Showing results for "Sylvia" in Teen & Young Adult

Sylvia Plath knows she was born to be remembered. She loves learning, literature, and writing, especially poetry. The problem is, she’s coming of age in a time when women are expected to happily set aside their dreams for a husband and a home. Even in high school, Sylvia struggles to reconcile the societal expectations placed on women and the ambitions she has for a great career. She aches for a partner and a family, but she longs to become a poet, too. And she’s afraid she can’t have both.

Clara is an Obligate—a human servant at the Court of Dawn. She doesn’t know why. She knows only that she broke the Pledge and must therefore spend her days obliging the every whim of a capricious fae princess. If she can keep her head down and follow the rules, she might survive to the end of her Obligation, spending her days working in the vast palace library.

Your Own, Sylvia draws on Plath’s writing and extensive nonfiction sources, chronicling Hemphill’s interpretation of Plath’s life from infancy to her death by suicide at age 30. The poems are arranged chronologically and each conveys an experience in Plath’s life told via the voice and...

Fifteen-year-old Nawra lives in Darfur, Sudan, in a camp for refugees displaced by the Janjaweed’s trail of murder and destruction. Nawra cannot read or write, but when a nonprofit organization called Save the Girls pairs her with an American donor, Nawra dictates her thank-you letters. Putting her experiences into words begins to free her from her devastating past - and to brighten the path to her future. K. C. is an American teenager from Richmond, Virginia, who hates reading and writing - or anything that smacks of school.

Confronted with the reality of her living grandmother, Ayleth soon learns that the horrors once ascribed to Dread Odile's name and legend may not be entirely true. But what is the truth? Could the infamous Witch Queen be a freedom fighter providing hope for those oppressed under Saint Evander's law? Is she the loving family Ayleth thought she'd lost forever? Or is she the greatest threat the world has ever known?

After two days in isolation, Ayleth still doesn't know why Fendrel placed her under house arrest. Powerful drugs suppress Laranta deep inside her, leaving her alone with too many unanswered questions. What has become of kidnapped Lady Cerine? Why has Prince Gerard not stepped in to help? What is Fendrel's ultimate agenda? And, most urgently, where is Terryn? Has Fendrel arrested him as well for the curse he carries? The curse that nearly made him kill Gerard....

Costa Malva é uma ilha tranquila na Península Ibérica, e La Forquilla é uma cidadezinha com uma energia mística inexplicável. Quando Isabel Cisne resolve sair da casa da mãe, na cidade de Valência, para morar lá com o pai, ninguém entende bem o motivo... nem ela mesma. Em vez de...

Ein dunkler Wald, ein altes Familiengeheimnis und eine magische Welt, in dem funkelnder Sand in Stundengläsern in die Höhe schwebt und die Wasser in alle Richtungen fließen... Nach dem tragischen Unfalltod ihrer Familie, droht die siebzehnjährige Kayla all ihren Lebensmut zu verlieren. Nur ihre Großmutter Hedwig ist ihr geblieben, die abgelegen in einem Haus im Wald lebt. Kayla hat kaum noch Erinnerungen an sie. Mit drei Taschen und ihrer geliebten Büchertruhe zieht sie bei Hedwig ein und ahnt nicht, welches Geheimnis auf den alten Mauern des Anwesens ruht.