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Charlotte's Dream

Gabi Kreslehner

Charlotte's Dream

8th ed. published 2021. 121 pages From the age of 12 years up Rights sold: China, Canada/USA, Italy, Netherlands

Charlotte's Dream

A story about the pain of love and (happiness of) breaking up – poetic and straight to the heart.

Choked up. Heart constricted. Still love you. Have to.

Charlotte realizes that love can hurt terribly when her parents separate. Her father now has Babsi – the new one, who is really quite nice. Her mother fluctuates between the euphoria of a new beginning and fits of crying. Charlotte, the oldest, gets to take care of her younger brother. All of this could be managed somehow, if the family didn’t have to go and sell Charlotte’s favorite house with her beloved strawberry tree. New apartment, new school, new “substitute fathers“ – Charlotte is about ready to burst. But then two sweet guys cross her path. And Charlotte experiences that love can be quite capricious. But also wonderful, tingly and crazy. With a surge of new courage, Charlotte decides to take matter’s into her own hands and makes a decision…