New Releases by MEG ROSOFF

An irresistible coming-of-age YA from the inimitable Meg Rosoff, this is the tale of 48 chaotic and unforgettable hours in the heat of the scorching Parisian sun. With his train home set to leave in a matter of minutes, Callum is forced to confront an unfortunate truth: that his summer abroad in Paris was a disappointing, unmemorable failure of a trip. There was no teenage adventure, no sum[Bokinfo].

From bestselling, award-winning author Meg Rosoff comes a gritty, intoxicating novel about a summer of unforgettable firsts: of independence, lies, love and the inevitable loss of innocence. Sharp and irresistible, it''s perfect for fans of Judy Blume''s Summer Sisters and Elena Ferrante''s My Brilliant Friend. New York City. Summer 1983. A summer internship in New York was meant to be everything Beth wanted. But from the moment she arrives in the city she feels wrong: wrong hair, terrible clothes, defective smile, too obviously a virgin. Sharing a hot, cockroach-filled apartment with a couple falling out of love completes the dream picture. Then she meets her fellow interns: ambitious out-of-towner Dan, preppy rich boy Oliver, and Edie — a beautiful, brittle, magnetic, instant best friend. Irresistible people are like gravity. You can’t help being pulled towards them — can you?

Savvy rescue dog McTavish finds a surprising way to ease young Betty’s worries about moving to a new house—and a new school—in this fourth adventure told with warmth and wit. When Pa Peachey comes home in a happy-go-lucky mood—and singing!—the family is concerned. Pa has never not been grumpy after work! But when Ma and siblings Ava and Ollie learn that Pa has gotten a new job—which means moving to an appealing new house—they are all pretty quick to get on board. Even McTavish the dog is excited to make a canine pal in the new park nearby. Only the youngest sibling, Betty, remains out of sorts—nervous about changing schools, making friends, and leaving behind the house where she and McTavish grew up. But McTavish, with his special canine senses—and his vow, as a “rescue dog,” to save the family whenever need arises—knows how to help Betty regain her confidence and feel at home again. With tenderness and gentle humor, the Peachey family returns in McTavish on the Move, the fourth book in Meg Rosoff’s charming series about beloved dog McTavish and his family.

A dog with a plan adopts a chaotic family in a wry comedy extolling the virtues of common sense in this launch of the new McTavish Stories series. Illustrations.

The Peachey family’s loyal dog steps up to save the day once more in the fourth instalment of this acclaimed, witty middle-grade series.

De Godden broers van Meg Rosoff (de auteur van Hoe ik nu leef) is een tijdloze en onweerstaanbare YA-roman voor alle leeftijden. Dit is het verhaal van één prachtige zomer – de zomer waarin alles verandert. In een vakantiehuis aan zee, in een grote, rommelige familie, kijkt één tiener toe hoe de rest van de familie de zwoele dagen doorbrengt met wijn drinken, spelletjes spelen en het plannen van een bruiloft. Maar dan verschijnen de Godden-broers: de onweerstaanbare, charmante, sexy Kit en de knorrige, stille Hugo. Opeens bevindt er zich een slang in dit paradijs – en de consequenties zullen verschrikkelijk zijn... ''Vooral de zomerse sfeer (...) en de bijdehante blik van de ik-persoon maken van Rosoffs laatste roman een buitengewone, plezierige leeservaring.'' Katty Gerez Heemstra, Linnaeus Boekhandel

When Pa Peachey becomes comically ambitious about entering a town baking competition, family dog McTavish wisely cooks up a plan to rescue him from himself. Pa Peachey has gotten it in his head that he is going to be the baker in the family, and the Peacheys and their dog, McTavish, are more than a little surprised. Stunned, in fact. Ever since Ma Peachey declared herself free of the cooking responsibilities, Betty, Ava, and Ollie have taken turns making inventive and delicious meals. But Pa thinks he can do better, even though his cakes are as flat as manhole covers and his cookies turn to charcoal. When the town announces a baking competition with a big prize, Pa is convinced he will enter an absolute masterpiece. Now the Peacheys have to decide: should they be honest with Pa and tell him his confections are contemptible, or should they support his high-flying dreams? Or could McTavish have a last-minute option at the ready?

"At the house on the beach, everything is always the same. Summer unspools in days of sticky heat and lazy beach walks, the family only reconvening for lantern-lit suppers in the garden with the sea a constant roar in the background. Predictable, familiar -- and easy. But everything changes with the arrival of the Godden brothers: Kit, magnetic and lazily seductive, and Hugo, intense and unknowable. By the end of summer, nothing will be the same"--Book jacket.

A baby that is different from all the others brings a family great joy until he grows too big for their home.

Cosa succede se la mamma smette di fare quello che ha sempre fatto per la sua famiglia? Chi si occupa della casa? Chi si prende la briga di svegliare gli altri, di preparare i pasti, di fare il bucato? A casa Peachey nessuno, né il papà né i tre ragazzi, Ava, Ollie e Betty. E le conseguenze? Disastrose. Ma se a salvarli fosse un cane? Un cane molto sveglio, dal nome scozzese e le zampette corte? Allora le conseguenze sono... imprevedibili! Un libro speciale che, con intelligenza e ironia, parla di educazione di genere e di quanto gli animali possano diventare a tutti gli effetti membri della famiglia. Con le illustrazioni in bianco e nero di Grace Easton.

“[A] comic masterpiece.” —People magazine’s “Book of the Week” “A charming comedy on love, friendship, and the surprising influence of man’s best friend.” —Harper’s Bazaar National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Meg Rosoff''s charming, hilarious new novel about a young New Yorker’s search for happiness and the two dogs who help him find it—the perfect summer read 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 with a different sense of humor. He doesn’t remember life being this confusing, back before everyone expected him to act like a grown-up. When his brother asks him to look after his dogs, Jonathan''s world view begins to shift. Could a border collie and a cocker spaniel hold the key to life, the universe, and everything? Their sly maneuvering on daily walks and visits to the alluring vet suggest that human emotional intelligence may not be top dog after all. A funny, wise romantic comedy set in Manhattan, Jonathan Unleashed is a story of tangled relationships, friendships, and dogs. Rosoff’s novel is for anyone wondering what to be when they grow up, and how on earth to get there.

Årets ALMA-PRISTAGARE 2016! Femtonåriga Daisy skickas från New York till den engelska landsbygden för att tillbringa sommaren med en moster och fyra kusiner som hon aldrig tidigare har träffat. När mostern åker bort blir de fem kusinerna ensamma i det stora huset. Kort därefter exploderar bomber i London och England ockuperas av en okänd fiende. Trots kriget blir gården ett slags Edens lustgård: en plats utan vuxna eller regler att följa; en plats där Daisys spirande och förbjudna kärlek till kusinen Edmond får växa ostört. Men kriget skonar ingen och kusinerna skingras. Det blir en sommar när barndomen får ett abrupt och plågsamt slut, men också en sommar då Daisy upptäcker nya sidor hos sig själv. Så har jag det nu är ett oförglömligt, storslaget och skrämmande läsäventyr. En dystopisk kärleksroman om krig, längtan och identitet.

Mij niet gezien (Picture me Gone) is het nieuwe verhaal van Meg Rosoff, die tien jaar geleden met Hoe ik nu leef (How I live now) de wereld veroverde en vele prijzen in de wacht sleepte. In Mij niet gezien gaat het over de 12-jarige Mila. Als geen ander voelt ze mensen feilloos aan en kan ze situaties goed inschatten. Wanneer een goede vriend van haar vader vermist wordt, denkt ze te kunnen helpen door naar aanwijzingen te zoeken. Maar wanneer hij onvindbaar blijft, begint ze hevig aan zichzelf te twijfelen. Heeft ze iets belangrijks over het hoofd gezien? ''Een verrassend gelaagd verhaal over vriendschap.'' Thomas de Veen, NRC Handelsblad

Stel je een droomzomer voor in de nabije toekomst. Alles staat in bloei. Het gras zo groen dat je het kunt proeven. De zon op je huid. De zoete geur van honing. Een hand die je been aanraakt. Je wordt verliefd op degene op wie je niet verliefd zou moeten worden. Stel je voor dat deze wereld verandert in een chaos en jouw droomzomer verandert in een nachtmerrie. Dit overkomt de 15-jarige Daisy uit New York, die de zomer doorbrengt bij haar neven en nichtje in Engeland. ''Dit is een loepzuiver en tijdloos verhaal over liefde, verlies en overleven in tijden van oorlog. Een roman om levenslang in je hart te sluiten en om eindeloos cadeau te doen aan alle kleine en grote mensen die weten wat het betekent om verliefd te zijn. Generaties zullen van dit boek genieten: het wordt geheid een klassieker.'' - Renate Dorrestein

Mila, 12 ans, a un talent exceptionnel pour lire le monde qui l''entoure, pour ressentir des émotions passées, deviner les non-dits. Alors quand Matthew, le meilleur ami de son père, disparaît mystérieusement, tous deux se lancent à sa recherche. Mila se pose mille questions : a-t-il été assassiné ? S''est-il suicidé ? Peut-être a-t-il eu un accident ? Pour commencer, c''est dans l''État de New York, dans la grande maison où Matthew vivait avec sa femme, que Mila trouvera des réponses. La jeune fille cueille un à un les indices qu''elle y trouve. Ici, un parfum inconnu, là le regard triste d''Honey, la chienne de la maison, ici encore une pile de courriers, restée intacte. C''est évident : Matthew fuit quelque chose, mais quoi ? Mila et son père partent alors ensemble, pour un road trip père/fille, direction la frontière canadienne où ils espèrent trouver Matthew et reconstituer le puzzle... À partir de 13 ans

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 demás, 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 reúnen información 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 más entiende. Pero justo cuando está más cerca de resolver el misterio, una estremecedora traición la hace dudar de la persona a la que creía entender mejor.

Daisy, new-yorkaise de quinze ans mal dans sa peau, voit son univers chamboulé l''été où elle part vivre chez ses cousins, dans la campagne anglaise : pour la première fois de sa vie, elle tombe follement, éperdument amoureuse, et tout est parfait. Mais à la suite d''un attentat kamikaze au centre de Londres, une guerre totale éclate - qui pourrait bien être le prochain grand conflit de notre XXIe siècle. Brusquement, Daisy se voit coupée du reste du monde et de ceux qu''elle aime. Et là, tout bascule...

Mila has an exceptional talent for reading a room--sensing hidden facts and unspoken emotions from clues that others overlook... So when her father''s 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 past--slowly piecing together the story everyone else has missed. But just when she''s closest to solving the mystery, a shocking betrayal calls into question her trust in the one person she thought she could read best.

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 of Non-Homo-Sapien births round the country and everyone else is coping, disembowelled labradors apart. The trials of being a parent - A moving and also hilarious take on relationships and motherhood - with a very powerful message. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyselxic readers of 12+

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 at the side of his bed. Every time he falls in love, Earth erupts in natural disasters, and it''s usually Bob''s beleaguered assistant, Mr. B., who is left cleaning up the mess. So humankind is going to be very sorry indeed that Bob ever ran into a beautiful, completely irresistible girl called Lucy . . .

A tender and magical tale from the 2016 recipient of the Astrid Lindgren award and author of international bestseller How I Live Now, National Book Award finalist Picture Me Gone, and most recently Jonathan Unleashed Pell Ridley, daughter of a good-for-nothing preacher in mid-nineteenth century England, has watched her mother crushed by the burden of too many children and too little money. Unwilling to repeat her fate, Pell runs away on her wedding day taking only her beautiful, white horse. But, as she journeys through a strange world of gypsies in search of a new life, Pell finds that her ties to home refuse to release her. Like the works of Philip Pullman and Sue Monk Kidd, The Bride''s Farewell will resonate with readers of all ages as it grapples with timeless questions of how to live, how to love, and how to be true to one''s self.

Bundel met twee romans: Elisabeth (15, ik-figuur) is bij familie in Engeland als er een oorlog uitbreekt; David (15) wordt zich bewust van al het onheil dat hem kan overkomen en probeert het lot te tarten. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Hilary, een oude Engelsman, blikt terug op de tijd dat hij als 16-jarige jongen bevriend raakt met een jongen die in zijn eentje aan zee woont. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Niemandsbruid Meg Rosoff De nieuwe Meg Rosoff Op de ochtend dat ze zou trouwen kroop Pell Ridley in het donker haar bed uit, kuste haar zusters vaarwel, haalde Jack uit de wind en de regen van de boswei en vertelde hem dat ze weggingen. Al was het niet waarschijnlijk dat hij bezwaar zou maken, als paard. Op de ochtend van haar huwelijk vlucht Pell Ridley op haar paard Jack weg van haar ouderlijk huis. Haar jongste (stief)broertje Bean wil met haar mee. Samen trekken ze rond door het negentiende-eeuwse Engeland. Onderweg raakt Pell eerst haar paard en later ook haar broertje kwijt. Tijdens haar zoektocht ontmoet ze een stroper, zigeuners en een paardensmid. Rosoff beschrijft op eigenzinnige wijze het rauwe leven op het Engelse platteland in de negentiende eeuw.

In 1962, a 16-year-old boy is dropped off by his father at a boarding school on the windswept coast of East Anglia. It is a model of its kind–the rooms are freezing, the food is disgusting, the older boys are sadistic, and the masters are the ineffectual, damaged castoffs of a dying Empire. But the boy is used to the drill and well practiced at detached dreaming, imagining himself someone else, somewhere else. Until one day, falling behind one of the regular runs along the coast, he meets Finn. Finn seems like a character from a novel, or a dream. Dressed in clothes that look the way they did a century before, Finn lives alone with his cat in a tiny fisherman’s hut. The two become friends, the boy risking scandalous rumour and expulsion from school. But the idyll cannot last, disaster invades from all sides, and the boy discovers that nothing has been what he believed. What I Was will cement Meg Rosoff’s reputation as a writer of extraordinary skill and sensitivity, who recreates with uncanny exactness the passions of youth.

Justin Case is convinced fate has in for him. And he''s right. After finding his younger brother teetering on the edge of his balcony, fifteen-year-old David Case realizes the fragility of life and senses impending doom. Without looking back, he changes his name to Justin and assumes a new identity, new clothing and new friends, and dares to fall in love with the seductive Agnes Day. With his imaginary dog Boy in tow, Justin struggles to fit into his new role and above all, to survive in a world where tragedy is around every corner. He''s got to be prepared, just in case.

Besides being naughty, greedy, stinky, and rude, wild boars Boris, Morris, Horace, and Doris are also very hungry and luckily Doris finds the perfect recipe for them to make.

To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.