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Living on the South Crongton council estate has its worries - and life for McKay has been even tougher since his mum died. His dad has been working all hours to keep the bailiffs from their door. His brother is always out riding the streets at night, tempting trouble. And now, having strayed off his turf on a 'heroic' (if misguided) mission to help out a girl, McKay finds himself facing a friend's crazy ex-boyfriend, some power-tripping hood-rats and a notoriously violent gangster with a vendetta which hits too close to home.

In the real world, Bugz is a shy and self-conscious Indigenous teen who faces the stresses of teenage angst and life on the Rez. But in the virtual world, her alter ego is not just confident but dominant in a massively multiplayer video game universe.

Sixteen-year-old sisters Samira and Rima aren't exactly living the dream. Instead, they live with their maddeningly unreliable mother in a rundown trailer in Michigan. Dad's dead, money's tight, and Mom disappears for days at a time. So when Sam's grandfather wills her the family valuables - a cache of Lebanese antiquities - she's desperate enough to try pawning them before Mom can. But she shouldn't. Because one is cursed, forbidden, the burial coin of a forgotten god. Disturbing it condemns her and Rima to the Phoenician underworld.

When Darius told Angel he loved her, she believed him. But five weeks after the incident, Angel finds herself in Brooklyn, far from her family, from him, and from the California life she has known. Angel feels out of sync with her new neighborhood. At school, she can’t shake the feeling everyone knows what happened - and that it was her fault.

Savannah Howard thought everyone followed the same checklist to get into Wooddale University: Take the hardest classes. Get perfect grades. Give up a social life to score a full ride to a top school. But now that she’s on campus, it’s clear there’s a different rule book. Take student body president, campus royalty, and racist jerk Lucas Cunningham. It’s no secret money bought his acceptance letter.

Flaco isn’t the kind of kid who gets in trouble. He doesn’t want to give his mom or his aunt Ana Flor any grief—they’ve had enough since his cousin Carlos died serving in Afghanistan. But he finds a whole lot more trouble than he bargained for when he and his friends Tiny, Magaña, and Susi ride the bus from their Houston neighborhood to Diamond Park to buy a used car.

Out of nowhere, a lady comes up to Anamaria and says she’s her, from the future. But Anamaria’s 13, she knows better than to talk to a stranger. Girls need to be careful, especially in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico - it’s the '90s, and fear is overtaking her beloved city as cases of kidnapped girls and women become alarmingly common. This 30-year-old “future” lady doesn’t seem to be dangerous, but she won’t stop bothering her, switching between cheesy Hallmark advice about being kind to yourself and some mysterious talk about saving a girl.

The International Peace Ascent is the brainchild of billionaire Sebastian Plank: Recruit a global team of young climbers and film an inspiring, world-uniting documentary. The adventure begins when fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello and his mountaineer mother are helicoptered to a remote base camp in the Hindu Kush Mountains on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. When the camp is attacked and his mother taken, Peak has no choice but to track down the perpetrators to try to save her.

Peak and his team need to descend into Tibet after surviving an avalanche on the remote and isolated mountain of Hkakabo Razi. The only catch is that Peak's famous mountaineering father, Josh, and climbing guide, Zopa, are both wanted by the Chinese government. As a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse ensues, making it off the mountain won't be the end of this team's struggles, only the beginning.

Gilmore Girls meets vibrant New Delhi in this thoughtful and hilarious new novel about a teen facing family expectations, relationship complications, and hidden secrets in a new country - sprinkled with Sheba Karim’s signature wit and steamy romance, and perfect for listeners who loved Mary H. K. Choi’s Emergency Contact and Adib Khorram’s Darius the Great Is Not Okay.

Silvia, estudiante de Medicina, marcha a la India para trabajar como cooperante durante el verano en un hospital ubicado en un recóndito lugar lejos del mundo. Al hacerlo, se opone a sus padres, a su novio, y toma así, siguiendo su instinto y su corazón, una decisión que cambiará su vida y su forma de pensar. En ese país lejano conocerá el dolor y el sufrimiento de los que no tienen nada, pero también la alegría y la paz de su conciencia.

Palo Duro Canyon - nicknamed "the Grand Canyon of Texas" - is the second-largest canyon in the United States and the largest state park in the Texas panhandle. Once home to many Native American tribes, though long gone, traces of their civilization can still be found in the canyon to this day. Rachel Hernandez, an anthropology student at West Texas A&M University has discovered something that hasn't been seen in nearly 200 years: in the depths of Palo Duro, a fabled cave full of Native American carvings and paintings.

Mason has been getting a taste of real living while visiting his aunt and uncle Down Under. Don't mind the shiner. Just a boxing match with a kangaroo. They're friends now. He finds that in Australia, there are a lot of things scarier than catching an STD from a koala. Like everything!

Silvia, estudiante de Medicina, marcha a la India para trabajar como cooperante durante el verano en un hospital ubicado en un recóndito lugar lejos del mundo. Al hacerlo, se opone a sus padres, a su novio, y toma así, siguiendo su instinto y su corazón, una decisión que cambiará su vida y su forma de pensar. En ese país lejano conocerá el dolor y el sufrimiento de los que no tienen nada, pero también la alegría y la paz de su conciencia.

Cuando esta obra fue escrita el imperio británico estaba en la cima y el Reino Unido controlaba colonias y dependencias a lo largo de todo el planeta. Marlowe, un marinero, cuenta a sus compañeros, como consiguió trabajo de piloto y realizó un viaje por el río Congo hacia una las estaciones de explotación de marfil, en el centro de la jungla. Allí se encuentra con un personaje rodeado de un especial halo de misterio a lo largo de toda la novela: el comerciante de marfil Kurtz.

In 2012, Summer’s family left everything in their American small town and bought a camper to explore Europe. At the age of 14, she wasn’t so keen on the idea and struggled with leaving everything she once knew. While trying to keep in contact with friends back home and living out of a suitcase, she realizes how much more there is to life than she had once believed. This is a story of self-discovery and world exploration for a family of four who have no idea what is in store for them.

A US history teacher chooses six under-achievers and challenges them to choose a person outside of their family who represents a taste of America's past to interact with and write a biography of that person for a pass/fail semester grade.

Tosh Livingston, superstar student-athlete from small-town USA, thinks he's made it big as a rising freshman at Harvard University. Not so fast! Once on campus, he's ensnared in a frenzied competition to win a spot on Harvard's legendary humor magazine, the Harpoon. Tosh soon finds that joining the Harpoon is a weird and surprisingly dangerous pursuit. He faces off against a secret society of super-rich kids, gets schooled by a philosophy professor who loves flunking everyone, and teams up with a genius student-cartoonist with an agenda of her own.

Tenleigh Falyn debe luchar cada día para sobrevivir en el humilde pueblo minero de Dennville, Kentucky, en los montes Apalaches, donde vive con su hermana y su madre, quien padece una enfermedad mental. Su sueño es ganar la beca para la universidad que otorga la dirección de la mina de Dennville cada año a un estudiante de la localidad. Tenleigh sabe que esa es su única oportunidad para escapar de una vida de pobreza y escasez de posibilidades. Kyland Barrett también vive en el pueblo, y siempre ha trabajado sin descanso para no morir de hambre.

Marina has been waiting her whole life to get out on the open sea. And now she's studying abroad in the Caribbean. She loves the feel of the sun on her face, the sand between her toes, and the island music swaying over her. And even better, she's getting hands-on marine biology experience. But while her experiences tell her she's in exactly the right place, her boyfriend wants her home in Vermont. And her distractingly cute Aussie boatmate couldn't disagree more. As the island heat rises, Marina must decide once and for all where her heart is - on land or at sea.