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When 16-year-old Amy returns home, she can't tell her family what's happened to her. She can't tell them where she's been since she and her best friend, her cousin Dee, were kidnapped six years ago - who stole them from their families or what's become of Dee. She has to stay silent because she's afraid of what might happen next, and she's desperate to protect her secrets at any cost. Amy tries to readjust to life at "home," but nothing she does feels right. She's a stranger in her own family, and the guilt that she's the one who returned is insurmountable.

Paul se dit des choses étranges, souvent et particulièrement aujourd'hui, car c'est un jour particulier. Il fait sa rentrée scolaire en CM1 et a changé d'école. Comme tout ce qui est nouveau, cet événement le paralyse et le fascine.

1896, Natick, banlieue de Boston. À l'aube du 20e siècle, dans une ruelle sombre, vit un jeune Indien avec sa mère et son père qu'il ne voit que trop rarement. Âgé d'à peine six ans, l'enfant se pense fou. Il voit des choses que personne ne voit, entend ce que personne n'entend. Délaissé par les adultes et pris en souffre-douleur par les autres enfants, leur rejet devient insupportable. Seul, l'enfant s'enferme alors dans un mutisme sourd.

Frère et sœur aussi complices que complémentaires, Vanille et Kale entrent tous les deux cette année dans la même école d'ingénieur. Ce sera la plus belle époque de leur vie, se disent-ils : après la prépa, voici venu le temps des amitiés, des soirées, des études enrichissantes, des projets... Sauf que la réalité s'avère bien plus complexe que cela. Dès la rentrée, Vanille a l'impression d'être marginalisée à cause de son côté studieux, sa discipline sportive, son refus de boire de l'alcool... Son copain ne répond plus vraiment présent pour elle non plus.

In a small Mississippi town, Elizabeth Manley, a respected young wife and mother, grapples with the shadows of her past and a hidden secret that has haunted her for years. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she befriends an elderly woman facing her final days, offering her a place in her home, together, with the warmth of small newly-formed group of friends. They experience the healing power of community and learn how to embrace freedom in life while facing the inevitability of death with dignity.

Tras casi un año recluida en casa y en terapia, Lucía se enfrenta a su primera salida significativa: un día de playa junto a su novio, Alejandro, y su amigo Diego. El lugar no es casual. El mar, el mismo que marcó un antes y un después en su vida, se convierte en el escenario de un intento de reencuentro con la normalidad.

Der 17-jährige Cooper wird von seinem besten Freund Jason dazu gedrängt, während einer Black-Lives-Matter-Demonstration einen Laden zu plündern. Doch dann geschieht das Undenkbare: In der Nähe ertönen Schüsse, und jemand kommt ums Leben. Am Tag darauf zeigen die Nachrichten vier Verdächtige mit Skimasken unweit des Tatorts: Cooper und seine Freunde. Nun steht plötzlich ihre gesamte Zukunft auf dem Spiel. Der Druck wird noch größer, als Jason verhaftet wird.

Aziz e Mattia si incontrano per caso una notte: Mattia è scappato di casa e Aziz dall'Afghanistan e dopo il lungo viaggio, è arrivato in Italia; dorme vicino a una siepe, è solo e affamato. Mattia condivide con lui il poco cibo che ha e lo accoglie nel suo rifugio segreto nei sotterranei di una scuola. Aziz è sollevato ma le sue condizioni fisiche non sono buone, ha la febbre alta. Mattia si dà fare come può per aiutarlo ma scopre che Aziz non è stato del tutto sincero con lui.

“All hurricane and heart and deep family roots.” —Jenna Evans Welch, New York Times bestselling author of Love & Gelato and Spells for Lost Things In this highly anticipated companion to the New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club YA Pick A Cuban Girl’s...

A Good Morning America Buzz Pick For fans of You’ve Reached Sam and A Heart in a Body in the World, this “moving and powerful” (Laura Namey Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow) teen novel follows an ex-couple as they struggle to reunite...

“An artful exercise in melancholy…Every reader will love openhearted Will.” —Booklist (starred review) “Haunting, introspective.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Emotionally raw…[A] piercing narrative.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “McGhee artfully illustrates...

SELECTED AS ONE OF THE YOUNG ADULT LIBRARY SERVICES ASSOCIATION’S 2022 TOP TEN AMAZING AUDIOS FOR YOUNG ADULTS! “Breathlessly atmospheric…A gorgeous, hopeful book.” —Rachel Lynn Solomon, author of Today Tonight Tomorrow The Hating Game meets I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter in...

Three teens fight for their lives and each other in this breathtakingly suspenseful first book in the twisted, New York Times bestselling Unwind Dystology series by Neal Shusterman. After America’s Second Civil War, the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life armies came to an agreement. According to their...

“Will keep readers on edge from start to finish.” —Kirkus Reviews Tell the truth. Or face the consequences. Clue meets Riverdale in this page-turning thriller that exposes the lies five teens tell about a deadly night one year ago. One year ago, there was a party. At the party, someone...

An ocelot. A slave. An angel thief. With interconnecting stories ebbing and flowing, this jewel of a novel from Newbery Honor–winning author and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt is a striking depiction of family devotion, a harsh cry for freedom, new love, oh, and an ocelot...

When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she’s trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city’s labyrinthine subway system. But there’s something eerily beguiling about...

Soon to be a Netflix film! From the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Once and For All Nights have always been Auden’s time, her chance to escape everything that’s going on around her. Then she meets Eli, a fellow insomniac, and he becomes her nocturnal tour guide...

The third installment of Scott Westerfeld’s New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies series—a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend. Tally thought they were a rumor, but now she’s one of them. A Special. A super-amped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies...

The New York TImes bestselling series! Journey to the world of Erthia in these two exciting prequel novels to The Black Witch Chronicles by critically acclaimed fantasy author Laurie Forest. Wandfasted Twenty years before Elloren Gardner enrolled at Verpax University, the Realm War was tearing...

Lexi is a survivor; she has spent her whole life moving from one abusive foster home to the next, until she decided to take charge of her own life. Living in abandoned buildings, couch surfing, and working at a strip clubs were a huge improvement on what she had before. All she needs is enough money to feed herself, finish high school, and hopefully go to college. She has a plan. That is until she is caught and sent to live with a strange foster family upstate.