Children's Books / Young Adults Autumn 2021

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Silke Vry, Finn Dean

The Book of Labyrinths and Mazes

Date of publication: September 20, 2021
Hardcover | 96 pages | With illustrations from: Finn Dean | Recommended age group: 8+
This brilliant book on mazes and labyrinths in history and the modern world encourages young readers to really think about why these puzzles are so appealing. Filled with amazing illustrations, i...
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Sophie Bichon

And You Fly Through the Nights

Love is Love - Novel

Date of publication: August 9, 2021
Paperback | 480 pages
Ro only feels free and alive at night. He has always been different, and never made his parents happy – and the dark is the only place where he feels at home. His architecture degree doesn't fulf...
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Reiner Engelmann

Hate and Reconciliation

A former neo-Nazi and a Holocaust survivor come face to face

Date of publication: November 15, 2021
Paperback | 272 pages | Recommended age group: 14+
Emil is being forced to move, and he’s furious about it. In the new city, the teenager rejects everything and everyone, and withdraws more and more into himself – until a classmate opens up a who...
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Jenny-Mai Nuyen

Cold as Snow, Hard as Steel

A magical elvish fantasy

Date of publication: August 9, 2021
Paperback | 400 pages | Recommended age group: 14+
Cast out by her father and betrayed by her mother, Princess Kanemô grew up in a convent far from her father’s palace. When her father dies, the rebel leader Heganen wants to marry her in order to...
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Martina Steinkühler

The Girls’ Bible

Date of publication: September 27, 2021
Hardcover | 320 pages | With illustrations from: Angela Gstalter | Recommended age group: 12+
Only few girls and women are actually named in the Bible – they’re often only described as ‘the daughter of…’, ‘wife of…’, ‘maid of…’. But they all had names, even if the Bible won’t tell us what...
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Judith Weber, Marcus Weber

Child’s Play Series: Physics

Date of publication: August 23, 2021
Hardcover | 20 pages | With illustrations from: Marta Costa | Recommended age group: 2+
Toffee is visiting his friend Meg. At her home, there’s lots to discover. For example, why does the toy car sink in the bath? Why do you always come back down to earth, no matter how high you bou...
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Robert Domes

Fourth-Class Carriage

A post-war quest

Date of publication: December 13, 2021
Paperback | 352 pages | Recommended age group: 14+
It’s the summer of 1948. Martha, the daughter of an East Prussian refugee family, escapes the Soviet occupation zone to reach her father in the Allgäu mountains. There, they live in a decommissio...
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Lena Kiefer

KNIGHTS – A Dangerous Legacy

Gripping urban fantasy adventure

Date of publication: September 13, 2021
Hardcover | 448 pages | Recommended age group: 14+
Eighteen-year-old Charlotte Stuart is doing all she can to hide her unique gift. She knows that if her powers end up in the wrong hands, the world’s future will be in jeopardy. Then she discovers...
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Claudia Praxmayer

A Taste for Life

A gripping futuristic novel

Date of publication: October 18, 2021
Hardcover | 416 pages | Recommended age group: 14+
When seventeen-year-old Nini inherits her godmother’s home in Cornwall, she wavers between excitement and uncertainty: what is she, a Londoner, supposed to do with a countryside cottage? But her ...
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Manfred Theisen

The Chip

Date of publication: December 13, 2021
Paperback | 224 pages | Recommended age group: 12+
Berlin in the near future: 15-year-old Kim, daughter of a Dutch diplomat and single mother, is a pupil at the controversial elite boarding school Galileo. There, cameras and implanted chips trans...

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