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Patch has decided that this is the year he will get a boyfriend, so it's goodbye to his French pen-pal Jean-Pierre and hello to the world! Unfortunately, the only other "out" boys in his school year are dating each other, so finding a boyfriend isn't going to be easy... Until fate finally intervenes and two new mysterious boys join drama club: Peter, who’s just moved from New York (very chic) and his best friend, Sam. Patch is confident that one of them will be his first boyfriend.

Jane Vandermaker-Cook would like her mother back. As Jane's mother tours the world to support the family, Jane lives and goes to school in a Victorian mansion with her younger brother and their mendacious father who confines Jane’s mother to a system of pneumatic tubes whenever she’s at home. And then there's weirdly ever-present Aunt Finch, Milorad the gardener, and his rat, Brutus. For Jane, this all seems normal until she suddenly gains access to the files for a lifetime of security-camera videos—her lifetime.

Four accomplished teenagers are on the verge of explosion. The anxieties they face at every turn have nearly pushed them to the point of surrender: senseless high-stakes testing, the lingering damage of trauma, the buried grief and guilt of tragic loss. They are desperate to cope—but no one is listening. So they will lie. They will split in two. They will turn inside out. They will build an invisible helicopter to fly themselves far away from the pressure…but nothing releases the pressure. Because, as they discover, the only way to truly escape their world is to fly right into it.

Willkommen, in der Welt von Avalier! Die Nachricht, dass der Drachenkönig eine Partnerin sucht, verbreitet sich im Land wie ein Lauffeuer. Als die königliche Garde auch im kleinen Dorf Cinder hält, um nach geeigneten Kandidatinnen Ausschau zu halten, ist die Aufregung groß. Schließlich leben dort nur schwachmagische Wesen, wie die 17-jährige Arwen. Doch die magischen Witterer werden auf sie aufmerksam und bringen sie nach Jade City. Während König Valdren die Anwärterinnen kennenlernt, erfährt Arwen, was wirklich hinter allem steckt.