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Smierc, milosc, przyjazn, pieniadze i wykluczenie spoleczne - temu wszystkiemu musi sprostac Monika, uczennica przecietnego gimnazjum, która zyjac w otoczeniu beztroskich kolezanek i kolegów, skrywa swoja olbrzymia samotnosc. Czy kuszona przez najlepsza przyjaciólke i jej chlopaka zdecyduje sie, zeby za wszelka cene poprawic swój byt? Jak daleko posunie sie, aby pomóc mamie? Komu bedzie mogla zaufac? Pelna ciepla, wzruszen i niesamowitych zwrotów akcji ksiazka pomoze zrozumiec trudne decyzje, podejmowane przez mlodych ludzi.

Fifteen-year-old Polarity Weeks just wants to live a normal life, but with a mother diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, that's rarely easy. Her life gets exponentially more disastrous when her sixth-period history classmates start ogling a nude picture of her on the Internet.

Alma har fået en fjende i sin nye klasse. Det er Alberte. Det skyldes måske, at det var Alma, der startede med at kalde Alberte for Luderhår. Så begynder Alma pludselig at modtage nogle ret ubehagelige sms'er. Hun er sikker på, at de kommer fra Alberte. For at hævne sig laver Alma og hendes veninde en falsk profil på Facebook. Her giver de sig ud for at være Felix, der gerne vil være gode venner med Alberte. Og så er det, at det går helt, helt galt.

Scott Hudson has somehow managed to survive Freshman year. But with a new baby brother in the house and a whole host of adventures awaiting him at school, Sophomore year promises to be anything but boring. An honest and funny follow-up to the popular Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie, award-winning author David Lubar pens a tale that perfectly captures the ridiculous, tumultuous, and sometimes heartbreaking truths about high school.

School is just like a film set: there's The Crew, who make things happen; The Extras, who fill the empty desks; and The Movie Stars, whom everyone wants tagged in their Facebook photos. But Jude doesn't fit in. He's not part of The Crew because he isn't about to do anything unless it's court-appointed; he's not an Extra because nothing about him is anonymous; and he's not a Movie Star because even though everyone knows his name like an A-lister, he isn't invited to the cool parties.

It's bad enough doing something stupid, worse in front of the entire school, horrible if it's posted online, and a complete disaster if it goes viral - but it's the comments that might send you over the edge.Alexander's the target of online trolls - thanks to one viral video, people everywhere have something bad to say about what he looks like, what he wears, and how he acts. With so many people calling him a loser, a mutant, and a moron, he starts to wonder if they might be right.

Poil de Carotte est un petit garçon roux, dernier d'une famille de trois enfants, issu d'un milieu provincial bourgeois. Il est depuis toujours persécuté par sa mère, entre un père absent et un frère et une sœur indifférents. Poil de Carotte veut comprendre pourquoi sa mère ne l'aime pas, ce qu'il y a derrière cette rousseur qu'elle rejette. Peut-être est-il un enfant adopté ou peut-être n'est-il pas le fils de son père ?

Queen Bee Chloe is going to make Toni suffer for whatever transpired between Toni and Chloe's boyfriend, Oliver, over the summer. From day one of eleventh grade, she has Toni branded as a super slut, and it isn't long before things get so ugly that Toni fears for her safety. What's a scared, powerless, and fed-up teenager to do? Guided by Cassandra - a girl with some serious problems of her own - Toni decides to stop playing the victim and take control.

Kurz, nachdem es zur Pause geläutet hat, hört Miriam einen Schuss. Zunächst versteht niemand, was eigentlich passiert ist, aber dann herrschen Chaos und nackte Angst. Matias, ein Schüler aus ihrer Parallelklasse, schießt um sich. Auch Miriams Freund Tobi wird tödlich getroffen. Miriam überlebt - aber sie fragt sich, ob das Leben ohne Tobi und mit den ständig wiederkehrenden Albträumen überhaupt noch einen Sinn hat. Waren sie und ihre Mitschüler Schuld an der Katastrophe?

Late at night Tori receives a random phone call. It's a wrong number. But the caller seems to want to talk, so she stays on the line. He asks for a single thing - one reason not to kill himself. The request plunges her into confusion. Because if this random caller actually does what he plans, he'll be the second person connected to Tori to take his own life. And the first just might land her in jail.

Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used to is white people being nice to him - people like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town with the Air Force. As the boys connect through their mutual passion for music, especially the Beatles, Lewis has to lie more and more to hide the reality of his family's poverty from George.

Evie is different. Not just her upbringing - though that's certainly been unusual - but also her mindset. She's smart, independent, confident, opinionated, and ready to take on a new challenge: The Institution of School. It doesn't take this homeschooled kid long to discover that high school is a whole new world, and not in the way she expected. It's also a social minefield, and Evie finds herself confronting new problems at every turn, failing to follow or even understand the rules, and proposing solutions that aren't welcome or accepted.

Changers Book One: Drew opens on the eve of Ethan Miller's freshman year of high school in a brand-new town. He's finally sporting a haircut he doesn't hate, has grown two inches since middle school, and can't wait to try out for the soccer team. At last, everything is looking up in life. Until the next morning. When Ethan awakens as a girl. Ethan is a Changer, a little-known, ancient race of humans who live out each of their four years of high school as a different person.

In this 2009 National Book Award finalist, Rita Williams-Garcia proves that she has an “uncanny ability to project unique voices” ( Publishers Weekly). Jumped is told in alternating points of view between three girls as they struggle to make tough choices when they become involved in a fight at their urban high school.

With her martyr-doctor mother gone to save lives in some South American country, Poe Holly suddenly finds herself on the suburban doorstep of the father she never knew, who also happens to be a counselor at her new high school. She misses Los Angeles. She misses the guys in her punk band. Weirdly, she even misses the shouting matches she used to have with her mom.

Angie is the only one in her family - maybe the only one in the world - who believes her captured war-hero sister is still alive. Angie needs to believe it. It’s better than thinking about last year, when she tried to kill herself in front of a packed gym. Better than trying to steer clear of Stacy Ann Sloan and her posse of ultra-mean girls. Better than dealing with her corporate-lawyer mother, who wants to know only one thing: When is Angie going to lose exactly 29 pounds? Then a new girl, KC, arrives in Dryfalls, Ohio. She’s beautiful, hip, and smart, and everyone wants to know her. From the minute they meet, KC sees the real Angie....

Dell is used to disappointment. Ever since her dad left, it’s been one letdown after another. But no one - not even her best friend - understands all the pain she's going through. So Dell hides behind self-deprecating jokes and forced smiles. Then the one person she trusts betrays her. Dell is beyond devastated. Without anyone to turn to for comfort, her depression and self-loathing spin out of control. But just how far will she go to make all of heartbreak and the name-calling stop?

It’s 1949 and 18-year-old pitching phenom Mickey Tussler is back with the rejuvenated minor league Brewers in the sequel to The Legend of Mickey Tussler (the basis for the television movie A Mile in His Shoes). Despite Mickey’s proclamation that he will never play baseball again after last season’s violent conclusion, his manager - and now surrogate father - Arthur Murphy cajoles the emotionally fragile, socially awkward boy with autism into giving it another shot.

With his shaved head and begging bowl the new kid is an automatic target for the bully boys of Edward Rucher High, an easy mark for their casual cruelty.

"Yaqui Delgado wants to kick your ass." That’s what some girl tells Piddy Sanchez one morning before school. Too bad Piddy doesn’t even know who Yaqui Delgado is, let alone what she’s done to piss her off. All Piddy knows is that Yaqui hates her - and she better watch her back because Yaqui isn’t kidding. At first Piddy just focuses on trying to find out more about the father she’s never met and how to balance honors courses with her job at the neighborhood hair salon. But as the harassment escalates, avoiding Yaqui starts to take over Piddy’s life.