Showing results for "The Willows" in Teen & Young Adult

My name is Adelaide Edington, and my life was mapped out for me before I even entered the world: who I'd date, where I’d attend college, what I'd be when I grew up. But there comes a time in everyone's life when they face a fork in the road. Should I go left, or should I go right? It didn't matter as long as I didn't remain stagnant any longer. Jett Stone opened me up to a whole new world, reminding me that it was okay to find my own way. I could have roots in Willow Springs and still spread my wings and fly. What I didn't expect was to fall in love with the broody football player.

Willow has the worst luck. First she has to deal with her narcissistic foster mother, Bella. Then, of course, there's her horrid little sister Ivy; not to mention the pack of werewolves that belong to Bella. Now, they have to move and start a new school - again.

It is 1848. On one side of the Mason-Dixon Line lives fifteen-year-old Willow, her master’s favorite servant. She’s been taught to read and has learned to write. She is permitted to spend much of her time riding her horse to the riverbank, where she writes letters to her dead mother. On the other side of the line is seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, free born. It’s his personal mission to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can. When Willow’s and Cato’s lives intersect, they will discover the true meanings of bondage and freedom, of family and love.

I’ve known Gray Baldwin my entire life. He’s an arrogant frat boy with a red Solo cup permanently attached to his hand. And he’s my brother’s best friend. He’s made it his personal mission to annoy me, and when he sets his mind to something, he rarely fails. But when Gray and I end up at the same college, we can’t seem to stay away from one another. I’m supposed to hate him, but when I’m alone with Gray, everything changes. It turns out there is more to this boy than I ever knew. Our attraction is something that can’t be extinguished.

Crew Carlisle is enemy number one. He’s also my new boss. I need this internship as much as Crew needs an ego lobotomy. He’s arrogant, cocky, and annoyingly good looking. Our families have despised one another since long before I was born. The man loathes me, and he makes no effort to hide his contempt. But everything I thought I knew isn’t as it seems. And Crew isn’t who I thought he was. I’ve never fully given my heart away, and this is the last man that I should give it to. But walking away isn’t as easy as I expected.

A new Sisterhood for a new summer - a time to grow, to plant the seeds of friendship and harvest for the future. Polly, has an idea for a more glamorous life, but it's going to take a few changes. Jo's hanging with her new, older friends at her family’s beach house but she didn't count on a brief fling or feeling embarrassed by her middle-school friends.

Elsa, Leo and Max have always been best friends, a special team of three. Then the Nazis come. As a growing darkness descends around them, Leo and Elsa run for their lives, taking two very different paths across Europe. And Max, once their closest friend, now becomes the enemy as he is drawn into the Hitler Youth. Will the friends ever find their way back to each other? Will they want to?

Best-selling author Willow Rose draws you into a place that you never want to leave in this two-book collection! Endurance: Meghan’s training at the academy is coming to an end. Everything is going great as she comes closer to graduation. She is engaged to be married, and the wedding is near when she hears some disturbing news that makes her rethink her future. Serenity: Meghan is pregnant and about to get married, but something is not right between her and Mick. She is hoping that the marriage and a baby on the way will help them to overcome their problems, but the past keeps haunting her.

When Charlotte moved in with her uncle earlier this summer, she never expected to become best friends with five amazing guys. She never expected to fall in love with them either. With school starting, Charlotte worries that everything is about to change for her all over again. The guys have their own lives and extracurricular activities outside of the bubble they’ve created during their summer break. When the guys start flirting with her relentlessly, Charlotte becomes the victim of several rumors. But Charlotte won’t let anything ruin her friendships with her kindred spirits.

An extraordinary tale about the search for love from acclaimed Costa and Carnegie Award-winning novelist Sally Gardner. Jazmin has been shunned ever since her best friend, Becky, disappeared. But Becky didn't just disappear - she jumped off a tall building and seemingly never reached the ground. It was as if she simply vanished into thin air. Did Jazmin have something to do with her disappearance? Or was it more to do with Icarus, with whom Becky became suddenly besotted...?

Everything changes the night of Olivia's sweet 16 sleepover birthday party. Violet, the shy, mysterious new girl in town, suggests the girls play a scary game called Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board, during which she makes up elaborate stories about the future ways in which beautiful Olivia, brassy Candace, and athletic Mischa will die. The game unsettles McKenna because she's already escaped death once in her life, but she doesn't want to ruin her friends' fun. It's only a game, she reminds herself.

Set in a world where magic has come roaring back from myth to reality, Bloody Spade is the first installment in an urban fantasy duology that follows a cat-eared thief touched by darkness and a spirited girl with the power to cleanse it. Together, they must navigate his wild magic, her hotheaded brother, a sinister plot, and the feelings they're developing for each other.

Kamala Khan is an ordinary girl from Jersey City—until she's suddenly empowered with extraordinary gifts. But who truly is the new Ms. Marvel? Teenager? Muslim? Inhuman? Find out as she takes the Marvel Universe by storm!

Ruth lives in the beautiful city of Vienna and is wildly in love with Heini Radik, a brilliant young pianist. But her world is about to change forever. When Hitler's forces invade, Ruth's family flees to London, but she is unable to get a passport. Quin, a young professor and friend of the family, visits Ruth and in an effort to bring her back to London, he offers a marriage of convenience. As Ruth throws herself into her London life, Quin begins to fall desperately in love with her.

Mélanie Fouché und Max Hoffmann malen mit ihren romantischen Stimmfarben das Herbstlaub golden und entführen in ein malerisches Städtchen in Kanada. Eine atmosphärische Wohlfühlgeschichte, die an Gilmore Girls erinnert. Cassie hat sich selbst übertroffen: Sie hat einen herrlichen Brautstrauß für ihre Freundin Daya gebunden. Doch dann platzt die Hochzeit am Tag der Trauung – und Cassie ist schuld. Als sie aus dem Festsaal flüchtet und dem Hochzeitsgast Jared in die Arme läuft, nimmt er sie mit nach Willow Falls. Die idyllische Kleinstadt, umgeben von Ahornwäldern, fühlt sich an wie ein sicherer Hafen.

When Harper Fontaine is framed for a crime she didn’t commit, her father uproots her from her life in New York City to move into his mansion in wealthy Newport, Rhode Island. It doesn’t take long before Harper is invited to join the town’s elite secret society, the Order of Six. But membership has a price: first, she must prove herself by surviving the Order’s trials. Harper tries to keep her head down, but in a place like Newport, staying out means standing out.

When Kamala discovers the dangers of her newfound powers, she also unlocks a secret behind them. Is Kamala ready to wield these immense gifts? Or will the weight of the legacy before her prove too much to bear? Kamala has no idea. But she's comin' for you, Jersey! It's history in the making.

Kamala may be fangirling out when her favorite (okay maybe Top Five) Super Hero shows up, but that won't stop her from protecting her hometown. Then, Kamala crosses paths with Inhumanity for the first time - by meeting the royal dog, Lockjaw! Every girl wants a puppy, but this one may be too much of a handful, even for a Super Hero with embiggening powers. But why is Lockjaw really with Kamala? As Ms. Marvel discovers more about her past, the Inventor continues to threaten her future. Maybe Wolverine can help!

Magic is churning, and the future foreshadows dark things to come, when they arrive will the visions of the past be fulfilled? Or will the dark necromancer be overthrown? This short story is brimming with enchanting magic and spooky themes. Perfect for fall and halloween.

In this sequel to Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board, 16-year-old McKenna Brady returns home to Weeping Willow, Wisconsin, after being sent to reform school. McKenna still believes that Violet, the new girl who arrived in her town earlier that fall, cast an evil spell on her friends which resulted in two of them dying exactly how Violet predicted they would. Although McKenna has missed her mom and boyfriend, Trey, while she's been off at school, she doesn't mind the punishment she's been issued.