Coming of Age

Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush....

Lockie Leonard, hot surf-rat, is in love. The human torpedo is barely settled into his new school and already he's got a girl on his mind. And not just any girl: it has to be Vicki Streeton, the smartest, prettiest, richest girl in the class....

Magical forces clash and Erthia hovers on the brink of ruin in the finale of New York Times bestselling author Laurie Forest’s epic fantasy series, The Black Witch Chronicles.

Wu Ying saved his master from the machinations of the dark sect, but was gravely injured during the process. His body has changed, his bloodline awakened and his cultivation compromised. Physicians and healers at the Verdant Green Water can do nothing for him....

A skilled young man in a strange world is called upon to help expand the kingdom—but it's a path strewn with danger—in this fantasy adventure.

No one loves musicals more than Riley Morris—her dream is to be a Broadway director. But when the spring show is canceled, Riley has to figure out a way to bring it back. Easier said than done—she’s stuck working at her dad’s game store.

The Snow Panthers will have to protect the future queen of Norghana. Not a pleasant job and a very dangerous one....

Irene Park loves romance novels—so much so she’s made a career of them as an online book reviewer with a massive following. But Irene’s real life dating story? Non-existent.

The dragon misfits are the key to saving the dragons of Lorach, but they must act before a stranger destroys them....

A disabled teen, an empathetic dragon, and a bond that will save the world. Sixteen-year-old Amel arrived at Dragon School just like everyone else - with a dream to ride dragons and join the Dominion Dragon Riders. But Amel has a crippled leg, and Dragon School training is grueling....

London in the year 1976, a place and a time desperate for change. Chris, a 17 year old expat American Air Force brat is shoved into the alien world of a British private (public) school.

Forbidden bad boy. Best friend's little sister. An undeniable attraction. He's determined to push her away. She's determined to stay....

The first time she saw him, she flipped. The first time he saw her, he ran. That was the second grade, but not much has changed by the seventh....

Not even given the chance to tell his tribe that he is being sent on a secret mission, Ayrion and Room Eleven find themselves being forced to sneak behind enemy lines. Unfortunately, as Ayrion’s luck usually holds, nothing goes according to plan....

From New York Times best-selling author Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of World War II....

A new danger threatens the kingdom, and the Panthers will have to face it....

Crew Carlisle is enemy number one. He’s also my new boss. I need this internship as much as Crew needs an ego lobotomy. He’s arrogant, cocky, and annoyingly good looking. Our families have despised one another since long before I was born....

I’ve made it through the Culling Trials, the test that proved my mettle against every possible challenge. I assumed that meant things would settle down and I’d start truly learning. No more danger. No more death threats....

In Born of Dragons Lenore is safely returned to the North - but not without a price. Her bother Rodry is dead and her father, King Godwin, lies in a coma. With the rulership of the North in question, her treacherous brother Vars may just find an opening to rule....

Bis in seine Träume hinein wird Joseph vom Running Man verfolgt, der durch die Stadt läuft wie ein Getriebener. Der unheimliche Mann...

When Caleb Gray heads to the Texas coast to mentally prepare for a future he isn't sure he wants, the last person he expects to see is Catie Dixon. Yeah, their mothers have been planning their wedding since they were born, but he and Catie are most definitely not friends....

Ashlyn Zanotti has big plans for the summer. She's just spent a year at boarding school and can't wait to get home. But when Ashlyn's father is arrested for tax evasion and her mother enters a rehab facility for "exhaustion", a.k.a. depression, her life is turned upside down....

A tech-student-turned-elven-hero must infiltrate dangerous courts and navigate complex politics in the third book of this fantasy adventure series.

New York Times bestselling author Axie Oh's ASAP is the much anticipated companion novel to beloved romance XOXO, following fan favorites Sori, the wealthy daughter of a K-pop company owner, and Nathaniel, her K-pop star ex-boyfriend, in a swoon-worthy second chance love story....

Francesca is at the beginning of her second term in Year 11 at an all boy's school that has just started accepting girls....

London in the year 1976, a place and a time desperate for change. Chris, a 17 year old expat American Air Force brat is shoved into the alien world of a British private (public) school. A gifted classical cellist, Chris struggles to reconcile the focus on form, control and technique with being increasingly drawn into the vortex of raw, rebellious energy that is the punk movement. It allows him to let out pain that has been held in too long. He meets Johnny Rotten and is inspired to start his own band.

Aelwen est une jeune fille bohème qui profite sereinement et tranquillement de son adolescence, entourée de ses deux amis, de sa mère et de son grand-père. Mais un jour tout s'écroule… Son monde, sa réalité, sont remis en question. Elle découvre ce secret que son grand-père lui cachait depuis toujours. Et ainsi découvrir celle qu'elle est vraiment. Mais le chemin sera semé d'embûches. Aelwen saura-t-elle s'adapter à cette nouvelle réalité ?

14yo Emily is gloomily spending the summer with her mum’s best friend Uncle Tom, helping him renovate his house, instead of being at home hoping the gorgeous Toby will ask her out. Worse, she’s broken her phone and left her iPad at her dad’s house. How is she supposed to survive without her tech, her BFF and her social life? No one understands her despair, least of all the boomers. Then she finds her mum’s old diary. Cue MASSIVE CRINGE. But as Emily starts to read, she’s stunned to discover that her mum was once a teenager too. A nineties teenager called Lila McKay, who was VERY MISUNDERSTOOD.

In a world of monsters, magic, and empires, no one can tolerate a weak king. Pirin, heir to the throne, should’ve had every advantage in life, but he is an Embercore—a magical cripple. His arcane techniques and psychic bloodline abilities are more likely to blow up in his face than work properly. No matter what, he’ll always be a step behind. But unstable magic can be the most devastating if used just right. Armed with nothing but stubborn determination, he sets out into foreign lands to fix his soul, find an animal familiar, and push the absolute limits of his unstable abilities.

Marrow is a fourteen-year-old prodigy at FIST (Fantom Institute for Superheroes-in-Training). With a perfect score on his finals, the ability to smash through walls, and leaps that can launch him over a city block, the Sidekick Internship Program is bound to place him with a top-notch superhero mentor for the summer. But when a series of disastrous events lands Marrow on academic probation, he is forced to team up with Flex—a drunk, hippie bum with the power of elasticity.

Sixteen-year-old Will has been raised to distrust technology. After a cataclysm known as the Devastation, his isolated community rejected the old world—shunning electricity, machines, and the progress they once promised. But Will yearns for more. When he's cast out for questioning the rules, he sets off alone on a perilous journey to Coal City, the last place his estranged father was seen—and a place rumored to hold the key to a better life. Armed with only his survival skills and relentless determination, Will navigates treacherous terrain and encounters unlikely allies.

Most twenty-somethings travel to Berlin in search of the weird, wild, and wunderbar. For Brooke Neville, it’s the perfect place to stage a fantasy; one where she’s just another college student backpacking through hostels on a shoe-string budget. No billionaire family. No pro-tennis career. No gut-wrenching tragedy. But remaining anonymous and aloof becomes increasingly difficult upon meeting Patrick, a charismatic Aussie traveler. With his easy grace and killer smile, Brooke isn’t the only woman distracted by his charms.

Stormport and Crystalbay have been feuding for five hundred years. The two kingdoms are different in almost every way except for one: In both places, girls and women have been stripped of their ancient power and are now owned like property and treated like pets. In the living room of Stormport’s Castle Lumen, none of that is on Ynarra’s mind as she celebrates her 16th birthday with her best friends and her secret and totally forbidden boyfriend from Crystalbay. Everything is going great…until Torren—one of Stormport's mysterious, hooded messengers—arrives with an egg-shaped present.

Jens Markwart war eigentlich ein ganz durchschnittlicher Student, der keine großen Ansprüche an die Zukunft hatte. Frau und Kind, ein Häuschen im Grünen und einen guten Job – das war sein Plan. Vielleicht wäre es so gekommen, wenn er nicht dieses verflixte Experiment durchgeführt hätte. Damit fing alles an.

Sixteen-year-old Robyn Gale, along with her younger sister Anne, is sent away for the summer holidays of 1997 to stay with her grandmother at a caravan park in Devon. Robyn’s had a tough few months: trying to cope with the fallout of their mother’s attempted suicide, messing up her GCSEs, and finding herself attracted to girls. Perhaps getting away from her real life is just what she needs…she can focus on finding a boyfriend, watching Neighbours, and swimming. A solid plan, until she meets charismatic Australian lifeguard, Autumn, and her life is turned even more down under.

Als ihre Eltern sich vorübergehend trennen und ihre Mutter sie in die Kleinstadt Bramble Falls mitschleppt, um bei ihrer Tante und Cousine zu leben, bricht für die strebsame Ellis die Welt zusammen. Stattdessen findet im idyllischen Kleinstädtchen das alljährliche Herbstfestival statt, und Ellis muss aushelfen.

Джульетта мечтала танцевать на сцене, но по настоянию мачехи скучала на секретарских курсах. А теперь она вольна жить как хочет и, смутно угадывая начало нового сюжета, отправляется на поиски — себя, своих корней и правды о смерти матери. Театральный округ — дым и зеркала, и Джульетте предстоит узнать, до каких пределов способны дойти люди, чтобы некоторые истории не были рассказаны никогда, — и кто расплачивается за это жизнью.

Told with sharp dialogue, aching tenderness, and unflinching emotional depth, Ethan & Janet is a powerful story of two teens learning what it means to fight for love, to choose family, and to believe, against all odds, that broken things can still become whole.

Graduation is just over a year away, but all Tarni can think about is her Year 12 formal. The shoes, the makeup, the car, the photos and most importantly, the dress! But Tarni’s perfect dress is a whopping $950, and she will have to save every cent to get it. Tarni checks each item off her list, one by one, but by the time she’s saved enough money, the dress has disappeared! Can she find her perfect dress—and in the right size? And what will she do when she graduates?

After Blossom gets taken into her thirty-one-year-old brother's custody, Captain James marigold, she finds herself facing her past experiences.

Se hai voglia di dire qualcosa a qualcuno, fallo. Ora. «È che ogni giorno che passa mi rendo conto che praticamente tutti avrebbero bisogno di coraggio. Glielo vedi negli occhi che hanno un progetto che non hanno ancora trovato il coraggio di realizzare, un ragazzo con cui non hanno trovato la forza di provarci o, come me, qualcosa da andare a dire a qualcuno, e che non ci sono mai riusciti.» È importante dire quello che si prova, sempre. È importante dirlo nel momento giusto. Perché, una volta passato potremmo non trovare più il coraggio di farlo.

Sabrina Marshall is an ambitious senior in high school was just after she just became a cheerleader and made honor roll for the first time. She's so excited for her life to begin until it all comes crashing down with a tragedy that changes the course of her life forever. When her responsibilities shift and her home is taken away from her, she now has to navigate how she's going to take care of herself and her two little siblings. She leaves that a physical house is not a home.

On the historic campus of the fictional Parthenon University lies Potential Street, a non-descript alley lined by the University's twelve clubs. Each club bears a sign of the Zodiac. The most notorious of the clubs is Pithon which has housed the ancient Greek deities in order to seize absolute political power in North America. All it needs to complete its devious plan is to have one qualifying student from each of the twelve Zodiac Signs participate on their birthdays in Virtues Constellation, a mega-spell that will consolidate all the power of the other clubs under Pithon.

After a chance encounter with an Abolitionist, Rebekah is obsessed by a desire to end slavery. But as a young Amish Girl living on a farm near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, she feels hopeless to do anything about it. Although she feels loved by her Amish family, she believes she has a higher purpose. But her protective father commands that she not interact with the non-Amish world. In his view, what happens outside their tight-knit farming community is none of her concern. But her life, and the outcome of the battle of Gettysburg, changes when the Confederate Army suddenly descends on her farm.

Blue-jean cutoffs and bikinis, Top 40s on a transistor radio, rooting for your school’s team, and trading rings with your boyfriend/girlfriend, but also teenage heartbreak and fights between rival schools. On one level, this is a lighthearted story about romance and rivalry among church youth groups the summer of 1968 during a campout at a state park.

In an enchanting land of magic and mystery, fifteen-year-old Alina finds herself at the heart of a prophecy, where her powers will either save or doom the entire realm. While the Dark Fairy King maneuvers the pieces in his malicious game, Alina journeys into a mystical parallel world and discovers her powers of healing and traveling—a gift that would prove detrimental in the hands of evil. As darkness rises, Alina must not only come to terms with the discovery of her family's secrets, but also accept the expectations placed upon her in this realm of magic.

Lucia Cruz may be turning eighteen this year, but she is not the debutante type. Everything about a traditional Filipino debut feels all wrong for her. Besides, custom dictates that eighteen friends attend her for a special ceremony on her birthday, and Lucia only has one friend—Esmé Mares. They've stuck to each other's side all throughout high school, content to be friends with only each other. At least, Lucia thought they were content.

Princess Kyra Calmora was only fourteen when she watched her brother die. Vowing to hunt down the rebels who murdered him, she spends her nights flying across the fractured halves of her country, searching for justice. But after four long years, she has nothing to show for her hard work. Worse still, not even her parents seem to care about their fallen son anymore. When Kyra meets a mysterious servant boy whose sister was kidnapped by those same rebels, she sees a chance to finally find closure. Defying her parents, she leaves the comfort of her old life behind and runs away with Lewis.

Scarlett Crimson vive con la testa tra le nuvole e ha sempre trovato rifugio nel suo mondo immaginario. A Roslin, il piccolo paese scozzese dove vive, tutto sembra grigio e prevedibile. Un lavoretto a Edimburgo, nella caffetteria vicino a casa della nonna, riporta Scarlett nel luogo che ancora profuma d'infanzia e ricordi felici. Tra verità taciute, ombre del passato e paure mai superate, Scarlett dovrà imparare che crescere significa affrontare il dolore.

Buried beneath a ruined world, The Haven was built to protect humanity—by imprisoning it. In this sprawling, subterranean dystopia, survival means obedience, and truth is just another casualty of control. But Lyra Caulder refuses to stop dreaming of the sky. Haunted by forbidden questions and driven by a stolen map, Lyra risks everything to escape The Haven and reach the surface—a journey that will test her body, mind, and the very beliefs that shaped her. What she discovers is not the wasteland she was promised, but a world alive with possibility, secrets, and danger.