A Thousand Times Stronger
Christina Herrström
When Signe was younger, she felt free and happy. She had the courage to make the most of life. Her class at school was lively and good fun. But when she started in Year 6, everything changed. How the girls regarded themselves, and each other. It was…
Sandor slash Ida
Sara Kadefors
Ida is sixteen-years old and lives in Stockholm with her mother. Her mother suffers from depression and mainly lies in bed with her face turned to the wall, her hair dirty, wearing a pair of jogging pants. Ida takes charge and forgives her mother whe…
Faith, hope and burn-out
Johan Unenge
Pontus 4 Steps From the Pros
Johan Unenge
Skateboarder Pontus has made the skateboard team sponsored by Gaffa. Everyone gives one hundred percent, and Pontus is nowhere near being the best. But he’s on the team. At the same time, there’s his other life at school and his new girl friend, Miri…
The Shadow on the Stone Bench
Maria Gripe
The Shadow series by Maria Gripe is set in Sweden in the 1910s. It centres on the friendship that the upper-middle-class girl Berta develops with her family’s maid Carolin. Carolin seems to be hiding many secrets she doesn’t like to reveal – is she…
