Cold Skin

Author	Meg Rosoff
ISBN	0553376055

"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...

Author	Griet Op de Beeck
ISBN	9044623109

Kom hier dat ik u kus is een roman over Mona, als kind, als vierentwintigjarige, en als vijfendertigjarige. Een verhaal over waarom we worden wie we zijn, geschreven met humor, scherpte en veel schaamteloze eerlijkheid. Over ouders en kinderen. Over kapotte mensen en hoe zij ongewild anderen ook kapotmaken....

Author	Janet Tashjian
ISBN	0141318341

A funny, thoughtful novel that takes on some sophisticated issues such as celebrity worship, consumerism and the way multinational corporations shape our lives. Ages 12-up.

Josh Swensen is not your average 17-year-old. At the age of two, he was figuring out algebraic equations with colored...

Author	Chloe Hooper
ISBN	1416561595

In 2004 on Palm Island, an Aboriginal settlement in the "Deep North" of Australia, a thirty-six-year-old man named Cameron Doomadgee was arrested for swearing at a white police officer. Forty minutes later he was dead in the jailhouse. The police claimed he'd tripped on a step, but his liver was ruptured....

Author	Beppe Fenoglio
ISBN	8806180754

Nelle Langhe, durante la guerra partigiana, Milton (quasi una controfigura di Fenoglio stesso), è un giovane studente universitario, ex ufficiale che milita nelle formazioni autonome. Eroe solitario, durante un'azione militare rivede la villa dove aveva abitato Fulvia, una ragazza che egli...