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When her best guy friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, 16-year-old Cat sets out to discover who in her small town did it. Richly atmospheric, this daring mystery mines the secrets of a tightly knit Southern community and examines the strength of will it takes to go against everyone you know in the name of justice.

A swoony contemporary YA romance by fan-favorite author Kasie West about a girl who finds that a summer spent at a family resort isn't as bad as she imagined . . . and that falling in love is filled with heartache, laughter, and surprises! Avery has always used music as an escape. But after her...

Quand le père de la jeune Pollyanna Whittier décède, la petite fille est envoyée vivre chez sa tante Polly à Beldingsville, dans le Vermont. Mais autant Pollyanna est lumineuse et passionnée, autant sa tante hurle dès qu'une porte claque ou qu'une fenêtre reste ouverte. Cependant Pollyanna a été élevée en apprenant à voir toujours le bon côté des choses, grâce au jeu du bonheur. Peu importe que la situation soit dramatique, il est toujours possible de trouver matière à être heureux. Un dîner composé de pain et de lait dans la cuisine est accueilli avec ravissement.

Aubrey Lane Arrington was given a choice and one week to decide—does she want to stay at Eastbrooke Academy or go to school in London? So much has happened since then that could affect her decision. Her former best friend, Branson, started a fight with her boyfriend, Prince Augie. And when the event is live-streamed and goes viral, it has the makings of an international scandal.

Between her father’s terminal disease, high school graduation, and a job delivering pizza, Alexandra Blackwood's life is complicated enough. But when she leaves on another routine delivery and meets Ronan, a handsome stranger with an alien-entangled past, life goes from complicated to perilous. He warns that she’s been the unwitting victim of an alien experiment gone wrong and sets out to help her escape looming abduction, and maybe win her heart.

Stonebridge High’s resident bad boy, Wesley “Big Mac” Mackenzie, is failing senior year—thanks to his unchecked anger, rowdy friends, and a tendency to ditch his homework for skateboarding and a secret photography obsession. So when his mom drags him to a production of The Nutcracker, Wes isn’t interested at all … until he sees Tristan Monroe. Mr. Nutcracker himself. Wes knows he shouldn’t like Tristan; after all, he’s a ballet dancer, and Wes is as closeted as they come. But when they start spending time together, Wes can’t seem to get Tristan out of his head.

For fans of Kacen Callender and Mason Deaver comes a heart-tugging coming-of-age YA debut that takes a poignant look at gender identity, sexuality, friendship, and family—both the one we’re born into and the one we find for ourselves. Seventeen-year-old Gael is used to keeping to himself...

Seeing is believing. Why couldn't winter break be an actual break? My schedule's been packed with emotionally and mentally draining events for weeks. Lenore's birthday. Poe's birthday. A visit to the Prophets for Disaster Mitigation Center. I'm exhausted! On top of that, I learned that modern prophets don't work the way I had once thought, and the revelation has left me confused and full of spite. Shouldn't others' tragedies be approached with empathy? Isn't that what Poe deserved and what he would have wanted for us all?

"Cynthia Hand is the master of pulling at your heartstrings. The How & the Why tells both sides of an adoption story with love, compassion, and care." —Brigid Kemmerer, New York Times bestselling author of Letters to the Lost A poignant exploration of family and the ties that bind, from New...

When Aria and her friends discover Dorian's secret, they find themselves faced with a choice. Will they pledge themselves solely to the Privy Council, an organization sometimes hampered by its own moral obligation to see in only black and white? Or is there room to operate within a shade of grey? Compromises are made, standards are adjusted. Bit by bit, the friends find themselves slipping to the point where it's almost impossible to see where they started. A storm is coming. There's only so long you can straddle two worlds, before they eventually collide.

15-year-old Ruta finds herself trapped in the Sleepverse’s Citadel where her many Selves gather at night; a place that no Dreamer has visited before. For her Selves, the Citadel is paradise. For Ruta, it’s a nightmare she can’t escape from. Someone is holding her hostage in a perpetual sleep state, and she needs to find out why before their nefarious plan comes to fruition.

Freshman year stinks for Vlad Tod. Bullies still harass him. The photographer from the school newspaper is tailing him. And failing his studies could be deadly. A trip to Siberia gives "study abroad" a whole new meaning as Vlad connects with other vampires and advances his mind-control abilities...

Emerson Dance is one of the most prestigious dance companies in the country. And I got kicked off the team right before nationals because my curves don’t “fit.” Not their idea of a perfect dancer's body and definitely not their costume. I’m going to enter the competition on my own and show them that every body is a dancer’s body. It will mean practicing in the gym with the bodybuilders, but I can shove my nerves—and my attraction to Carter McCormac—aside long enough to win.

Normal? Nein, normal fühlt man sich nicht, wenn man gerade 17 Jahre alt ist und mit einer chaotischen Mutter und einer verschlossenen Zwillingsschwester...

Swallowing Grandma traces the struggles of 18-year-old Katherine as she attempts to break free from her demanding grandmother and discover the truth about her dead father and absent mother.

The worst thing that ever happened to Craig is also the best: Amy. Amy and Craig never should've gotten together - Craig is an awkward Dungeons & Dragons-playing geek, and Amy is the beautiful, fiercely intelligent student-body president of their high school. Yet somehow they did - until Amy dumped him. Then got back together with him. Then dumped him again. Then got back together with him again. Over and over and over. Unfolding over their senior year, Amy and Craig's relationship is a kaleidoscope of joy, pain, and laughter as an uncertain future looms on the horizon.

Fiesole, 1943. Sirio è una ragazzina con un nome da maschio e un talento innato per le bugie. Con la sua banda di amici attraversa boschi, cave e rovine, in un mondo dove la guerra sembra ancora lontana. L'armistizio dell'8 settembre, però, cambia tutto. In un castello fra le colline trovano un soldato ferito, incapace di parlare e senza memoria. È un nemico o un essere umano da salvare? Il gruppo si divide: qualcuno vuole aiutarlo, qualcun altro lasciarlo morire. Sirio sceglie la compassione e inizia una corsa sfrenata contro la paura, il tempo, la logica feroce della guerra.

Idi, called to protect the future king of Talia, needs the guidance of Marcus, a sagacious magician, to defeat the sinister Norvora. Yet, his greatest challenge will be overcoming his entrenched belief that he's stupid. Held prisoners within a magical orb, the Sister Witches wait to be released. When the prophesied one is crowned King, he will have the power to set them free. At all costs, he must be found and turned away from the evil that is seeping into the world of Talia.

On his sixteenth birthday, orphaned Martin receives a mysterious gift from a trusted caretaker – a key to a past he never knew existed. But before answers come, he’s pulled into a medieval world filled with castles, knights, swordfights, and secrets that could change everything. Why does everyone seem to think he’s special? Why are enemies suddenly after him? And what power lies hidden in the golden sword?

Ántes Leben hoch im Norden Schwedens ist von samischer Tradition geprägt. Wie auch schon sein Vater vor ihm will er Rentierzüchter werden. Denn Ánte liebt dieses Leben und er liebt die Natur. Aber plötzlich ist da noch etwas anderes, etwas, was an ihm zerrt. Seine Gefühle für seinen besten Freund Erik haben sich verändert, sind zu etwas Großem geworden. Jede Berührung entfacht ein Feuer in seinem Körper. Was würden die Leute sagen, wenn sie es wüssten? Und was fühlt Erik?