Showing results for "Chambers" in Literature & Fiction

Lexi is a survivor; she has spent her whole life moving from one abusive foster home to the next, until she decided to take charge of her own life. Living in abandoned buildings, couch surfing, and working at a strip clubs were a huge improvement on what she had before. All she needs is enough money to feed herself, finish high school, and hopefully go to college. She has a plan. That is until she is caught and sent to live with a strange foster family upstate.

NOVELA GANADORA DEL PREMIO EDEBÉ DE LITERATURA JUVENIL 2024. Tras unos días de acampada incomunicados en las montañas, un grupo de jóvenes y su monitor del centro de menores regresan al refugio para descubrir que un virus mortal ha cambiado por completo su mundo. Cuando el monitor desaparece después de ir en busca de ayuda, los chicos se ven forzados a aplicar las habilidades aprendidas y fortalecer los lazos creados durante su convivencia. A medida que pasan los meses, la tensión irá escalando hasta puntos insostenibles, desafiando la resistencia y unidad del nuevo orden que han establecido.

Before she became a warrior, Ida B. Wells was an incomparable flirt with a quick wit and a dream of becoming a renowned writer. The first child of newly freed parents who thrived in a community that pulsated with hope and possibility after the Civil War, Ida had a big heart, big ambitions, and even bigger questions: How to be a good big sister when her beloved parents perish in a yellow fever epidemic?

The minute the school bus carrying Nate Chance and his little sister, Junie, pulls up in front of his family's farmhouse, Nate can tell something's terribly wrong: Somehow his father has been wounded by a gunshot. Nate sees him stagger across the yard, then watches as the police take him away.

Claudia Waring has never kissed a boy. Never been popular. Never been to a hockey game. All that's about to change. Assigned to tutor Chris Winslow, a prank-loving, gorgeous hockey player, Claudia's perfectly planned life immediately veers off course. And she kind of likes it. But as fun as Chris is, she knows she'll never fit in his world. After his latest prank lands him in hot water, Chris has to get serious or lose hockey. Not an easy thing for someone as carefree as him. The biggest problem, though, is how much he wants to help his cute, buttoned-up tutor loosen up a little.

Harri and her best friends worship Half Light - an internationally famous boyband. When frontman Frankie is arrested on suspicion of murdering his oldest friend Evan, Harri feels like her world's about to fall apart. But quickly she realises that she - and all the other Half Light superfans out there - know and understand much more about these boys than any detective ever could. Now she's rallying a fangirl army to prove Frankie's innocence - and to show the world that you should never underestimate a teenage girl with a passion.

Premi Edebé de Literatura Juvenil 2024. Després d'uns dies d'acampada incomunicats a les muntanyes, un grup de joves i el monitor del centre de menors tornen al refugi per descobrir que un virus mortal ha canviat completament el seu món. Quan el monitor desapareix després d'anar a buscar ajuda, els nois es veuen forçats a aplicar les habilitats apreses i enfortir els llaços creats durant la seva convivència. A mesura que passen els mesos, la tensió anirà escalant fins a punts insostenibles, desafiant la resistència i la unitat del nou ordre que han establert.

Natalie West and Toby Cooper were best friends growing up, on and off the ice. But when Toby's hockey career took off, their friendship was left behind. Now Natalie has a crazy plan to land her crush—Toby's biggest rival—and she needs Toby's help to pull it off. When Nat asks Toby to be her fake boyfriend, he can't say no. Not when it means getting his best friend back. But Natalie is all grown up now, and spending time with her—even when it's just playing hockey together—stirs up a lot of feelings, old and new.

Seventeen year old Aaron stumbles into the aftermath of a five million dollar bank heist gone wrong. Hiding under a canoe, Aaron partially catches the murder of one of the robbers. In the chaos he sneaks away with the money and heads straight for the closest place of safety, his high school. Terrified, Aaron tells his shocking tale to Amanda Becker, his drama teacher, but it doesn't take long for one of the psychotic robbers to show up. In the locked down school the pair are relentlessly pursued in a quest to get the money back.