THE GIRL GANG

• German Youth Literature Prize in 2016!
• Kirsten Fuchs is a gifted storyteller whose language sparkles with wit as she offers this adventurous tale.
  
• Over 65,000 copies of The Girl Gang were sold and the rights were sold to Russia (Samokat).
• English sample translation available.

Ages 14+

Charlotte Nowak, 15 and incredibly shy, reluctantly heads off to summer camp with seven other girls. When she gets there, she finds that things a very different to how she’d imagined. First, things start to go missing. And when their group leader completely loses her temper, the girls make their escape, stealing a dog catcher’s van (dogs included) in the process. Literally heading for the hills, one of the girls knows of an old disused mine. The group decides to seek refuge there. Each summer day they spend there seems to heighten their sense of freedom and excitement even further.
The girls spend their days trekking through the woods, their nights scavenging supermarket storage containers. Charly Nowak slowly realises that there is a lot more to her than her shyness. But when the gang stumbles across an extraordinary relic of the old Communist East Germany and the real world threatens to catch up with them, Charly has to prove her mettle and display both her newly found courage and her loyalty to her new friends.

„Kirsten Fuchs writes tenderly and gruffly, sensitively and pointedly, and the characters speak and act so genuinely and endearingly that you don't want to give them up after just a few pages.“ RRB Kulturradio