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At the urge of her lucky-in-love brother, 16-year-old Lily has left a red notebook full of dares on her favourite bookshop shelf, waiting for just the right guy to come along and accept. Curious, snarky Dash isn’t one to back down from a challenge - and the Book of Dares is the perfect distraction he’s been looking for. As they send each other on a scavenger hunt across Manhattan, they’re falling for each other on paper. But finding out if their real selves share their on-page chemistry could be their biggest dare yet.

Lowrie and Shen are the youngest people on the planet after a virus caused global infertility. Closeted in a pocket of London and doted upon by a small, ageing community, the pair spend their days mudlarking and looking for treasure - until a secret is uncovered that threatens not only their family but humanity’s entire existence. Now Lowrie and Shen face an impossible choice: in the quiet at the end of the world, they must decide what to sacrifice to save the whole human race....

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets I'll Give You the Sun in an exhilarating and emotional novel about the growing relationship between two teen boys, told through the letters they write to one another. Jonathan Hopkirk and Adam "Kurl" Kurlansky are partnered in English class, writing letters to one another in a weekly pen-pal assignment. With each letter, the two begin to develop a friendship that eventually grows into love. But with homophobia, bullying, and devastating family secrets, Jonathan and Kurl struggle....

Take a peek inside Phoebe’s Diary into a bracingly honest account of the explosive turmoil and joy of adolescence, based on the author’s actual teenage journals.​ Meet Phoebe. She’s cool and insecure, talented and vulnerable, sexy and awkward, driven and confused, ecstatic and tragic. Like you. And here is her diary, packed full of invaluable friends and heartbreaking crushes, spectacular playlists and vintage outfits, drama nerds and art kids, old wounds and new love.

The year 1821: Elias Roch has ghastly luck with women. He met Josephine De Clare once and penned dozens of letters hoping to find her again. The year 2021: Josie De Clare has questionable taste in boyfriends. The last one nearly ruined her friendship with her best friend. Now, in the wake of her father's death, Josie finds Elias's letters. Suddenly she's falling in love with a guy who lived 200 years ago. And star-crossed doesn't even begin to cover it....

Ten years ago, the Scar Squad promised each other nothing would tear them apart. They stuck together through thick and thin, late-night surf sessions and after school spodies. Even when Casey Jones Caruso lost her twin brother Sammy to an overdose, and their foursome became a threesome, the squad picked each other up. But when Casey’s feeling for the remaining members—Francesca and Benjamin—develop into romantic attraction, she worries the truth will dissolve them and vows to ignore her heart.

Margherita è una ragazza timida, è goffa, insicura. Fa fatica a relazionarsi con gli altri, non le piace attirare l'attenzione. Ha i capelli ricci sempre arruffati, non ha mai tempo, perché è sempre in ritardo con la vita. Sullo sfondo della Milano contemporanea, fatta di bar e localini, ci racconta le avventure eroicomiche a scuola e i primi baci: il diario delle emozioni, di amori e di paure, di verifiche scolastiche e sentimentali.

Told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, the latest novel from New York Times best-selling author Samira Ahmed traces the lives of two young women fighting to write their own stories and escape the pressure of familial burdens and cultural expectations in worlds too long defined by men.

Auf jeden Fall ist das Leben geil! Alles, was sich Karla zu ihrem 16. Geburtstag wünscht, ist ein Freund! Sie kann sich nicht erklären, warum sie bisher noch ungeküsst ist und auch noch nie eine Beziehung hatte. Ihr Geburtstag rückt immer näher und sie zählt den Countdown bis dahin. Wird sie es schaffen, sich zum Geburtstag ihren größten Wunsch zu erfüllen und endlich einen Freund zu finden? Oder wird sie für immer ungeküsst und ungeliebt bleiben? Einzig und allein ihrem Tagebuch erzählt sie von ihren Ängsten und Gefühlen.