New Releases by Meg Rosoff

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?

Dat soort vrienden van Meg Rosoff (Hoe ik nu leef, De Godden broers) is een meeslepende YA-roman die zich afspeelt in een hete zomer vol mysterie, leugens, vriendschap, liefde en het onvermijdelijke verlies van onschuld. Zomer 1982. De achttienjarige Beth arriveert in New York, waar ze begint aan haar stage bij een grote krant. Een appartement vol kakkerlakken en een ongeïnteresseerde huisgenoot zijn niet haar grootste zorgen, want voor ze het weet raakt ze verstrikt in de levens van de andere stagiairs: de preppy Oliver, de brutale Dan en de belachelijk coole, knappe, levenslustige Edie. Tussen Edie en Beth ontstaat er een vriendschap die de rest van de wereld doet verbleken. Maar met de zich almaar opeenstapelende leugens komt deze tot een heftig keerpunt. Dit roept de vraag op: wie heeft er nog vijanden nodig met dit soort vrienden? ''Na Hoe ik nu leef en De Godden broers weet ik het zeker: Meg Rosoff is de beste YA-schrijver van dit moment.'' Franka van Schaik, Boekhandel Broese

Hors du temps, loin du monde. Elisabeth préfère qu’on l’appelle Daisy. Au prétexte de la guerre qui s’annonce, cette new-yorkaise de 15 ans en conflit avec son père et sa nouvelle compagne est envoyée au fin fond de la campagne anglaise, chez une tante et des cousins qu’elle ne connait pas. Edmond, Piper, Tante Penn, Isaac et Osbert l’accueillent avec une gentillesse désarmante et ce nouveau cadre familial déstabilise Daisy avant de la charmer, lui faisant presque oublier la mort de sa mère... Et, surtout, il y a l’amour naissant entre elle et Edmond. Cette bulle presque rêvée prend fin brutalement à l’apparition d’une guerre que l’on ne voit pas, mais dont l’écho transforme leur vie en chaos. Daisy n’aura alors de cesse de retrouver sa nouvelle famille, et son Edmond. Récit transpirant la tendresse et l’affection portée à cette période qu’est l’adolescence, How I live Now est une aventure sensible et humaine. Adaptation du livre éponyme de Meg Rosoff déjà transposé au cinéma, elle évoque en bande dessinée le travail de Charles Forsman (The End of the F***ing World ou I am not okay with this) et s’habille d’une douce mélancolie qui provoque autant l’apaisement que le désarroi.

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

A rescue dog with a difference must save the Peachey family in this charming story for the young and the young at heart, filled to the brim with Meg Rosoff's wry humour and beautiful prose. The first in a series.

"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.

When a camping trip unleashes a reluctant Peachey family on the great outdoors, it’s up to their savvy dog, McTavish, to show them how it’s done. It’s summer, and the Peachey family is in crisis — again. Where will they go for their vacation? Betty Peachey thinks that camping is the answer, and Ma Peachey knows just the place. But Pa Peachey is convinced that terrible dangers lurk in the world of nature, Ollie only wants to know if there are dance clubs, and Ava would rather stay home and read German philosophy. Will rescue dog McTavish figure out how to turn the Peacheys into happy campers — and get them to brave the sparkling river and scenic mountainside before they pack up their tent and go home?

From award-winning author Meg Rosoff comes this clever, laugh-out-loud picture book about a family's surprising newest member--a moose! When he first arrives, everyone is expecting the usual kind of baby. But right away, his family notices there's something different about this one. Instead of two feet, he has four hooves. Instead of drinking milk, he eats twigs and weeds. Instead of a tiny human, they bring home a moose baby! With his long legs, silky ears, and sturdy antlers, the moose baby is admired everywhere he goes. Everyone wishes they had a moose baby too. But what will happen when he starts to outgrow their little home? Here's a delightfully quirky and completely irresistible new sibling picture book about the true meaning of family and the power of love to transcend any difference.

From Carnegie Medal–winning author Mal Peet comes a sweeping coming-of-age adventure, both harrowing and life-affirming. Born of a brief encounter between a Liverpool prostitute and an African soldier in 1907, Beck finds himself orphaned as a young boy and sent overseas to the Catholic Brothers in Canada. At age fifteen he is sent to work on a farm, from which he eventually escapes. Finally in charge of his own destiny, Beck starts westward, crossing the border into America and back, all while the Great Depression rages on. What will it take for Beck to understand the agonies of his childhood and realize that love is possible?

“[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.

ALMA-pristagaren och bästsäljande författaren Meg Rosoff. Kan en border collie och en cocker spaniel sitta inne på svaret om livet, universum och allting? Jonathans chef är rubbad, hans förhållande förbryllande och hans lägenhet hyr han inte direkt lagligt. Hans flickvän Julie vill gifta sig med någon som är ungefär som Jonathan fast gärna rikare, mer strukturerad och med en annan sorts humor. På plussidan finns Jonathans två rumskompisar, som är fast beslutna att ordna upp hans liv - eller kanske förstöra det totalt? Det är svårt att vara säker, eftersom de är hundar. Jonathan har inget minne av att livet var såhär förvirrande tidigare, innan alla förväntade sig att han skulle börja bete sig som en vuxen människa. Kommer han någonsin ta sig ur sitt hjärndöda reklamjobb, avstyra Julies äktenskapsplaner, och ta reda på vilket kön hans hemliga kärlek har? Antagligen inte - med tanke på hur det har gått hittills. Meg Rosoffs roman är en hysteriskt rolig, smart och insiktsfull romantisk komedi som utspelar sig på Manhattan. Den handlar om tilltrasslade relationer och ett otyglat inre liv. Och om vänskap och hundar, såklart.

Jonathan gaat los is een Nora Ephron-waardige romantische komedie, voor iedereen die genoten heeft van Het Rosie Project en Mark Haddon. Meg Rosoff werd bekend met Hoe ik nu leef, een wereldwijde bestseller. Ze kijkt met veel humor nét even anders naar de wereld en kan de zoekende twintiger meesterlijk neerzetten. Jonathan is copywriter bij een reclamebureau in Manhattan. Hij werkt aan het meest lucratieve, maar allersaaiste account. Zijn vriendin werkt voor een online trouwmagazine en wanneer zij hem voorstelt om te gaan trouwen voor een live online publiek, wordt Jonathan plotseling slachtoffer van de razendsnelle social media: voordat hij kan bedenken waar híj nou gelukkig van zou worden gebeurt het gewoon allemaal al. Alleen Dante en Sissy, de twee honden van zijn broer die in Dubai werkt, lijken echt te snappen wat hij nodig heeft...

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 . . .

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.

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.

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.

“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 London is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy. As power fails, and systems fail, the farm becomes more isolated. Despite the war, it’s a kind of Eden, with no adults in charge and no rules, a place where Daisy’s uncanny bond with her cousins grows into something rare and extraordinary. But the war is everywhere, and Daisy and her cousins must lead each other into a world that is unknown in the scariest, most elemental way. A riveting and astonishing story.