart as war breaks out in London, from the multi award-winning Meg Rosoff. How I Live Now has been adapted for the[...]
Winner of the 2007 Carnegie Medal, the captivating and darkly-comic novel "Just in Case" is a thrilling coming-of-age story - described by "The Times" as a modern "The Catcher in the Rye" - from the bestselling author of "How I Live Now" Meg Rosoff. Every minute of every day, a million things happen[...]
Meg Rosoff, multi award winning author of "How I Live Now", explores the pain of first love and coming-of-age in her compelling novel "What I Was", which was once described by "The Times" as 'Samuel Beckett on ecstasy.' Shall I tell you about the year I discovered love? I'd been kicked out of two bo[...]
With its brooding and atmospheric nineteenth century setting, Meg Rosoff's "The Bride's Farewell" is a romantic novel that continues to haunt and captivate the reader long after reading. On the morning of her wedding, Pell Ridley creeps out of bed in the dark, kisses her sisters goodbye and flees - [...]
There Is No Dog is the new, astonishing novel by Meg Rosoff. In the beginning there was Bob. And Bob created the heavens and the earth and the beasts of the field and the creatures of the sea, and twenty-five million other species including lots and lots of gorgeous girls. And all of this, he create[...]
The moving story of a handsome horse who lives a life of hardship and kindness.
How I Live Now is an original and poignant book by Meg Rosoff, now a film tie-in edition to celebrate the release of the major film starring Saoirse Ronan. How I Live Now is the powerful and engaging story of Daisy, the precocious New Yorker and her English cousin Edmond, torn apart as war breaks ou[...]
What if God were a teenaged boy?
In the beginning, Bob created the heavens and the earth and the beasts of the field and the creatures of the sea, and twenty-five million other species (including lots of cute girls). But mostly he prefers eating junk food and leaving his dirty clothes in a heap[...]
Printz Award-winning author Meg Rosoff's latest novel is a gorgeous and unforgettable page-turner about the relationship between parents and children, love and loss. A National Book Award finalist
Mila has an exceptional talent for reading a room--sensing hidden facts and unspoken emotions fro[...]
It would be much easier to tell this story if it were all about a chaste and perfect love between Two Children Against the World at an Extreme Time in History. But let's face it, that would be crap. Daisy is sent from New York to England to spend a summer with cousins she has never met. They are Isa[...]
""Every war has turning points and every person too.""
Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy arrives. The next day bombs go off as L[...]
Meet Wild Boars Or maybe you better not. After all, they are dirty and smelly, bad-tempered and rude. They might try to fool you, but don't worry, you won't believe them. There's no such thing as a nice wild boar. Hmmm.
This insufferable gang of boars will mess up your house and set a very bad [...]
Fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy is sent to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never met. When England is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy, the cousins find themselves on their own. Power fails, systems fail. As they grow more isolated, the farm becomes a kind of Eden, with[...]
David Case never questions his ordinary suburban life -- until one fateful day, a brush with death brings him face to face with his own mortality. Suddenly, everywhere he looks he sees catastrophe, disaster, the ruin of the human race, the demise of the planet...not to mention (to pinpoint the exact[...]
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Finn was a beautiful orphan. H was a prep school misfit. On a September afternoon many years ago they met on a beach on the coast of England, near the ancient fisherman's hut Finn was squatting in with his woodstove, a case of books, a striped blanke[...]
Read Meg Rosoff's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community.
A tender and magical tale from an award-winning, international bestselling novelist
Pell Ridley, daughter of a good-for-nothing preacher in mid-nineteenth century England, has watched her mother crushed by the burden of too[...]
Soon after fifteen year old Daisy arrives at her aunt's farm in England her aunt goes away on business, leaving Daisy with four cousins she's never met--the next day when London is attacked by an unnamed enemy, power fails, systems fail, the farm becomes more isolated with no adults in charge and no[...]
Brilliantly funny teen drama from the consistently brilliant and Carnegie Medal winning author. Will it be a boy or a girl? Nothing can prepare Jess and Nick for when Jess gives birth to their first - moose. Four legs won't fit into a romper suit and what will grandma say? But there has been a spate[...]
Argasso är ett av Sveriges få bokförlag med en utgivning av lättläst barn- och ungdomslitteratur. Flera av titlarna är översättningar från det engelska förlaget Barrington Stoke. Barrington anses i den engelskspråkiga världen som en av de främsta på just lättläst. Därför är vi på[...]
15-åriga Daisy behöver komma ifrån hemmet i i New York och skickas därför över sommaren till sina kusiner i England.
Hon finner sig snabbt till rätta med livet på landet och trivs med sina kusiner som hon nu träffar för första gången. Men det finns en oro som växer sig allt[...]
Regel nummer tre: allting styrs inte av lagar och regler.
Vi befinner oss i 60-talets England. Hilary har redan hunnit bli utkastad från två internatskolor och nu gör hans far ett sista försök på S:t Oswald, en skola som har specialiserat sig på "hopplösa fall". Under en gymnastik[...]
Vad skulle du göra om ett olycksbådande och obevekligt Öde följde dig med sin svarta blick vart du än gick? Om det inte bara var ute efter dig utan också dina närmaste?
Femtonårige David Case ser bara en utväg att undkomma Ödet som flåsar honom i nacken. Han måste byta identitet, [...]