Kannawoniwasein: Yougottabekiddingme! Sometimes you just have to vamoose (Englische Ausgabe mit Vokabelhilfen) (eBook)

Kinderbuchklassiker auf Englisch

Martin Muser (Autor)

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2024 | 1. Auflage
176 Seiten
Carlsen Verlag Gmbh
978-3-646-93889-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Yougottabekiddingme! Da fährt Finn zum ersten Mal alleine mit dem Zug nach Berlin - und wird prompt beklaut. Zu allem Übel schmeißt ihn dann noch der Schaffner raus, mitten im Nirgendwo. Aber so lernt Finn Jola kennen, die immer einen flotten Spruch draufhat und weiß, wie man auf eigene Faust in die City kommt. Eine abenteuerliche Reise durch die Walachei beginnt, auf der die beiden einen Traktor kapern, im Wald übernachten, einem echten Wolf begegnen, Finns Rucksack zurückerobern - und richtig dicke Freunde werden. - Ein lustig-actionreicher Roadtrip für Jungs und Mädchen (auf Englisch, mit Vokabelhilfen).

Martin Muser ist freier Autor, Dramaturg und Dozent und lebt in Berlin. Neben Drehbüchern für das deutsche Fernsehen schreibt er besonders gerne Kinderbücher. Bei Carlsen erschien 2018 sein hochgelobtes Debüt »Kannawoniwasein - Manchmal muss man einfach verduften«, für das er mehrere Auszeichnungen bekam.

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Hackmack with the Big Plastic Bag

Finn looked at the empty space next to him and felt pretty excited. It was the first time he’d taken the train all by himself. He’d told his mum and dad over and over again that he was big enough to do it. But Mum had always said not until he was ten. It was still three whole weeks and two days until his birthday. But this was an emergency. Dad was in a rush to make a ton of wild garlic tofu fritters1 for a spa hotel where the guests paid a lot of money so that they only got healthy things to eat. And because it was such an important order Dad had no time to travel all the way to Berlin with him, the way he usually would.

Dad had phoned Mum and, of course, they had started arguing again, and Dad had shouted into the phone, »Why do I always have to bring him? You could come and pick him up for once!« And then it was almost too late and they had to rush to make it to the train station in Neustrelitz.

The regional express with the two-storey carriage was already waiting. Dad got on the train with him for a minute. Almost all the upstairs seats were empty and Finn sat down in the first group of four seats. Dad hugged him and said, »No-need-to-be-afraid-everything-will-be-fine.« Then he got off again really quickly just before the doors closed and the train departed.

Finn wasn’t one bit afraid. At most, he had a slightly funny feeling in his tummy because everything had happened so quickly and he hadn’t really been able to say goodbye properly. Out on the platform Dad ran alongside the train for a while and waved until Finn couldn’t see him any more.

The brakes made a screeching noise. The train stopped in Fürstenberg. The voice over the loudspeaker said, »Please mind the gap between the train and the platform.«

A few people got out; a few people got on. Through the window Finn could see a man with a beer can2 in his hand. He was in a rush and pushed his way on to the train before the others had got off. The clock on the platform said that it was ten past seven. Behind the station the tower on the castle shone in the evening sun. Finn knew that it wasn’t a proper castle but an old feed factory.3 In East Germany they had made tons of animal food there. Dad had explained it all to him. East Germany was one half of Germany before both halves had joined together again. All this was called reunification4 and had happened quite a long time ago, before Finn was even born.

The man holding the beer can teetered5 his way up the stairs. A large grey plastic bag was dangling loosely from his wrist. Finn thought that the man might be one of those people who collect rubbish making his way through the train. But instead of collecting rubbish, the man dropped his bag on the seat across from Finn and sat down next to it.

»Ey up, little man, how’s things looking?« He undid the zip on his tracksuit top and made as if to clink his beer can at Finn over the table. »Bottoms up6.«

Finn could smell the beer on his breath and quickly looked out of the window. He hated it when people called him »little«. First of all, he wasn’t little; he was the third biggest in his class, and, second, he would never say »Hello, old person« to a grown-up. Though the man didn’t look all that grown-up. He was sitting sprawled across his seat, wearing a faded T-shirt that said hackmack. Was that a name or what?

Finn kept sneaking a look at the man. He had such strange hair, long on top and short at the sides. And there were big black rings in his ears.

The man noticed Finn’s gaze and grinned at him. »Y’all by yerself, like?7«

Finn gave a brief nod and tried not to keep staring at the man’s earlobes.8 The holes in the centre of the rings were so large that you could look right through them. The skin around them was stretched out like an elastic band. That must really hurt.

But Hackmack seemed perfectly fine. He took a big slurp from his beer can, inflated9 his cheeks and burped loudly. »Mouth fart,« he said and pulled a face. »Apologies, but better out than in.« He laughed, and even his laugh sounded like a giant burp.

Finn pulled his rucksack closer. Mum and Dad had told him over and over again, about a thousand times, that if somebody seemed strange, Finn should give them a call. Finn had only ever nodded in annoyance. Yeah, yeah, he knew all that already. Grown-ups are always worried that something might happen. But now he checked inside his rucksack just to be on the safe side.

Everything was there. His mobile phone, his wallet with his train ticket inside and the plastic container with Dad’s special butties.10 Finn took out his mobile and looked at the display with the new background picture. It was a photo of Teps. He had taken the picture while Teps was yawning, and with her pointy teeth she looked a bit like a sabre-toothed tiger.11

Teps … that’s another story. Mum got her from the animal rescue a year ago after Dad had moved out. Parents can be really strange. For years you’re not allowed to have a pet. And then your parents separate and – just like that! – you get a cat. Or they’re busy at work and – just like that! – you can take the train by yourself …

Finn put the mobile phone back inside his rucksack and fastened the zip that had the crocodile keyring attached. For a while he watched the zigzagging of the power lines outside. Then he heard a metallic click. On the other side of the table Hackmack was fiddling with his can of beer. He stretched out his arms and yawned. »It’s really boring in ’ere, innit?«

Finn nodded again without saying anything. Hackmack wouldn’t leave him in peace.

»How about a game o’ cards?«

He pulled a deck of cards out of his jacket and sent the cards flying from one hand to the other. »Cool, eh?’ he said, grinning at Finn. «Watch this. I’ll show you a trick.»

Hackmack lowered his voice conspiratorially and leaned over the table, and Finn could smell his beer breath again. »I can do magic, you see.«

Hackmack held up a few cards and fanned them out.12 »You see the four cards here? Jacks of diamonds, hearts, spades and clubs.«

Finn nodded and shrugged.

»They’re a crew. And together they’re gonna pull off something really big.«

Hackmack put the four jacks together and placed them back on the pile face down.

»They secretly land on the roof of the KaDeWe, the posh department store13 – you know which one I’m talking about, don’t you? – in a helicopter. The first jack goes down to the ground floor and cleans out all the jewellery … all the diamonds, watches, gold …«

Hackmack picked up the top card and put it back at the bottom of the deck. »The second one goes into menswear and nicks14 a really expensive leather coat …« He took the next card off the top of the pile, put it back in the deck and then did the same with the third one. »The third one goes to the fourth floor and picks up an enormous flat-screen TV, and the last one, he goes to the sixth floor – into the delly-ka-tessen … and drinks a bottle of bubbly15 …« Hackmack takes the fourth card and sticks it back in the deck. »But then, suddenly –« Hackmack picked up the deck of cards and opened his eyes wide – »nee-naw, nee-naw, nee-naw, the alarm goes off. The fuzz16 turn up. And, tweedledee, tweedledum, off we pop.«

He tapped hard on the deck with two fingers as though he was trying to warn the jacks that were hiding in there. »And one, two, three, four, out the door! All the lads meet back up on the roof and fly away in the helicopter.« With a sweep of his hand Hackmack picked the top four cards off the deck and held them up triumphantly: diamonds, hearts, spades and clubs. »Amazing, eh?«

Finn nodded. But he wasn’t amazed at all. He knew how the trick worked. Carlo had shown him. But with Karstadt instead of KaDeWe.

Carlo was Finn’s best friend. They had met each other in their mums’ tummies before they were even born. Their mums had been on a course to learn everything you need to know about giving birth. And Mum said that Finn and Carlo had always moved around at the same time, like they were in synch.17 And even though Finn couldn’t remember it, he was sure it was true. But he could remember the card trick. It was actually really easy. At the beginning you just had to hide four other cards behind the jacks so that when you held up the jacks, the other cards were invisible. When you put the cards on top of the pile and returned them to the deck one after another, the jacks actually stayed on top of the pile because you only took the cards that were hidden behind them. Carlo had dropped one of them so Finn had known what was going on right away.

Finn looked out of the window again. The sun was really low on the horizon and he could already see the moon. It was...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.2.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Kannawoniwasein
• Reihe/Serie: Kannawoniwasein
• Übersetzer: Chantal Wright
• Verlagsort: Hamburg
• Sprache: deutsch
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Kinderbücher bis 11 Jahre
• Schlagworte: Abenteuer für Jungs und Mädchen • Berliner Schnauze • Bücher über Freundschaft • Detektivgeschichten • Emil und die Detektive • Kinderbuchklassiker auf Englisch • Kinderkrimi ab 12 • lustige Bücher ab 12 • Reiseabenteuer • Roadtrip • Spannende Bücher ab 12 • Spannende Geschichten • Tschick für Kinder
• ISBN-10: 3-646-93889-7 / 3646938897
• ISBN-13: 978-3-646-93889-0 / 9783646938890