Showing results for "Roses" in Family & Relationships

With his King Lord dad in prison and his mom working two jobs, seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter helps the only way he knows how: slinging drugs. Life's not perfect, but he's got everything under control. Until he finds out he's a father. Suddenly it's not so easy to deal drugs and finish school with a baby dependent on him for everything. So when he's offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. But when King Lord blood runs through your veins, you don't get to just walk away.

Rose Justice is a young pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War. On her way back from a semi-secret flight in the waning days of the war, Rose is captured by the Germans and ends up in Ravensbrück, the notorious Nazi women's concentration camp. There, she meets an unforgettable group of women. These damaged women must bond together to help each other survive.

Thirteen-year-old Matt is spending the holidays at the dilapidated Woodhall mansion where his spirited step-sister Caroline works as cook. In a faded rose garden, Matt meets Alix, proud old Madame Ayre’s granddaughter, and is introduced to the tension-filled relationship between the embittered mother and her crippled son Theo.

Eighteen months ago, 17-year-old Rose and 13-year-old Rudder escaped a strict religious sect with their mum. They are still trying to make sense of the world outside - no more rules about clothes and books, films and music, no more technology bans. But also, no more friendship with the people they've known all their lives, no community and no certainty. When Rudder accidentally sets a devastating chain of events into action, Rose must decide whether to sacrifice everything and go back to the life she hates in order to save the people she loves.

Georgie Burgess has known only neglect and abuse during his seven and a half years of life. His alcoholic mother does little to prevent the bruises and scars inflicted on Georgie by her brutal boyfriend. With each blow, the little boy withdraws further into his dreams. When he wins a small rose bush in a lottery, it seems as if one of his dreams has finally come true. But after a particularly savage beating, he is taken from his mother and placed in a home for boys.

In the spirit of Nina LaCour and Adam Silvera, this offbeat and romantic debut novel follows a teen girl whose desire to find out more about her late rock star father brings her closer to the last person she expected. Everything Koda Rose knows about her father she’s learned from other people...

Perfect for fans of Tell Me Three Things and The Astonishing Color of After, A Constellation of Roses is brimming with a magic all its own—lovable and flawed characters, an evocative setting, and friendships to treasure. Ever since her troubled mother abandoned her, Trix McCabe has preferred...

Lucia Cruz may be turning eighteen this year, but she is not the debutante type. Everything about a traditional Filipino debut feels all wrong for her. Besides, custom dictates that eighteen friends attend her for a special ceremony on her birthday, and Lucia only has one friend—Esmé Mares. They've stuck to each other's side all throughout high school, content to be friends with only each other. At least, Lucia thought they were content.

After fleeing London and the scandal that tore my family apart, I’m left broken, confused, and mourning a life I never realized was so fragile. I’m used to being on top. I’m used to being admired, and now I’m desperate for a way back in. I think I’ve found it when I see Ashton Cole - my first crush, my first kiss - at my new school. But Ash isn’t who he used to be. He’s the king. And me…well, I’m not going down without a fight - even with the lies and secrets filling the school halls around us.

Rose wants to be alone but instead she's on a road trip of discovery with her mother. This is a warm, generous novel big on family dynamics and a rich portrait of a feisty young girl facing up to love, loss and life's big issues.

Told in letters, journal entries, e-mails, doctors’ reports, and instant messages, the heartbreaking story of an aspiring ballet dancer battling leukemia.

Da de har stået der lidt, siger Frida: "Rose, kommer du ikke lige med? Der er noget, vi vil tale med dig om." Klara kigger på Rose, da hun svarer o.k., og går med. Solen skinner på deres solbrune hud. Frida retter på sit hårbånd og siger til Rose: "Solvej og jeg har snakket om, at vi altså synes, du er meget mere moden end Klara." Rose bliver glad og varm. Hun holder sit blik mod det afsvedne græs." Rose har aldrig været gode venner med Frida og Solvej fra klassen.

Rose er vild med Sigurd. Men er han også vild med hende? Og hvordan gør man, hvis man gerne vil være kærester? Rose får heldigvis hjælp af Sidsel og Klara. Men så kommer hun til at fortælle en hemmelighed til Sigurd, og pludselig går alting galt Anden bog om Rose, der går i sjette klasse. Bøgerne kan læses uafhængigt af hinanden. FRA BOGEN: Da de rejser sig for at tage jakker på, siger Morten: "Ja, altså, vi tænkte, om vi ikke alle sammen skulle mødes hjemme hos Sigurd i morgen efter skole?"

Klara er blevet kaerester med Sigurd, som før var Roses kaereste. Rose kan ikke holde det ud. Hun vil gerne have Sigurd tilbage. Men hvordan får hun det, nu hvor han er begyndt at komme sammen med hendes bedste veninde? Rose vil ikke miste Klara. Det hele er kompliceret, og da Frida begynder at blande sig, bliver det ikke lettere. Endnu en bog i serien om Rose.