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A heartbreaking novel that offers no easy answers, Give a Boy a Gun addresses the growing problem of school violence. Although it is a work of fiction, it could tragically be the leading nightly news story in any community. After a high school shooting at her alma mater, a college journalism student returns home to interview students, teachers, parents, and friends of the suspects. Intermingled with her interviews are journal entries written by the two troubled boys responsible for the shooting.

Stupid Fast is playwright Geoff Herbach’s first book for young adults. No one’s more shocked than shy 15-year-old Felton Reinstein himself when he undergoes a tremendous growth spurt. After dusting the football jocks in a race, Felton marvels at his new athletic ability. Everything isn’t looking up, however. Felton must also come to grips with his mother’s sudden depression and his bratty younger brother. And then Felton learns a shocking secret about his past that helps put things in perspective.

Questa è la storia di Clarissa, una ragazza speciale, che nella sua breve vita ha dovuto affrontare situazioni più grandi di lei. Fra cui il bullismo. Una storia attuale, dove la sua vita s'intreccia con quella di altri ragazzi e ragazze coetanei e non, con momenti di vita famigliare, sociale e scolastica. Una storia avvincente fra scandali e tanto altro...

La Didi i la Monsti són dues adolescents que se les empesquen totes per entomar amb humor la vida quotidiana, la difícil relació amb els companys de classe, les dèries dels professors i els conflictes familiars. La Didi descobreix el poder alliberador d’escriure i transforma tot el que els passa en les aventures esbojarrades de dos personatges delirants: l’arqueòleg karateka i el seu amic Quimsta.

Planen är rätt enkel, egentligen. Klättra upp i det öppna fönstret i skolan, avfyra geväret, sedan är det över. När hans livlösa kropp faller genom fönstret borde mobbarna förstå vad de gjort, och Hugo behöver inte längre leva med sig själv. Men Hugo blir upptäckt innan han hinner sätta sin plan i verket. Han placeras på ett behandlingshem, där han träffar Julie, Nico och April. Tillsammans med sina nya vänner hittar han sig själv, och viljan att fortsätta leva.

Der zweite Band der spannenden Buchreihe zur Netflix-Serie! Am Anfang waren Kitty, Margot, Bree und Olivia von der DGM bloß wütend und setzten sich mit ihren Rachefeldzügen gegen Bullys zur Wehr - aber jetzt bekommen sie Angst. Nicht nur, dass es Tote an der Schule gab; Margot liegt im Koma, nachdem ein Unbekannter sie angegriffen hat und Bree musste ins Jugendgefängnis, weil sie die Verantwortung für die DGM-Aktionen übernommen hat. Also sind nur noch Olivia und Kitty übrig, um ihren tödlichen Verfolger unschädlich zu machen.

Für alle Fans von Riverdale und Pretty Little Liars: Kitty, Margot, Bree und Olivia gehen auf dieselbe Katholische Schule, haben aber ansonsten nicht viele Gemeinsamkeiten. Niemand käme auf die Idee, dass ausgerechnet diese Vier hinter der Geheimgruppe "DGM" stecken, die an mobbenden Mitschülern Rache übt. Gnadenlos stellen sie die Bullys vor der gesamten Schule bloß - genau wie diese es mit ihren Opfern getan haben.

Kay hat eine große Wut im Bauch. Seitdem sein Vater seine Arbeit verloren hat, lässt dieser den Kummer an seiner Familie aus. Dies lässt Kay auch Dinge machen, die er eigentlich gar nicht will. Mit Sven aus der Parallelklasse tyrannisiert er Erstklässler. Schließlich droht er, von der Schule zu fliegen. Doch er bekommt eine letzte Chance. Er soll sich um die neue Mitschülerin Greta kümmern, die ein ganz besonderes Mädchen ist. Sie hat das Down-Syndrom. Mit ihrer ehrlichen, direkten und emotionalen Art stellt Greta Kay vor eine echte Herausforderung.

Primo anno di liceo. Stefania e Giada sono migliori amiche e compagne di banco da sempre. Giada è una ragazza mite, introversa, amante della natura, che adora passare il tempo libero in campagna, nella stalla di suo nonno. Forse è per questo che Eli e Bea, considerate le più belle della scuola, iniziano a prenderla in giro e a emarginarla.

Die heiß ersehnte Fortsetzung von "One of Us Is Lying"! Es ist ein Jahr her, seit Simon starb. Maeve ist inzwischen in ihrem Abschlussjahr an der Bayview High. Simons Tod und dessen Folgen sind langsam verwunden. Da wird der friedliche Schulbetrieb wieder ausgehebelt: Ein anonymes Wahrheit-oder-Pflicht-Spiel hält die gesamte Schülerschaft in Atem. Jeder, der nicht mitspielt, wird bloßgestellt. Doch als Maeve an der Reihe ist, weigert sie sich, mitzumachen - das virtuelle Spiel, ausgerichtet von "DarkestMind", macht sie extrem misstrauisch.

Ci sono cinque amici e compagni di classe e c'è un preside alla soglia della pensione che li osserva ogni giorno. C'è Teresa, detta "Gambe a Fiori", che si dipinge la pelle per mascherare i lividi lasciati dalle violenze subite; Carla chiamata "Puttana", leggera e spudorata, ma molto forte e sensibile; Graziano "Scarpe Strette", che somiglia a un gigante impacciato e non vuole curare la propria malattia; e poi Enrico "Cervello Bruciato", che abusa di alcol e droghe; e infine Francesco detto "Finocchio", un genio della matematica insultato e deriso per la sua presunta omosessualità.

Paul Adams is the shortest kid at his high school, and the school bullies relentlessly pick on him. He spends the entire day wishing school would end so he can escape to his favorite sport of rock climbing. Lily Small is athletic, attractive, and, despite her last name, is actually very tall. Another kid, who looks almost like a grown man, introduces himself with a long Polynesian name, but says everyone calls him "Big," and he seems to like the nickname! As they get to know each other, Paul, Big, and Small discover they have a lot in common as outsiders in their high school.

Cliff Hubbard is a huge loser. Literally. His nickname at Happy Valley High School is Neanderthal because he's so enormous - 6'6" and 250 pounds to be exact. Life in his trailer-park home has gone from bad to worse ever since his older brother's suicide. There's no one Cliff hates more than the nauseatingly cool quarterback Aaron Zimmerman. Then Aaron returns after a near-death experience with a bizarre claim: while he was unconscious he saw God, who gave him a list of things to do to make Happy Valley High suck less. And God said there's only one person who can help: Neanderthal.

For most of high school, Bijan Majidi has flown under the radar. He gets good grades, reads comics, hangs out with his best friend, Sean, and secretly crushes on Elle, one of the most popular girls in his school. When he's called off the basketball team's varsity bench and makes the winning basket in a playoff game, everything changes in an instant. But not everyone is happy Bijan is the man of the hour: An anonymous cyberbully sends the entire school a picture of Bijan photoshopped to look like a terrorist.

Teenage burn survivor Wilder Tate begins high school ashamed of his disfigurement. He finds an outlet tapping into his one-dimensional basketball talent as a shutdown defender and courts his cheerleader dream girl, only to endure heartbreak and setbacks that drive him to have a tissue-expander operation to rid himself of his scar tissue for good, but at what price?

When it comes to being social, Athena Graves is far more comfortable creating a mixtape playlist than she is talking to cute boys - or anyone, for that matter. Plus, her staunchly feminist views and love of punk rock aren’t exactly mainstream at St. Ann’s, her conservative Catholic high school. Then a malicious rumor starts spreading through the halls...a rumor that her popular, pretty pro-life sister had an abortion over the summer...a rumor that has the power to not only hurt Helen but possibly see her expelled.

Seventeen-year-old Leda witnesses a hate crime against a gay couple from her school. Now she must decide if she should risk her family's stability by telling the police what she knows. Jonathan, one of the victims of the crime, struggles with his recovery and the guilt of not protecting his boyfriend. When Leda and Jonathan are swept together by chance, both must reckon with fundamental questions of loyalty and courage.

More trouble at school and at home - and the discovery of a missive from her late soldier sister - send Angie and a long-ago friend on an RV road trip across Ohio.

Magpie Lewis started writing in her yellow notebook the day her family self-destructed. That was the night Eryn, Magpie's sister, skipped town and left her to fend for herself. That was the night of Brandon Phipp's party. Now, Magpie is called a slut whenever she walks down the hallways of her high school, her former best friend won't speak to her, and she spends her lunch period with a group of misfits who've all been socially exiled like she has. And so, feeling trapped and forgotten, Magpie retreats to her notebook, dreaming up a place called Near.

Cat is in love. Always the sensible one, she can’t believe that she’s actually dating, not to mention dating a star. But the fandom can’t know. They would eat her alive. And first at the buffet would definitely be her best friend, Evie. Amy uses Heartstream, a social media app that allows others to feel your emotions. She broadcasted every moment of her mother’s degenerative illness, and her grief following her death. It’s the realest, rawest reality TV imaginable.