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We Were Liars meets Looking for Alaska in a uniquely funny and heartbreaking teen novel about a passionate-yet-doomed friendship set against a backdrop of wealth and glamour. Willa Parker, 646th and least-popular resident of What Cheer, Iowa, is headed east to start a new life. Did she choose...

Winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction! Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, Ibi Zoboi, and Erika L. Sánchez, this gorgeously written and deeply moving novel is the YA debut from the award-winning author of Inside Out & Back Again. 4 starred reviews! In the final days of...

Vilda takes life as it comes, talking for hours about everything and nothing with her best friend, Alma. It's never been a big deal to Vilda that her mother's side of the family is Sámi and her father's is Swedish, but as summer vacation starts, she wants to know more about her indigenous roots—and she's looking forward to her beloved grandfather, Áddjá, teaching her the Sámi language. Then Áddjá has a fatal heart attack and, overnight, Vilda loses not only a person she loves most in the world, but a crucial link to her history and identity.

Penelope (Lo) Marin has always loved to collect beautiful things. But in the year since her brother Oren's death, Lo's hoarding has blossomed into a full-blown, potentially dangerous obsession. She discovers a beautiful, antique butterfly pendant during a routine scour at a weekend flea market and recognizes it as having been stolen from the home of a recently murdered girl. And as usual, when Lo begins to obsess over something, she can't get it out of her mind.

Best friends Agnes and Honey live at Mount Blessing, a religious commune. Though the girls have been best friends since they were children, differences in faith are beginning to to trouble their relationship. Agnes is striving to be saintly. Honey is desperate to escape the commune and experience the outside world. The commune itself, headed by the charismatic Emmanuel, is orderly, well run. But it’s hiding a dark secret....

Eine rätselhafter Mord erschüttert New York. Das Opfer ist ausgerechnet ein Mitglied der mächtigen und geheimnisvollen Red Umbrella Society, deren Mitglieder angeblich über besondere Fähigkeiten verfügen.

Esta historia de Niño de Agua y las Mariposas es testimonio de la fuerza con que Mamá Tierra alienta a sus criaturas y por eso perdurará en la memoria del tiempo. Mucho tiempo después de los primeros sucesos de esta historia, algún poeta de la Grecia antigua, bajo la expresión flor en vuelo, nombró a todas las mariposas. La historia de la Iris original, que el oyente encontrará, es una ilustración de aquella metáfora.

Otasi uni shaharga olib ketishga ahd qilib, poyezd bekati tomon yo‘lga tushishadi. Yo‘l-yo‘lakay bolakay uni o‘rab olgan borliqning har bir fusunkor ko‘rinishiga ahamiyat berib, undan hayratlanib, dunyo-dunyo quvonchlarga to‘lib o‘ynab borardi. Bu "yengiltaklik" otasiga yoqmaydi. Uni jerkib-jerkib tashlaydi. Bolakay tutib olgan chiroyli kapalagini otasiga ko‘rsatib, uni ham quvontirmoqchi bo‘ladi, lekin otasi qo‘lidan kapalakni yulib olib, kaftlari bilan g‘ijimlab, oyoqlari ostidga tashlaydi.