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  • von Katya Balen
    10,00 €

    A sea-soaked story of friendship, community and discovering what it means to carry home in your heart, from Carnegie Medal-winning author Katya Balen.On the Island of Ayrie, everybody knows everyone. They know each other's stories as they know every road, every hill and the coming of the tide. In the summer, there are bonfires to celebrate the migration of the puffins. Everything is familiar, nothing much changes, and for Tilda, nothing ever should - it is beautiful, it is perfect and it is home.When newcomer Albie arrives at the island, Tilda wants to show Ayrie off - Albie wants her to leave him alone. She learns quickly that it'll take more than a tour and some seal viewings to win him around. Then, she remembers stories of the old island just an hour's boat ride away from the shore. The old island is a death trap. The journey there is treacherous. Trips across to it are strictly forbidden. And there's a rumour it's haunted by the ghosts of those left there to die. But with all else having failed, the old island is the only way for Tilda to make Albie see what she sees in Ayrie. Besides, it's a different kind of ghost that worries Tilda. The ghost that's been following her, now, since her brother left the island ...

  • von Katya Balen
    18,00 €

    Katya Balen über neue Freundschaften, Freiheit und die Liebe zur Natur. "Großartig erzählt von einer bemerkenswerten, neuen Autorin. Ein zukünftiger, wilder Klassiker!" The TimesEine bezaubernd schöne Geschichte über Neuanfänge, Freiheit und die Wildheit, die in uns allen steckt. October lebt mit ihrem Vater in einer Waldhütte, im Einklang mit der Natur und fernab anderer Menschen. Geheimverstecke zwischen den Bäumen, Winterschwimmen im Teich, nächtliche Lagerfeuer und ein gerettetes Eulenküken: Das ist Octobers Welt. Bis zu ihrem elften Geburtstag, als ihr Vater einen schweren Unfall hat. Während er sich erholt, muss October zu ihrer Mutter in die Großstadt ziehen. Dort ist alles fremd: das sterile Haus, die Schule, die Frau, die ihre Mutter ist. October muss erst neue wilde Orte und Freunde finden, um zu erkennen, dass Veränderungen zwar Angst machen können, am Ende aber oft etwas ganz Wunderbares sind.

  • von Katya Balen
    10,00 €

    From the author of October, October, winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal, comes a heartbreaking and heart-warming story about sisterhood, found family and accepting love in the most unusual and unknown places.Fen and Rey were found curled up small and tight in the fiery fur of the foxes at the very edge of the wildlands. Fen is loud and fierce and free. She feels a connection to foxes and a calling from the wild that she's desperate to return to. Rey is quiet and shy and an expert on nature. She reads about the birds, feeds the lands and nurtures the world around her.They are twin sisters. Different and the same. Separate and connected. They will always have each other, even if they don't have a mother and don't know their beginning. But they do want answers. Answers to who their mother is and where she might be. What their story is and how it began. So when a fox appears late one night at the house, Fen and Rey see it as a sign - it's here to lead them to their truth, find their real family and fill the missing piece they have felt since they were born.But the wildlands are exactly that: wild. They are wicked and cruel and brutal and this journey will be harder and more life changing than either Fen or Rey ever imagined ...

  • von Katya Balen
    10,00 €

    The blackbirds' song uplifts and restores in this captivating novella from one of the most exciting voices in children's fiction.After a devastating car crash, Annie is unable to play her flute and retreats from the music she's always loved.She exists in a world of angry silence - furious with her mum and furious she can't seem to play her beloved flute any more.Then she meets Noah, who shows her the blackbirds' nest hidden in the scrubland near their flats. As their friendship grows, the blackbirds' glorious song reignites Annie's passion for music. But when tragedy strikes again, will her fragile progress be put at risk?

  • von Balen Katya Balen
    11,00 €

  • von Katya Balen
    10,98 €

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