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Spannende Fortsetzung der beliebten Dreililien-Pferdebuchreihe! Turbulente Zeiten auf Dreililien: Zwischen Matty und Maja krieselt es gewaltig. Grund ist Hannes, der seine Ferien auf Dreililien verbringt und sich in Maja verliebt hat. Aber werden sich Matty und Maja wirklich trennen? Auch das Glück von Nell und Jörn wird überschattet. Nach einem Autounfall schwebt Jörn in Lebensgefahr. Für Nell beginnt eine schwere Zeit, in der sie erkennt, worauf es im Leben wirklich ankommt. Mit dem Umzug aufs Land ändert sich Nells Leben komplett: Neue Umgebung, neue Freunde, neue Liebe.

Svarta var spänd som en fiolsträng när Ann skulle ta sig upp på henne. Pia gick bredvid och ledde hästen neråt vägen. Plötsligt susade en moped förbi och skrämde upp Svarta till den grad att hon kastade av Ann. Hon var skadad och vit i ansiktet av smärta. Hur skulle de göra nu då? Tanken var ju att Ann skulle rida in Svarta... Eva Berggren (född 1944) är en svensk författare som skrivit flera barn- och ungdomsböcker, ofta med djurtema.

Plötsligt står hon där, ensam i USA. VM i travsport väntar och det är första gången Martina är utomlands. Men, hon har som tur är världens kanske snabbaste travhingst med sig, King of Sunset. Något skumt visar sig snart vara i görningen. De är förföljda av någon som vill skada Sunset. En vacker ung man vid namn Kevin kommer till deras undsättning. Fastän Martina har en pojkvän hemma i Sverige får hon allt svårare att dölja sin förtjusning... Ulrika Ekblom (f. 1961) författade åren 1993-2000 serien i fem delar om Martina och King of Sunset.

Spannende Fortsetzung der Dreililien-Pferdebuchreihe! Für Nell und ihre Pferdefreunde kommt es knüppeldick: Auf dem Reiterhof Dreililien bricht eine Pferdeseuche aus und drei Jungpferde, darunter auch Nells Lieblingsfohlen, müssen eingeschläfert werden. Trost findet die 16-Jährige zunächst bei ihrem Freund Jörn, der im Krankenhaus seinen Zivildienst macht. Doch irgendwie hat er sich in letzter Zeit verändert, findet Nell. Ob ein anderes Mädchen dahinter steckt? Dann kommt es zum Streit zwischen den beiden und Nell muss sich entscheiden.

Neues Pferdeabenteuer von Nell und ihren Freunden vom Reiterhof Dreililien! Auf Nell und ihre Freunde wartet ein Winter voller Abenteuer: Zum ersten Mal nach langer Zeit wird auf Dreililien wieder ein Fohlen geboren. Matty verliebt sich in Maja, die auf Dreililien ihre Ferien verbringt. Nell plant zu ihrem 16. Geburtstag eine riesige Party, zu der natürlich auch ihr Freund Jörn eingeladen ist. Doch dann kommt es zum Streit zwischen den beiden und es herrscht Funkstille. Werden sich Jörn und Nell noch rechtzeitig zur Party wieder vertragen?

Otto spiller Counter-Strike sammen med fire venner på Go Gaming-holdet. De er ikke professionelle, men drømmer om at blive det. Otto drømmer også om at blive professionel fodboldspiller, men da han får tilbudt en plads på førsteholdet, står han pludselig i et kæmpe dilemma. Der er ikke tid til begge dele, så hvordan skal Otto vælge mellem de to ting, han elsker allermest? Go Gaming er en ny serie om at spille Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, om at være en del af et hold og nogle gange måtte træffe valg, som føles helt umulige.

Den första delen i serien om den unge fotbollstalangen Markus Cerwin. Han älskar att spela fotboll och hans enda sorg är att familjen saknar parabol så att han kan se fotboll från Italien, Frankrike och Tyskland, där han har sitt favoritlag FC Frankfurt. En dag blir han upptäckt av en talangscout när han spelar fotboll på skoj med några kompisar. Han får ett erbjudande som är svårt att tacka nej till. Men hur ska han få tiden att räcka till? Han har ju även en tjej han gärna vill träffa.

Lovis älskar att rida, men hästsport är dyrt och det verkar inte som att det finns någon chans för henne att kunna spara ihop till sin dröm, att bli tävlingsryttare. Hon kan inte tävla utan en egen häst, de flesta andra tävlingsryttarna har en hel gård med hästar att träna. Så vitt Lovis vet har ingen i släkten varit speciellt intresserad av ridning, så att en av hennes släktingar äger en hästgård kommer som en stor överraskning.

‘Okay, lads, you have everything you need to win this game. So go out and do it ,' said the coach. Eoin's not sure if it will be so easy! He’s just started a new school...and a new sport. Everyone at school is mad about rugby, but Eoin hasn’t even held a rugby ball before! With new rules to learn, new friends to make and new teachers to get a handle on, he really doesn’t need to have Richie Duffy, the resident bully, picking him out as his latest target! And just who is this guy Brian who looks so out of date but gives great rugby advice?

Henry "Biggie" Abbott is the son of one of Finch, Iowa's most famous athletes. His father was a baseball legend and his step-dad is a close second. At an obese 300+ pounds though, Biggie himself prefers classroom success to sports. As a perfectionist, he doesn't understand why someone would be happy getting two hits in five trips to the plate. "Forty percent, that's an F in any class", he would say. As Biggie's junior year begins, the girl of his dreams, Annabelle Rivers, starts to flirt with him and suggests he should play baseball.

Holland Delviss wants to be known for her talent as a hockey player, not a hockey player who happens to be a girl. But when her school team is selected to be featured and televised as part of HockeyFest, her status as the only girl on the boys’ team makes her the lead story. Not everyone is thrilled with Holland’s new fame, but there’s one person who fiercely supports her, and it’s the last person she expects (and definitely the last person she should be falling for): her bossy team captain, Wes.

It’s one single steamy July day at the West 4th Street Court in New York City, otherwise known as the Cage. Hotshot baller ESPN is wooing the scouts, Boo is struggling to guard the weird new guy named Waco, a Spike Lee wannabe has video rolling, and virgin Irene is sizing up six-foot-eight-and-a-half-inch-tall Chester. Nine of young-adult literature’s top writers reveal how it all goes down in this searing novel in short stories that each ingeniously pick up where the last one ends.

Sadie Windas has always been the responsible one - she’s the star player on her AAU basketball team, gets good grades, dates a cute soccer player, and helps out at home. Not like her older sister, Carla, who hangs out with druggies and leaves her three-year-old daughter, Lulu, with Aunt Sadie while she parties and gets high. But when Sadie and Carla are caught up in a drug deal - wrong place, wrong time - it falls to Sadie to clean up the mess, confessing to a crime she didn’t commit to keep Carla out of jail and Lulu out of foster care. She’s supposed to get off with a slap on the wrist. Instead, she’s sentenced to six months in juvie.

Pichu is the best soccer player anyone in the little Mexican town of Los Barriles has ever seen. When a vacationing American soccer coach sees the teenager score a gravity-defying goal in a local game, he offers Pichu a scholarship to pay for the University of San Francisco's underdog team. Pichu leaves his family and the security of his idyllic fishing village and finds himself in a jarringly different environment.

The touching story of a legendary baseball fan, known in ballparks throughout the league as "Old Well Well". When the diehard fan becomes fatally ill, he has only one request: to see his nephew, the rising star outfielder, play in one game.

Kyle Saint-Claire is everything Jonny Fehey wishes to be: A star on the soccer field, a straight-A student, and king of Millburn High's social ladder. Jonny unhappily accepts his position on a lesser rung, until fate steps in and Jonny scores the go-ahead goal in the county soccer championships...and it looks like he will finally make it into the popular crowd. But at the victory party, a classmate is raped and Jonny's world begins to unravel.

Fifteen-year-old bender Kivali has had a rough time in a gender-rigid culture. Abandoned as a baby and raised by Sheila, an ardent nonconformist, Kivali has always been surrounded by uncertainty. Where did she come from? Is it true what Sheila says, that she was deposited on Earth by the mysterious saurians?

On the vast and indescribably beautiful South Rim of the Grand Canyon a young Hualapai boy faces a bleak future in 1902. River Thunder's mother has just passed into the Spirit World and River Thunder will carry his flute, courage and trusting innocence to the Hackberry Day School still standing today on old Route 66 while never once imagining how his fate will one day soar like an eagle over the magnificent Grand Canyon.

Lorrie Hollander used to be a rich girl, but now she's lost everything because of the secrets and lies of the people around her. It's been 12 years since Lorrie's mother skipped town and left Lorrie in the care of her unstable aunt Gigi. Together they live in a neglected, decrepit mansion called Edgewater, the eyesore in a town of extraordinary wealth and privilege. When Charlie, the son of an esteemed senator, takes an interest in Lorrie, her shame for her family and lifestyle runs deep.

It's 1950 and Mickey Tussler - the now-famous pitching prodigy with autism and a golden arm - is back for another baseball season in this third installment of Frank Nappi's critically acclaimed Legend of Mickey Tussler series. Talk of Mickey's legendary exploits on the field has grown since his improbable debut two years prior, as have the fortunes of Murph and the rest of the lovable ragtag Brew Crew. Now Mickey, Murph, and Lester find themselves heading to Bean Town to play for the Boston Braves.