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An intensely powerful account of a teen, bullied for herport-wine stain, who must summon her personal strength to survive abduction andhorrific abuse at the hands of a deranged killer

Sixteen-year-old Sarah Meadows longs for "normal."Born with a port-wine stain covering half her face, she has beenplagued by stares, giggles, bullying, and disgust all her life. But when she's abducted onthe way home from school, Sarah is forced to uncover the courage she never knewshe had, become a hero rather than a victim, and learn to look beyond her faceto find the beauty and strength she has inside. It's that - or succumb to akiller.

As soon as Seneca Frazier sees the post on the Case Not Closed website about Helena Kelly, she's hooked. Helena's high-profile disappearance five years earlier is the one that originally got Seneca addicted to true crime. It's the reason she's a member of the site in the first place. So when Maddy Wright, her best friend from the CNC site, invites Seneca to spend spring break in Connecticut looking into the cold case, she immediately packs her bag. But the moment she steps off the train in trendy, glamorous Dexby, things begin to go wrong.

"Jomfrubanden" er en rap og morsom krimi, der dog også stiller nogle alvorlige spørgsmål om ret og uret.

Theo Boones schwierigste Prüfung Theo Boone, der 13-jährige Sohn zweier erfolgreicher Anwälte mit einem ausgeprägten Sinn für Recht und Gerechtigkeit, steht diesmal vor einer besonderen Herausforderung: Er muss sich auf die Aufnahmeprüfung für die Highschool vorbereiten. Eine Riesensache...

Ce roman est l'histoire d'une fulgurante amitié qui tourne au drame. Charlène, jeune adolescente de 13 ans un peu effacée, entre en classe de cinquième. Dès le premier jour de la rentrée, Sarah, nouvelle dans l'établissement, fait sensation auprès de tous les élèves, séduits par cette fille à la personnalité magnétique. Charlène la regarde avec admiration et haine mélangées. Finalement les deux jeunes filles se lient d'amitié.

Don't you trust me? I mean, look at me. Blond, blue eyed, the very image of innocence. Pretty enough, if you care about that kind of thing. I don't. But would a normal person switch identities with some wet mess of a girl at the airport just to get her to stop bawling about being separated from her loser boyfriend and sent to live with some distant relatives? Nope, she wouldn't. Yet I did. I'm not as normal as you think. And you'll just have to trust me.

Var der bladan i saftevandet? Kan man i det hele taget presse gift ud af en hugorm? Og mener de tre søskende Anne, Jan og Tina i ramme alvor, at de vil slå deres fætter, problembarnet Peter, ihjel?

Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the 16-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes the dead leave behind in the world . . . and the imprints that attach to their killers.

The missing dead call to Violet. They want to be found.Violet can sense the echoes of those who've been murdered and the matching imprint that clings to their killers. Only those closest to her know what she is capable of, but when she discovers the body of a young boy she also draws the attention of the FBI, threatening her entire way of life. As Violet works to keep her morbid ability a secret, she unwittingly becomes the object of a dangerous obsession.

Farrah "Digit" Higgins may be going to MIT in the fall, but this L.A. high school genius has left her geek self behind in another school district so she can blend in with the popular crowd at Santa Monica High and actually enjoy her senior year. But when Farrah, the daughter of a UCLA math professor, unknowingly cracks a terrorist group's number sequence, her laid-back senior year gets a lot more interesting. Soon she is personally investigating the case, on the run from terrorists, and faking her own kidnapping - all while trying to convince a young, hot FBI agent to take her seriously.

Sixteen-year-old Lex Bartleby is a teenage grim reaper with the bizarre ability to Damn souls. That makes her pretty scary, even to fellow Grims. But after inadvertently transferring her ability to Zara, a murderous outlaw, Lex is a pariah in Croak, the little town she calls home. To escape the townspeople’s wrath, she and her friends embark on a wild road trip to DeMyse. Though this sparkling desert oasis is full of luxuries and amusements, it feels like a prison to Lex.

Lex, a teenage Grim Reaper, has the power to damn souls - and it’s getting out of control. Her boyfriend, Driggs, is dead - sort of. She’s a fugitive, on the run from the maniacal new mayor of Croak and the townspeople who want to see her pay the price for her misdeeds. Uncle Mort rounds up the Junior Grims to flee Croak once again, but this time they’re joined by Grotton, the most powerful Grim of all time. Their new mission is clear: Fix his mistakes, or the Afterlife will cease to exist, along with all the souls in it.

Eine jugendliche Protagonistin, die ihren eigenen Wahrnehmungen nicht trauen kann – sensibel, beklemmend, wahrhaftig! Was tust du, wenn du nicht mehr weißt, was Realität ist und was Fantasie? Seit dem Tod ihres Bruders wird Doro von Halluzinationen geplagt. Stimmen verfolgen sie. Und eines...

“Perfect for mature high school students who love John Green and Jesse Andrews.” — School Library Journal In this coming-of-age debut audiobook from Tyler James Smith, a seventeen-year-old boy has one week in the aftermath of a disastrous prank to prove to the authorities, and to himself...

After Diego lands himself on probation for fighting, he doesn’t trust his probation officer, Mr. Vidas. But as he begins to open up, Diego realizes that he needs Mr. Vidas’s help to get his anger under control. To do that, Diego will need to face the nightmares from his past head-on and confront the memories he’s been avoiding. Will anyone even believe him if he tells the truth about his stepfather? Award-winning author Alex Sanchez writes about a teen’s very real struggle to overcome his anger and take control of his life.

Spannend wie nie: Theo Boone im Kampf gegen skrupellose Großunternehmer In seinem neuen Fall begibt sich Theo Boone, der jüngste und cleverste »Anwalt« von Strattenburg, in höchste Gefahr: Als die Farm seines Freundes Hardie einer neuen Umgehungsstraße weichen soll, setzen sich Theo und...

Das HÖRERLEBNIS speziell für JUNGS Eine neue Mission für den 13-jährigen CHERUB-Agenten Ryan nimmt seinen Lauf, als Ethans Onkel Leonid vom milliardenschweren Aramov-Clan mit einem Putsch die Herrschaft an sich reißen will. Ihm fehlt nur noch eines: das Vermögen der todkranken Großmutter...

Actionreich - aufregend - brillant Der zwölfjährige Ryan ist eben erst von Cherub, der Unterorganisation des britischen Geheimdienstes, als Agent angeworben worden. Er hat gerade einmal seine Grundausbildung hinter sich und jetzt bekommt er seinen ersten Auftrag. Der führt ihn nach...

Das Meer, so schön – so tödlich! Ein versunkenes Schiff. Eine uralte Lüge. Und ein Schatzsucher, der Maries Leben gehörig durcheinander bringen wird ... Bei der Rettung von zwei Seehunden kollidiert Maries Schiff mit einem Wrack. Es ist die "Trinity", die vor über sechzig Jahren in einer...

Wahrheit, Lüge, Tod „THE COURT“ – das waren die Coolen. Die Angesagten, die Unerreichbaren, die Helden von Lanas Schulzeit. Wie kann es sein, dass ausgerechnet Lana an eine Einladung zu einem Kurztrip mit der Überflieger-Clique kommt? Jahre, nachdem sie alle ihre alte Schule verlassen...