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She's just a New York City girl living with her artist mom… News flash: Dad is prince of Genovia. (So that's why a limo always meets her at the airport!) Downer: Dad can't have any more kids. (So no heir to the throne.) Shock of the century: Like it or not, Mia is prime princess material. The...

И теперь, спустя два года после смерти мамы, одиннадцатиклассник Джеймисон, его отец и младшая сестра вроде бы справляются с потерей, но каждый — в одиночку, своим способом. Джей переживает, что память о маме ускользает, ведь он едва не забыл о ее дне рождения. Тогда он берет в руки подаренный мамой «Никон» и начинает фотографировать обычных людей на улице — в одно и то же время на одном и том же месте сначала для школьного проекта, а потем уже и для себя. Фокусируя объектив на случайных прохожих, Джеймисон постепенно меняет свой взгляд на мир и наконец возвращается к жизни.

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Sofia ha quattordici anni nel 1964: l'anno della minigonna, dei collant, delle prime polaroid e dell'apertura del Piper. Le vibrazioni della "Swinging London" stanno arrivando in Italia e Sofia, come tutti i suoi coetanei, vive in trepida attesa di quel mitico concerto che nel '65 vide la prima e unica esibizione italiana dei Beatles. Nello stesso appartamento in cui abita Sofia, circa quarant'anni dopo, si trasferisce Matteo con la sua famiglia. Anche lui ha quindici anni, ma l'adolescenza, alle soglie del Duemila, è un luogo pericoloso e scomodo dove vivere.

With his girlfriend, Robin, away in Canada, 18-year-old Lucas Baker's only plans for the summer are to mellow out with his friends, smoke weed, drop a tab or two, and head out in his microbus for a three-day happening called the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. But life veers dramatically off track when he suddenly finds himself in danger of being drafted and sent to fight in Vietnam.

Nicholas, Kevin. Age 19. Died at York Hospital, July 19, 2012. Kev's the first kid their age to die. And now, even though he's dead, he's not really gone. Even now his choices are touching the people he left behind. Rita Williams-Garcia follows one aimless teen as he finds a new life in his new job - at the mortuary. Ellen Hopkins reveals what two altar boys (and one altar girl) might get up to at the cemetery at night.