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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.

Growing up in Ember Grove, Bitsy Clark knows better than to break the rules around the Revelry, the mysterious end-of-year party in the woods. So when her best friend, Amy, persuades her to sneak in, Bitsy is full of misgivings. Misgivings that she should have listened to, because it's after the Revelry that Bitsy's luck turns and her life starts to unravel. For Amy, it's the opposite, as if she's been blessed with good fortune. Soon Bitsy is convinced that the Revelry has tied the two friends together in a curse that only she can break.

At 17, Tyler Bruce is hot—a hot mess. His girlfriend is a knockout, his reputation untouchable, parties are nothing without him. Even his car is unreal. But inside Tyler is in ruins—and he'll stop at nothing to keep that a secret. Then one summer, Eden comes to stay. She's upfront, sharp and far more enticing than a stepsister should be. She also sees straight through Tyler's bad-boy façade...to the vulnerable kid within. The quiet kid who took all the punches. As Eden draws Tyler in, his defences start to crumble around him.

Welton Blake has done it! He's asked out Carmella McKenzie—the best-looking girl in school—and she's only gone and said yes! But just as he thinks his luck is starting to change, Welton's phone breaks, kick-starting a series of unfortunate and humiliating events. With bullies to avoid, girls ready to knock him out and all the drama with his mum and dad, life for Welton is about to go very, very wrong.

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.

Der Laternenwald ist im Begriff zu verenden, und niemand weiß, weshalb. Unerwartet werden die Geschwister Keli und Loyd Lanthorn in eine gefährliche und geheimnisumwobene Forschungsreise verwickelt. Im Wettlauf gegen die Zeit müssen sie sich durch in Nacht gehüllte Landstriche tasten, kilometerhohe Weltmetropolen durchforsten, antike Höhlennetze erforschen und sich durch unendlich weite Wildnis voller Farben, Rätsel und unbekannter Geschöpfe kämpfen.

When a teenage girl’s single mom is taken by ICE, everything changes—all of her hopes and dreams for the future have turned into survival. Seventeen-year-old Rania is shaken awake in her family's apartment in Brooklyn. ICE is at the door, taking her mother away. But Ammi has This was...

From the award-winning author of A Heart in a Body in The World comes a gorgeous and fiercely feminist young adult novel. When a teen travels to Hawaii to track down her sperm donor father, she discovers the truth about him, about the sunken shipwreck that’s become his obsession, and most of...

A riveting story about the rivalry between two brothers living on opposite sides of the Berlin wall during its construction in the 1960s, and how their complicated legacy and dreams of greatness will determine their ultimate fate. A city divided. A family fractured. Two brothers caught between...