Showing titles in Coming of Age

Since Shelbi enrolled at Windward Academy as a senior and won’t be there very long, she hasn’t bothered making friends. What her classmates don’t know about her can’t be used to hurt her. Andy Criddle is not okay. At all. He’s had far too much to drink. Again. Which is bad. And things are about to get worse. When Shelbi sees Andy at his lowest, she can relate. So she doesn’t resist reaching out. And there’s no doubt their connection has them both seeing stars...but the closer they get, the more the past threatens to pull their universes apart.

Jason Hunter has survived his first year as a farmer. A year has passed in the town of Summer Shandy. The farmstead outside of town isn't quite as rundown as it used to be. The fields still need to be tended, the monsters still need to be handled, and the soil will always need a tilling. That's life. And for Jason Hunter, it's a good one. At least it would be if it wasn't for those out of towners.

They call me the dagger. I’m an assassin and that’s all I’ve ever known. So when a white rabbit tells me that loved ones are waiting for me in the Wonderland Court of Faerie, it's surprising. And then, I learn something even more shocking.

His parents are dead. His brother is trapped. His sister is missing. If Kealin is going to help either of them, he must find Risdannia. But he is alone in a strange land with few allies. War encroaches. Kealin is torn between helping his friends and uncovering a way to save his siblings. Finding Risdannia is only a part of his journey. A powerful wizard has emerged and in his path are thousands of innocent people. With his resurrected orc hordes, he seeks to exterminate all who threaten him.

Leo Zimmerman has had a crush on his curvy friend Kylie Jenkins since forever, so when he discovers the girl with a flair for candy making has a newfound plan to rebel against her overbearing parents, he's determined to be the one to help her carry it out. Who better than himself to show her the ropes of letting loose? Sure, taking her to her first high school party, helping her sneak out of the house, or watching a sunset together isn't exactly a hardship, but much harder is masking his feelings the more time they spend together.

Aubrey Lane Arrington boards a private jet, ready to run away. To go home. She wants to leave Eastbrooke, Branson, and their broken friendship and drama behind her. But when her newfound best friend, Johnny Fab, who is social media famous and a true nepotism baby, lands his helicopter in front of her jet and demands she come with him, she doesn't really have a choice.

Sabiha and her mother Bahra are more than mother and daughter, theyre best friends. But when their extended family comes to Australia, Bahra becomes a Born-Again-Muslim to impress them, and expects Sabiha to step in line as the perfect daughter. Can Sabiha play the part of the good daughter so that her mentally ill mother is accepted back into the Bosnian community?

It's the 1920s - cars and planes are new. Lily Gabriel is scruffy and confident and takes no nonsense from anyone. Antony is rich, spoiled, and arrogant, and Lily is completely and utterly - no nonsense! - in love with him. So join Lily as she falls: falls in love, falls out of the sky, falls through time. And effortlessly, inescapably, falls into her future.

"Girl in Pieces" - der internationale Jugendbuch-Bestseller von Kathleen Glasgow - jetzt auf Deutsch! Das Buch begeisterte die BookTok-Community mit seiner intensiven Coming-of-Age-Geschichte über selbstverletzendes Verhalten, Depression und den Kampf gegen innere Dämonen. Charlotte ist zerbrochen. Mit nur siebzehn Jahren hat sie mehr verloren, als die meisten Menschen im Leben. Mehr als ein Mensch ertragen kann. Aber sie hat gelernt, wie man vergisst. Wie man seinen Körper gefühllos gegen Schmerz macht.

Sophie Bradley has a lot to contend with in her senior year of high school. She has to play catch-up with her school credits. Her crush of seven years is no longer interested--she botched that one up nicely. And her biggest problem of all? The Darkness isn't finished with her. Three years ago, Sophie had a mental breakdown and shut herself off from the rest of the world. While her friends were living the typical teenage experience, Sophie was navigating the ruinous world of depression and anxiety. Now she's back at school, ready to experience everything senior year has to offer.

After discovering that Happyhead was a sinister eugenics experiment, Seb along with a select group of participants, finds himself washed up (literally) on an isolated island called Elmhallow. Here the teens are split into two groups – the chosen Ten and the Bottom Percentile.

As Earth is torn asunder by the arrival of mysterious and magical energy known as Qi, an extraordinary journey begins to unfold, the cataclysm birthing creatures of unimaginable power and abilities drawn from the ancient legends of humanity.

Aubrey Lane Arrington was given a choice and one week to decide—does she want to stay at Eastbrooke Academy or go to school in London? So much has happened since then that could affect her decision. Her former best friend, Branson, started a fight with her boyfriend, Prince Augie. And when the event is live-streamed and goes viral, it has the makings of an international scandal.

Die Geschichte der Außenseiterin Tori Spring. Mein Name ist Tori Spring. Ich bin die große Schwester von Charlie. Ich liebe es zu schlafen und zu bloggen. Letztes Jahr – bevor ich mich mit der harten Realität von Abitur und College-Fragen auseinandersetzen musste und der Tatsache, dass ich eines Tages tatsächlich anfangen muss, mit Menschen zu reden – hatte ich Freunde. Die Dinge waren ganz anders, glaube ich, aber jetzt ist alles vorbei. Und jetzt gibt es auf einmal Michael Holden.

Can your first love be your one great love? Can your high school sweetheart be your soulmate? Is it possible to find the person you're meant to spend the rest of your life with so early in life? Ford and I were destined for a great romance until our parents forced us apart. We'll do as they ask and try to stay away, but being apart only makes our love stronger. Trying to live my best life is impossible without him beside me, but I'm trying to live in the moment. Even if I must wait until June to be with the guy I love.

Die 17-Jährige New Yorkerin Ellis hat genaue Vorstellungen davon, wie ihre Zukunft aussehen soll: an der Columbia aufgenommen und Journalistin werden wie ihr erfolgreicher Vater. 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. Wie soll sie hier ihre Ziele verfolgen? Stattdessen findet im idyllischen Kleinstädtchen das alljährliche Herbstfestival statt, und Ellis muss aushelfen.

Step into Mackinac Island's scorching summer of 1979, where reality and fantasy blend in a whirlwind of murder, movies, and magic. Meet Jack McGuinn, a paperboy with life on the island all figured out until Hollywood descends to film "Somewhere in Time" with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. Jack's world unravels amidst the movie madness.

That's the question that has haunted 14-year-old Ezekiel Blast all his life. But he's not a thief, he just has a talent for finding things. Not a superpower - a micropower. Because what good is finding lost bicycles and hair scrunchies, especially when you return them to their owners and everyone thinks you must have stolen them in the first place? If only there were some way to use Ezekiel's micropower for good, to turn a curse into a blessing. His friend Beth thinks there must be, and so does a police detective investigating the disappearance of a little girl.

For Marnie Barnes, realizing she’s a Mary Bennet is devastating. But she’s determined to reinvent herself, so she enlists the help of her bubbly roommate and opens up to the world. And between new friends, a very cute boy, and a rescue pup named Sir Pat, Marnie finds herself on a path to becoming a new person entirely. But she’s no Lizzy, or even Mary—instead, she’s someone even better: just plain Marnie.

It's 1968 in the rural coastline town of Denton, Florida, and the only thing with a tougher life than 12-year-old Jack Turner is a starving dog named Bones. When they meet while Jack is fishing, Jack knows that he and Bones are meant for each other, and he promises his oft-absent alcoholic parents that he'll somehow get a job to pay for his new dog's food and care.