Untitled 1

Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Cross my heart and never lie / Nora Dåsnes ; translated by Matt Bagguley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Norwegian Publication details: Great Britain : Farshore, 2024.Edition: First American edition, 2023Description: 239 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781662640544
  • 1662640544
  • 9781662640575
  • 1662640579
  • 9780008653750
  • 0008653755
Uniform titles:
  • Ti kniver i hjertet. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 741.5/9481 23/eng/20230911
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.7.D368 C76 2023
  • PZ7.7.D368 Cr 2023
Awards:
  • Stonewall Book Award--Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's Literature Award, 2024.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Tuva struggles with how to become a teenager, friendship, and falling in love with another girl in this graphic novel set in Norway.Summary: "In this fresh, sensitive, diary-style graphic novel, 12-year-old Tuva's questions about becoming a teenager are confusing--so when her first crush turns out to be on another girl, it feels absolutely wonderful--so why does it become so complicated? Tuva is starting seventh grade, and her checklist of goals includes: writing out a diary, getting a trendy look, building the best fort in the woods with her BFFs, and much more. But when she starts school, nothing is how she hoped it would be. Seventh grade has split her friends into rival factions: TEAM LINNEA and the girls who fall in love and TEAM BAO and the girls who NEVER fall in love. Linnea has a BOYFRIEND, Bao hates everything related to love. Worst of all, Linnea and Bao expect Tuva to choose a side! In this delighfully hand-lettered coming-of-age graphic diary, Tuva gets caught between feeling like a kid and wanting to know HOW to become a teenager. Then Miriam shows up and suddenly Tuva feels as if she's met her soulmate. Can you fall in love with a girl, keep it from your friends, and survive? For Tuva, it may be possible, but it's defintely not easy." -- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/727271/cross-my-heart-and-never-lie-by-nora-dasnes/
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Young Adult Young Adult Pop-Up Library Young Adult Fiction Children &Young Adults Section GRAPHICS YA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available W00013200

Cover title.

Translation of: Ti kniver i hjertet.

"First published in Norwegian by Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), Norway, 2020"--Colophon.

Twelve-year-old Tuva struggles with how to become a teenager, friendship, and falling in love with another girl in this graphic novel set in Norway.

"In this fresh, sensitive, diary-style graphic novel, 12-year-old Tuva's questions about becoming a teenager are confusing--so when her first crush turns out to be on another girl, it feels absolutely wonderful--so why does it become so complicated? Tuva is starting seventh grade, and her checklist of goals includes: writing out a diary, getting a trendy look, building the best fort in the woods with her BFFs, and much more. But when she starts school, nothing is how she hoped it would be. Seventh grade has split her friends into rival factions: TEAM LINNEA and the girls who fall in love and TEAM BAO and the girls who NEVER fall in love. Linnea has a BOYFRIEND, Bao hates everything related to love. Worst of all, Linnea and Bao expect Tuva to choose a side! In this delighfully hand-lettered coming-of-age graphic diary, Tuva gets caught between feeling like a kid and wanting to know HOW to become a teenager. Then Miriam shows up and suddenly Tuva feels as if she's met her soulmate. Can you fall in love with a girl, keep it from your friends, and survive? For Tuva, it may be possible, but it's defintely not easy." --

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/727271/cross-my-heart-and-never-lie-by-nora-dasnes/

Ages: 10-14.

Grades: 5-9.

Stonewall Book Award--Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's Literature Award, 2024.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.
Waimate District Council
Home | Contact Us
(c) 2015 Waimate District Library. Powered by Koha.