Young Adult Magical Realism

Ganz Ardmuir weiß, dass Willow Stokes Fälschungen verkauft. Doch sie möchte den Kuriositätenladen ihres Vaters, vollgestopft mit vermeintlich magischen Artefakten, unbedingt erhalten. Eines Tages taucht ein Mädchen namens Brianna auf, die Gegenständen durch Berührung Magie einhauchen kann – für Bri ist die ungewöhnliche Gabe ein Fluch, den sie unbedingt loswerden will, für Willow ist sie die langersehnte Rettung.

Late at night our friend wanders a little and ponders quite a lot on a long walk along a river looking for a reason to keep on living. He meets up with a troll and a few other all-night ghouls as he drifts along, searching for purpose. They all find it amazing our friend can negotiate his way through the day posing as a teacher.

A haunted young girl (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar) runs away from an oppressive city, where the sky is always grey, in search of love and sisterhood - and finds herself in a magical place known only as the Street of Miracles. There, she is quickly adopted into a vigilante gang of glamorous warrior femmes called the Lipstick Lacerators, whose mission is to scour the Street of violent men and avenge murdered trans women everywhere. Can our intrepid heroine find the truth within herself in order to protect her new family and heal her broken heart?

Adele liebt den Strand und das Kitesurfen, aber noch mehr liebt sie das Meer. Doch als ihre Klassenkameradin Conny eine grüne Perle geschenkt bekommt, spürt sie eine Anziehung, die alles Bisherige in den Schatten stellt. Geheimnisvolle Stimmen fordern von ihr, die Perle in ihren Besitz zu bringen. Als dann auch noch weitere Perlen auftauchen, gerät Adeles Leben und das ihrer Freundinnen aus den Fugen.

Award-winning writer Patrick Ness’s bold and irreverent novel powerfully asks what if you weren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you were like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again.

Für Inka kommt diese Frage zu spät, denn erst nach zehn Jahren des Tätowierens stellt sich heraus, dass sie genau diese Gabe besitzt. Ihre Tattoos verleihen dem Träger magische Kräfte. Nach einer unschönen Offenbarung ihrer Gabe fasst sie den Entschluss, sich um diesen Schlamassel zu kümmern. Zusammen mit ihrer Katze Schnursula und ihren Freunden begibt sie sich auf die Jagd nach ihren Motiven und den vermeintlich bösen Trägern.

* An Instant New York Times Bestseller * "Jandy Nelson is a true virtuoso . . . I am fervently in love with this brave, funny, tender, exuberant beating heart of a book." —Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Imogen, Obviously The explosive new novel that brims...

We Are Okay meets Wandavision in this novel about loneliness, complicated friendships, and what it means to let go. After the death of his best friend, Eric Ly creates imaginary scenarios in his head to deal with his grief. Until one of them becomes real when a boy he met last summer in Japan...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NED KELLEY AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT CRIME FICTION Phryne Fisher meets Underbelly in an arch, out-of-the-box debut historical crime caper. A centuries-old curse, a house of secrets, and one young woman determined to find out the truth. Sydney, 1930: In a well-heeled corner of...

Prudence Barnett è sempre pronta a sparare giudizi sui suoi concittadini pigri, cafoni, arroganti. I suoi sogni di "giustizia karmica" sembrano realizzarsi quando, una mattina, si sveglia con la capacità di assegnare a ciascuno il destino che, secondo lei, gli spetta. Vandali e pettegoli vengono sistematicamente puniti. Solo su una persona i suoi poteri paiono non avere effetto: Quint Erickson, il suo compagno di classe scansafatiche. Un lazzarone, ma incredibilmente attraente e dal nobile carattere, visto che lavora come volontario al Centro di recupero animali marini di Fortuna Beach.

Es stimmt nicht, dass der Drache die Mädchen, die er sich holt, verspeist. Ganz gleich, was für Geschichten man sich außerhalb unseres Tales erzählen mag … Agnieszka liebt ihr Dorf und das Tal, in dem sie lebt. Doch jenseits des silbernen Flusses im Dunklen Wald lauert eine böse Macht. Nur der »Drache«, ein mächtiger Zauberer, kann sie unter Kontrolle halten. Dafür fordert er alle zehn Jahre ein Mädchen, das ihm dienen muss. Der Zeitpunkt der Wahl naht, und alle wissen, dass es Kasia treffen wird, Agnieszkas beste Freundin.

An unputdownable romantasy following a young woman posing as fortune-teller at a magical traveling carnival, where the handsome boy who once broke her heart resurfaces and warns her that carnival is more sinister than it appears. Welcome to the Carnival Fantástico, a spectacle of magic and...

Callum Hunt ha tredici anni, frequenta il secondo anno del Magisterium e dovrebbe essere morto. Perché prima di essere uccisa, sua madre ha lasciato una scritta incisa nel ghiaccio: UCCIDETE IL BAMBINO. Ma questo non è il peggiore dei suoi segreti. Callum sa di avere dentro di sé l'anima del Nemico, che si è impadronito di lui dopo il Massacro Gelido. E sospetta che suo padre voglia rubare l'Alkahest, il guanto di rame, unico oggetto magico in grado di salvare il mondo dalla malvagità assoluta.

The last time Esther Wilding’s beloved older sister Aura was seen, she was walking along the shore towards the sea. In the wake of Aura’s disappearance, Esther’s family struggles to live with their loss. To seek the truth about her sister’s death, Esther reluctantly travels from Tasmania...

This extraordinary, timely, and must-read novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nova Ren Suma explores freedom and rage as a young woman plots her way back to her hidden mountaintop home after her mother's arrest for murder.​ Three years ago, Talia lived happily in the ruins of the...

En el mundo de Yadriel, los nahualos liberan espíritus y las nahualas tienen la capacidad de sanar. Cuando su familia latina se muestra reticente a aceptar su identidad, Yadriel decide demostrarles que es un auténtico nahualo. Con la ayuda de su prima Maritza, realiza su ceremonia de quince años e invoca a su primer espíritu.

Billy Sloat and Lydia Lemon don't have much in common, unless you count growing up on the same (wrong) side of the tracks, the lack of a mother, and a persistent loneliness that has inspired creative coping mechanisms. When the lives of these two loners are thrust together, Lydia's cynicism is met with Billy's sincere optimism, and both begin to question their own outlook on life. On top of that, weird happenings including an impossible tornado and an all-consuming fog are cropping up around them - maybe even because of them.

One of Us Is Lying meets Carrie in this suspenseful story of friendship, family, and revenge. Magpie Lewis started writing in her yellow notebook the day after her family self-destructed. The day her father ruined her mother's life. The day Eryn, Magpie's sister, skipped town and left her to...

A thrilling new adventure into the glittering realm of the jinn from the author of Nura and the Immortal Palace. Amir has lived all his life in splendour, being the son of a wealthy businessman. But when his mother disappears at his father’s factory, Amir is the only one who feels sure she’s...

I was taken by Whisperers at 2pm, so I never pulled the lever for the laundry chute.That's what bothered me most. This is way ahead in the story, though. A lot happened before that. The town of Spindrift is frequented by pirates, Shadow Mages and charlatans. It's also home to the Orphanage...