Popular European Young Adult Books
Find young adult books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (137)
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The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig EN
LithuaniaDescription:
War. The true story of a young girl's incredible war-time years in exile in Siberia, told without bitterness and set down in a remarkably compelling and wholly unforgettable narrative.
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The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke EN
BelarusDescription:
Sixteen-year-old Ellie Baum time-travels to 1988 East Berlin, where she meets members of an underground guild who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the wall, and learns that someone is using dark magic to change history.
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The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan EN
ScotlandDescription:
A shoreside burial coordinator who lives in self-enforced exile as penance for a long-ago mistake and a performer with a floating circus face unexpected life changes and new opportunities in the wake of an offshore storm. A first novel.
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The Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O'Shea EN
IrelandDescription:
When a ten-year-old boy finds an old book of magic in a bookshop in Ireland, the forces of good and evil gather to do battle over it.
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The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers EN
GermanyDescription:
It has been more than two hundred years since Bookholm was destroyed by a devastating fire, as told in Moers's The City of Dreaming Books. Hildegunst von Mythenmetz, hailed as Zamonia's greatest writer, is on vacation in Lindworm Castle when a disturbing message reaches him, and he must return to Bookholm to investigate a mystery. The magnificently rebuilt city has once again become a metropolis of storytelling and the book trade. Mythenmetz encounters old friends and new denizens of the city - and the shadowy "Invisible Theater." Astonishingly inventive, amusing, and engrossing, this is a cap... continue
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The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan EN
Description:
Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali tries her hardest to live up to her conservative Muslim parents' expectations, but lately she's finding that impossible to do. She rolls her eyes when they blatantly favour her brother and saves her crop tops and makeup for parties her parents don't know about. If she can just hold out another few months, Rukhsana will be out of her familial home and away from her parents' ever-watchful eyes at Caltech, a place where she thinks she can finally be herself. But when she is caught kissing her girlfriend Ariana, her devastated parents take Rukhsana to Bangladesh, wh... continue
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The mauve umbrella by Alki Zei EN
GreeceDescription:
The Mauve Umbrella is a story of two worlds – the adult world of approaching war and the children’s world of close friendships, rivalry and games of the imagination. Eleftheria lives somewhere in Marousi, Athens, with her parents and younger, identical twin, brothers. It is shortly before the war in 1940 and she is nine, going on ten. The children’s best friend is the daughter of a rich family in the neighbourhood. Later, a young French boy arrives, escaping from Nazi occupied France, to live with his French uncle, who lives in the apartment above Eleftheria’s family.
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THE MERCHANT OF VENICE: Tales From Shakespeare by Charles Lamb , Mary Lamb , Arthur Rackham (Illustrator) EN
EnglandDescription:
THE MERCHANT OF VINICE: Tales from shakespeare - ILLUSTRATED - FOR YOUNG READERS THE MERCHANT OF VENICE TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE ILLUSTRATED EDITION A charming introduction for young readers of this classic Shakespearean tale as presented by Charles and Mary Lamb in their 1909 edition of Tales From Shakespeare. Classic illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Edited and recommended for young readers by The Gunston Trust Ages: Young Adults
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The Night Raven by Johan Rundberg EN
SwedenDescription:
Mika is not your average twelve-year-old--and she's about to prove it. It's 1880, and in the frigid city of Stockholm, death lurks around every corner. Twelve-year-old Mika knows that everyone in her orphanage will struggle to survive this winter. But at least the notorious serial killer the Night Raven is finally off the streets...or is he? Mika is shocked when a newborn baby is left at the orphanage in the middle of the night, by a boy with a cryptic message. Who is he? And who is this "Dark Angel" he speaks of? When a detective shows up, Mika senses something even more sinister is going on.... continue
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The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder EN
NorwayDescription:
'My father died eleven years ago. I was only four then. I never thought I'd hear from him again, but now we're writing a book together' To Georg Røed, his father is no more than a shadow, a distant memory. But then one day his grandmother discovers some pages stuffed into the lining of an old red pushchair. The pages are a letter to Georg, written just before his father died, and a story, 'The Orange Girl'. But 'The Orange Girl' is no ordinary story - it is a riddle from the past and centres around an incident in his father's youth. One day he boarded a tram and was captivated by a beautiful g... continue