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Seventeen-year-old Hylee Williams didn’t ask to disappear. She didn’t ask to move from Kansas City, Kansas out to the suburbs in Missouri. But she did disappear, and not only that, but when she vanished from our world, she materialized in a dark, twisted version of the night that changed her life forever: the night her older brother went missing. Just as Hylee realizes this moment could be the key to unraveling the truth about her brother, she’s yanked away from the dark place back to our world.

Vlak voor haar laatste jaar op de middelbare school verhuist Hannah naar een dorpje aan zee. Ze gaat in een vuurtoren pal aan het strand wonen, iets waar ze al jaren van droomt. Snel weet ze vriendschap te sluiten met een kleurrijke groep mensen die vaak 's avonds op het strand bij elkaar komen rond een kampvuur. Wat volgt zijn vele zomeravonden aan zee, geheime nachtelijke uitstapjes en dagenlang luieren op het strand. Het is de perfecte zomer en het lijkt erop dat er zelfs liefde om de hoek komt kijken.

Ian Gray isn’t supposed to have a dog, but a lot of things that shouldn’t happen end up happening anyway. And Gather, Ian’s adopted pup, is good company now that Ian has to quit the basketball team, find a job, and take care of his mom as she tries to overcome her opioid addiction. Despite the obstacles thrown their way, Ian is determined to keep his family afloat no matter what it takes. And for a little while, things are looking up: Ian makes friends, and his fondness for the outdoors and for fixing things lands him work helping neighbors.

Mati's family is reeling from the death of Mati's mother. Her Baba has drawn into himself, her sister Chichi is rebelling, and her young brother Tana is desperate for love and normalcy. When Chichi pulls her worst stunt yet, Baba uproots the family from their home in England for an extended camping holiday in their native Zimbabwe. Along for the trip is Meticais, a fabulously attired gender-neutral spirit--or ghost? or imaginary friend?—who only Mati can see and converse with.

O Colégio João Cabral de Melo Neto já foi palco de diferentes histórias, algumas sobre ansiedade, outras sobre depressão. Todas elas, no entanto, têm em comum amizade e superação. Não poderia ser diferente com este novo livro que encerra a série Cabeça Jovem. Alan sofre com sua baixa autoestima e excessiva timidez; Duda luta contra momentos paralisantes de puro pânico. Ambos se sentem sozinhos, isolados e sem esperança. Porém, a escuridão não é páreo para a amizade e, juntos, os dois descobrirão a força que têm dentro de si.

Enquanto busca seu lugar no mundo, a sensível protagonista deste livro precisa lidar com as responsabilidades, namoros e amizades complicadas. Além disso, tenta superar dois casos de assédio conversando com as amigas e com os pais, se mobilizando na escola, sendo uma boa aluna e fazendo a diferença no mundo. Esse livro intenso aborda temas difíceis de maneira bastante delicada, retratando com doçura o despertar para questões importantes como o feminismo, a desconstrução de estereótipos, a igualdade e os direitos humanos.

Textos curtos, diretos, com a cara de um singelo post numa rede social... Mas a carga de emoção e poesia que o escritor Tiago de Melo Andrade consegue imprimir nesse livro não são nada efêmeras nem passageiras. Um diálogo profundo com a alma humana acontece quando nos deparamos com a literatura em seu estado mais simples. É exatamente essa a sensação que as crônicas desse belíssimo livro transmitem, uma leitura necessária e acolhedora para os leitores de todas as idades e de todos os tempos.

Os estudantes do Colégio Vivência estão trilhando seus caminhos, lidando com seus próprios dilemas e preocupações, quando uma notícia vem para chocar a todos: a escola irá encerrar suas atividades. Esse é o fio condutor que conecta as oito partes deste livro, cada uma contada sob a ótica de um jovem da Sala 1208. Seus pontos de vistas são diferentes, assim como suas inquietações e narrativas. A força dessas histórias está justamente nessa descoberta, tão comum na adolescência, de que a vida é intensa, misteriosa, bonita, feia, alegre, triste...

Mais uma vez, venha mergulhar no cotidiano do Colégio João Cabral de Melo Neto e na vida de seus estudantes. Dessa vez, você ficará próximo de Letícia, que passou por um baita susto – imagine ter um quase infarto antes dos 20 anos de idade? –, e de Makoto, que passou por outro tipo de situação... A da perda, e a tristeza que invadiu seu coração está ameaçando dominar seu corpo inteiro. Juntos, esses dois amigos vão descobrir o que significa viver, crescer e vencer os problemas que a vida apresenta, um passo de cada vez.

While her friends head off to college, Shannon Burke is stuck with a dead-end job and the responsibility of saving her mother’s business. The only bright spot is her upcoming birthday and a visit from her eccentric Aunt Rebecca. But before Shannon can blow out her candles, she receives devastating news: Rebecca is dead. When she learns that her aunt has gifted her a beat-up camper, Shannon decides to sell it for cold hard cash. Then she loses her job and finds a map in the glove box, and jumps behind the wheel and hits the road, determined to follow wherever Rebecca’s cryptic maps might lead.

Il est déjà l’heure pour l’équipe de balle-molle mixte de participer à son deuxième tournoi. Cette fois-ci, direction Québec ! Si Julianne a vu le grand amour lui tomber du ciel du jour au lendemain, pour Hanaé, il en est tout autrement ! La jolie blonde met tellement d’efforts à trouver l’âme soeur qu’elle se perd dans le tourbillon de ses rencontres éclairs. Alors qu’un événement malheureux viendra bouleverser sa vie, elle sera forcée de prendre un temps d’arrêt afin de définir ce qu’elle veut vraiment.

Kom bag om personerne fra DR's sexede ungdomsserie "SALSA". I denne bogserie kan du læse mere om Uma, Victoria og de andre fra "SALSA"-universet. Følg med i deres liv og historie, inden vi møder dem i tv-serien. Det handler om venskaber, usikkerhed, liderlighed og ikke mindst sex - som både kan være akavet og dejligt, kompliceret og grænseoverskridende, men for det meste er skønt, sjovt og ufarligt, bare man gør det på sin egen måde.

Aster Layne believes in physics, not psychics. A tarot card reading on the Ocean City Boardwalk should have been a ridiculous, just-for-fun thing. It wasn't. Aster discovers she has a very unscientific gift—with a simple touch of the cards, she can change a person's fate. Reese Van Buren is cursed. Like the kind of old-school, centuries-old curse that runs in royal families. Every firstborn son is doomed to die on his eighteenth birthday—and Reese's is coming up fast. Bummer. He tries to distract himself from his inevitable death . . . only to find the one person who can save him.

Pedro and Daniel are Mexican American brothers growing up in 1970s Ohio. Their mom doesn’t like that Pedro is a spitting image of their darker-skinned father, that Daniel plays with dolls, that neither boy loves sports like the other kids in their neighborhood. Life at home can be rough—but the boys have an unshakable bond that will last their entire lives.

If there's one thing dragons fear, it's a kraken. Even lowly hull-scrubber Zee Tarrow knows that. Like everyone on the island kingdom of Tosh, he grew up frightened by fables and horrible tales of the great beasts of the deep. It seems an odd thing to impress upon the children of the realm, because–luckily for the dragons and their riders–no one has seen a kraken in a thousand years.

Je pense qu’il voudrait qu’on soit officiellement un couple, mais… je ne suis pas prête pour sa. Je viens à peine de sortir d’une relation super longue avec Colin.

Victoria Massey es trasladada al internado Fennoith tras intentar envenenar a su padrastro con matarratas. Después de la muerte de Adelaide Massey, la relación de ambos empeoró. Adelaide dejó en herencia toda su fortuna a su hija única, la joven Victoria. Benjamín, viudo y padrastro de la muchacha, crédulo pensó que la fortuna de Adelaide sería para él.

The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen follows fifteen-year-old Carl as he confronts his crush on Andy Olnan, a handsome and confident “city boy” recently transplanted to farm life from Minneapolis who may or may not share the same feelings. At the same time, Carl and his father clash over the future of their small and struggling dairy farm, a legacy of Carl’s late mother: how do they honor her dream for the family while also ensuring financial security?

Een muzikale roman in het New York van 9/11Jimi leeft voor muziek. Na een repetitie met zijn band heeft hij een mysterieuze ontmoeting met een vrouw die hem waarschuwt: als hij de trap op gaat, reist hij terug naar het verleden. Om terug te keren naar het heden zal hij een persoonlijke en intense opdracht moeten vervullen.

Relationships fall apart and come together. But through it all, there's one thing the Singhs can count on: Their family will always be there for one another.