Antonia Michaelis » The Adopted Room « Coverillustration by Birgit Brandt 10+, January 2004 208 pages, 14.0 x 21.5 cm ISBN 978-3-7855-4977-3 hardcover 4,95 € (D)

Achim is eleven year old when he moves from the children's home to the house by the sea. Here everything is strange and new. But then one day he discovers an unusual door in the hall. It leads into a cirular room with walls made of rough stone. The light coming through the window is hazy, as if the room were under water. It is a magic room. It belongs to another world. And on the bed sits a boy who is waiting to take Achim with him into the realm of the powerful Nameless One.
In "The Adopted Room", Michaelis treats the delicate issue of death, grief and mourning and portrays it as an essential part of life in a way that young readers can understand.

Antonia Michaelis was born in North Germany in 1979. She spent the first two years of her childhood ...