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With his shaved head and begging bowl the new kid is an automatic target for the bully boys of Edward Rucher High, an easy mark for their casual cruelty.

The groundbreaking National Book Award Finalist and Michael L. Printz Honor Book with more than 3.5 million copies sold, Speak is a bestselling modern classic about consent, healing, and finding your voice. "Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of...

Some heroes walk. Some roll. When fifteen-year-old Caleb and Boo, the wonder dog, join Deputy Sheriff Nate Garner and his wife Marie on a trip, Caleb's expecting a week of fishing and campfires. They plan to deliver wheelchair-bound Molly and Marie to summer camp in the Wyoming wilderness, but...

Bloomsbury presents Natural Selection by Clare Edge, read by Kristen DiMercurio, Mara Wilson, Phoebe Strole and Clare Edge 'Suspenseful, witty, and oh so timely. It’s been ages since I devoured a book this quickly.' Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying...

Growing up without a mother is hard. Worse is having a stepmother who controls Dad. Brittany Myerson is so ready for high school to end. She knows that life is going to get a whole lot better when she gets her driver's license, the car she's always wanted and a ticket to college away from home...

Two roommates are left reeling when a classmate--and ex-boyfriend--dies in a freak accident. But when his ghost appears on campus, it becomes clear the dead has unfinished business. Practical Magic for the YA reader, this wickedly twisted contemporary horror will keep readers up all night. Love...

Saints and Misfits is an unforgettable debut novel that feels like a modern day My So-Called Life…starring a Muslim teen. There are three kinds of people in my world: 1. Saints, those special people moving the world forward. Sometimes you glaze over them. Or, at least, I do. They’re in...

From the award-winning and New York Times bestseller Once and for All Unlock your heart and the rest will follow. Ruby is used to taking care of herself. But now that she’s living with her sister, she’s got her own room, she’s going to a good school, and her future looks bright. Plus...

This is a story about two teens falling in love over a summer that throws everything possible to keep them apart. Max: Chill. Sports. Gay and not a big deal. And a secret: An encounter with an older kid that makes it hard to breathe, one that he doesn't want to think about, ever. Jordan: The opposite of chill. Poetry. His "wives" and the Chandler Mall. Never been kissed and searching for Mr. Right, who probably won't like him anyway. And a secret: A spiraling out of control mother, and the knowledge that he's the only one who can keep the family from falling apart.

One of Us Is Lying meets Sadie in this twisty, feminist thriller for the Me Too era. The troublemaker. The overachiever. The cheer captain. The dead girl. Like every high school in America, Jefferson-Lorne High contains all of the above. After the shocking murder of senior Emma Baines, three of...

Edgar Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Mystery * A Kirkus Best Book Raw and moving, this contemporary realistic debut novel will leave readers of E. Lockhart and Gayle Forman breathless as it unflinchingly unfolds the tragic secrets being kept in a small, deceptively idyllic town...

Novo livro de Lola Salgado, um dos destaques em YA da literatura nacional, conta a história de um adolescente com superpoderes que, enquanto descobre a sua própria sexualidade e identidade, vai entender por que, quando o assunto é amor, não há como se esconder atrás de disfarces. "Otto vai...

Die heiß ersehnte Fortsetzung von »One of Us Is Lying« Es ist ein Jahr her, seit Simon starb. Maeve ist inzwischen in ihrem Abschlussjahr an der Bayview High. Simons Tod und dessen Folgen sind langsam verwunden. Da wird der friedliche Schulbetrieb wieder ausgehebelt: Ein anonymes...

Edgar Award-winning author Mindy McGinnis delivers a riveting contemporary YA novel that examines rape culture through alternating perspectives. A stunning, unforgettable page-turner. Alex Craft knows how to kill someone. And she doesn’t feel bad about it. Three years ago, when her older...

Bloomsbury presents The Hollow Inside by Brooke Lauren Davis, read by Caroline Hewitt. Sadie meets The Glass Castle in a smart, gripping, and twisty YA debut about a girl seeking to reveal the truth about her mother—and herself. Seventeen-year-old Phoenix has spent much of her life drifting...

From the author of Dunk comes this sparkling new novel that covers a year in the life of high school freshman Scott Hudson, who is sideswiped by the unexpected news that his mother is about to have another baby.

Fourteen-year-old Luce has had a tough life, but she reaches the depths of despair when she is assaulted and left on the cliffs outside a grim Alaskan fishing village. She expects to die when she tumbles into the icy waves below but instead undergoes an astonishing transformation: she becomes a mermaid. A tribe of mermaids finds Luce and welcomes her in. All of them, like her, are lost girls who surrendered their humanity in the darkest moments of their lives.

Four high-school friends suffer daily humiliation at the hands of three bullies. When the friends accidentally open a portal to another dimension, they unintentionally allow terrifying, other-worldly creatures to invade their small Arkansas town. Discovering that they are now endowed with strange superpowers, the four teens dub themselves “Freaks”, the very name their tormentors used to ridicule them. The Freaks must fight to save the lives of family and friends now in mortal peril and thwart a secret government task force that appears to be hunting them.

Take a look behind the bully in this modern classic from Newbery medalist Jerry Spinelli that packs a punch. And don't miss the highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday. Cocky seventh-grade super-jock Crash Coogan got his nickname the day he used his first football helmet to knock his cousin...

Now high school sophomores, the self-styled “Freaks” are back in class in quiet Quapaw City, Arkansas. They grapple with the ordinary challenges of everyday teen life: cliques, cars, and crushes. While everything appears normal on the surface, looks have rarely been more deceiving. A secret government task force—fully aware of the unusual powers the Freaks have acquired—is determined to capture them. Even as the mysterious Baltar Stern shares ancient wisdom and offers hope, a new menace silently emerges in the woods outside of town.