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A madcap adventure starring a bandit family, a LOT of sweets and a
girl who is ready for adventure… Maisie’s summer can FINALLY
start when she’s whisked away from a boring music camp by her
bandit family, the Robbersons. Bring on a summer of screeching down
country lanes, camping out on lakeshores and devouring sweets –
Maisie can’t wait! The Robbersons are equally happy to have
Maisie and her sharp skills back just in time for the robbers’
summer festival. This year a new Bandit Leader will be appointed
– and with the bandit clans out for revenge, the Robbersons need
all the help they can get… The second story in a fresh and fun
series about what it really means to escape, perfect for fans of
Roald Dahl, Danny Wallace’s HAMISH series and THE SUPER
MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF FREDDIE YATES.
A madcap adventure starring a bandit family, a LOT of sweets and a
girl who is ready for anything... Maisie is convinced her summer
holiday is going to be as boring as ever - until she's snatched by
the Robbersons, a bunch of bandits with an insatiable appetite for
sweets! Soon Maisie realizes that life on the open road with the
Robbersons is just the adventure she has always longed for. They've
even started to see her as one of the gang! So when she discovers
that the police and her parents are hot on their trail, Maisie
decides she isn't quite ready to be rescued... A fresh and fun
story about what it really means to escape, ME AND THE ROBBERSONS
is perfect for fans of Roald Dahl, Danny Wallace's HAMISH series
and THE SUPER MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF FREDDIE YATES. PRAISE FOR ME
AND THE ROBBERSONS "Entertainingly different" - The Times "Funny
and sweet and just the right level of anarchy!" Nicola Penfold,
author of Where the World Turns Wild "It pulsates with humour,
tenderness and outright anarchy with a plot that accelerates,
weaves and spins like a high-octane car chase"
V'sViewfromtheBookshelves "With a deliciously anarchic Dahl-ish
energy to it and a lovely message to end, The Robbersons is already
a hit all over the world - it's about time we got a chance to read
it here" - Daniel Hahn, author and translator
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Six Finnish Poets (Paperback)
Vesa Haapala, Janne Nummel, Matilda Sodergran; Edited by Teemu Mannien; Translated by Lola Rogers, …
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Six Finnish Poets, the eleventh volume in this series, features six
writers whose work is symbolic of the connection between the life
of poetry in Finland and the life of the poets who write it. In
Finland, poetry is a part of everyday life, a way of living,
founded upon a do-it-yourself attitude that is independent of the
approval of critics, publishers, or the popular masses. The poets
selected here exhibit the vast range of Finnish poetry, from
experimental prose to image-rich surrealism, and from sparse, stark
minimalism to ironically melancholy pop-culture references.
Daring, flashy, innovative, volatile--no matter what they call him,
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is one of soccer's brightest stars. A
top-scoring striker with Paris Saint-Germain and captain of the
Swedish national team, he has dominated the world's most storied
teams, including Ajax, Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona, and AC
Milan. But his life wasn't always so charmed.
Born to Balkan immigrants who divorced when he was a toddler,
Zlatan learned self-reliance from his rough-and-tumble
neighborhood. While his father, a Bosnian Muslim, drank to forget
the war back home, his mother's household was engulfed in chaos.
Soccer was Zlatan's release. Mixing in street moves and trick
plays, Zlatan was a wild talent who rode to practice on stolen
bikes and relished showing up the rich kids--opponents and
teammates alike. Goal by astonishing goal, the brash young outsider
grew into an unlikely prodigy and, by his early twenties, an
international phenomenon.
Told as only the man himself could tell it, featuring stories of
friendships and feuds with the biggest names in the sport, "I Am
Zlatan" is a wrenching, uproarious, and ultimately redemptive tale
for underdogs everywhere.
Praise for "I Am Zlatan"
"Terrific . . . Far more insightful than your typical jock memoir,
Ibra's book tells his story of growing up as the son of immigrants
in Sweden and pulls no punches when it comes to his opinions of
some of the biggest names in the game."--"Sports Illustrated"
"The most compelling autobiography ever to appear under a
footballer's name."--"The Guardian"
"The story of Zlatan--from his days as an immigrant kid juggling a
soccer ball so he won't get bullied to his emergence as the genius
player who scored the greatest goal ever--is as compelling and
fancy-footed as his game."--Aleksandar Hemon, National Book Award
finalist and author of "The Lazarus Project"
"I love this book. I love it because it's so much bigger than
soccer. "I Am Zlatan" is a story of hope and grit and what an
immigrant kid who comes from nothing can accomplish with hard work
and belief in himself. It's also a beautiful window into our new,
more open, more diverse world."--Marcus Samuelsson, bestselling
author of "Yes, Chef"
"Probably the bestselling European immigrant's tale since Zadie
Smith's "White Teeth" . . . Once you get past the obligatory
snigger prompted by the phrase 'footballer's autobiography, ' you
can see that Zlatan's book strangely resembles an earlier
immigrant's tale: "Portnoy's Complaint."""--Financial Times
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"He is skillful. He is outspoken. He is Zlatan."--"The New York
Times"
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"The best sports autobiography in years."--"PolicyMic"
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Cow Belle Beauty Queen (Paperback)
Leena Parkkinen; Illustrated by Katja Wehner; Translated by Ruth Urbom
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Milena is innocently brushing her teeth one day when she discovers
that there is a cow - yes, a cow! - in the bath. Not only does
Semi-Skimmed talk and take baths, but she is dead set on winning
the Cow Belle Beauty Queen pageant. The competition is fierce,
though, and Skimmy is .. well, skinny (for a cow). Can Milena help
her to see off the beastly Hefty Hoofington and her simpering
sidekicks Snippy and Snooty?
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