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When an insecure teen starts impersonating someone else, her life spirals dangerously out of control in a realistic, relatable novel about finding yourself - and discovering your true friends.

Iris Oxtabee has managed to navigate the tricky world of unspoken social interactions by reading everything from neuroscience journals to Wikipedia articles. Science has helped her fit the puzzle pieces into an understandable whole, and she’s sure there’s nothing it can’t explain. Love, for example, is just chemistry. Her best friend, however, believes love is one of life’s beautiful and chaotic mysteries, without need for explanation. Iris isn’t one to back down from a challenge; she’s determined to prove love is really nothing more than hormones and external stimuli.

Pinned follows Ivan Korske and Bobby Zane, two high school seniors, as they embark on the most important winter of their lives in a quest for the New Jersey state high school wrestling championship.

Graduation was supposed to be a relief. Except Quinn can't avoid the barrage of well-intentioned questions about her college plans. Why does no one understand that it's hard for her to think about the future - or feel as if she even deserves one - when her best friend is dead? Spending the summer with her aunt on the Jersey shore may just be the fresh start Quinn so desperately needs. And when she meets Malcolm, a musician with his own haunted past, she starts to believe in second chances. Can Quinn find love while finding herself?

Sam Jones and Zoe Miller have one thing in common: they both want an escape from reality. Loner Sam flies under the radar at school and walks on eggshells at home to manage her mom’s obsessive-compulsive disorder, wondering how she can ever leave to pursue her dream of studying aerospace engineering. Popular, people-pleasing Zoe puts up walls so no one can see her true self: the girl who was abandoned as an infant, whose adoptive mother has cancer, and whose disabled brother is being sent away to live in a facility.

Emblemático título juvenil de Andreu Martín en el que ahonda en los amores de juventud, los miedos a la hora de enfrentarse a la vida y el poder de la amistad. Fernando, Cristina y Jordi deciden pasar sus vacaciones de la universidad haciendo submarinismo en Mallorca. Pronto su viaje se convertirá en una trepidante aventura llena de secretos, espíritus y mentiras que acechan tanto alrededor como dentro de sus corazones.

Arianna ha solo sedici anni, ma ha già molto da cui scappare: il ricordo martellante della notte del 13 dicembre, la Notte di Aida, che ha stravolto la sua vita per sempre, una donna con un soprabito giallo che la insegue nei suoi incubi, una voce crudele che parla incessantemente nella sua testa, tingendole di nero i pensieri. Per questo, cercando di lasciarsi tutto alle spalle, una mattina di giugno sale su un treno che dalla provincia romana la porterà a Milano. Qui Arianna scoprirà che ha un solo modo per non farsi inghiottire dal passato e salvarsi: comunicare con gli altri.

James was the guy no one noticed - another 15-year-old living in a small town. So when he gets into the American Science and Mathematics Academy (or ASMA), a public boarding school, James decides that it’s time to leave the past behind. In a student body made up of nerds and geeks, being cool is easy. All it takes is a few harmless lies to invent the new James: rebel, punk, street fighter. Everyone’s impressed - except for the beautiful Ellie Frost.

"Siden for evigt" er en usentimental og lydhør roman om at gå i ottende klasse og ikke føle, man har noget som helst til fælles med de andre; om trangen til at starte på en frisk med helt nye venner et helt nyt sted; og om ikke at vide, hvem ens far er. Der er 23 dage, til Cecilie fylder 15. Men hvad er der at fejre, når hun bare vil væk fra det hele? Fra sin mor, der ikke fatter, at man faktisk har krav på at vide, hvem ens far er. Fra Sandra og Nadja fra klassen, der pludselig vil lege veninder. Fra Mikkel, som hun lige kom til at kysse.

Obsessive-compulsive teen Clarissa wants to get better, if only so her mother will stop asking her if she's okay. Andrew wants to overcome his eating disorder so he can get back to his band and their dreams of becoming famous. Film aficionado Ben would rather live in the movies than in reality. Gorgeous and overly confident Mason thinks everyone is an idiot. And Stella just doesn't want to be back for her second summer of wilderness therapy.

I’d always think of it as the summer that I loved a girl... Seventeen-year-old Lang Penner and his mother are spending the summer in the caretaker’s cottage at Roundelay, the sprawling East Hampton estate of legendary rocker Ben Nevada. Lang passes the time walking on the beach and hoping for a glimpse of his idol. When they finally meet, Nevada is very different from the man Lang imagined. He finds himself confiding in the retired star about his homosexuality.