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A proud geek girl, Emma loves her quiet life on the outskirts, playing video games and staying off the radar. When her nightmare of a new stepsister moves into the bedroom next door, her world is turned upside down. Quinn is a queen bee with a nasty streak who destroys anyone who gets in her way. Teachers, football players, her fellow cheerleaders - no one is safe.

Delaware, the morning of April 19. Senior Skip Day, and April Donovan's 18th birthday. Four days after the Boston Marathon bombing, the country is still reeling, and April's rare memory condition has her recounting all the tragedies that have cursed her birth month. And just what was that mysterious gathering under the bleachers about? Meanwhile, in Nebraska, Lincoln Evans struggles to pay attention in Honors English, distracted by the enigmatic presence of Laura Echols, capturer of his heart.

A new state, a new city, a new high school. Mike's father has already found a new evangelical church for the family to attend, even if Mike and his plainspoken little sister, Toby, don't want to go. Dad wants Mike to ditch art for sports, to toughen up, but there's something uneasy behind his demands. Then Mike meets Sean, the new kid, and "hey" becomes games of basketball, partnering on a French project, hanging out after school. A night at the beach. The fierce colors of sunrise.

It's 1950 and Mickey Tussler - the now-famous pitching prodigy with autism and a golden arm - is back for another baseball season in this third installment of Frank Nappi's critically acclaimed Legend of Mickey Tussler series. Talk of Mickey's legendary exploits on the field has grown since his improbable debut two years prior, as have the fortunes of Murph and the rest of the lovable ragtag Brew Crew. Now Mickey, Murph, and Lester find themselves heading to Bean Town to play for the Boston Braves.

Bryce was unlike any other child his age. While rallying his community in an anti-bullying campaign, he encouraged bullying on the side. Based on a true story, the more pain inflicted by the bullies, the more he became a symbol of hope. While he controlled over 80 bullies through a systematic hierarchy based on cruelty and savagery, his vision of building a better school was spread by his growing number of followers.

Hun går langsomt nærmere og stirrer på de hvide silkebånd. "Fuck!" skriger hun, så højt hun kan. Sofie Lund, står der skrevet med guldbogstaver. "Fuck. Jeg er død. Hvad skal jeg gøre?" Det giver et sæt i hende, da kirkeklokken begynder at bimle.

Gabriella Mallory, AP student and perfect-daughter-in-training, stands barefoot on a public toilet for three hours while her school is on lockdown. Someone has planted a bomb, and she is hiding. The bomb is defused, but the would-be bomber is still at large - and everyone at Central High School is a suspect. The school starts a top-secret crisis help line, and Gabi is invited to join. When she does, she is drawn into a suspenseful game of cat and mouse with the bomber, who has unfinished business.

Alma har fået en fjende i sin nye klasse. Det er Alberte. Det skyldes måske, at det var Alma, der startede med at kalde Alberte for Luderhår. Så begynder Alma pludselig at modtage nogle ret ubehagelige sms'er. Hun er sikker på, at de kommer fra Alberte. For at hævne sig laver Alma og hendes veninde en falsk profil på Facebook. Her giver de sig ud for at være Felix, der gerne vil være gode venner med Alberte. Og så er det, at det går helt, helt galt.

Scott Hudson has somehow managed to survive Freshman year. But with a new baby brother in the house and a whole host of adventures awaiting him at school, Sophomore year promises to be anything but boring. An honest and funny follow-up to the popular Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie, award-winning author David Lubar pens a tale that perfectly captures the ridiculous, tumultuous, and sometimes heartbreaking truths about high school.

School is just like a film set: there's The Crew, who make things happen; The Extras, who fill the empty desks; and The Movie Stars, whom everyone wants tagged in their Facebook photos. But Jude doesn't fit in. He's not part of The Crew because he isn't about to do anything unless it's court-appointed; he's not an Extra because nothing about him is anonymous; and he's not a Movie Star because even though everyone knows his name like an A-lister, he isn't invited to the cool parties.

It's bad enough doing something stupid, worse in front of the entire school, horrible if it's posted online, and a complete disaster if it goes viral - but it's the comments that might send you over the edge.Alexander's the target of online trolls - thanks to one viral video, people everywhere have something bad to say about what he looks like, what he wears, and how he acts. With so many people calling him a loser, a mutant, and a moron, he starts to wonder if they might be right.

Poil de Carotte est un petit garçon roux, dernier d'une famille de trois enfants, issu d'un milieu provincial bourgeois. Il est depuis toujours persécuté par sa mère, entre un père absent et un frère et une sœur indifférents. Poil de Carotte veut comprendre pourquoi sa mère ne l'aime pas, ce qu'il y a derrière cette rousseur qu'elle rejette. Peut-être est-il un enfant adopté ou peut-être n'est-il pas le fils de son père ?

Queen Bee Chloe is going to make Toni suffer for whatever transpired between Toni and Chloe's boyfriend, Oliver, over the summer. From day one of eleventh grade, she has Toni branded as a super slut, and it isn't long before things get so ugly that Toni fears for her safety. What's a scared, powerless, and fed-up teenager to do? Guided by Cassandra - a girl with some serious problems of her own - Toni decides to stop playing the victim and take control.

Kurz, nachdem es zur Pause geläutet hat, hört Miriam einen Schuss. Zunächst versteht niemand, was eigentlich passiert ist, aber dann herrschen Chaos und nackte Angst. Matias, ein Schüler aus ihrer Parallelklasse, schießt um sich. Auch Miriams Freund Tobi wird tödlich getroffen. Miriam überlebt - aber sie fragt sich, ob das Leben ohne Tobi und mit den ständig wiederkehrenden Albträumen überhaupt noch einen Sinn hat. Waren sie und ihre Mitschüler Schuld an der Katastrophe?

Late at night Tori receives a random phone call. It's a wrong number. But the caller seems to want to talk, so she stays on the line. He asks for a single thing - one reason not to kill himself. The request plunges her into confusion. Because if this random caller actually does what he plans, he'll be the second person connected to Tori to take his own life. And the first just might land her in jail.

Evie is different. Not just her upbringing - though that's certainly been unusual - but also her mindset. She's smart, independent, confident, opinionated, and ready to take on a new challenge: The Institution of School. It doesn't take this homeschooled kid long to discover that high school is a whole new world, and not in the way she expected. It's also a social minefield, and Evie finds herself confronting new problems at every turn, failing to follow or even understand the rules, and proposing solutions that aren't welcome or accepted.

"Yaqui Delgado wants to kick your ass." That’s what some girl tells Piddy Sanchez one morning before school. Too bad Piddy doesn’t even know who Yaqui Delgado is, let alone what she’s done to piss her off. All Piddy knows is that Yaqui hates her - and she better watch her back because Yaqui isn’t kidding. At first Piddy just focuses on trying to find out more about the father she’s never met and how to balance honors courses with her job at the neighborhood hair salon. But as the harassment escalates, avoiding Yaqui starts to take over Piddy’s life.

It’s 1949 and 18-year-old pitching phenom Mickey Tussler is back with the rejuvenated minor league Brewers in the sequel to The Legend of Mickey Tussler (the basis for the television movie A Mile in His Shoes). Despite Mickey’s proclamation that he will never play baseball again after last season’s violent conclusion, his manager - and now surrogate father - Arthur Murphy cajoles the emotionally fragile, socially awkward boy with autism into giving it another shot.

In the late 1940s, the minor league Milwaukee Brewers are foundering yet again and manager Arthur Murphy is desperate. When he sees 17-year-old Mickey Tussler throwing apples into a barrel, he knows he has found the next pitching phenom. But not everyone is so hopeful. Mickey’s autism - a disorder still not truly understood even today - has alienated the boy from the world, and he is berated by other players and fans. Mickey faces immense trials in the harsh and competitive world of baseball while coping with the challenges inherent to his disorder.

Angie is the only one in her family - maybe the only one in the world - who believes her captured war-hero sister is still alive. Angie needs to believe it. It’s better than thinking about last year, when she tried to kill herself in front of a packed gym. Better than trying to steer clear of Stacy Ann Sloan and her posse of ultra-mean girls. Better than dealing with her corporate-lawyer mother, who wants to know only one thing: When is Angie going to lose exactly 29 pounds? Then a new girl, KC, arrives in Dryfalls, Ohio. She’s beautiful, hip, and smart, and everyone wants to know her. From the minute they meet, KC sees the real Angie....