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Eva Walker is a seventeen-year-old math genius. And if that doesn't do wonders for her popularity, there's another thing that makes it even worse: when she touches another person or anything that belongs to them --- from clothes to textbooks to cell phones --- she sees a vision of their emotions...

For as long as she can remember, Kugy has loved to write. Whimsical stories are her passion, along with letters full of secret longings that she folds into paper boats and sets out to sea. Now that she's older, she dreams of following her heart and becoming a true teller of tales, but she decides to get a "real job" instead and forget all about Keenan, the guy who makes her feel as if she's living in one of her own fairy tales.

This exceptional and powerful anthology explores the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration, with stories by critically acclaimed and best-selling YA authors who are shaped by the journeys they and their families have taken from home - and to find home. 

This original romance follows a Latina teen pop star whose image takes a dive after a messy public breakup, until she's set up with a swoon-worthy fake boyfriend. Fake boyfriend. Real heartbreak? Natalie is living her dream: topping the charts and setting records as a Brazilian pop star... until...

A fun and upbeat romance about a girl who finds a cheat sheet for love. Spring break . . . heartache? For coder extraordinaire Ashley, high school is all about prepping for college. Her love life? Virtually nonexistent. She's never been on a date. Never been kissed. Never been in love. When her...

Here's a brilliantly gripping and tender story of four best friends, one special summer, and a magical pair of jeans. Carmen, Tibby, Lena, and Bridget have been best friends all their lives. They live in the same small American town and usually spend every moment of their long summer holiday together. The year they turn 16 is the first time they have separate plans for the summer, but the girls are determined to keep in touch.

Ryan wakes up to find his contractor dad building walls to turn their big old house into a duplex. The family that moves into the other side includes Bizzy Horvat, the pretty girl he has a crush on at school. Bizzy claims her mother is a witch with the power to curse people with clumsiness or, in Bizzy’s case, astonishing beauty. When a bee gets caught in Bizzy’s hair, Ryan acts so quickly and radically to save her from getting stung that he attracts the attention of a group of micropotents - people with micropowers.

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking this will be just one more story of the ignored, "big-boned" girl, who sheds her glasses and a few extra pounds and finally attracts the notice of the most popular guy in school. Except it isn't. Because I'm not unpopular. And I love the way I look - just as I am. Then someone puts my name in for Homecoming Court. The bigger surprise? People actually vote for me!

"Some books are downright fun, and Right Where I Left You is one . . . Winters sends a quiet but important message that queer Black and brown kids deserve to live happily ever after too. . . Winters weaves all of these threads—the romance, the relatable anxiety, the message — into a book...

Isabel has one rule: no dating. It's easier. It's safer. It's better...for the other person. She's got issues. She's got secrets. She's got rheumatoid arthritis. But then she meets another sick kid. He's got a chronic illness Isabel's never heard of, something she can't even pronounce. He understands what it means to be sick. He understands her more than her healthy friends. He understands her more than her own father, who's a doctor.

Dani Argyle is a high school student whose best friend is a ghost-- the ghost of her father who has been missing for three years. Because her mother is overwhelmed with grief, Dani must fend for herself and her deaf younger brother. Dani feels like she's fighting the world. Her peers do not accept her because she is overweight; her school is ill-equipped to handle an astute girl with ADHD, and the popular girls hate her for attracting the attention of the mysterious student from Japan.

Rosalba ha sedici anni e una passione per la danza. La stessa di nonna Luce, che da giovane è stata una grande étoile. Ora che è malata, Luce affida alla nipote una vecchia cappelliera chiusa da un nastro rosso con la richiesta di non aprirla finché sarà in vita. Ma Rosalba disobbedisce e scopre la storia di Luce e Mario, la ballerina di buona famiglia e il proletario che negli anni Settanta sognava la rivoluzione. Perché quell'amore profondo e ribelle, che sembrava invincibile, è finito all'improvviso? Un romanzo che racconta ai ragazzi un tempo di ribellioni, grandi amori e ideali.

Waldo is hongerig. Bot. Naïef. Wijs. Impulsief. Eenzaam. Boos. Gekwetst. Eindeloos hunkerend. En wat ze het allerliefst wil? Haar docent creatief schrijven, meneer Korgy. Meneer Korgy, met zijn vrouw en kind, zijn hypotheek en zijn rekeningen, met zijn vage dromen, zijn verschrompelde uiterlijk en zijn groeiende buik. Half His Age is het indringende verhaal van een verlangende zeventienjarige die alle obstakels negeert in haar pogingen om gezien, begeerd en geliefd te worden.

Surim ha sedici anni e vive sospesa tra due mondi. Da una parte, c'è l'appartamento lussuoso in cui abita con la sua famiglia "ufficiale", ovvero un padre e una madre completamente inabili alla vita, e una sorella capricciosa. Dall'altra, c'è Sunrye House, una piccola palazzina attorno alla quale ruota una comunità vivace e accogliente. Un luogo-rifugio nel quale Surim è cresciuta insieme al nonno e alla sua compagna, Kim Sunrye, la proprietaria della palazzina, donna dura ma generosa.

Marina ha 19 anni e una vita complicata: la mamma è morta, il padre autoritario si è risposato con una perfida matrigna, sogna di entrare all'Accademia di Belle Arti ma non può permetterselo, e per di più è innamorata di un ragazzo che non la degna di uno sguardo. Finché un giorno arriva Nic...

Lena steht am Anfang eines neuen Kapitels in ihrem Leben. Zwischen dem strahlenden Influencer Milo, der sie in die glitzernde Welt der Social Media zieht, und ihrem stillen Mitschüler Jonas, der mit seiner Musik ihr Herz berührt, muss sie in nur zehn Tagen eine Entscheidung treffen. Eine Coming-of-Age-Liebesgeschichte über Vertrauen, Echtheit und die Frage, wem man sein Herz schenkt.

Monique lives a perfect life—a preacher's daughter and the girlfriend of the town's golden boy. But it's not that simple. She's torn between her parents who want the pure virginal daughter, and her boyfriend, Dom, who wants to explore the more intimate side of their relationship. Tired of waiting, her boyfriend breaks up with her, spurring Monique to discover she has a medical condition that makes her far from perfect and she concocts a plan to fix her body and win him back.

It's the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his White father, race has always been a distant conversation. When he's sent to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in small-town Alabama, his blackness is suddenly front and center, and no one is shy about making it known he's not welcome there. Enter Juniper Jones. The town's resident oddball and free spirit, she's everything the townspeople aren't-open, kind, and accepting.

This heartfelt and humorous YA contemporary follows Dua, who spends the month of Ramadan making unexpected discoveries about family, faith, and first love. Being crammed into a house in Queens with her cousins is not how Dua envisions her trip to New York City. But here she is, spending the holy...

Seventeen-year-old Evie Beckham has always been too occupied with her love of math and frequent battles with anxiety to want to date. Besides, she’s always found the idea of kissing to be kind of weird. But by senior year, thanks to therapy and her friends, she’s feeling braver than before. Maybe even brave enough to enter the national math and physics competition or flirt back with the new boy. Meanwhile, Evie’s best friend, Caleb Covic, has always been a little in love with her. So he’s horrified when he is forced to witness Evie’s meet-cute with the new guy.