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The “Young Boy Named David” series is designed to help young people deal with difficult situations that are hard to talk about and adults reconnect to their disconnected childhood helping heal broken pasts. In Book 9, David feels abandoned by his mother and brother, so he tries to find family guidance and love from other people.

Twelve-year-old Anna Krawitz is imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto with her older sister, Lina, and their father. Happy days spent reading about anatomy and science in Papa’s bookshop are long gone, and the knowledge they have is used to help their neighbors through the illnesses caused by starvation and war.

Mental ist Simpel auf der Stufe eines dreijährigen Kindes, doch sein Bruder kümmert sich und zieht mit ihm in eine Studenten-WG. Simpel spielt gern mit Playmobil. Er sagt: "Hier sind alle total blöd", wenn hier alle total blöd sind, und er kann total schnell zählen: 7, 9, 12, B, tausend, hundert. Simpel ist zweiundzwanzig Jahre alt, doch mental ist er auf der Stufe eines dreijährigen Kindes. Gut, dass sich sein siebzehnjähriger Bruder um ihn kümmert. Doch Simpel zu betreuen ist alles andere als simpel.

Robespierre is dead. The Reign of Terror is over. As Royalist strength grows, the Duc de L'Aubespine plots a coup that will consign the revolution to history. With Olympe in his clutches, he believes nothing can stop him. But he's reckoned without the intrepid Battalion of the Dead! Reunited in Paris, Ada is poised for action—but if she plays her hand too soon, everything she's sacrificed to gain his trust will be lost. Meanwhile, an unlikely alliance with an old enemy might be Camille's only option to save Olympe and stop the duc in his tracks.

This heartfelt coming of age story follows Michie, a high school junior who begins to grapple with big questions of love, purpose, and family while working on something that could change her life. High school junior Michie is struggling to define who she is for her scholarship essays, her big...

The city of Leithon is under Imperial occupation and Arian Athensor has made it her playground. In stealing magical artifacts for the Resistance, bounding over rooftops to evade Imperial soldiers, and establishing herself as the darling thief of the underground, Arian lives a life wrapped in danger and trained towards survival. She’ll steal anything for the right price, and if she runs fast enough, she can almost escape the fact that her mother is dead, her father is missing, and her brother, Liam, is tamping down a wealth of power in a city that has outlawed magic.

Lexi has always wanted to know more about the mother who passed away when she was only a child. But her dad will barely talk about her. Is it so wrong to want to learn about the mom she never got to know? When Lexi’s grandma dies and secretly leaves her a worn blue chest that belonged to Lexi’s mother, Lexi is ecstatic to find a treasure trove of keepsakes. Her mom held on to letters, pamphlets, flyers, and news articles all from the same beautiful summertime getaway—Mackinac Island—plus a cryptic postcard that hints at a forbidden romance.

Lucky loves her grandparents, and they are all the family she really has. True, her grandma forgets things … like turning off the stove, or Lucky’s name. But her grandpa takes such good care of them that Lucky doesn’t realize how bad things are. That is until he’s gone. When her grandma accidentally sets the kitchen on fire, Lucky can’t hide what’s happening any longer, and she is sent into foster care. She quickly learns that some foster families are okay. Some aren’t. And some really, really aren’t.

In Juliana Goodman's powerful young adult debut The Black Girls Left Standing, Beau Willet will stop at nothing to clear her sister's name. Sixteen-year-old Beau Willet has dreams of being an artist and one day leaving the Chicago projects she’s grown up in. But after her older sister, Katia...

He's never had a boyfriend, or even been kissed. It's not like Penn Valley is brimming with prospects. Nolan plans to ride out the rest of his junior year drawing narwhals, working at the greenhouse, and avoiding anything that involves an ounce of school spirit.

Part memoir, part speculative fiction, The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be explores the often surreal experience of growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee. Dream Country author Shannon Gibney returns with The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be, a book woven from her true story of...

Failing antibiotics have shifted society online. As big tech companies begin to dominate life, the boundaries between real and virtual have blurred. At 14, Jess is attending school for the first time. Meeting other children and making real friends is something she's dreamed of for years. But Jess misses her family, especially her sister Chloe, who is in poor health. With Chloe's sickness worsening and her medication getting more expensive, Jess turns to the digital world to fix things.

Seventeen-year-old internet video star Fit is on a mission to become famous at all costs. She shares her life with her fans through countless videos (always sporting some elaborate tinfoil accessory), and they love her for it. If she goes viral, maybe she can get out of her small casino town and the cramped apartment she shares with her brother and grandpa. But there's one thing Fit's fans don't know about her: when Fit was three years old, her mother, suffering from postpartum psychosis, tried to kill her.

It was complicated enough when their parents were only dating and Kevin was going out with Charlie’s best friend, Tess. Now, living under one roof, Charlie and Kevin are crossing paths and crossing lines, sneaking around at night and then sitting down to breakfast together as a family. It feels so crazy—exciting, confusing, impossible, and romantic. It can’t last, not like this, but if anybody discovers their secret, everything could explode …

Between her dad’s pest-control company, her mom’s pond-cleaning service, and her side gig at Caddysnack (Santa Barbara’s premier small plates and minigolf destination), Hallie Mayhew puts the “work” in working class. But Hal has qualms about gassing gophers, she’s tired of ditching friends to skim dead fish from fountains, and she’s freaking weary of divorced-parent politics. So she has a plan: win the prestigious Verhaag Scholarship, go to an east-coast school, never come back.

What lines would you cross to save someone you love? Filled with the kinds of impossible choices that made the TV show Weeds such a hit, this compelling drama asks to what lengths an avid rule-follower will go in order to save her family--and the answer involves "growing" in surprising...

Valora Rigmore understands pressure. As the Chosen One (resident telekinetic, superstar, and model girlfriend), her life revolves around it. According to an ancient prophesy, Valora is destined to fight Erys, a terrifying individual with the power to control monsters. Valora is worshipped at school, in the press, and by her parents, but as the battle with Erys looms near, the cracks in her perfect façade are beginning to show.

Chester, seines Zeichens Tierheim-Hund, ist überglücklich, als er bei Familie Siering einziehen darf. Allerdings fällt es ihm gar nicht so leicht, immer zu verstehen, was seine neue Familie von ihm erwartet, und so stürzt er den Haushalt mehr als einmal ins Chaos. Als dann Weihnachten naht, beschließt er, seinen Menschen, ganz besonders dem kleinen Max, einen großen Wunsch zu erfüllen: Er will ihnen einen Opa unter den Weihnachtsbaum legen. Doch wie soll er das anstellen und vor allem - was ist ein Opa überhaupt?

"Satans Yngel" er en ærlig og usødet fortælling om dét at få et barn. Og om at fortryde undervejs. For sent. Og om at gøre sig forestillinger og forberede sig i en uendelighed og alligevel ikke ane, hvad der rammer en, den dag, det pludselig er der. Det satans yngel. Alma og hendes kæreste Tobi skal være forældre, og vi følger Alma lige fra de to streger på graviditetstesten og frem til fødslen, der som et meteornedslag opsplitter både bogen og Almas liv i en tid før og en tid efter.

"Skrid, mor" er en stærk fortælling om teenagepigen P, der er vred på sin mor. Vred over at være flyttet, vred over at skulle lege glad ny familie og vred over ikke at måtte se sin far. Bevæbnet med sin mors dagbog og et minde om noget, der var engang, begiver P sig ud på en rejse, der ikke kun fører hende til hendes far og en side af ham, hun ikke kendte, men også til grundene bag alt det usagte og hendes mors handlinger. "Skrid, mor" er en del af Forums letlæste serie, "Zoom On", og kan læses fra 11 år.