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From bestselling author Lisa Graff, this important coming-of-age story follows a thirteen-year-old with a mysterious scar on her face—and a big secret she feels pressured to keep. Fallon Little has a secret—and it’s not how she got the enormous scar that divides her face in two...

Manchmal, wenn ich mit Menschen interagiere, kommt in mir das Bedürfnis hoch, meinen Kopf möglichst intensiv gegen eine Wand zu schlagen. Aber man munkelt, das sei "schmerzhaft" und außerdem "schlecht für meine Gehirnzellen". Deshalb liste ich hier die Menschen auf, die in mir dieses großartige Gefühl auslösen. Wobei ich auch nicht sagen würde, dass dieses Buch gut für eure Gehirnzellen ist.

Malte liebt Zahlen und trainiert fleißig für die Mathe-Olympiade, bei der er unbedingt gewinnen will. Als einziger seiner Schule hat er sich für die Landesrunde qualifiziert. Doch Zuhause bricht das Chaos aus, als seine sechzehnjährige Halbschwester Josefine für vier Wochen bei ihnen einzieht. Sie eckt überall an, schwänzt die Schule und macht Malte das Leben schwer - wie soll er so vernünftig lernen? Zu allem Überfluss taucht auch noch Lale in seiner Mathe AG auf.

Cinco años después de casi ahogarse, Olivia Cathart vuelve a casa, a Caldwell Beach, decidida a enfrentarse a sus miedos y a correr algunos riesgos, no sólo nadando, sino abriendo su corazón. Con la esperanza de reavivar sus amistades, está entusiasmada con la idea de pasar un verano sin preocupaciones con sus mejores amigos Keely y Miles. Pero la vida en el tranquilo pueblo ha cambiado y nada ni nadie es lo que parece.

Venduta dalla madre al Re dell’Inferno quando era bambina, Lady Jing è mezza vampira, metà hulijing, uno spirito volpe. In quanto protetta del Re, ha passato gli ultimi novant’anni a svolgere commissioni, evitare le frecciatine delle maliziose cortigiane hulijing e cercare di controllare la sua esplosiva irascibilità. Con risultati altalenanti. Quando Jing scopre che alcuni cortigiani tramano per rubare una preziosa perla di drago al Re, coglie l’occasione per smascherarli, una volta per tutte.

Every morning, sixteen-year-old Sol wakes up at the break of dawn in her hometown of Tijuana, Mexico and makes the trip across the border to go to school in the United States. Though the commute is exhausting, this is the best way to achieve her dream: becoming the first person in her family to go to college. When her family’s restaurant starts struggling, Sol must find a part-time job in San Diego to help her dad put food on the table and pay the bills. But her complicated school and work schedules on the US side of the border mean moving in with her best friend and leaving her family behind.

With the help of her friends Quince, Cam, and Maggie, Evelyn “Eevee” Acker was finally ready to meet her birth parents, who, she’s recently discovered, are fae. That should be the end of the story. But Eevee doesn't find what she’s looking for. Instead, she has a choice to make: save her birth parents, who she’s never met, and put herself and her loved ones in danger? Or leave her birth parents to their fate, accepting she'll never have the answers she’s been searching for her whole life? There are some in Elfaeme who may force her to choose.

Mana artists rule the world, and the path to power is a well-kept secret, restricted to state-approved programs and schools. Akari Zeller will never be a mana artist. Not if society has its way. She's a Bronze with no money, no family, and no connections. But technology is advancing too. And to a skilled hacker like Akari, no secret is safe forever. The dark web holds the keys to true power, advancement, and her only chance of survival.

Travels with Athóma is a fictional memoir in verse where a man describes his childhood encounters with Athóma, a sibyl. This wise woman befriends him and in addition to instructing him about herbs and nature, teaching him travel songs that are used to shift his spirit into trees — fir, cedar, willow; birds — eagle, crow, swallow; insects — dragonfly, ladybird; otters, horses and stone. The story brings to life encounters with the natural world, not looking at it from outside but experiencing it from inside.

The 16-year-old pours her cynicism and grief into poetry and an intense relationship with her powerhouse best friend, Yasmina Khdour. When Melody’s father drags her to an overseas archeology conference in Jerusalem, she is left to wander alone. Hanging out on a Tel Aviv beach, smoking dope with her Israeli cousins and their army buddies, sounds like fun until she is sexually assaulted by a friend of her cousin. She cannot share this devastating truth with her emotionally distant dad and impulsively flees to Hebron where Yasmina is visiting her family.

After Zahra Paracha makes a decision at odds with her beliefs, her mother forces Zahra to make an impossible choice about her future. So Zahra runs away. A train and a plane ride later, she finds herself in New York, where she relinquishes her past in favor of a new future. There, she must learn who she is without the marionette strings of control in her mother’s hands. There, she must learn who she wishes to become.

There's something strange about the Layne sisters, and Wade Diaz wants nothing to do with them. Especially the one who ripped his heart out and set it on fire before tossing it in the garbage several months ago. Iris. He can't even think her name without unconsciously rubbing the spot in his chest where she left a gaping hole. But now her sisters are claiming some evil spirit is after his soul, and Iris is the only one who can save him. Well, at least his heart would stop hurting, right? Didn't sound so bad.

Stell dir vor, dein Leben ist scheiße! Du bist dreizehn, klein, ängstlich und hast keine richtigen Freunde. Dein kleiner Bruder nervt, dein Vater ist ein aggressiver Tyrann und wenn deine Mutter sich nicht gerade selbst bemitleidet, kommandiert sie dich nur herum. Und die Schule... Stell dir vor, du begegnest zum ersten Mal in deinem Leben jemandem, dem du vollständig vertraust und der dich mag - doch du verlierst diesen Menschen wieder und es ist deine eigene Schuld.

Michie and her best friend, Trissa, grew up like sisters in a ramshackle duplex owned by their single moms. But now that they're sixteen, their differences in identity and experience have caused a rift. Michie's an introvert obsessed with a book called A Girl's Guide to Murder. Shiny, extroverted Trissa, on the other hand, dances at the hottest nightclub in town. One night, Michie wakes up to find Trissa missing, having left only a cryptic note. The cops write her off as a party girl who's probably already met a foul end, but Michie refuses to believe it.

Venner er den familie, du selv vælger... Vennerne Hannah og Finn har tilbragt hver eneste jul sammen siden college. Ingen af dem har andre at være sammen med, så de har skabt deres egne skøre og hyggelige juletraditioner. Da de flytter til New York, fuldender den stilfulde Priya og den mystiske Theo deres selvvalgte familie. Men som tiden går, glider vennerne langsomt fra hinanden, og det kulminerer, da Finn annoncerer, at han flytter til L.A. Denne jul kan meget vel blive deres sidste sammen, og Hannah er rædselsslagen for, at vennegruppen helt falder fra hinanden.

Emile : Tu ris de mes jokes plates, tu me regardes quand tu penses que je m’en rends pas compte, tu demandes toujours aux autres où je suis… Moi : Comment tu sais que… Emile (en me coupant la parole) : Parce que moi aussi, je fais pareil. Moi aussi, je te surveille, je t’observe pis je te cherche des yeux quand j’arrive dans une pièce. Moi aussi je pense à toi dès que je me lève et je rêve de toi quand je me couche. Moi aussi je m’inquiète de savoir comment tu vas, je m’assure que tu es correcte et je me retire quand t’as besoin d’espace et d’air.

У четырнадцатилетней Даши, на первый взгляд, благополучная семья: мама, папа и полный комплект дедушек и бабушек. Ее ждут беззаботные летние каникулы: долгожданная встреча с друзьями, костер, игры, первая влюбленность... Но этим летом Даше предстоит пережить серьезное потрясение, которое разделит ее жизнь на "до" и "после", заставит по-новому взглянуть на свою семью и задуматься о том, что такое любовь.

Приложение «ВНикуда» позволяет завязать переписку со случайным адресатом. Девятиклассник Серафим, живущий в маленьком российском городке, отправляет письмо случайному адресату, особо ни на что не надеясь. Но ему отвечает такая же одинокая душа — Соня, которая недавно переехала с родителями в Израиль и так же нуждается в общении, как и Серафим. Завязывается переписка, в которой герои откровенно рассказывают друг другу о самом сокровенном, о чем никогда не узнают ни родители, ни друзья.

Will is a 17-year-old on the cusp of freedom—freedom from providing and caring for their abusive, addicted mother, freedom from their small town with an even smaller mindset, and freedom from having to hide who they truly are. When their mother dies months before their 18th birthday, Will is granted this freedom earlier than expected. They begin to dream of escaping to the big city of Baltimore, of dating the magnetic and gorgeous Julian, and of living, unencumbered and free.

Moi : T’as bu ?! Colin (en se redressant et en faisant un pas vers l’arrière) : Ouais, et alors ? Moi : Mais tu disais que tu pouvais pas, à cause de ta tête. Colin : Ma tête va mieux. Et je bois si je veux. Pis j’ai juste pris une bière, de toute façon, pas de quoi capoter.