Showing titles in Coming of Age

Henrike er 13 år og bor alene med sin mor, en populær sangerinde, som smådrikker og er mere optaget af sit arbejde og sine skiftende herrebekendtskaber end af sin datter. Henrike har sommerferie og føler sig til overs hos moderen og hendes nye ven, og hun beslutter at stikke af. Men hvor skal man rejse hen, når farmor – som var den eneste, der forstod hende – ikke findes mere.

Letlæste noveller for unge - en samling på seks vedkommende historier om "de stille drenge", skrevet med Kim Fupz' fantastiske evne til helt ukompliceret at skildre komplekse mellemmenneskelige relationer. "Tilløb" skildrer de tilbageholdne drenge, der tilpasser sig forældre, venner og piger. Indtil det er nok. Indtil noget nyt må ske. "Jeg skubbede ham med alt, hvad jeg havde, og han gik lige på røven, virkelig dumt på røven. Han sad på køkkengulvet, og jeg stod op ad væggen. Den havde han fandeme ikke regnet med." – Citat fra bogen.

Siri er klar til gymnasiet, men først skal hun slæbe sig gennem en kedelig sommerferie på landet, fordi hendes forældre skal skilles. Alle andre, inkl. hjerteveninden Maja skal sydpå til sol, strand og lækre fyre. Majas sms'er er Siris livline i de stille dage på landet, men pludselig dukker søde Pelle med de grønneste øjne op, så da sms'erne stopper, opdager Siri ikke at der er noget galt ...

Per Angel Rahimi esiste una sola cosa nella vita: gli Ark, la boy-band del momento. Essere nel fandom degli Ark le ha dato tutto ciò che ama: la sua amica Juliet, i suoi sogni, un posto nel mondo. Anche Jimmy deve tutto agli Ark: è il loro frontman, e suonare in una band con i suoi amici è tutto ciò che ha sempre sognato. Ma a volte i sogni si trasformano in qualcosa che non avevi previsto, e quando Jimmy e Angel si ritrovano faccia a faccia, si rendono conto di come la realtà possa essere diversa dall'immaginazione.

Lydia Jones and her younger sister Penny have had it with boy drama. Last year was marred by relationship disasters for both of them, threatening Lydia’s standing with her school’s theater tech club and Penny’s perfect GPA. Penny has, naturally, diagnosed the problem and prescribed a drastic solution: a summer off from boys. Lydia and Penny decide to stay with their Aunt Grace and her boyfriend Oscar in Los Angeles while their parents are off on a European cruise. Penny follows her dreams with an internship at Oscar’s office, and Lydia gets a part-time job at Grace’s neighborhood coffeeshop.

I skolen får Billie ikke sagt fra, da Funny og Hugo udvælger Malena som mobbeoffer. Billie tør ikke betro sig til sin mor, som hun bor alene med. Moren har et hårdt job som sygeplejerske med stressende nattevagter, og Billies far bor langt væk i Brasilien. Men så begynder Billie at skrive breve med usynlig skrift og gemme dem i det store træ i gården, og pludselig er der svar tilbage.

Sixteen-year-old Alonda loves professional wrestling. So when she meets a group of teens with aspirations of wrestling fame in her Coney Island neighborhood, she couldn’t be happier. So as the ragtag team works to put on a show to remember, Alonda leaves behind her old self and becomes Alondra―the Fearless One. But with her conflicting feelings for King, the handsome leader of their group, and Lexi, the girl with the beautiful smile, Alonda has to ask herself: can she be as fearless outside of the ring as she is inside of it?

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.

As one of the top pianists at the Royal College of Music, Flynn has been put forward for an important concert, the opportunity of a lifetime. On a good day he feels full of energy and life, but on a bad day being alive is worse than being dead. Sometimes things can only get worse before they get better.

Could you plan the Fall Formal with your (hot) nemesis? Whit Rivera is about to find out. Frenemies Whit and Zay have been at odds for years (ever since he broke up with her in, like, the most embarrassing way imaginable), so when they’re forced to organize the fall formal together, it's a...

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.

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!