Novedades

This collection of 16 stories from the best writers of young adult fiction, including M.E. Kerr, Walter Dean Myers, Virginia Euwer Wolff, and Graham Salisbury provide realistic and positive accounts of today's teens facing moral dilemmas. Young adults will recognize themselves and their friends in these teens who are trying to make the right choices about pregnancy, drug use, peer pressure, and violence.

They thought hiding in a small town would keep them safe. They were wrong. Zander Young has spent three years in Millbrook, Maine, pretending to be normal—hiding his impossible strength, his lack of aging, and the thirst that reminds him he's no longer human. Then Angie Butler arrives: stunning, mysterious, and carrying secrets that mirror his own. From their first meeting, Zander feels an undeniable connection to the enigmatic new girl. But when they're both drawn to the abandoned Blackwood mansion on the hill, their carefully hidden worlds collide in ways neither expected. When a ...

Fourteen-year-old Kirby Renton is a gifted theatre kid who wants to fix things: his dads’ marriage, his younger brother’s epilepsy. When ten-year-old Baxter’s seizures start involving visits from “the lightning people,” who descend from the sky and show him strange symbols, Kirby knows he needs to protect his brother, but how? He thinks he’s found the answer when the neurologist advises his family to consider a seizure-alert dog, but the cost is too much for his family to afford.

Tras la muerte de su hermana, los padres de Paisley Donovan la han tratado como si fuera de cristal. Tiene veinte años y comparte con ella el problema del corazón, pero eso no va a impedirle completar su lista de «cosas que hacer antes de...», aunque le cueste la vida. Y casi se la cuesta, pero Jagger Bateman la saca del océano y le insufla en los pulmones algo más que aire: enciende el fuego en su alma.

Orion and Mia's peaceful lives are shattered when an unknown force razes their villages and tears away their loved ones. With nowhere left to turn, they find each other in the ruins—and something more: a destiny neither of them asked for. As they struggle to survive, they discover they are meant to stand against a rising evil—the embodiment of the Seven Deadly Sins. However, they are not alone. Guided by visions and ancient magic, and joined by unlikely allies, they must rise from the ashes of their broken world... and become the champions Celestria desperately needs.

Als die 17-jährige Lena den Architekturstudenten Noah kennenlernt, verändert sich ihr Leben. Doch als Noah die Chance bekommt, ein Auslandssemester in Barcelona zu verbringen, beginnt eine Zeit der Entfernung - und des inneren Wandels. Lena entdeckt ihre Leidenschaft für die Fotografie und sieht die Welt plötzlich mit anderen Augen. Eine zarte Geschichte über erste Liebe, schmerzhafte Abschiede und den Mut, den eigenen Weg zu finden - auch wenn er einen von der großen Liebe fortführt.

The Painted Desert is a poignant, often darkly humorous coming-of-age novel told through the fierce and unforgettable voice of nine-year-old Lulu. A gifted dancer, self-taught technologist, and reluctant observer of adult dysfunction, Lulu lives with her emotionally wounded mother in a decaying Victorian home that doubles as a sanctuary for stray animals and forgotten dreams. Set in a suburban neighborhood where façades of stability conceal deep fractures, Lulu watches and documents the lives around her with keen intelligence and unsparing honesty. Her neighbors—disgraced teens, fading ...

Iris, Gum, and Aidan are vacationing in Bad Creek, just like every summer. Except Iris’s older sister, Glory, drowned in the lake last year, and Iris can’t seem to move on; Gum is hiding his sexuality from his family while being viciously haunted by Glory’s rotting ghost; and Aidan is distraught over a drunken argument with Glory that he fears may have led to her death. When Iris sleepwalks to the dilapidated house that Glory obsessively sketched in her final days, she and the boys begin to uncover a sinister history in the very bones of the town.

Stealing from her rich family was supposed to be a fun winter getaway for teen mastermind Olivia Owens, but when a rival thief, a love triangle, and a murder suspect interfere, she’ll have to decide how far she’s willing to go for the vault full of gold—and for the boy she loves.

Fifteen-year-old Pip and seventeen-year-old Sissy aren't just sisters, they're best friends. Every year, they wait eagerly for the traveling carnival to put its stakes down in their tiny Florida town. It's the only time when the girls can abandon their endless chores on the family's orange grove and give in to pure joy. And the only time Pip and Sissy can forget their many troubles . . . living on the brink of poverty, Mama's despair, and Daddy's perpetual anger. With the arrival of the carnival, the girls’ slow, small lives suddenly feels bigger and brighter.

Twelve-year-old Cody thought his summer would be filled with carefree days spent with friends at the local pool. But when a cruel prank leaves a younger girl, Allison, hurt and humiliated, Cody’s life takes an unexpected turn. His mother, a strict but fair woman with a touch of magic, decides it’s time for Cody to learn a lesson in empathy and understanding—by transforming him into a little girl for a whole week. Now, as "Katie," Cody is forced to navigate a world that feels entirely foreign.

This dazzling, tour-de-force debut tackles friendship, first love, and sexual assault, along with the full emotional range of life as a teenage girl. Esme musters strength she didn’t know she had—and learns to lean on others to find the right support. An unforgettable story.

He wanted to disappear. Instead, he became the target of the biggest kid in school. And then… the bully asked him for help. When Davey Watkins moves across the country, his goals are simple: stay invisible, perfect his fadeaway jumper, and maybe dunk a basketball someday. But his first day at his new school lands him in the crosshairs of Shawn “Goliath” Morton—a violent bully with wounds of his own. Everything changes when Shawn shows up at Davey’s door—bruised and desperate—with an impossible request: train him to fight his abusive father. Davey reluctantly agrees—with one ...

Als Opfer täglichen Mobbings in der Schule sieht David nur einen Ausweg: eine gefährliche Mutprobe, die sein Image für immer verändern soll. Um Mitternacht muss er einen verlassenen Freizeitpark betreten und ein Selfie in der Geisterbahn Teufelstor machen. Mit jedem Schritt tiefer in das verfallene Teufelstor wird ihm bewusst, dass er sich niemals darauf hätte einlassen dürfen.

When a tiny freckle on Lexie Collins’s cheek turns out to be a rare kind of melanoma that requires surgery, she is left with a big, ugly scar across one cheek. She had just earned a spot in the state finals for public speaking, but with the scar, her confidence has vanished. She doesn’t even recognise herself anymore.

A secret. A holiday. A summer like never before. Shae knows her parents are keeping something from her and is determined to find out what. But nothing can prepare her for what they are hiding. A coming-of-age story about 17-year-old Shae, who is learning that relationships, deception, secrets, and love can all blend together and change everything.

Seven teens arrive for a school retreat—only to find an abandoned motel and a sinister text message waiting for them: "I know what you did a year ago." Each of the seven buried a guilty secret about their tragic school fire. And now someone is out for revenge. Every hour they must choose the guiltiest one among them to cross over the white line that circles the motel and be killed. Otherwise, they all die. But who deserves to live, and who to die? Because only one of them can survive.

In a small town in New Zealand, lifelong friends, Rachel, Julia and Chicky, are celebrating the end of school, enjoying the liminal space of the summer holidays before their lives will be transformed by university, careers and adulthood. The arrival of Miranda, an exotically beautiful and charismatic woman, will have a profound effect on the ostensibly concrete bond between the girls, revealing long-ignored cracks in their friendships.

Summer on Mokani Island has always been the highlight of Avery Finch's year. It's a chance to hang out in paradise with other ultra rich families. But this summer, Avery brings along her college roommate Nora and everything feels off from the start. Her parents are desperately trying to cover up scandalous secrets. Her ex Hugo can't accept that their relationship is over. Her best friend Sidney is annoyed that Avery has brought Nora, especially as the newcomer keeps sticking her nose where it doesn't belong.