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Love it or hate it, you'll never forget it. In this heart-warming novel, Swoon Reads star, Sandy Hall, explores a classic high school celebration, capturing every relatable and hilarious teen milestone along the way. Cora: Dating Perfect Boyfriend Jamie. Has NO IDEA how to break up with him...

An extraordinary tale about the search for love from acclaimed Costa and Carnegie Award-winning novelist Sally Gardner. Jazmin has been shunned ever since her best friend, Becky, disappeared. But Becky didn't just disappear - she jumped off a tall building and seemingly never reached the ground. It was as if she simply vanished into thin air. Did Jazmin have something to do with her disappearance? Or was it more to do with Icarus, with whom Becky became suddenly besotted...?

The Roommate Rulebook is a new release from Hachette Audiobooks: Powered by Wattpad -- an innovative collaboration between Hachette Book Group, a leading publisher, and Wattpad, a passionate storytelling community of over 45 million people. Your favorite online stories, now available in your...

Seventeen-year-old Sunny has always been a little bit of a pushover. But when she's sent a picture of her boyfriend kissing another girl, she knows she's got to act. What follows is a mad 12-hour dash around London. Along the way Sunny meets a whole host of characters she never dreamed she'd have anything in common with. As Sunny discovers, a whole range of people is willing to help a girl on a mission to get her romantic retribution.

For anyone who's ever survived a rite of passage or performed a mating dance at Prom . . . The Japanese hold a Mogi ceremony for young women coming of age. Latina teenagers get quinceaneras. And Janice Wills of Melva, NC ... has to compete in the Miss Livermush pageant. Janice loves...

Amelia Collins se muda a una nueva ciudad para escapar de un oscuro pasado y lo único que quiere es pasar totalmente desapercibida y acabar el último curso del instituto. Pero sus planes cambian drásticamente cuando el primer día tropieza, literalmente, con el chico más increíble del instituto, el chico que encabeza la lista de las personas con las que no meterse... Aiden Park. Amelia debe encontrar la forma de sobrevivir y de no caer en los brazos del insoportablemente atractivo Aiden, ni de Mason.

Mi madre solía describir la pequeña isla donde vivimos como un lugar donde las olas llegan a la orilla con suavidad, la arena es dorada y el mar sabe a sal. El tiempo me hizo ver que Helena, mi madre, era tan grandiosa que consiguió hacernos felices aun cuando su vida se rompía en mil cristales diminutos. Ella siempre decía que la mejor parte de alejarse de casa es volver.

Mom and I just needed a place to start over. Somewhere to move on from the past that haunts us. Smoky Hills, Tennessee, seemed to be exactly what we needed. Here, I could be invisible. That is, until quarterback Liam Bronson decides I’m important. Even though there are plenty of girls who would love his attention, he doesn’t seem to care. The way he stares at me is like I’m the only one that matters, even in a room full of people. Like he chose me. Then I discover his secret. The animal that lives inside of him. He tells me to leave. That it’s not safe for a human.

"A quintessential beach read." - Kirkus Reviews From #1 New York Times bestselling author Erin Watt Under ordinary circumstances, Oakley Ford and Vaughn Bennett would never even cross paths. There’s nothing ordinary about Oakley. This bad-boy pop star’s got Grammy awards, millions of...

The first book in Anna Carey’s chilling Eve trilogy, Eve is perfect for fans of The Handmaiden’s Tale. After a deadly virus wiped out most of Earth's population, the world is a terrifying place. Eighteen-year-old Eve has grown up isolated from the rest of the destroyed world in an all-girls...

Die geniale Fortsetzung der New-York-Times-Bestsellertrilogie "The Inheritance Games". Grayson Hawthorne ist als Kronprinz des milliardenschweren Familienunternehmens herangewachsen, doch der Patriarch ist verstorben, die Familie enterbt, das Vermögen dahin. Und so hat er es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, jeden Schaden von Avery, der Erbin, fernzuhalten. Als Ermittlungen zum Tod seines Vaters aufgenommen werden, bringt sie das allerdings in höchste Gefahr. Jameson Hawthorne ist abenteuerlustig und eine echte Spielernatur.

Blair might be a little type-A, but she never thought of herself as completely overbearing … that is, until her two best friends drop her from their housing arrangement a week before her pre-college summer coding program is about to start. Blair knows if she switches to an on-campus dorm, her parents will make her give up her expensive sculpture class with her dream mentor in order to pay for it. Desperate, she agrees to be the fifth roommate to four off-campus sophomores who are also in a last-minute bind.

Immer schon gab es nur zwei Jungs, die Bellys Herz erobern konnten: Conrad und Jeremiah. In diesem Sommer muss Belly eine Entscheidung treffen und sich über ihre Gefühle endgültig klar werden. Seit zwei Jahren ist sie mit Jeremiah zusammen, als er ihr plötzlich einen Heiratsantrag macht. Belly stürzt sich überglücklich in die Hochzeitsvorbereitungen. Doch ihre Eltern halten die Hochzeit für völlig verfrüht, und nach einem Streit mit ihrer Mutter bricht Belly zu dem Ort auf, an dem sie so viele glückliche Sommer verbracht hat. Dort trifft sie Conrad, der ihr seine Liebe gesteht.

Trendgenre Sports-Romance, leichtherzig und auf den Punkt erzählt von der unverwechselbaren Katy Birchall unter dem Pseudonym Ivy Bailey. Sadie hat nur ein Ziel: Sie will ihre Fußballmannschaft zur dritten Meisterschaft der Uni-Liga führen und ihren an Demenz erkrankten Vater damit stolz machen! Da kann sie Ablenkungen überhaupt nicht gebrauchen – erst recht nicht in Form des charmanten und unverschämt attraktiven Arlo Hudsons. Doch als der Trainer sie zum gemeinsamen Einzeltraining mit Arlo verdonnert, merkt Sadie schnell, dass das Herz nicht immer tut, was der Kopf ihm sagt.

Destins Croisés : Un Lycée Mouvementé, un roman qui explore la vie d’une jeunesse dynamique dans un lycée d’élite au Sénégal. À travers les aventures quotidiennes des élèves, le récit aborde leurs rêves, rivalités, amitiés et passions, tout en mêlant moments heureux et dramatiques. Les personnages vivent des expériences variées, entre réussite scolaire, amours secrets, tensions amoureuses et défis personnels, reflétant à la fois l’univers universel de l’adolescence et des spécificités culturelles.

After a recent OCD diagnosis, a teen girl embarks on a trip to Greece with her best friend, when she meets a captivating local girl. As their relationship heats up under the Mediterranean sun, she learns to balance the needs of those she loves with that of her own heart. When Natalie Campbell...

In this swoony young adult rom-com, things get bumpy when a girl gets stuck on a cross-country flight with her ex—as if flying couldn’t get any worse. . . . “A sweeping debut set in paradise, We’ve Hit Turbulence is a second-chance romance that unpacks the importance of following your...

Part To All the Boys I've Loved Before, part Everything Leads to You, this queer rom-com puts a smart spin on all the YA tropes we can't get enough of. Film club nerd Cleo Ferrara’s senior year was like a storyboard waiting to be filmed. She knew the scenes, the players, and the eventual happy...

Perfect for fans of Elise Bryant and Katie Cotugno, this fake-dating YA rom-com from Kelsey Rodkey set at a high school election shows that in matters of the heart, you have to elect to be yourself. Ella knew transferring to a new school wouldn’t be easy. The first day, while defending her...

Mallory Greenleaf was ooit een aanstormend schaaktalent, maar is nu helemaal klaar met de sport. Schaken heeft alles in haar leven overhoop gegooid. Wanneer ze met tegenzin meedoet aan een laatste liefdadigheidstoernooi, verslaat ze geheel onverwacht Nolan Sawyer; de huidige wereldkampioen en het enfant terrible van de schaak-scene.