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Oliwka to typowa nastolatka, ma kompleksy, skrycie podkochuje się w szkolnym koledze, nie potrafi znaleźć wspólnego języka z rodzicami… Pewnego dnia jej życie wywraca się do góry nogami – okazuje się bowiem, że jej ojciec jest dziedzicem tronu Jagiellonów. Od tej pory gdy tylko wychodzi z domu obserwują ją dziennikarze, zaczyna dostawać listy od fanów, jednym słowem jej życie zupełnie się zmienia.

In his final year at the Royal College of Music, star pianist Flynn Laukonen has the world at his feet. He has moved in with his girlfriend, Jennah, and is already getting concert bookings for what promises to be a glittering career. Yet he knows he is skating on thin ice—only two small pills a day keep him from plunging back into the whirlpool of manic depression that once threatened to destroy him.

Da quando è bambina Stella entra ed esce dagli ospedali per colpa dei suoi polmoni "fuori controllo". In attesa di trapianto, non può permettersi la minima infezione: per questo tra lei e il mondo deve esserci sempre una "distanza di sicurezza". Anche Will è malato, ma aspetta solo di compiere diciotto anni per smettere di curarsi e poter andare a scoprire il mondo. Per Will e Stella stare vicini potrebbe essere letale. Eppure non possono farne a meno.

Meet Tariq Nader, leader of ‘The Wolf Pack’ at Punchbowl Boys. He has been asked by the new principal to join a football competition with his mates in order to rehabilitate the public image of their school. But there’s a catch – half of the team is made up of high-school boys from Cronulla, also known as enemy territory – and Tariq must compete with their strongest player for the position of captain. With complications on all fronts, he must learn to control his anger, and find what it takes to be a leader.

It's only for a year. That's what sixteen-year-old Zel keeps telling herself after moving to Sydney for her dad's work. She'll just wait it out until she gets back to New York and Prim, her epic crush/best friend, and the unfinished subway project. Even if Prim hasn't spoken to her since that day on Coney Island. But Zel soon finds life in Sydney won't let her hide. There's her art teacher, who keeps forcing her to dig deeper. There's the band of sweet, strange misfits her cousin has forced her to join for a Drama project. And then there's the curiosity that is the always-late Stella.

Een betoverende nieuwe jeugdroman van Sanne Rooseboom. De week waarin Mot een duikboot vond, begon redelijk normaal. Saai zelfs. Dat was niet zo gek. Er moest heel wat gebeuren voordat ze haar grote vondst zou doen. Ze had nog niet eens een magneet. Mot heet eigenlijk Vlinder. Maar zo noemt alleen haar moeder haar nog. Die wil het liefst een opgeruimd, luchtig kind in een jurkje. Mot is zo niet. Mot houdt van zwarte kleren en van de oude, rommelige stad waarin ze opgroeit. Uit opstandigheid koopt ze van haar spaargeld een magneet om mee te vissen in het oude kanaal.

»Keine Ahnung, du wirkst eher wie so ein... Punto-Typ.« »Ein Punto-Typ?« »Ja, weißt schon. Ein kleines Auto, sieht irgendwie süß aus, mit diesen großen Kulleraugen. Aber eben nichts Aufregendes.« Henning kann es nicht fassen. Er soll die ganzen Sommerferien über in seinem Zimmer hocken und fürs Abi lernen? Nicht mit ihm. In einer kopflosen Aktion trampt er von Berlin bis zur Ostsee. Wenigstens für ein paar Tage will er dem Druck seiner strengen Eltern entgehen, abschalten und alles um sich herum vergessen. John erfüllt sich nach dem bestandenen Abitur einen langgehegten Traum.

Un chico con el corazón helado. Una chica llena de cicatrices. Dos corazones solitarios que se encuentran. Mikael solo tiene una certeza: su vida no le pertenece. Es un joven pianista que triunfa con su música, pero la estricta educación de su padre adoptivo y su incapacidad para enfrentarse a él están acabando con sus ganas de seguir adelante. Lola está perdida, su alma y su cuerpo están dañados a partes iguales.

16-year-old Raquel lives in a small town in Portugal, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. Her parents are divorced and she’s just been suspended for cursing out a school aide asking about her father’s new marriage. She has two best friends, Luísa and Fred, but wants something more. Then, from afar, she sees Pardalita, a senior and a gifted artist who’s moving to Lisbon to study in the fall. The two girls get to know each other while working on a play. And Raquel falls in love.

In this powerful and fast-paced YA contemporary debut, a Black teen from Brooklyn struggles to fit in at his almost entirely-white Manhattan prep school, resulting in a fight and a plan for vengeance. This is not how seventeen-year-old Gil imagined beginning his senior year—on the subway...

As the clock ticks forward to midnight during Wendy Davis’s historic filibuster of the abortion bill HB2 in June 2013, an Austin teen grapples with his past mistakes, the complex issue of abortion, and the kind of person he wants to be. It’s been a rough year for Alex Collins. In the past...

Un bestseller del New York Times, un lancio internazionale in più di 15 paesi, "Tokyo Ever After" è la nuova Pretty Princess circondata da fiori di ciliegio. Izumi Tanaka non ha mai capito se si sente più americana o più giapponese. Non è facile essere una ragazza nippo-californiana, cresciuta da una madre single. Non ha mai conosciuto il padre, ma un giorno per caso Izumi trova dentro un libro un indizio sulla sua identità... e scopre che lui non è altro che il futuro imperatore del Giappone. Questo, perciò, significa che lei è una... principessa!

Two boys, one struggle. A new family, an uncovered secret. Tommy and Ryan are as different as they come. Tommy is a young offender, he’s tough and he’s cool. Ryan is a good student, well-behaved, and definitely not cool. Forced to become a family, the two discover their shared dyslexia and develop an unlikely friendship. As Ryan helps Tommy to read, a secret is revealed that will change their lives forever. Prize-winning Malcolm Duffy's third novel explores the joys and challenges of dyslexia in a story full of his hallmark heart and humour.

It’s 1979, and thirteen-year-old Joseph Nissan can’t help but notice that small-town Texas has something in common with Revolution-era Iran: an absence of fellow Jews. And in such a small town it seems obvious that a brown kid like him was bound to make friends with Latinos—which is a plus, since his new buds, the Ybarra twins, have his back. But when the Iran hostage crisis, two neighborhood bullies, and the local reverend’s beautiful daughter put him in all sorts of danger, Joseph must find new ways to cope at home and at school.

Danielle Silver is a Philadelphia high school senior at the dawn of the ’90s. Ever since her parents split up, she has known her father was gay, but she never expected to be hit with the bombshell that he is HIV positive. As he sickens, and AIDS starts to claim the lives of his friends, Danielle searches for silver linings while trying to balance paralyzing fear, grief, her social life, and schoolwork—capturing all the feelings as adolescence and some hard facts collide.

Coming-of-Age-Reihe einer royalen Clique ab 14 über den Mut, zu seiner Vergangenheit zu stehen. Über alte Geheimnisse, neue Freundschaften und eine royale Liebe - Eine Geschichte, die zeigt, dass Liebe keine Hierarchien kennt. Mit ihrer Familie zieht Lena nach Oslo, um Abstand zwischen sich und ihre Vergangenheit zu bringen. Auf der neuen Privatschule lernt sie den Kronprinzen Karl Johan und seine Schwester Prinzessin Margrethe kennen und gehört bald zu ihrem Freundeskreis. Zusammen fahren sie Boot, feiern Partys und machen Kurztrips.

Was, wenn dein Leben eigentlich losgehen könnte, aber du dich noch nicht bereit fühlst? So geht es auch der frischgebackenen Abiturientin Brenda. Eigentlich könnte sie jetzt voll durchstarten, hat aber keine Ahnung, was sie mit ihrem Leben anfangen soll. Zudem strotzt sie nicht gerade vor Selbstbewusstsein: In der Schule war sie keine Leuchte, ihre beachtliche Körperfülle entspricht nicht gerade dem gängigen Schönheitsideal und richtigen Sex hatte sie auch noch nie.

When Caleb Gray heads to the Texas coast to mentally prepare for a future he isn't sure he wants, the last person he expects to see is Catie Dixon. Yeah, their mothers have been planning their wedding since they were born, but he and Catie are most definitely not friends. He can't see her as anything but the annoying kid who followed him everywhere. Except, it's really bothering him that everyone is staring at her in that bikini . . .

The Singh sisters grew up helping their father navigate the bustle of the Songbird Inn. Nestled on dreamy and drizzly Orcas Island in the Pacific Northwest, the inn's always been warm and cozy and filled with interesting guests—the perfect home. But things are about to heat up now that the Songbird has been named the Most Romantic Inn in America.

Drachen sind seit Jahrhunderten ausgerottet... kann ein junger Mann sie zurückbringen? Raphael wurde mit dem Zeichen des Drachens geboren. Sein Ziehvater lehrte ihn eine geheimnisvolle und uralte Magie, wie es sie seit dem Ableben des letzten Drachen nicht mehr gegeben hat. Jetzt, im Alter von 18 Jahren, wird er in eine Magiergilde aufgenommen mit dem Versprechen, mehr über seine einzigartige Magie zu lernen. Raphaels seltsame Kräfte könnten sehr wohl zur Rückkehr der Drachen führen.