October is the coldest month / Christoffer Carlsson, translated by Rechel Willson-Broyles.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Swedish Publisher: Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: Australian editionDescription: 181 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781925322217Uniform titles: Oktober ar den kallaste manaden. English. Subject(s): Crime -- Juvenile fiction | Coming of age -- Juvenile fiction | Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction | Missing persons -- Juvenile fiction | Teenagers -- Juvenile fiction | Police -- Juvenile fiction | Sweden -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Young adult fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction) | Bildungsromans. DDC classification: 839.738 Summary: Vega Gillberg is 16 years old when the police come knocking on the door looking for her older brother, Jakob. Vega hasn't heard from him in days, but she has to find him before the police do. Jakob was involved in a terrible crime. What no one knows is that Vega was there, too. In the rural Swedish community where the Gillbergs live, life is tough, the people are even tougher, and old feuds never die. As Vega sets out to find her brother, she must survive a series of threatening encounters in a deadly landscape. As if that wasn't enough, she's dealing with the longing she feels for a boy that she has sworn to forget, and the mixed-up feelings she has for her brother's best friend. During a damp, raw week in October, the door to the adult world swings open, and Vega realises that once she has crossed the threshold there is no turning back.
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Originally published as Oktober ar den kallaste manaden by Gilla Bocker in 2016.
For young adults.
Translated from the Swedish.
Vega Gillberg is 16 years old when the police come knocking on the door looking for her older brother, Jakob. Vega hasn't heard from him in days, but she has to find him before the police do. Jakob was involved in a terrible crime. What no one knows is that Vega was there, too. In the rural Swedish community where the Gillbergs live, life is tough, the people are even tougher, and old feuds never die. As Vega sets out to find her brother, she must survive a series of threatening encounters in a deadly landscape. As if that wasn't enough, she's dealing with the longing she feels for a boy that she has sworn to forget, and the mixed-up feelings she has for her brother's best friend. During a damp, raw week in October, the door to the adult world swings open, and Vega realises that once she has crossed the threshold there is no turning back.
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