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Life is looking up for Xavier. Things are good with Jennie, his baseball coach believes in him, he's earned the role of closer, and his dad's coming home after serving 10 years. But making up for lost time with his dad doesn't go as Xavier had hoped. It seems his dad's always angry with him. Or drinking. Or out. Or lecturing Xavier on what it means to be a man. When the tension at home builds, Xavier's own hot temper flares, threatening to send him down the same path as his father.

The time is now. The place is San Francisco. The world is filled with adults devoid of emotion and children on the cusp of losing their feelings - of "waning" - when they reach their teens. Natalia Peña has already waned. So why does she love her little brother with such ferocity that, when he's kidnapped by a Big Brother-esque corporation, she'll do anything to get him back?

Ian's band is finally taking off. But the band's front man and Ian's best friend, Orlando, can't catch a break as a black kid in their white town. Tension with a security guard lands both Ian and Orlando in jail, and when Orlando is held indefinitely, someone will need to take over the band until he gets out. When Orlando chooses Chase, the band's bassist, to step in, Ian is slighted. As Ian's resentment builds, he plots his revenge. One by one, he turns his bandmates against one another, with tragic results.

Deja's mom has never been there when Deja needed her. She's lied, run off, and gotten into trouble with the law more times than anyone can count. She always promises to change - and always breaks those promises. Now - 17 years after Deja was born in prison - her mom is back behind bars and having another baby. Deja agrees to raise baby Heaven until her mother returns home. She's determined to give Heaven the loving family life Deja never had. But being a substitute parent is harder than Deja expected.

A prima vista Samantha McAllister sembra essere come tutte le ragazze della sua età, ma dietro il suo aspetto curato nasconde un segreto che non ha mai confidato a nessuno. Tormentata da un flusso continuo di pensieri negativi, paranoie e fissazioni, come quella per il numero tre, Sam soffre di un disturbo ossessivo-compulsivo che rende difficile non solo il suo rapporto con gli altri ma anche e soprattutto con sé stessa.

Stella lives with depression, and her goals for junior year are pretty much limited to surviving her classes, staying out of her parents’ constant fights, and staving off unwanted feelings enough to hang out with her friends Lin and Katie. Until Kevin. A quiet, wry senior who understands Stella and the lows she’s going through like no one else. With him, she feels less lonely, listened to - and hopeful for the first time since ever.... But to keep that feeling, Stella lets her grades go, and her friendships slide.

Eden has always had two loves: her best friend, Lacey, and her crush, Will. And then, almost simultaneously, she loses them both. Will to a car accident and Lacey to the inevitable growing up and growing apart. Devastated by the holes they have left in her life, Eden finds solace in an unlikely place. Before he died, Will set up an account with In Good Company, a service that uploads voices and emails and creates a digital companion that can be called anytime, day or night.

Annie Mathers is America’s sweetheart and heir to a country music legacy full of all the things her gran warned her about. Superstar Clay Coolidge is most definitely going to end up one of those things. But unfortunately for Clay, if he can’t convince Annie to join his summer tour, his music label is going to drop him. Swayed by Clay’s undeniable charm and good looks, Annie and her band agree to join the tour. From the start, fans want them to be more than just tour mates, and Annie and Clay can’t help but wonder if the fans are right.

Juan has plans. He’s going to get out of El Paso, Texas, on a basketball scholarship and make something of himself - or at least find something better than his mom Fabi’s cruddy apartment, her string of loser boyfriends, and a dead dad. His best friend, JD, has plans, too. He’s going to be a filmmaker one day. Fabi doesn’t have a plan anymore. When you get pregnant at 16 and have been stuck bartending to make ends meet for the past 17 years, you realize plans don’t always pan out and that there are some things for which you just can’t plan....

Since she was seven years old, Yvonne has had her trusted violin to keep her company, especially in those lonely days after her mother walked out on their family. But with graduation just around the corner, she is forced to face the hard truth that she just might not be good enough to attend a conservatory after high school. Full of doubt about her future and increasingly frustrated by her strained relationship with her successful but emotionally closed-off father, Yvonne meets a street musician and fellow violinist who understands her struggle.

"Valget" er en spændende roman af Sarah Engell, der handler om at tage store valg. Beretningen om den 18-årige Xenia fokuserer på spørgsmålet om, hvor meget man vil ofre for en fremmed. Xenia har kæmpet længe for at blive frontfigur i Etisk parti. Hun er endelig ved at opnå sin drøm og kan se sig selv have en positiv indflydelse på verdenssituationen. En dag møder hun en pige, der er flygtet hele vejen til Danmark, alene. Nu må Xenia træffe et valg. Med "Valget" har Sarah Engell skrevet en smuk roman, der viser børn og unge, hvor store konsekvenser valg kan have.

Annika ha dodici anni e deve trascorrere l'estate in città. Girovagando per Stoccolma, incontra un gruppo di ragazzi al parco dell'Osservatorio astronomico. Assieme stabiliscono un patto: non raccontarsi mai niente della loro vita e dei loro problemi.

"Had mig, elsk mig" er en rørende ungdomsroman om identitet, seksualitet og hate crime af Tomas Lagermand Lundme. "Bjørn ryster spraydåsen med den sorte maling. Så skriver han med store bogstaver BØSSE på asfalten. Bøsse. Så går han lidt tilbage og betragter sit værk. Det var sådan, det skulle være. Det var sådan her, han skulle gøre det. Han tjekker sin mobil. Nej, der mangler noget. Så skriver han JOHAN ER foran bøsse. Nu har han gjort, som de sagde, han skulle. Snart er han ligesom dem." Bjørn og Johan går i 9. klasse.

Grant Leitch is in denial about handing over the reins of the paper to an unworthy underclassman. In denial that Rose suddenly quit the paper and now won’t talk to him. But mostly he’s in denial that she is at prom with another guy, and it’s his fault. Grant’s only hope of luring Rose back to him (and the paper) is a juicy story she won’t be able to resist. In the end it takes a toga-wearing prom crasher, an emergency lockdown, a secret stalker, and a wild after-party to bring Grant and Rose together for one last story...and one final chance to admit that they’re made for each other.

Derimod er det helt i orden, at små piger dækker bord, vasker op og går i supermarkedet, mens deres brødre spiller fodbold. I protest slutter Mie, Karoline, Dorte, Lis, Polly og Katinka sig sammen i Karoline-banden.

Wenn einem das Glück abhanden kommt, muss man nur wieder nach ihm suchen! Eddy ist ein ganz normaler Teenager, ein bisschen eigenbrötlerisch, aber voll Lebensfreude und ausgestattet mit der Fähigkeit zum Glücklichsein. Eines Tages jedoch kommt Eddy das Glück abhanden. Seine geliebte Großmutter, bei der er aufwächst, erkrankt schwer. Von einem Tag auf den anderen steht Eddy vor wichtigen Entscheidungen, muss sich auf die Suche begeben nach Möglichkeiten, sein Leben in den Griff zu bekommen - und dabei seinen großen Traum nicht aus den Augen zu lassen: einmal um die Welt mit einer alten BMW R75!

Everyone is dying to read the latest book in the popular Gap Lake mystery series, and Addison is no exception. As the novel's biggest fan, she's thrilled when the infamously reclusive author, R. J. Rosen, contacts her, giving her inside information others would kill for. Addison's always dreamed of what it would be like if the books were real. But then she finds the most popular girl in school dead. Murdered. And realizes that life imitating fiction is more dangerous than she could have imagined.

So, what did Sadie Valentine do next? After an emotional voyage through the minefield of anxiety and depression, Sadie decides to use her experience with mental health to help others. Becoming a counsellor for the support group that once helped her takes Sadie’s life in a completely new direction, and she soon finds herself absorbed in her new role. Knowing that she’s aiding other sufferers through their darkest days gives her the ultimate job satisfaction, but when a mysterious and troubled man attends Anxiety Anonymous, Sadie wonders if she is out of her depth.

Kate was lissa’s best friend. they’ve shared everything for four years. Then one night at a drunken party, Kate leaned in to kiss lissa, and lissa kissed her back. And now Kate is pretending lissa doesn’t exist. Confused and alone, lissa’s left questioning everything she thought she knew about herself, and about life. But with the help of a free-spirit new friend, lissa’s beginning to find the strength to realize that sometimes falling in love with the wrong person is the only way to find your footing.

Every cure has a cost. Tatum Masterson learned this after years of being monitored by The Program. She witnessed it when her boyfriend, Wes, came back changed, erased. And now, even the newest “cure” has a heavy cost - one she and Wes paid. The Adjustment came into Tatum’s life just when she thought she needed it most, a promise for Wes to get back his forgotten memories. But when the procedure went wrong, a revelation shattered everything Tatum thought she knew. Now, with no one left to trust, Tatum must find out what really happened last summer.