Showing results for "Chance" in Coming of Age

As kids, Mark and his cousin, Talia, spent many happy summers together at the family cottage in Ontario, Canada, but a fight between their parents put an end to the annual event. Living on opposite coasts - Mark in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Talia in Victoria, British Columbia - they haven’t seen each other in years. When their grandfather dies unexpectedly, Mark and Talia find themselves reunited at the cottage again, cleaning it out while the family decides what to do with it.

Repeating Year 13 was supposed to fix everything. It did not fix everything. But supernovas create as well as destroy. The short version: Nate + Luke = Nuke = BOOM! A-level exams ruined, and school suggesting we rewind and try again. It’s a simple experiment in theory: change the inputs, get better outputs. Luke had shifted from constant to unknown, a glittery question mark. Was he the change I needed to make?

From Joya Goffney, author of hit YA romcom Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry, comes a stirring coming-of-age, best friends-to-lovers romance... Nikki's always had a difficult relationship with her mum. So when she finds herself homeless at the start of spring break, she decides to rage-quit Texas and...

Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole life is on fire, though. Charlie Vega is a lot of things. Smart. Funny. Artistic. Ambitious. Fat. People sometimes have a problem with that last one. Especially her mom. Charlie wants a good...

Fall I Want meets The Summer I Turned Pretty in this YA second-chance, city-girl-meets-farm-boy, coming-of-age romance by the bestselling author of Falling Hard for the Royal Guard. A first love. A second chance. A final choice that could change everything. For Ava Matthews, her grandparents'...

When You Get The Chance is a heartwarming listen from Emma Lord, the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club pick You Have a Match. Nothing will get in the way of Millie Price's dream of becoming a Broadway star. Not her lovable but super introverted dad, who...

Teenager Tillie Benford lives with her ditzy single mum. Tillie is severely disabled, but doesn’t let that stop her from living her life as fully as she can. She helps one of the new starters from school, bad boy Zack Johnson, through rehab when he finds himself partly paralysed after being hit by a car.

A bighearted novel about falling in love, making a mess, and learning to let go, When You Get the Chance is the next effervescent novel from Emma Lord, New York Times bestselling author of the Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club pick You Have a Match. Nothing will get in the way of Millie Price’s...

A father, a friend, and a favorite book help a teen boy understand love and loss in this moving and vivid YA novel in verse, now available in Spanish. Have you ever encountered a book that turned your world upside-down? For sixteen-year-old poet and b-baller Marcos Cadena, that book is the...