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Echo Brown is a wizard from the East Side, where apartments are small and parents suffer addictions to the white rocks. Yet there is magic...everywhere. New portals begin to open when Echo transfers to the rich school on the West Side, and an insightful teacher becomes a pivotal mentor. Each day, Echo travels between two worlds, leaving her brothers, her friends, and a piece of herself behind on the East Side. There are dangers to leaving behind the place that made you.

A novel-in-verse about a young girl coming-of-age and stepping out of the shadow of her former best friend. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo and Nikki Grimes. With gritty and heartbreaking honesty, Mahogany L. Browne delivers a novel-in-verse about broken promises, fast rumors, and when growing up means growing apart from your best friend.

Aspiring actor August Greene just landed a coveted spot at the prestigious School of Performing Arts in New York. There’s only one problem: His conservative parents won’t accept that he’s transgender. And to stay with his aunt in the city, August must promise them he won’t transition.

Efter en uheldig episode med et friluftsbad er Emmy meget mod sin vilje blevet deporteret til verdens ende, nærmere bestemt Grønnevangens Dramaefterskole langt ude ved Vesterhavet. Heldigvis er der lyspunkter i vis-skal-alle-sammen-være-venner-hele-tiden-ondskaben. Der er værelseskammeraten Rakel, der er goth og som ikke er bange for at sige sin mening om noget som helst.

Eli Goldstein might be the only teenager looking forward to earning minimum wage at his objectively terrible summer job. Not only will he be working at the kitschy roadside museum he loves, he’ll finally have the down payment for his top surgery with a first-class surgeon. But the museum really is a late-stage capitalist hellscape, and Eli’s co-workers—led by his irritatingly self-righteous and annoyingly attractive school rival, Efraín—plan to unionize. With his sanity and safety at risk on the job, Eli knows he has to join their campaign.

One Summer at Church Camp is an ambitious, genre-blending novel that traces the journey of Samuel Briggs—a resilient, physically disabled young man—and his circle of friends as they navigate a fateful summer at the storied Camp Country. What begins as a familiar coming-of-age church camp experience quickly transforms into a labyrinthine tale of horror, hope, and healing, weaving together elements of slasher, supernatural, psychological, gothic, fantasy, and science fiction, all underpinned by deep explorations of friendship, trauma, and redemption.

Bailey Harris hat ihre Bucket-List im Griff: Publikumsliebling in einer angesagten Streamingserie, einen erfolgreichen Podcast, Spaß im Leben. Nur leider hat sie seit Neuestem auch einen Stalker. Und zu ihrem Entsetzen wird ihr ausgerechnet Jackson als Bodyguard geschickt!

Storia accorata di una solitudine, è uno dei primi romanzi di Hesse, in cui il protagonista per sconfiggere la mediocrità che lo circonda si accanisce negli studi. Ma lo attende una rovinosa amicizia che lo porterà gradualmente alla perdita della propria identità.

Hiroshi has always dreamed of becoming a sumotori. His late father was always respected in the local sumo scene. This was Hiroshi’s ticket to a local tournament. When he wins that he might be able to compete in the capital city. He’s recruited by the legendary Oyakata Kenjiro and goes the fabled Hajima stable. There he learns being a sumotori is harder than he ever expected. He has a master who is strict and unforgiving, an Oyakata who seems to be losing his grip and a stable bully that seems to be set on making his life hell.

Isaac Martin is ready to kick off summer. His last before heading off to college in the fall where he won't have his best friend, Diego. Where—despite his social anxiety—he’ll be left to make friends on his own. Knowing his time with Diego is limited, Isaac enacts a foolproof plan: snatch up a pair of badges for the epic comic convention, Legends Con, and attend his first ever Teen Pride. Just him and Diego.

Bella was sixteen when she discovered the truth: For the last decade, she’d been lost in a book. Literally. For the world she’d known her whole life was a fiction, everyone she’d ever known merely a character created by the magic of a powerful Writer. Bella discovers that she’d been sent into the book’s world by her late mother to escape the clutches of a murderous villain known as the Collector, the man who murdered Bella’s mother...and will stop at nothing to destroy her. Now Bella must learn the art of painting to fight back against the Collector.

Tom Calloway didn't want to go on a field trip to Costa Rica, but circumstances had him ending up sitting in the back of the plane - which was the only part that was intact after the crash in the remote South American wilderness. Tom and a small group of his classmates are fortunate to be alive, but their luck quickly runs out when some of them fall prey to the unfamiliar threats of the jungle - animals, reptiles, insects, and even the unforgiving heat. Every decision they make could mean life or death.

Noah asks me a question the night of the party that has the potential to change everything between us. Will you marry me? It’s a question that will change our futures. A question that makes me think about the kind of life I want. About which boy I want. We’re all growing up. We’re all getting closer. And we all have big decisions to make. But with Olivia and Peter’s Halloween party around the corner, there’s bound to be drama. Will Mohammad finally work up the courage to ask Naomi to be his girlfriend?

Everest es el chico más popular de la escuela. Es guapo, rico y capitán del equipo de fútbol; tiene el mundo a sus pies, pero está desesperadamente infeliz. Y cuando esos sentimientos se vuelven demasiado abrumadores, intenta quitarse la vida. En la superficie, Beverly es diferente a Everest en todas las formas posibles. Es tranquila, tímida, trabajadora y se mantiene alejada de los demás en el campus, enfocándose en sus estudios y su trabajo a tiempo parcial, distrayéndose de su crianza menos que perfecta.

Riley Jo is a teenager who knows what she wants. Born and raised in Bentonville, Arkansas, this Korean American girl has her sights set on being a musician. So when her parents are surprisingly cool about her attending the prestigious Los Angeles-based arts-focused boarding school her senior year of high school, she jumps at the chance. This is her moment to make her indie rock dreams a reality!

Four girls. Four girls skating home, both sides of the road, fearless. Four girls at the mouth of an infinite ocean, sugared and salted with sand and seawater, the tide licking their sunburned feet. This summer, they’re going to disappear.

Mina has a stern face, a long braid, and an attitude that has only got worse since her dad died. Caplan is the golden boy, complete with a vast social circle and an on-again/off-again girlfriend who hates Mina's guts. They're neighbours and somehow, despite all their differences, have always understood each other the most. But then in the last few weeks of high school, everything turns on its head. It's a shock when Caplan's best-friend Quinn confesses he wants to take Mina to the prom. It's an even bigger shock when she says yes.

Anna Lucia Bell believes in luck: bad luck. Bad luck made her best friend stop talking to her. Bad luck caused her parents' divorce. Bad luck is forcing her mother, Miriam, to sell the family's beloved bookstore. And it is definitely bad luck that Anna seems to be the only person in the world Miriam is unable to recommend a life-changing book. When Anna finds out that she and her mom are spending two months in a New England seaside town called Rockport, she expects a summer plagued with bad luck too. But Rockport has surprises in store for Anna.

Poppy Pullman has her life all planned out. Her social media is carefully curated. Her list of extracurriculars is flawless. All so she can achieve her ultimate goal: Stanford. Her best friends say she’s missing out. But Poppy’s playing a long game. And the morning of her Stanford alumni interview, she’s positive everything is going to work out.

Seventeen-year-old Theo Wright has it all figured out. His plan (well, more like his dad’s plan) is a foolproof strategy that involves exceling at his magnet school, getting scouted by college recruiters, and going to Duke on athletic scholarship. But for now, all Theo wants is a perfect prom night. After his best friend Jay dares Theo to prompose to his crush at Chloe Campbell’s party, Theo’s ready to throw caution to the wind and take his chances.