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Toni und Lukas sind schon lange ineinander verliebt. Das wissen alle auf Schloss Mare, dem Elite-Internat an der Nordseeküste. Doch die beiden kommen aus unterschiedlichen Welten, was ihre Liebe eigentlich unmöglich macht: Lukas ist ein Spross des dänischen Königshauses. Toni hingegen spricht selbst mit ihren besten Freundinnen nicht über ihre schwierigen familiären Verhältnisse und versteckt sich hinter einer sorgfältig errichteten Fassade. Wenn ihr zu Hause alles zu viel wird, flüchtet sie sich in ihre Liebe zum Fußball oder in die Musik.

Repetir um movimento várias e várias vezes ajuda a clarear a mente–uma lição que Finley aprendeu muito cedo, nas quadras de basquete. Numa cidade comandada pela violência do tráfico e da máfia irlandesa, vestir a camisa 21 e dar o sangue em quadra é sua válvula de escape. Vinte e um também é o número da camisa de Russ, um gênio do basquete. Ou pelo menos era. Recém-chegado à cidade de Bellmont depois de ter a vida virada de cabeça para baixo por uma tragédia, a última coisa que ele quer é pegar de novo numa bola.

Hoje é o aniversário de Leonard Peacock. Também é o dia em que ele saiu de casa com uma arma na mochila. Porque é hoje que ele vai matar o ex-melhor amigo e depois se suicidar com a P-38 que foi do avô, a pistola do Reich. Mas antes ele quer encontrar e se despedir das quatro pessoas mais importantes de sua vida: Walt, o vizinho obcecado por filmes de Humphrey Bogart; Baback, que estuda na mesma escola que ele e é um virtuoso do violino; Lauren, a garota cristã de quem ele gosta, e Herr Silverman, o professor que está agora ensinando à turma sobre o Holocausto.

PORUSZAJĄCA, KAMERALNA POWIEŚĆ YA AUTORA KILKUNASTU BESTSELLERÓW. Dziewiętnastoletni Kevin wierzy, że przeprowadzka do dużego miasta zapoczątkuje nowy, szczęśliwy etap w jego życiu. Rok później, ku zaskoczeniu bliskich, rzuca studia i wraca w rodzinne strony. Chłopak izoluje się od przyjaciół, pomagając rodzicom w prowadzeniu pensjonatu i opiece nad ukochanymi końmi. Jednocześnie nie chce wyjawić, co pchnęło go do porzucenia marzeń o zostaniu reżyserem filmowym. Wkrótce do pensjonatu przybywa jego przyjaciel z dzieciństwa.

Addison is no stranger to feeling stressed, insecure, and sad. Her therapist recommended she keep a journal to help her understand those feelings better, which she really needs today. It’s her first day back to school, several weeks after she survived her suicide attempt. She knows there are rumors about why she did it: A lousy home life? Bullying? Heartbreak? None of them are true, but it doesn’t matter because Addison still feels like she’s drowning. She still holds secrets she’s not ready to share.

Channeling their own experiences, sixteen exceptional authors subvert mental health stereotypes in a powerful and uplifting collection of fiction.

Fifteen-year-old Kermit Sanders knows grief and its all-encompassing shadows. After losing his beloved older sister in a tragic car accident, nothing quite punctures through the feelings of loss. Everywhere Kermit goes, he is reminded of her. But then Kermit finds a mysterious invitation in his locker, signed anonymously with “-1.” He has no idea what he’s in for, but he shows up to find out. Dubbed the “Minus-One Club,” a group of his school-mates has banded together as a form of moral support. The members have just one thing in common—they have all suffered the tragic loss of a loved one.

This sharp-witted, timely novel explores cancel culture, anger, and grief, and challenges the romanticization of America's racist past with humor and heart—for readers of Dear Martin by Nic Stone and Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson. Harriet Douglass lives with her historian father on an old...

When Anna discovers she’s with child, it doesn’t feel as wonderful as she’d imagined. She quickly feels trapped between the doctors blaming her for her morning sickness, older women wanting her to stay home, and very real risks to her baby. Anna’s new friend Elizabeth is reeling from an unexpected loss, and she believes her nervous tendencies are getting worse. Her thoughts have always been strange, and the threat of ending up in an insane asylum is never far from her mind. But when she develops a phobia, she’ll have to face her most dreaded fear to save what she loves most.

From a complicated Haitian life to heart surgery, to homelessness, Cynthia Josaphat’s struggles to survive her new life in the United States seem endless. After she’s taken from the only home she’s ever known by a domineering yet distant father, Cynthia’s life takes a sudden turn toward despair. Away from her mother for the first time, the Haitian teenager resolves to make the best of a difficult transition to America. Life in Haiti wasn’t perfect, but it was the only life she knew. Now, suddenly uprooted, Cynthia’s troubles have only just begun.

Simon Pelletier is months away from aging out of the foster-care system. Stuck in a house with a family he doesn’t think cares much for him, he knows he must make a plan or end up living on the streets. When Simon meets Charlie, the spunky woman charged with helping him through the aging-out process, Simon starts to think things might be all right. That doesn’t do much to improve his generally sulky behavior, but at least he won’t be homeless.

As Amy Brock struggles with anger and depression she thinks is caused by her parents' divorce, she starts dreaming about a beautiful gazebo. However, as her life falls apart because of drugs and a bad relationship, her gazebo falls apart, and her dreams turn into nightmares.

"Yo te salvaré de Matt de la Peña, obra ganadora de la medalla Newbery, es una "novela conmovedora que hace alentar y apoyar a los más débiles y desamparados." -SLJ Kidd huye de su pasado y su futuro. No tiene ni mamá ni papá, siente que no le beneficia de nada estar en el hogar de acogida...

For high school senior Parker Rabinowitz, anything less than success is a failure. A dropped extracurricular, a C on a calc quiz, a non-Jewish shiksa girlfriend - one misstep, and his meticulously constructed life splinters and collapses. The countdown to HYP (Harvard, Yale, Princeton) has begun, and he will stay focused. That's why he has to keep it a secret. The pocketful of breath mints. The weird smell in the bathroom. He can't tell his achievement-obsessed father. He can't tell his hired college consultant. And he certainly can't tell Julianne.

Dreams…everyone has them; some we remember, but most we'd rather forget. Robert Van Stark is a 14-year-old boy with a photographic memory who isn't able to forget his dreams or anything for that matter. His life was turned upside down when his father moved away, leaving him depressed, friendless, and struggling to find himself. Robert's life became even more complicated when unexplained abilities developed in his mind, adding more obstacles to his list of adolescent challenges. Fortunately, Robert's science teacher stepped in to mentor him through the difficult times.

“When a peregrine falcon dives, it can reach speeds of over 200 miles per hour,” Miles once told me. Two hundred miles per hour is about how fast my heart was beating when Miles finally told me the truth. He has schizophrenia. “Can you imagine the kind of courage that takes? To make a dive like that?” he had asked. Courage. Courage was exactly what I needed.

Music was his life...until the night a high-speed car crash changed everything. After that, Charlie Anderson could not play piano, or finish school, or get back on the only path to happiness he ever had. Nobody - not his parents, teachers, or friends - could help him figure out what to do next. This is an inspiring story for teenagers and young adults struggling with their own challenges.

Kai, Orla and Zak grew up together, their days spent on the patch of wilderness in between their homes, a small green space in a sprawling grey city. Music, laughter and friendship bind them together and they have big plans for their future - until Kai’s family suffers a huge loss. Trying to cope with his own grief, as well as watching it tear his family apart, Kai is drawn into a new and more dangerous crowd, until his dreams for the future are a distant memory.

One second. Seventeen-year-old Corinne has everything. Her life. Family. Friends. Boyfriend. But in that one second, she loses it all. Now she's left with harrowing nightmares. Hallucinations. And panic attacks that seem to come out of nowhere. She tries everything to take the pain away, but there's only one option she sees as a true way out. When Corinne is sent to live in a psychiatric institution, she doesn't want to talk. It's pointless. They can't help her.