Arena Verlag

• Lisa-Marie Dickreiter, Andreas Götz
• Illustrated by Barbara Scholz
• Autumn 2022, 224 pages, 17.5 x 24.5 cm
• Hardcover
• ab 5
• All rights available
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Charlie wants to help the two city children Alban and Pippa who are afraid of animals with a bucketful of stink bugs and potbelly pig Umberto. Unfortunately, Charlie’s mission backfires. Of course, she makes a new plan which is bound to work this time!

• Stefanie Dahle
• Illustrated by Stefanie Dahle
• Spring 2023, 200 pages, 15.5 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• ab 8
• All rights available
• Website

Luna is a normal human girl who secretly lives with a family of vampires. Then same-aged Anna Mae moves into the house opposite. The two girls become friends. But how can you not tell your best friend about a cheeky household ghost, a bouncy skeleton dog, and parents who turn themselves into bats?

• Anna Ruhe
• Illustrated by Max Meinzold
• Spring 2023, 128 pages, 16 x 21 cm
• Hardcover
• ab 8
• All rights available
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Leevi, Kala and Enno, take part in banned oceanic races. On speed gliders, they hurtle through deep waters and labyrinths in caves, competing with three teams: the Mechs, the Yellies and the Deep Riders. One day, Leevi plunges into the darkest depths off Sealand’s shores, where a dangerous beast is waiting for prey …

• Dr. Matthias von Bornstädt
• Illustrated by Timo Grubing
• Spring 2023, 48 pages, 22 x 28.5 cm
• Picturebook
• ab 7
• All rights available
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Primary schoolchildren Lucy, Taio and Sam go on an exciting “fartology” journey from belching and farting to pooing. A fun “body book” with simple medical explanations and useful tips on how to stay healthy.

• Sandra Grimm
• Illustrated by Laura Bednarski
• Spring 2023, 96 pages, 16 x 21 cm
• Hardcover
• ab 7
• All rights available
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The School of Witchcraft needs a baking teacher and Mimi Sugarpearl is perfect for it: She used to bake at the South Pole, research on volcanic baking plus she knows about cloud muffins and lemon witch kisses. But then the horrible witch Carbuncle also signs up for the baking test.

• Anna Ruhe
• Illustrated by Claudia Carls
• Autumn 2022, 296 pages, 15.5 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• ab 10
• Rights of the series sold to Belgium, The Netherlands
• Website

At last, Ella Fredericks can start her studies at The Magical Academy and show her talent. But dangers are lurking: A secret society tries to end the training of future perfumiers at all cost. Ella, Polly and Ben are the only ones who can stop them.

• Katja Brandis
• Illustrated by Claudia Carls
• Spring 2023, 480 pages, 15.5 x 21.1 cm
• Hardcover
• ab 12
• All rights available
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Panther shapeshifter Ecco and the Jaguar Goddess Kitana are unhappy. While Ecco is bored, disappointed Kitana longs to get away from Elámon. When Fate takes them to the city state of Jalthar, they get a second chance to confess their mutual feelings. But as Ecco and Kitana try to uncover the dark secrets of the city and to help its people, they put their own lives in danger.

• Katja Brandis
• Illustrated by Claudia Carls
• Autumn 2023, 336 pages, 15.5 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• ab 10
• Rights sold to 16 countries, movie rights sold
• Website

Mountain lion Carag can finally go back to Clearwater High, this time accompanied by his sister Mia. In their second year, Carag and his friends mentor the newcomers – which leads to sheer chaos! Then Carag learns that his enemy Andrew Milling is getting help from outside the prison.

• Stefanie Taschinski
• Illustrated by Nikolai Renger
• Autumn 2022, 216 pages, 16 x 21 cm
• Hardcover
• ab 8
• All rights available
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Matilda and Emil’s new form teacher is weird: during lessons, books fly through the air, and toy sheep Roger winks at them. This smart sheep tells them that Mr Chalkwhite inherited magic powers. When Emil’s parents take him away from the school due to an accident, Matti and her classmates must convince Roger
to help Mr Chalkwhite use his magic heritage properly to safe Emil.

• Tania Witte
• Autumn 2022, 272 pages, 14 x 21 cm
• Hardcover
• ab 12
• All rights available
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Everything is going wrong in Paul’s life. He’s in love with a girl he can’t have, he’s the frontman of a band all of whom are better singers than he is, and every conversation with his father turns bad. When he learns that he is not his mother’s biological son, his life has reached a peak of unwanted complexity.

• Antje Babendererde
• Autumn 2022, 400 pages, 15.5 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• ab 14
• All rights available
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This year, Lia cannot tear herself away from mysterious Finn, the gamekeeper’s nephew and falls in love with him. When he returns her feelings, her summer
seems perfect. But who is this boy who plays ball with a wild fox and reads poems to it? Soon his past leaves no doubt: a girl like Lia has no place in Finn’s life. Can one run away from love – or from oneself?

• Carola Lowitz, Susanna Mewe
• Spring 2023, 352 pages, 15 x 21 cm
• Paperback
• ab 14
• All rights available
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Harper can hear other people’s thoughts. She only confides in Lucas – a boy who also has supernatural powers. While tracing their past, they catch the government’s attention who starts hunting them. In return, Lucas begins a bloody revenge campaign against their pursuers. Harper needs to decide: should she stay with Lucas or unleash the dark side of her own powers against their pursuers but also
against Lucas?