Difficult Situations

Belly has only ever been in love with two boys, both with the last name Fisher. And after being with Jeremiah for the last two years, she’s almost positive he is her soul mate. Almost....

It used to be that Belly counted the days until summer, until she was back at Cousins Beach with Conrad and Jeremiah. But not this year. Not after Susannah got sick again and Conrad stopped caring....

Jackie Howard returns to the Walter ranch after a summer in New York. She needed space—and got it. But she doesn't know where things stand with her and Cole Walter after that goodbye kiss. Over the summer, she stopped texting him. She never stopped thinking about him.

With his world unraveling around him, and pressure rising at home, Joey Lynch's life has never been in more turmoil. Desperate to prove himself worthy of the only person he's ever put his trust in, Joey fights to stay away from a world that threatens to destroy everything....

While Ellie and her friends are away in the bush, the world changes....

Jackie must trade in her Type A personality and New York City apartment for a Colorado ranch and all the wild Walter boys who come with it....

In the finale to the best-selling trilogy, dictators, prophets, and tensions rise. In a world that’s conquered death, will humanity finally be torn asunder by the immortal beings it created? It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion....

When seventeen-year-old Violet is left heartbroken by the captain of her school's ice hockey team, she vows to never date a jock again. But, in an attempt to prove she's moved on, she turns to the most unlikely person—her ex's biggest rival, the notorious captain of the Ransom Devils.

Lara Jean didn't expect to really fall for Peter. She and Peter were just pretending. Except suddenly they weren't. Now Lara Jean is more confused than ever. When another boy from her past returns to her life, Lara Jean's feelings for him return too....

Autumn and Finn used to be inseparable. But then something changed. Or they changed. Now, they do their best to ignore each other. Autumn has her boyfriend, Jamie, and her close-knit group of friends. And Finn has become that boy at school, the one everyone wants to be around....

The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky, Perks follows observant "wallflower" Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood....

Die Sommer in Susannahs Strandhaus waren schon immer die Highlights in Bellys Leben. Und Susannahs Söhne Jeremiah und Conrad sind vielleicht...

December is the time of the annual Ceremony at which each twelve-year-old receives a life assignment determined by the Elders...

Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, in the chilling sequel to the Printz Honor Book Scythe....

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....

Finn has always loved Autumn. She's not just the girl next door or his mother's best friend's daughter, she is his everything. But she's not his girlfriend. That's Sylvie, and Finn would never hurt her, so there's no way Autumn could know how he truly feels.

Tenley "Ten" Lockwood is an average 17-year-old girl...who has spent the past 13 months locked inside the Prynne Asylum. The reason? Not her obsession with numbers....

When my dad dropped us off at the front gate, the first things I saw were the rose garden spreading out on either side of the main driveway and the enormous sign in iron cursive letters....

From the award-winning author Clare Atkins comes a stunning new story about two teenagers separated by cultural differences, their parents’ expectations and 20 kilometres of barbed-wire fence....

Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable - more sisters than friends....

I'm in the fight of my life. For my humanity. For Jaxon. And for the world I've only just begun to be a part of. I'm all in, even if saving the people I love means I risk losing myself forever....

My whole world changed when I stepped inside the academy. Nothing is right about this place or the other students in it. Here I am, a mere mortal among gods...or monsters. I still can't decide which of these warring factions I belong to, if I belong at all....

Millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, Brian’s Winter, and Brian’s Return know that Brian Robeson is at home in the Canadian wilderness....

Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn't say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered....

Tenth grade isn't going according to plan for Lainey. Her twin brother moved across the country to live with their dad and stepmom, leaving Lainey—and her anxiety—behind. And Lainey's starting to realize that maybe most of her friends were really her brother's friends. Thank god for Bliss.

The road to Sandy June's Legendary Frybread Drive-In slips through every rez and alongside every urban Native hangout. The menu offers a rotating feast, including traditional eats and tasty snacks. But Sandy June's serves up more than food: it hosts live music, movie nights, unexpected family reunions, love long lost, and love found again. That big green-and-gold neon sign beckons to teens of every tribal Nation, often when they need it most.

Zoe’s life has gone off the rails. When she left Seattle to go to college in New York, she was determined to start fresh, to figure out what being a lesbian meant to her, to experiment with clothes and presentation away from home for the first time. Instead, she lost touch with her freshman orientation friend group, skipped classes, and failed completely at being the studious premed student her parents wanted her to be. But the biggest derailment of all? Her newly minted ex-boyfriend—and the fact that she had a boyfriend to begin with.

Relationships matter. But they’re also hard. Conflict is a reality in life that can lead to isolation, anger, and broken relationships. With the proper tools, however, teenagers can learn to respond to conflict and experience meaningful community. They don’t have to be controlled by their frustrations. Instead, they can manage and even reverse the effects of anger.

Sixteen-year-old Winnie Bray is a liar. As the resident psychic at an oddities shop, Winnie truly can see the future. But her customers only want reassurance, and Winnie only wants their money. Favorable fortunes are a fast track to funding her way out of Buffalo, New York for good, after all. But all of that changes when a vision sends her stalking in the remains of her family home that burned down in a fire 10 years ago. Among the ash and rubble, Winnie finds a box made of bone, untouched by flames and…whispering.

It’s the beginning of the school year—and Briar’s newest resident, D.J. Rosenblum, is not here for it. Ever since her cousin Rachel died, D.J.’s family has been a mess: Her aunt and uncle are catatonic. Her mom is even more scatterbrained than usual. She had to postpone her bat mitzvah a whole year. Worst of all, she and her mom had to move—leaving her best friend, Eva, behind.

Bella schenkt Will einen besonderen Ammoniten - ein Fossil, das man nur in den Tiefen des Meeres findet. Dadurch wird Wills Neugier noch gesteigert. Er vermutet schon länger ein Geheimnis bei Bella. Rikki warnt Bella eindringlich davor, sich weiter mit Will zu treffen und sie selbst versucht alles, um zu verhindern, dass Will hinter das gemeinsame Geheimnis kommt. Doch es ist zu spät.

When a video of Libby “cheating” on her boyfriend, Dan, goes viral, her whole village turns against her. School friends become bullies, leaving rotten eggs in her locker, and the only person who will talk to her is Neha, the new girl everyone ignores. But Dan is oblivious to the drama unfolding around him. He’s lying in a coma in hospital and worries that if he doesn’t wake up soon the secret he’s been carrying around for years will be lost along with him.

Ramon Santiago will ein Macho sein. Wenn er sein Messer blitzschnell zückt, fühlt sich der schmächtige Puertoricaner in den Strassen New Yorks stark. Aber dann bringt der Überfall auf den alten Maler Glasser seine Wunschträume durcheinander. Ramon beginnt nachzudenken - und entdeckt ganz allein wer er eigentlich ist.

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.

Ausnahmezustand bei den GIRLS Der Kummerkasten der Mädchenzeitschrift von Lottes Mama quillt seit Neuestem von einer Unmenge an mysteriösen Briefen eines unbekannten Mädchens über, das ganz dringend Hilfe zu brauchen scheint. Wer steckt dahinter? Lotte und ihre Freundinnen Stine und Hanna platzen fast vor Neugier und beginnen zu ermitteln … Als wäre das nicht schon Aufregung genug, trifft sich Lottes Mama immer öfter mit diesem Fotografen – das passt Lotte überhaupt nicht! Aber zum Glück sind die GIRLS zur Stelle und haben auch schon einen Plan ...

Luisa, 15, als Baby aus Peru adoptiert, wächst behütet in einem wohlhabenden Elternhaus auf. Sie hat eine besondere Fähigkeit: Luisa kann im Dunkeln sehen. Als sie im nahen Wald einen jungen Obdachlosen entdeckt, schließt sie ihn ins Herz. Tim lässt sich von ihr versorgen und sogar verstecken, denn er hat allen Grund, unsichtbar zu bleiben. Durch Luisas Gabe wird sie zur Komplizin und gerät in ein Netz aus Lügen und Verbrechen, das sich immer enger zuzieht.

Joel is no stranger to death. With his mom battling cancer and his sister’s grave site to care for, death is a topic never far from his mind. So, when Joel learns how bad traditional burials are to the environment, he takes it on himself to teach the world about green burials. Trent, Joel’s arch nemesis, takes it upon himself to argue the opposite. Trent thinks cemeteries are important. He's not afraid to challenge Joel in a public setting. Joel finds himself having to fight for what he believes in and learn to face his fears and make his voice heard.

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.

Je m'appelle Prune. J'ai quatorze ans et quatre mois. Je suis hypersensible, rousse et accro aux listes. Je suis en internat depuis le mois de septembre, car je ne supportais plus de vivre avec mes parents et mes soeurs jumelles de cinq ans. Je ne le sais pas encore, mais dans quelques jours, ma vie va basculer. Pas besoin de s'appeler Einstein pour deviner qu'il y aura un avant et un après et que l'enquête que je mènerai pour comprendre m'apportera plus que la vérité.

One Night at Wild Horses Rodeo bar Salone saw a girl dancing to the music and her moves caught his eye and her name was Diamond and she was feeling him too but she talks to him hitting it off and she invites him to a party but he invites he's sister and ex girlfriend who just go to town and so as Salone and Diamond bloom their relationship Kiki the ex tries to get over Salone but along the way they all become friends who have a passion for art.

Heli doesn't trust her Doctor, or the promise to "fix" her. She's fighting to hold on to the parts of herself she's come to love, even as the lines between truth and reality blur. And in a place where nothing is as it seems, who wants to be normal anyway?

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.

У пятнадцатилетней Кэлли нет друзей, ее брат болен, связь с матерью очень непрочна, а отца она уже не видела много недель — и у них есть общий секрет. Сейчас Кэлли в «Море и пихты» — реабилитационном центре, где полно других девчонок со своими «затруднениями». Кэлли не желает иметь с ними ничего общего. Она ни с кем не желает иметь ничего общего. Она не разговаривает. Совсем не разговаривает. Не может вымолвить ни слова.

Eleanora and Evander have spent their entire lives enduring cruelty; their only solace is their shared mystical bond. But when their escape from servitude thrusts them into a world of witches, mercenaries, and prophecies, these twins discover they are much more than simple orphans. Hunted for powers they do not understand, burdened by a prophecy foretelling a world-destroying war, Eleanora and Evander must navigate a treacherous journey where trust is a luxury, and temptations lurk at every turn.

In this Jazz-Age mystery, eighteen-year-old Piper Sail must explore the dark underbelly of 1920s Chicago to solve the disappearance of her best friend.

Still grieving her father's recent death and the loss of her comfortable biracial nuclear American family life, fourteen-year-old Ari struggles to adjust to her new life in Portland, Oregon, with a loving but unfamiliar extended Indian family. When Ari steals her mother's necklace and escapes to the forest, she accidentally plunges into a terrifying world of wild birds in the underbelly of Portland's Forest Park trails.

Chiara è una donna di quarantacinque anni, laureata in filosofia e di professione bibliotecaria. Con queste premesse si rivolge a Sofia, una psicoterapeuta sua coetanea, con un'angosciante richiesta: «Non voglio morire». Sofia prende Chiara per mano e si pone davanti a lei come uno specchio chiarificatore, tentando di riportarla su, lontana dall'abisso nel quale era sprofondata.

How to Talk to Anyone in a Digital Age is the practical, relatable guide to help teens and young adults become confident communicators—online and offline. Whether they’re shy, introverted, or simply unsure of how to connect, this book offers scientifically proven strategies to navigate today’s social world with ease.

Evelyn Thorne thought her summer would be boring. Then she discovered a book hidden away for almost 60 years, and everything changed. Instead of rainy days and dusty books, Evelyn finds herself caught up in a whirlwind of hidden secrets, talking gadgets, and a mystery waiting for her to solve. Why does the book react to her? Why are strange things happening around the castle? And what does any of it have to do with her family? With new friends (and one grumpy robot), a crumbling Scottish castle, and a very big secret, Evelyn is about to discover she’s more extraordinary than she ever imagined.