Meg Rosoff

"Daisy, quindici anni, sta trascorrendo le vacanze in Inghilterra, insieme a cugini che non ha mai visto, quando un Nemico non meglio identificato attacca Londra, scatenando una guerra di cui i ragazzini non sono in grado di capire le proporzioni. Isolati nella fattoria in mezzo alla campagna inglese, Daisy, Piper, Edmund e lsaac sono costretti a inventarsi la vita quotidiana, senza elettricita, acqua, telefono e una serie di altri comfort scontati in condizioni di normalita. Ma in quell''insolito isolamento la fattoria si trasforma in un luogo magico, dove Daisy - uscendo dal proprio isolamento interiore e abbandonando la rabbia - scopre l''inebriante sensazione di sentirsi responsabile di chi ama. "

Mila has an exceptional talent for reading a roomsensing hidden facts and unspoken emotions from clues that others overlook. So when her fathers best friend, Matthew, goes missing from his upstate New York home, Mila and her beloved father travel from London to find him. She collects information about Matthew from his belongings, from his wife and baby, from the dog he left behind and from the ghosts of his pastslowly piecing together the story everyone else has missed. But just when shes closest to solving the mystery, a shocking betrayal calls into question her trust in the one person she thought she could read best.

What if Fate were out to get you? The day David Case saves his brother's life, his whole world changes. He must hide, become an entirely new person to escape Fate . . . if he can. This stunning, thought-provoking and darkly comic novel for teenage readers was one of the most eagerly awaited books of 2006 - now available in paperback.

'I was at boarding school in East Anglia, my third. I didn't want to be there. But if there had been no school, there would be no Finn. He lived in a hut on the coast. He was like the hut, in fact - it took a while for both of them to warm up. But that is all I longed for. Finn, warming to me. A nod. Half a smile. Asking me to help on the boat. Not asking me to leave. I didn't want it to end. Now I am waiting for the end, and looking back to the beginning.'

Heralded by some as the next best adult crossover novel since Mark Haddons The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, who himself has given the book a thunderously good quote, this authors debut is undoubtedly stylish, readable and fascinating. Rosoffs story begins in modern day London, slightly in the future, and as its heroine has a 15-year-old Manhattanite called Daisy. Shes picked up at the airport by Edmond, her English cousin, a boy in whose life she is destined to become elaborately entwined. Daisy is staying for the summer in her Aunt Penns country farmhouse with Edmond and her other cousins.

'I'd been kicked out of two boarding schools and the last thing I wanted was to be here, on the East Anglian coast, in a third. But without St. Oswald's, I would not have discovered the fisherman's hut with its roaring fire, its striped blankets, its sea monster stew.

Una sorprendente novela sobre el amor y la guerra.Imagina el verano perfecto, lejos de un hogar en el que no estás a gusto, en un país diferente y lleno de posibilidades; viviendo en mitad del campo y en compañia de una familia que te quiere, enamorandote como nunca lo has hecho. Ahora imagina que un dia estallan las bombas y que, junto a quien es el amor de tu vida, tienes que aprender a sobrevivir en medio de una guerra sin sentido. Puedes imaginarlo o leer esta novela.

Jumpy Jack is a very nervous snail who is scared of monsters, but his friend Googily checks for monsters everywhere they go. With themes of friendship and confronting the fear of the unknown. Ages: 3

Jonathan Trefoil's boss is unhinged, his relationship baffling and his apartment just the wrong side of legal. His girlfriend wants to marry someone just like him - only richer and more organised with a different sense of humour. At least his two flatmates understand him - but they only speak dog. Poor Jonathan. The world wasn't this confusing back in the good old days before everyone expected him to act like a person. But one thing's for sure: if he can make it in New York City, he can make it anywhere. Will he get out of advertising, meet the girl of his dreams and figure out the meaning of life?

La Daisy, que té quinze anys, viu a Nova York i està molt enfadada amb el seu pare, se''n va de vacances a Anglaterra per canviar d''aires, a la granja dels seus cosins. Un cop allà, esclata una guer

Paris August One long summer of nothing 48 hours of everything From the inimitable Meg Rosoff comes a chaotic and irresistible new YA

Meg Rosoff reinventa el libro de viajes y el thriller en esta apasionante novela, una brillante historia sobre padres e hijos, sobre amor y pérdida.Mila, de doce años, tiene una intuición especial para percibir los sentimientos y los secretos de los demas, para observar pequeños detalles que otros pasan por alto. Cuando su padre Gil se entera de que su mejor amigo Matthew ha desaparecido en Nueva York, emprenden juntos un viaje desde Londres para encontrarlo.Gil y Mila recorren el norte del estado de Nueva York y reunen informacion sobre Matthew a partir de sus objetos personales, de lo que le cuenta su esposa y de los fantasmas de su pasado. Poco a poco Mila reconstruye una historia que nadie mas entiende. Pero justo cuando esta mas cerca de resolver el misterio, una estremecedora traicion la hace dudar de la persona a la que creia entender mejor.

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 Isaac, Edmond, Osbert and Piper. And two dogs and a goat. She's never met anyone quite like them before - and, as a dreamy English summer progresses, Daisy finds herself caught in a timeless bubble. It seems like the perfect summer. But their lives are about to explode. Falling in love is just the start of it. War breaks out - a war none of them understands, or really cares about, until it lands on their doorstep. The family is separated. The perfect summer is blown apart. Daisy's life is changed forever - and the world is too.

Imagina el verano perfecto, lejos de un hogar en el que no estás a gusto, en un país diferente y lleno de posibilidades; viviendo en mitad del campo y en compañía de una familia que te quiere, enamorandote como nunca lo has hecho. Ahora imagina que un dia estallan las bombas y que, junto a quien es el amor de tu vida, tienes que aprender a sobrevivir en medio de una guerra sin sentido. Puedes imaginarlo o leer esta novela.

Meet Boris, Morris, Horace and Doris, four rude, smelly, bad tempered boars. Never, ever let them into your home - Horace will soak in the toilet for hours, he''ll eat your soap, clip his toenail in bed and be rude to your pets! As for Doris, she has never been good, not for one single second, not once, not ever! - you have been warned. This is a tale of truly terrible manners with a very clear message - there is no such thing as a nice wild boar!

Una sorprendente novela sobre el amor y la guerra.Imagina el verano perfecto, lejos de un hogar en el que no estás a gusto, en un país diferente y lleno de posibilidades; viviendo en mitad del campo y en compañia de una familia que te quiere, enamorandote como nunca lo has hecho.Ahora imagina que un dia estallan las bombas y que, junto a quien es el amor de tu vida, tienes que aprender a sobrevivir en medio de una guerra sin sentido.Puedes imaginarlo o leer esta novela.