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For as long as they can remember, Aaron and Oliver have only ever had each other. In a small town with few queer teenagers, let alone young trans men, they’ve shared milestones like coming out as trans, buying the right binders—and falling for each other. But just as their relationship has started to blossom, Aaron moves away. Feeling adrift, separated from the one person who understands them, they seek solace in digging deep into the annals of America’s past.

Brought to you by Puffin. A heartbreaking, compelling and timely story for older readers about teen pregnancy, family trouble and unlikely friendships, set in 1960. When Laura meets a French exchange student, Leon, she is flattered by his interest in her. She's never had any sort of boyfriend...

The New York Times bestselling authors of Beautiful Creatures and Blue Bloods present an enchanting retelling of A Little Princess and The Secret Garden. “Surprising and romantic.”—Book Riot “Borrowing from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s well-known stories, Stohl and de la Cruz breathe...

Brought to you by Penguin. The third book in the Sally Lockhart Quartet, narrated by Adjoa Andoh. Sally is 25, and somebody wants to destroy her. She receives divorce papers from a man she has never met, let alone married - yet this trap is so well laid that she is powerless to prove otherwise...

Brought to you by Penguin. The fourth book in the Sally Lockhart Quartet, narrated by Adjoa Andoh. Jim Taylor, Sally's oldest friend, is engaged as bodyguard to a princess. But Crown Princess Adelaide of Razkavia is not what you'd expect. She's the slum-girl Jim has been searching for ever since...

A mesmerizing historical audiobook of suspense and intrigue about a teenage girl who risks everything to save her missing brother. Poland, July 1944. Sixteen-year-old Maria is making her way home after years of forced labor in Nazi Germany, only to find her village destroyed and her parents...

The year is 1941. Krystia lives in a small Ukrainian village under the cruel - sometimes violent - occupation of the Soviets. So when the Nazis march into town to liberate them, many of Krystia's neighbors welcome the troops with celebrations, hoping for a better life. But conditions don't improve as expected. Krystia's friend Dolik and the other Jewish people in town warn that their new occupiers may only bring darker days. The worst begins to happen when the Nazis blame the Jews for murders they didn't commit. As the Nazis force Jews into a ghetto, Krystia does what she can to help.

Somewhere in the Badlands, embedded deep in centuries-buried rock and sand, lies the skeleton of a massive dinosaur, larger than anything the late nineteenth century world has ever seen. Some legends call it the Black Beauty, with its bones as black as ebony, but to seventeen-year-old Samuel Bolt it's the "rex," the king dinosaur that could put him and his struggling, temperamental archaeologist father in the history books if they can just quarry it out.

Zum Kolumbus-Jahr: Die Abenteuer des Christoph Kolumbus auf der Suche nach dem Seeweg ins Indische Meer! März 1502: Der 13-jährige Pablo hat seine Familie verloren und so heuert er als Schiffsjunge auf einem der vier dürftigen Schiffe von Admiral Kolumbus an, der zu seiner vierten Expedition in die Neue Welt aufbricht. Mit an Bord ist auch Kolumbus‘ eigener Sohn, der 13-jährige Fernando. Bald schon müssen die beiden Jungen zusammenhalten – denn nun beginnt eine lebensgefährliche Suche entlang fremder Küsten.

Lida thought she was safe. Her neighbors wearing the yellow star were all taken away, but Lida is not Jewish. She will be fine, won't she? But she cannot escape the horrors of World War II. Lida's parents are ripped away from her and she is separated from her beloved sister, Larissa. The Nazis take Lida to a brutal work camp, where she and other Ukrainian children are forced into backbreaking labor. Starving and terrified, Lida bonds with her fellow prisoners, but none of them know if they'll live to see tomorrow.

A tumultuous tale of the student-led 1956 Hungarian revolution—and an all too timely look at the impact of Communism and the USSR in Eastern Europe—set in a fabulist, colorless post-WWII Budapest from Sydney Taylor Honor winner Katherine Locke. “A haunting, beautiful read that centers...

When Emilie and Daniel arrive in Silk Harbor, Professor Abindon, an old colleague of the Marlendes, warns them that she’s observed something strange and potentially deadly in the sky, a disruption in an upper air aether current. But as the Marlendes investigate further, they realize it’s a ship from another aetheric plane. It may be just a friendly explorer or something far more sinister, but they will have to take an airship into the dangerous air currents to find out.   

Erzählt wird die Lebensgeschichte der Sara Lehmann, die 1948 zusammen mit anderen Waisenkindern aus Deutschland nach Südafrika kommt. Eine einflussreiche Burenfamilie adoptiert das vierjährige Mädchen, ohne zu wissen, dass sie Jüdin ist. Als eines Tages ihre Papiere eintreffen, entzieht der Adoptivvater ihr seine Zuneigung. Einzig die Adoptivmutter und der älteste Bruder begegnen Sara weiterhin mit Liebe und Respekt.

Wenn das eigene Zuhause zu einem Ort der Angst und der Unmenschlichkeit wird, ist es kein Zuhause mehr. Josef ist 11, als er 1939 mit seiner Familie aus Deutschland vor den Nazis fliehen muss. Isabel lebt im Jahr 1994 in Kuba und leidet Hunger - auch sie begibt sich auf eine gefährliche Reise in das verheißungsvolle Amerika.

Hamburg, Juni 1945, die Stadt liegt in Trümmern... Ausgebrannte Häuser, Schutt und Ruinen, britische Soldaten, dazwischen die drei vierzehnjährigen Jugendlichen Jakob, Hermann und Traute. Jakob verschweigt, dass er Jude ist, und gibt sich vor den anderen als Friedrich aus. Als Hermann dies herausfindet, will er nichts mehr mit Jakob zu tun haben... Kirsten Boies berührende Erzählung um schuldig sein und sich schuldig machen, um Wahrheit und Lüge, Freundschaft und Hoffnungen in einer schwierigen Zeit - einfühlsam gelesen von Jodie Ahlborn.

La bataille finale approche. Le maître des ombres se révèle et, avec lui, de nouvelles trahisons. Cyrielle ne peut plus reculer : elle doit choisir. Parviendra-t-elle à museler son coeur pour récupérer le comté ? Amour, amitié, pouvoir... Jamais la vengeance n'a eu un tel goût de sang. Le dernier tome de cette saga fantasy médiévale vous promet de nombreuses surprises. Emotions, aventures, combats et magie s'entremêlent pour vous proposer une fin épique ! Alors... Êtes-vous prêt à découvrir Le Secret du Faucon ?

Marnie and Raver are each set apart from their community: Marnie because she is a newcomer brought to the village by her much older husband, and Raver because he is the village lunatic. The villagers are suspicious of any newcomer and they are especially wary of Marnie when her husband dies suddenly. She causes more consternation when she befriends Raver, but Marnie discovers that he is not mad: he is deaf. She develops a rudimentary sign language to communicate with the young man. The villagers see Raver responding calmly to her hand gestures, and they try Marnie for witchcraft.

Running for her life from the Nazis, Monique, a 17-year-old Jewish girl, escapes through the streets of Paris, searching for a place to hide. In a dark basement deep within the city, Philip, a man of the Resistance, offers her a deal in order to save her life by changing her identity. In return, she needs to provide information about the Germans by becoming acquainted with them.

Ausgezeichnet mit dem Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis 2021! Der einzige Weg aus der Dunkelheit ist, ein Feuer zu entzünden... Schwer verletzt liegt die 17-jährige Moonbeam im Krankenhaus und sieht sich einem Psychologen und einem FBI-Agenten gegenüber. Sie, die zu den wenigen Überlebenden nach der schrecklichen Brandkatastrophe gehört, soll erzählen, wie das Leben war auf der Farm der Gotteslegionäre. Wie ist es zu dem schrecklichen Feuer gekommen, wie zu der Schießerei zwischen den Gotteslegionären und der Polizei? So viele sind gestorben.

Un tuono, una raffica di vento, il merlo Mercurio spalanca le sue ali e Nina, Jamal e Lori si ritrovano nella Città Eterna: Roma. Ma... nel periodo barocco. Entrati in Santa Maria del Popolo, si imbattono in Artemisia Gentileschi, intenta ad ammirare le tele di Caravaggio. La grande artista è inquieta: la sua amica Ciecherella è scomparsa. E con lei la formula segreta del suo giallo, il colore delle eroine nei suoi quadri. La verità sulla sparizione è più oscura di quanto sembra. Indagando tra bassifondi e palazzi nobiliari, i tre ragazzi sapranno far luce su questo mistero?