Showing results for "Laura" in Coming of Age

Lila James is my best friend’s little sister, and I’ve always looked out for her. She's five years younger than me, and when she left for college, she was just a kid. But now she’s home for the summer—and she’s definitely not a kid anymore.

Mars, Snickers, Happy Cherries – wenn Emma die Späti-Regale aufstockt, sieht sie nur eins: Kalorien. Ihr Studium hat sie abgebrochen, genauso wie den Kontakt zu ihrem Vater, der vermutlich irgendwo auf einer Parkbank seinen letzten Rausch ausschläft. Und auch Emma steht kaum einen Abend ohne Müller-Thurgau durch, die Tasse unter dem Tresen hilft ihr beim Vergessen. Ist doch tutto bene, oder? Nicht. Aber dann ist da plötzlich Ingrid: fünfzehn, rotzfrech und seit Neuestem Schülerpraktikantin im Späti.

My heart thrusts with a force that takes me by surprise. Telling me something I don’t understand. A splitting pain, a longing to slip back under. They tell me I was in a hit-and-run, but I can’t remember what happened that night. All I know is that I woke up with pictures in my pocket, a card from one of those photo booths in the mall. And I’m in the pictures. Cody Rush, me, and…Julianna.

No one meets their soul mate when they're 17, right? But what if the impossible happens and you do? What if they then leave you to become a famous rock star? Completely impossible.... Except for 17-year-old Indi. This is all too real; her life-long best friend, Joel, becomes her first love after years of longing for him. Everything is perfect, more than she had ever dared to hope. Then at a gig, Joel's band gets picked up by a record label, and she's left behind in her dead-end home town with no one to turn to and a secret to keep.