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Als Professor Lidenbrock in einem alten Manuskript eine rätselhafte Botschaft entdeckt, beginnt eine waghalsige Expedition: Gemeinsam mit seinem Neffen und einem schweigsamen Führer steigt er in einen isländischen Vulkan hinab – auf der Suche nach einem Weg ins Innere der Erde. Unter der Oberfläche erwarten sie gewaltige Höhlen, urzeitliche Landschaften, unterirdische Meere und Gefahren, die jede Vorstellung sprengen.

At 24, Sally Hobart was a schoolteacher who was living a happy life in Southern California. Waking up one morning, she discovered that a gray cloud had descended upon everything around her. A trip to the ophthamologist’s office revealed that she was suffering from a retinal hemorrhage. Several treatments later, Sally began to understand that soon she would be completely blind. With courage and conviction, Sally has struggled to overcome her visual impairment, and her story is one of great inspiration.

Geister, Ritter, Abenteuer! Eine fesselnde Freundschafts- und Internatsgeschichte...

Über Nacht geht ein TikTok der Schülerin Love Thompson viral. Ihre Followerzahl steigt stündlich und ihre neugewonnene Agentin stellt sie dem einflussreichen TikToker Damian vor, mit dem sie eine vermeintlich perfekte Beziehung eingeht. Als Influencer-Pärchen sind sie unschlagbar. Bis er einen Unfall baut und Love dafür geradesteht. Weg sind ihre Follower, weg sind ihre Sponsorendeals, weg ist ihr Freund. Um ihr Image aufzupolieren, greift sie zu einer Notlösung: eine Fake-Beziehung mit Austin Grey, dem jungen, unscheinbaren Typ, der das Diner seines verstorbenen Vaters retten möchte.

In the idyllic coastal town of Carraway's Point, four Aboriginal boys grew up together on Chopin Drive, carefree and close. But they drifted apart in high school, and everything changed forever the night Brandon was killed by a white cop. Now racial tension is brewing, and each boy must wrestle with grief and their own complicated lives. Kallum has lost his sport scholarship and must return from Sydney. Jordy contends with family responsibilities and a closeted boyfriend. Dylan was the only witness to Brandon's death, and he must testify in court.

Ever come across a situation that simply wasn't right - where someone was getting the dirty end of the stick and you wished you could make things right but didn't know how? Fourteen-year-old Jack knows how. Or rather he's learning how. He's discovering that he has a knack for fixing things. Not bikes or toys or appliances - situations...It all starts when Jack and his best friends, Weezy and Eddie, discover a rotting corpse - the victim of ritual murder - in the fabled New Jersey Pine Barrens. Beside the body is an ancient artifact carved with strange designs.

Echo erfüllt mit seinem umfassenden Wissen über Kampf, Rüstung und Waffen alle Voraussetzungen für einen großen Anführer. Die wild zusammengewürfelten Rekruten, die für ihn unter dem nur wenig bedrohlichen Namen „Die Gesellschaft der Nadelstich-Enthusiasten“ kämpfen, werden zum Untergang der gegnerischen Fraktionen und verbreiten dabei Angst und Schrecken. Doch dieses Spiel kann nicht durch geradlinige Gefechte gewonnen werden. Der Trupp muss Bündnisse mit seiner eigenen Fraktion, den Richtern und selbst seinen Feinden schließen.

Theo Briggs is a rule follower. He's a decent student in his junior year, an appeasing son, and a lifelong Christian, just trying to make it through high school unscathed. Caleb Raynard is a romantic. One of the few out-and-proud kids at Specter High School, Caleb's dating life has been hellish, to say the least—fraught with misread social cues and embarrassing situations—and Caleb is about ready to call the whole thing off. When Theo and Caleb meet in the basement of an old Catholic church that's rumored to be haunted, an instant and electric connection forms between them.

High school isn’t kind to girls like me. I’m the one who freezes when the bullies close in. The one my brothers guard like I’ll break. The one who rattles off random facts to cover the silence, praying no one notices how small I feel. But when Maiken Maxwell transfers to our school, everything shifts. He doesn’t know my past or the cruel nickname everyone else whispers. He just looks at me like I matter—like maybe I’m worth standing tall for.

Maiken Maxwell isn’t just the star of the basketball team. He’s the boy who makes my heart race with every smile, every kiss, every whispered word that I’m his. But dating him also paints a target on my back, and Tessa—the queen of mean—isn’t about to let me forget it. Now she’s challenged me to a showdown on the ice, and the whole school is watching. If I fall, I risk losing more than my pride. And with rumors that Maiken’s family might move away, I can’t shake the fear that our fragile first love could slip through my fingers.

In this YA novel in verse from bestselling authors Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess (Solo), which Kirkus called “lively, moving, and heartfelt” in a starred review, Noah and Walt just want to leave their geek days behind and find “cool,” but in the process discover a lot about first...

Read by the author. Can a hardcore gamer survive a real-world crisis? Seventeen-year-old Alex Brooks is obsessed with becoming an e-athlete. What teen wouldn’t want to make a million dollars playing video games professionally? Especially if you’ve got a real shot at it like Alex. His mom, a...

Cole Mercer is a young man angry at the world...and for good reason. After the sudden loss of his father, Cole's mother moves them hundreds of miles away from all that is familiar to the sleepy town of Evergreen, North Carolina. He struggles to settle in, but navigating difficult classmates is offset by the beautiful girl next door. And he begins to understand there's something different about this small southern town and the forest that surrounds it, which seems to have more of a presence than it should. Nothing in Evergreen is quite what it seems.

Die vier vom See sind dem Versteck der sagenumwobenen goldenen Schale so nah wie nie zuvor. Doch als Franky nach einem Unfall ins Krankenhaus kommt, stößt er dort auf Spuren eines unglaublichen Skandals. Und auch persönlich muss sich Franky einer unangenehmen Wahrheit stellen.

There is a middle world between life and death, and Tess must navigate it to save her brother in this heart-wrenching story infused with the fractured and fantastical realms of Finnish mysticism. Axel and Tess are bewildered when a stranger shows up in their backyard accompanied by a giant brown bear, but before they can investigate the bizarre encounter, something more harrowing happens: their father is killed in a freak car accident.

When an insect-borne plague begins to envelop the world, three sixteen-year-olds struggle to survive amongst the healthy “trues” and the infected “wickeds” in this gripping dystopian tale from the author of The Winter Place. Already infected by the droves of Singers, the ultraviolet mosquito-like insects who carry the plague, the Wicked roam the world freely. They don’t want for much - only to maim and dismember you. But don’t worry: They always ask politely first.

Since her twin brother, Eddie, drowned five years ago, 16-year-old Elsie Main has tried to remember what really happened that fateful day on the beach. One minute Eddie was there, and the next he was gone. Seventeen-year-old Tay McKenzie is a cute and mysterious boy that Elsie meets in her favorite boathouse hangout. When Tay introduces Elsie to the world of freediving, she vows to find the answers she seeks at the bottom of the sea.

He says: Omar "T-Diddy" Smalls has got it made - a full football ride to UMiami, hero-worship status at school, and pick of any girl at West Charleston High. She says: Football, shmootball. Here's what Claudia Clarke cares about: Harvard, the poor, the disenfranchised, the hungry, the staggering teen pregnancy rate, investigative journalism...the list goes on. She does not have a minute to waste on Mr. T-Diddy Smalls and his harem of bimbos. 

Ben and Fee MacTavish and the rest of the School Ship Tobermory crew head down under to take part in a tall ships race. But after a good start the Tobermory runs aground, having first dropped out to rescue a local boy, Kimba, stranded on the rocks. When the ship's dog, Henry, disappears, Kimba helps them find him. But they begin to realise that a missing dog is the least of their problems....

Twelve-year old Charley Cuffey is many things: a granddaughter, a best friend, and probably the best pitcher in all of Lee's Mill. Set on becoming the first female pitcher to play professional ball, Charley doesn't need reminders from her best friend Cool Willie Green to know that she has lofty dreams for a Black girl in the American South. When Charley challenges a neighbourhood bully to a game at the church picnic, she knows she can win, even with her ragtag team. But when the picnic spills over onto their ball field, she makes a fateful decision.