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Sixteen-year-old Mia is stranded in the middle of the Caribbean. After a mortifying incident in the school cafeteria, her parents decide there is only one way to deal with her meltdown: move onto a battered sailboat and leave everything behind. Her mom and dad think it’s the best decision they’ve ever made. Mia feels like she’s been kidnapped and imprisoned in paradise with no internet and no destination. Her only hope is to hack together a solar-powered satellite phone so she can call her best friend and fix everything.

Toni has always had nightmares about fire, and she also has burn scars but no idea how she got them. So when fire destroys the orphanage she has grown up in, she is ready to make her way to Toronto, where she hopes to discover the truth about the mother she believes hurt and then abandoned her. Toronto proves to be both daunting and exciting for Toni, whose charm and innocence attract attention—not always positive—wherever she goes.

Emilie pareciera ser una chica como cualquiera, preocupada por su aspecto, por las calorías, por el ejercicio. Sin embargo, para ella la comida representa una lucha constante todos los días y ya es difícil ocultárselo a sus padres. Samuel es un chico de Ghana que se embarca en un peligroso viaje para llegar a Europa, encontrar trabajo y enviar algo de dinero a su familia. Eso es lo que hacen todos los chicos de su edad para dejar atrás la pobreza y encontrar un mejor futuro; incluso si para ello tienen que arriesgar la vida.

Tweede deel in de onvergetelijke Death Cast-reeks van Adam Silvera. In deze prequel van Op het einde gaan ze allebei dood beleven twee nieuwe vreemdelingen hun laatste dag samen. Orion Pagan wacht al jaren op iemand die hem gaat vertellen dat hij dood zal gaan aan zijn hartprobleem. Maar nu hij zich bij DeathCast heeft aangemeld, voelt hij dat hij eindelijk kan beginnen met leven. Valentino Prince heeft een prachtige toekomst voor zich, en dat wil hij graag vieren bij het lanceringsfeest van Death-Cast. Als Orion en Valentino elkaar ontmoeten, springt de vonk meteen over.

After getting rejected by every single Ivy League she applied to and falling short of all her Asian immigrant parents’ expectations, seventeen-year-old Jenna Chen makes a wish to become her smarter, infinitely more successful Harvard-bound cousin, Jessica Chen—only for her wish to come true. Literally. Now trapped inside Jessica’s body, with access to Jessica’s most private journals and secrets, Jenna soon discovers that being the top student at the elite, highly competitive Havenwood Private Academy isn’t quite what she imagined.

Gem has never known what it is to have security. She's never known an adult she can truly rely on. But the one constant in her life has been Dixie. Gem grew up taking care of her sister when no one else could: not their mother, whose issues make it hard for her to keep food on the table, and definitely not their father, whose intermittent presence is the only thing worse than his frequent absence.

When seventeen-year-old Eli arrives at Raeth, a remote mountain retreat for teens with mental health issues, her mind is made up—she is not interested in participating, and she doesn’t need to “heal.” Still reeling from a breakup that left both her heart and faith shattered, she is determined to fake being “fine” so that the program’s warden will clear her to return home. But the retreat itself has other ideas.

When I was twelve, I met this boy. I knew my parents wouldn't approve of our friendship, so I spent two years sneaking over to his house, hoping at some point I'd have a say in how I lived my life. When I was fourteen, there was an accident. As much as I wanted to keep him a secret, as much as I needed to see him every day, we were forbidden to ever see each other again. Three years have passed, three years of watching myself waste away without him, sinking into a deep depression that I struggle to pull myself out of each morning.

Ánte’s life has been steeped in Sámi tradition. It is indisputable to him that he, an only child, will keep working with the reindeer. But there is something else too, something tugging at him. His feelings for his best friend Erik have changed, grown into something bigger.

‘Wayne Le—known as "Invisible-D 'Wayne" at school—has been invited to participate in a seemingly ordinary, innocuous adolescent health study by a prestigious university. The study has a few nice perks, but most important to ‘Wayne, is the opportunity to give his immigrant father an accomplishment to be proud of—something that's been in short supply since 'Wayne's mother left. But the study quickly proves to be anything but ordinary and innocuous.

Arden isn’t excited about moving. Los Angeles was an easy place to fit in and find a supportive queer community. But Winifred, Michigan? That sounds like a much more difficult place to exist. Pasadena, California, is the perfect city for Gabe’s reinvention. Everyone knew everything about him in small-town S elby, Illinois. Gabe, who wants to be out and proud, can’t wait to relocate. When Arden and Gabe randomly meet in the lobby of a motel in Nebraska, it feels like fate.

Seventeen-year-old Jamie Taher-Foster has big plans for senior year. She's made a list of things and places in Toronto she and her boyfriend of three years, Ben Cameron, need to check off before graduating. And the biggest plan of all: a very special night for the two of them at the upcoming Winter Formal. But then Ben arrives back home after a summer away with an unthinkable announcement: he wants to break up. And when Jamie discovers him with Olivia Chen the next day, she is determined to get him back.

Leo Martino’s hunt for love has been a total flop. Over the years, every single crush has ghosted him, leaving him miserable and alone. By senior year, Leo concludes he must be unlovable. It’s time to stop trying. But when he finds himself obsessing over the irresistible Lincoln Chan, Leo decides to give love one last shot—and this time, he has a plan. He’s going to change everything about himself to become the “perfect boyfriend.” And the plan actually works. . .but will he take it too far?

Von der "New York Times"- und "SPIEGEL"-Bestsellerautorin von "Girl in Pieces". Das passiert, wenn deine Mutter stirbt: Es ist der hellste Tag des Sommers, und draußen ist es dunkel. Es ist dunkel in deinem Haus, dunkel in deinem Zimmer und dunkel in deinem Herzen. Du hast das Gefühl, als würde die Dunkelheit dich auseinanderreißen. So fühlt es sich für Tiger an. Es waren immer Tiger und ihre Mutter gegen die Welt. Dann, an einem Tag wie jedem anderen, stirbt Tigers Mutter. Und jetzt ist Tiger allein. Und muss lernen, sich mit der Dunkelheit anzufreunden.

Partying with popular classmates they barely know is not what Eva and her BFFs had in mind for their spring break. But things have been off ever since Miles' academic career took a turn for the worse (they don't talk about it), so a trip to a private beach lodge might be exactly what they need. And Eva won’t admit it, but the chance to reconnect with Colton is worth putting up with Piper’s constant livestreams to her thousands of “besties.”

Dev Landry has a mundane life; runner-up on the track team, a nerdy best friend, and a job at his overbearing parents’ failing motel. He’s also in love with his former best friend, Hadlee Renee Morgan; the girl that never speaks, unless it's through her dark, disturbing, and taboo photography. He’s loved her since the day he kissed her at the clearing in the woods three years ago, and then woke up from a coma with scars and no memory of what happened after. Now plagued by blackouts, migraines, and sleepwalking in the woods, his only solace is running, to keep the darkness at bay.

Meg parece ter tudo o que Alana não tem: é rica, estilosa e cheia de fãs - graças ao seu irmão Caspar, um grande astro do pop mundial. Mas está presa a este mundo como irmã de celebridade. Enquanto Meg tenta sobreviver à sombra de seu irmão e com as dezenas de haters on-line que a satirizam sempre que a garota tenta expressar seu próprio talento, Alana, uma jovem talentosa que compõe as próprias músicas, parece não saber o que é o medo da exposição... E quando seus mundos colidem, tudo muda drasticamente!edo da exposição... Mas quando seus mundos colidem, tudo irá mudar drasticamente.

Kyle Baker thought his family was happy. Happy enough, anyway. That’s why, when Kyle learns that his mother has been having an affair and his father has been living with the secret, his reality is altered. He quits baseball, ghosts his girlfriend, and generally checks out of life as he’s known it. With his older sisters out of the house and friends who don’t get it, the only person he can talk to is his cousin Emily - who is always there on the other end of his texts but still has her own life, hours away.

O relacionamento com os pais e os colegas, os namoros, as baladas, a inquietação profissional, as drogas, a religião e muitas outras questões relativas aos jovens de hoje são tratadas neste audiolivro de maneira aberta e divertida. Narrado por Bruna Ximenes com participação de oito atores que fazem os diferentes personagens.

Zeca tem muito orgulho de ser quem é–um jovem inteligente, cheio de bom humor e bem-resolvido com a própria sexualidade. Ele acabou de entrar na faculdade de Letras e tem um futuro brilhante pela frente. Além disso, vive cercado de grandes amigos e conta com o apoio incondicional da mãe. Mas uma notícia inesperada está tirando seu sono. Seu pai, que se mudou para Santa Catarina com a nova esposa anos atrás, está voltando para o Rio de mala e cuia.