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Francesco ha poco tempo per costruirsi una nuova reputazione agli occhi dei compagni nella nuova classe, senza che i prof pensino che sia arrivato lì per farsi segare. E l'attesa dell'imminente viaggio ad Auschwitz organizzato dalla scuola gli provoca quella sensazione senza nome che sale e scende tra la pancia e il petto, quel misto di rabbia, curiosità e paura. Alle sue spalle, quindici mesi prima, il dolore: quel giorno in cui, al funerale del suo amico Simone, non aveva versato neanche una lacrima. Francesco parte, con settecento compagni di viaggio.

Sara kommt aus Indien zurück nach England. In einem Internat soll sie so lange lernen und wohnen, bis ihr Vater aus Indien zurückkehrt und dort alle geschäftlichen Angelegenheiten geklärt hat. Saras Vater aber kommt nicht zurück. Er stirbt und hinterlässt eine Waise, die nur deshalb die schwere Zeit übersteht, weil sie so viel Fantasie hat und sich ausmalt, wie es ist, wenn ihr Leben wieder in geordneten Bahnen verläuft. Was sie nicht weiß, sie hat einen unbekannten Freund, der ihr hilft und zur Seite steht, damit sie wieder glücklich wird.

Nur knapp ist Mara einem Bombenattentat in der U-Bahn entgangen. Ihre Mitschüler nennen sie seither "Das Mädchen, das überlebt hat" und erwarten Betroffenheit von ihr. Aber Mara hat ganz andere Sorgen. Ihre Freundin Sirîn meldet sich immer seltener und scheint plötzlich komplett unerreichbar. Je mehr Mara ihr zu helfen versucht, desto mehr Unverständnis und Ablehnung erntet sie. Was verheimlichen alle vor ihr? Erst als sich ihr Schwarm Chriso in die Suche einschaltet, kommt die erschütternde Wahrheit ans Licht.

Ein Zelt auf einem Hausdach in Berlin - es ist Sommer und Levi ist abgehauen. Zwar wohnt ein paar Stockwerke unter seinem Lager immer noch sein Vater, aber von dem hat er noch nie viel mitbekommen. Und jetzt, nachdem er die Urne seiner Mutter auf der Beerdigung gestohlen hat, kann er sich sowieso nicht mehr blicken lassen. Tigerschatten springen zwischen den Dächern, sitzen Levi im Nacken und streifen um die Urne - derselbe Tiger, der seine Mutter getötet hat, davon ist Levi überzeugt. Im Kampf mit dem Verlust sucht der Junge sich seine eigenen Verbündeten.

Tessa, diciassette anni, ha atteso a lungo il ragazzo perfetto, il momento perfetto, il bacio perfetto. Pensava di avere ancora molto tempo davanti a sé, prima di scoprire che a causa di un difetto cardiaco le restano poche settimane di vita. Stordita, arrabbiata, disperata, aspetta di morire chiusa nella sua stanza. È un'attesa amara, la sua, perché sa di non aver vissuto a pieno. Pensa a sé stessa come a una "ragazza soprammobile", che morirà "vergine e senza patente". Fino a quando non incontra Oskar e tutto sembra di nuovo possibile.

Steven Gerald Gabel - a.k.a. Stiggy - needs to get out of Minnesota. His father recently look his own life, his mother is a shell of the person she used to be, and his sort-of-girlfriend ghosted him and skipped town. What does he have left to stick around for? Armed with his mom's credit card and a tourist map of Great River Road, Stiggy sets off in his dad's car.

Growing up in a small Colorado town, Londyn and David spent their childhood falling in love. Now they're seventeen and ready to graduate high school, excited to begin the next chapter of their lives. But after a tragic accident leaves David in a coma, Londyn finds herself drawn into a distorted mirror of their hometown, a dreamlike world built on crumbling memories and threatened by an encroaching darkness. A world that might all exist within David's dying mind.

There is a middle world between life and death, and Tess must navigate it to save her brother in this heart-wrenching story infused with the fractured and fantastical realms of Finnish mysticism. Axel and Tess are bewildered when a stranger shows up in their backyard accompanied by a giant brown bear, but before they can investigate the bizarre encounter, something more harrowing happens: their father is killed in a freak car accident.

In one moment the lives of twenty-three teenagers are forever changed, and it's not just because they all happen to die. ReMade in a world they barely recognize—one with robots, space elevators, and unchecked jungle—they must work together to survive. They came from different places, backgrounds, and families, and now they might be the last people on earth. Lost meets The Maze Runner in this exciting adventure from Serial Box Publishing.

Fourteen-year-old Jamie, aka “Punkzilla,” is on a mission: to see his older brother, Peter (“P”), before P dies of cancer. Hopping a bus while still buzzing from his last hit of meth, Jamie embarks on a days-long bus trip from Portland, Oregon, to Memphis, Tennessee, writing letters to his family and friends - letters so honest he may never send them.

Lucy always loved summers on Halcyon Lake - sunning on the lake raft, relaxing on the boat, and spending every possible minute with her best friend, Trixie, and Trixie’s brother, Ben, Lucy’s lifelong crush. Until last summer, when one tragic event turned their idyllic world upside down. Now nothing is the same. This summer, Trixie is gone, and Ben is distant, numbing his pain with parties and a string of interchangeable girlfriends.

All her life, 17-year-old Chessie has had recurring dreams about a little white farmhouse. Quaint? Not quite. The house is the site of the unsolved murders of Villisca, Iowa, where eight people were slaughtered in 1912. With her parents on the verge of divorce, Chessie is stuck spending the summer with her grandparents in Villisca - right across the street from the axe murder house.

One wave: that’s all it takes for the rest of Mae and Hannah Winters’ lives to change. When a tsunami strikes the island where their parents are vacationing, it soon becomes clear that their mom and dad are never coming home. Forced to move to Boston from sunny California for the rest of their senior year, each girl struggles with secrets their parents’ death has brought to light, and with their uncertainty about the future. Instead of bringing them closer, it feels like the wave has torn the sisters apart.

Five years ago, Lexie witnessed something that shattered her very core. To cope, she moves from town to town, desperate to hide the darkest of family secrets. In every location, she assumes a new name and flies under the radar as long as she can before anyone figures out who she is - who she’s related to. Lexie now lives with her aunt, has minimal interaction with her parents, and has no communication with her brother. But the pain is always there. After starting her newest school, all she wants is to just live life.

The Harbinger is lost, sunk to the bottom of an otherworldly sea. Every soul that ever died and was protected within its hold has been lost along with it. But at least that precious cargo is out of reach of the demon Urcena and her army of soul-devouring monsters. For now. The soul keepers are broken, scattered, and barely clinging to existence without their ship or any way to collect or protect the souls of the newly dead.

Seventeen-year-old Laurel Graham has a singular, all-consuming ambition in this life: become the most renowned nature photographer and birder in the world. The first step to birding domination is to win the junior nature photographer contest run by prominent Fauna magazine. Her beloved activist and nature-loving grandmother placed when she was a girl. Gran drags Laurel out on a birding expedition where the pair hear a mysterious call that even Gran can’t identify. The pair vow to find out what it is together, but soon after, Gran is involved in a horrible car accident.

After dying in a terrible car accident, Rhett awakens in the afterlife and is recruited to join the crew of the Harbinger, a colossal seafaring vessel tasked with ferrying the souls of the dead. To where exactly, no one knows. But the crew must get the souls there, and along the way protect them from vicious soul-eating monsters that will stop at nothing to take the ship and all of its occupants.

Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: She's hilarious. It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to herself. Well, to herself and her dad, a former comedian and her inspiration. Then, on the second day of 10th grade, the funniest guy in school actually laughs at a comment she makes in the lunch line and asks her to join the improv troupe. Maybe he's even...flirting? Just when Winnie's ready to say yes to comedy again, her father is diagnosed with ALS.

It’s been a year since 15-year-old Mia Hopkins was in the car crash that killed her older sister and left her terribly scarred. The doctors tell her she was lucky to survive. Her therapist says it will take time to heal. The police reports claim there were trace amounts of alcohol in her bloodstream. But no matter how much she tries to reconstruct the events of that fateful night, Mia’s memory is spotty at best. She’s left with accusations, rumors, and guilt so powerful it could consume her.

The Swarm is unrecognizable, untraceable, and unpredictable — a mob that leaves death in its wake. Public places are no longer safe. Every day is a threat. Though it’s been two years since the last attack, Lia Finch has found clues that the Swarm is ready to claim a new victim. The last victim was Lia’s father, attorney Steven Finch. Devastated and desperate for answers, Lia will do anything to uncover the reasons behind his death and to stop someone else from being struck down.