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Danny Tozer has a problem: She just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world's greatest superhero. Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, Danny was trying to keep people from finding out she's transgender. But before he expired, Dreadnought passed his mantle to her, and those secondhand superpowers transformed Danny's body into what she's always thought it should be. Now there's no hiding that she's a girl.

Wat gebeurt er wanneer de paden van een Engelse spion en een fae elkaar kruisen? Samson Calthorpe heeft er alles voor over om zijn vader te helpen, dus als hij gevraagd wordt om een spion te worden aan het Engelse hof, hapt hij meteen toe. Alyth Graham is een bastaard van een faeprins en een menselijke moeder. Ze houdt de man van de Schotse koningin, lord Darnley, al jaren in de gaten. Het enige dat Alyth en Samson met elkaar delen is hun haat voor lord Darnley.

Cairn has finally gained access to the Sanctum…the birthplace of the infernal’s mystic abilities and proving ground for their adolescents, a place filled to the brim with magic and mystery. The power he needs to solidify a major alliance is close at hand. All he needs to do is settle in and prove himself with the help of old friends and new. Simple enough. Or it would be, if Cairn was the only outsider to breach the Sanctum. When he arrives, he discovers an old enemy has sealed the Sanctum from the inside, holding it ransom. Her demands: “Bring me the head of the usurper.”

Healer. Destroyer. Creator. Mateo Matisse and Chela Hidalgo are not just two teenagers in love—they're powerful gods in human form. Powerful enough to have saved their Brooklyn diaspora community from the wrath of an ancient enemy and to have raised their once-sunken native island of San Madrigal from the sea. But soon they discover that their problems are far from over.

We are not all created equal. Seventeen years ago, Cody and her boyfriend James were two of the lucky babies from 1% of the population randomly selected to receive genetic engineering. Known as the “Ones,” this generation of genetically enhanced teenagers is excelling. Cody, James, and their...

Premi Edebé de Literatura Juvenil 2024. Després d'uns dies d'acampada incomunicats a les muntanyes, un grup de joves i el monitor del centre de menors tornen al refugi per descobrir que un virus mortal ha canviat completament el seu món. Quan el monitor desapareix després d'anar a buscar ajuda, els nois es veuen forçats a aplicar les habilitats apreses i enfortir els llaços creats durant la seva convivència. A mesura que passen els mesos, la tensió anirà escalant fins a punts insostenibles, desafiant la resistència i la unitat del nou ordre que han establert.

NOVELA GANADORA DEL PREMIO EDEBÉ DE LITERATURA JUVENIL 2024. Tras unos días de acampada incomunicados en las montañas, un grupo de jóvenes y su monitor del centro de menores regresan al refugio para descubrir que un virus mortal ha cambiado por completo su mundo. Cuando el monitor desaparece después de ir en busca de ayuda, los chicos se ven forzados a aplicar las habilidades aprendidas y fortalecer los lazos creados durante su convivencia. A medida que pasan los meses, la tensión irá escalando hasta puntos insostenibles, desafiando la resistencia y unidad del nuevo orden que han establecido.

A collection of prequel novellas to the New York Times bestselling Dorothy Must Die series Long before Amy Gumm got swept away from a Kansas trailer park . . . Dorothy Gale received a package on the night of her 16th birthday: a pair of red high-heeled shoes. Dear Dorothy, the note read. I...

Lex, un jeune de dix-sept ans, accompagne sa mère, une auteure-compositrice anishnabée, à Rivière-Ahmic, le village du nord de l’Ontario où elle a vu le jour. Fleur Monague espère y relancer sa carrière en chantant à un spectacle organisé dans le but de protéger des dunes sacrées menacées par l’exploitation forestière. De son côté, Alex s’éprend de Danika Copecog, une Anishnabée qui l’initiera aux secrets de la nature. Les pépins s’enchaînent et forcent Alex et sa mère à prolonger leur séjour dans la communauté.

Een crimineel moeder-dochterduo van thrillerkoningin Karen M. McManus. Kat en haar moeder Jamie zijn altijd met hun tweetjes geweest – behalve tijdens het achtenveertig uur durende huwelijk van Jamie, toen Kat een stiefbroer had: Liam. Sinds de dramatische scheiding heeft Kat Liam niet meer gezien. Als Jamie, een juwelendief die op het rechte pad probeert te komen, voor haar laatste klus de miljardair Ross Sutherland op zijn verjaardagsfeest gaat beroven, gaat Kat zoals altijd met haar mee.

Tragedy has forced 16-year-old Victor Frankenstein to swear off alchemy forever. He burns the Dark Library. He vows he will never dabble in the dark sciences again — just as he vows he will no longer covet Elizabeth, his brother’s betrothed.

If only these things were not so tempting.... When he and Elizabeth discover a portal into the spirit world, they cannot resist. Together with Victor’s twin, Konrad, and their friend Henry, they venture into a place of infinite possibilities where power and passion reign.

Gustavo e Clarice se mudaram para Porto Alegre para terminar o ensino médio. Mas uma outra missão os aguardava: entrar na Ordem dos Centauros para resgatar o Artefato mágico, cujo poder não poderia cair nas mãos inimigas da Ordem dos Minotauros.

Drew and his team are the entire counter-offensive plan against the Naga. He knows that the serpents must be dealt with, but watching the Sidhe forces take the nodes near his old home, and turn them violet, is weighing on him. Even worse than the external threat is that the gathered humans are beginning to fracture into factions with competing desires. Drew’s only possible response to the humans, the aliens, and the strange, urban jungle appearing across the Potomac is to increase the count of his own red nodes and build up his strength; all in a race to save humanity.

Teens control the fate of America in the fourth and final book in the New York Times best-selling Unwind dystology by Neal Shusterman. Proactive Citizenry, the company that created Cam from the parts of unwound teens, has a plan: to mass produce rewound teens like Cam for military purposes. And below the surface of that horror lies another shocking level of intrigue: Proactive Citizenry has been suppressing technology that could make unwinding completely unnecessary.

Connor and Lev are on the run after the destruction of the Graveyard, the last safe haven for AWOL Unwinds. But for the first time, they’re not just running away from something. This time, they’re running toward answers, in the form of a woman Proactive Citizenry has tried to erase from history itself. If they can find her, and learn why the shadowy figures behind unwinding are so afraid of her, they may discover the key to bringing down unwinding forever.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Wizards and Robots by will.i.am and Brian David Johnson, read by Daniel Weyman, Ray Panthaki, Iwan Rheon, Becca Stewart and Brian David Johnson. When a young man breaks into her home claiming her life is in danger, Ada Luring's world changes forever...

Mason has never known his father, but longs to. All he has of him is a DVD of a man whose face is never seen, reading a children’s book. One day, on a whim, he plays the DVD for a group of comatose teens at the nursing home where his mother works. One of them, a beautiful girl, responds. Mason learns she is part of an experiment intended to render teenagers into autotrophs—genetically engineered, self-sustaining life-forms who don’t need food or water to survive.

Die Brüder Adam und Stu betreiben ein Gewächshaus, in dem einige ihrer frisch gesäten Pflanzen plötzlich mutieren und zu unheimlicher Größe heranreifen. Nicht nur das, sie entwickeln einen mörderischen Appetit, der auch bald sein erstes menschliches Opfer findet! Während Adam zunehmend in den Bann der fleischfressenden Gewächse gerät, übt auch ein stadtbekannter Gangsterboss Druck auf ihn aus, da er in den Monsterpflanzen eine ideale Möglichkeit sieht, um lästige Zeugen spurlos verschwinden zu lassen.

Young Spenser is tough. No doubt about it. After all, he's being raised by his father and uncles—three of the toughest men in town. He knows how to fight, and he's had to prove it. But his father taught him something far more valuable: Sometimes the toughest thing a guy can do is walk away...

How did Lev Calder move from an unwillingly escaped Tithe to a clapper? In this revealing short story, Neal Shusterman opens a window on Lev’s adventures between the time he left CyFi and showed up at the Graveyard. Pulling elements from Neal Shusterman’s critically acclaimed Unwind and giving hints about what is to come in the riveting sequel, UnWholly, this short story is not to be missed.