Showing results for "Simon Hall" in Teen & Young Adult

When James Bond was still in diapers, Virginia Hall was behind enemy lines, playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse with Hitler’s henchmen. Virginia was the baddest broad in any room she walked into. When the State Department proved to be a sexist boys’ club that wouldn’t let her in, she became a spy for the British. This boss lady helped arm and train the French Resistance and organized sabotage missions. There was just one problem: The Butcher of Lyon, a notorious Gestapo commander, was after her. But Virginia’s classmates didn’t call her the Fighting Blade for nothing.

Deja is a “barrel girl”—one of the Jamaican kids who get barrels full of clothes, food, and treats shipped to them from parents who have moved to the US or Canada to make more money. Gabriel is caught up in a gang and desperate for a way out. When he meets Deja at a party, he starts looking for a way into her life and wonders if they could be a part of each other’s futures. Then, one day while out fishing, Deja spies a go-fast boat stalled out by some rocks, smeared with blood.

Things can change in a second: The second Frankie Green gets that scholarship letter, he has his ticket out of Jamaica. The second his longtime crush, Leah, asks him on a date, he’s in trouble. The second his father gets shot, suddenly nothing else matters. And the second Frankie joins his uncle’s gang in exchange for paying for his father’s medical bills, there’s no going back...or is there?

Lea und Gabe wären das perfekte Paar. Das erkennen alle um sie herum: Der beste Freund, die Mitbewohnerin, ja sogar der Busfahrer, die Starbucks-Bedienung oder die örtliche Parkbank. Aber den richtigen Augenblick scheinen sie stets zu verpassen, die richtige Geste wird falsch verstanden, das richtige Wort fehlt. Bis die Anziehungskraft zwischen ihnen beinahe unerträglich ist. Können Lea und Gabe jemals zueinander finden?