Young Adult books from Germany
Recommended young adult books (5)
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If you are into young adult here are some young adult books from Germany for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth who in the middle of class takes a sudden spin to a different era! Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother would lie about her birth date to ward off suspicion about her ability, brush up on her history, and work with Gideon--the time traveler from a similarly gifted family that passes the gene through its male line, and whose presence becomes, in time, less insufferable and more essential. Together, Gwyneth and Gideon journey... continue
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The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers EN
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It has been more than two hundred years since Bookholm was destroyed by a devastating fire, as told in Moers's The City of Dreaming Books. Hildegunst von Mythenmetz, hailed as Zamonia's greatest writer, is on vacation in Lindworm Castle when a disturbing message reaches him, and he must return to Bookholm to investigate a mystery. The magnificently rebuilt city has once again become a metropolis of storytelling and the book trade. Mythenmetz encounters old friends and new denizens of the city - and the shadowy "Invisible Theater." Astonishingly inventive, amusing, and engrossing, this is a cap... continue
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Why We Took the Car by Wolfgang Herrndorf EN
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An American debut by a best-selling German author follows the darkly comic coming-of-age story of misfits Mike and Tschick, whose decided unpopularity and exclusion from a gorgeous girl's party trigger a fateful road trip.