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Renzo è un bambino particolare: poco interessato ai giochi dei suoi coetanei, è attratto dai vestiti. Ma non per vanità. A lui interessano quelli altrui, perché li vede come maschere, gli danno la possibilità di diventare qualcun altro. Insieme alla magia, che scopre grazie a un parroco curioso e amico, trasformarsi diventerà la sua più grande passione.

After her mother runs off with her much-younger boyfriend, 14-year-old Flanders is shipped off to a boarding school in Virginia. On the train, she meets Carolyn Cardmaker, a preacher's daughter who will become her best friend. She also meets Ernestine Blue. Miss Blue is Flanders' faculty advisor at the Charles School, where each residence hall is named after a Charles Dickens novel. But Miss Blue's strict disciplinarian persona may be concealing a tragic past.

Little Little La Belle isn't redundant. She's a dwarf - a beautiful blond heiress who lives a pampered existence in the New York town named after her family. With her 18th birthday approaching, her parents want to marry Little Little off to the perfect man. Enter Sydney Cinnamon. Orphaned young, he went on to become one of America's most famous dwarfs. The pint-size TV performer could have his pick of any diminutive lady. But with Little Little, it's love at first sight.

I start my story with the day I first saw Jesse Pegler. That was when my whole life first started changing. Sixteen-year-old Opal Ringer is the daughter of Royal Ringer, the Pentecostal leader of a motley flock of down-on-their-luck believers. Jesse Pegler is the son of Brother Pegler. An "evangelist for Jesus", the elder Pegler is a flashy minister who appears regularly on television in his blue robes and gold tassels. Opal and Jesse meet at a faith healing at the Helping Hand Tabernacle church, where Opal's daddy preaches.

It was bad enough that they had to move to Brooklyn. Brooklyn Heights, as Tucker Woolf's dad instructs him to tell everyone after he loses his job. Now his father has suddenly developed an allergy to Tucker's cat, Nader, a nine-month-old calico Tucker found underneath a Chevrolet. Tucker's beloved pet finds a new home with overweight, outrageous Susan "Dinky" Hocker, the only person to answer Tucker's ad. As Tucker starts paying regular visits to Dinky's house to check up on Nader, his life begins to change.

Fifteen-year-old Suzy Slade’s parents are divorced. Now Suzy lives with her mother in a beautiful house on the ocean in Seaville, Long Island. Her gorgeous older sister, Chicago, lives with their father in New York City. At least, shedid. Chicago just roared into town on her brand-new Harley.With her sister’s return, Suzy’s whole world changes. She becomes caught up in Chicago’s life - and a secret affair she wishes she didn’t know about.

Brynna and Erica were friends, best friends. They did everything together, until the night they jumped off the pier at Harding Beach...and only Brynna made it back. A year later, Brynna is still picking up the pieces. She's in a new school with new friends, but she can't shake the demons of her past. Then a Twitter post from "EricaNShaw" pops up in Brynna's feed and a chilling voice mail is left on her phone. Someone isn't ready to let go of what happened. Brynna barely survived losing Erica. She doubts she'll survive Erica's return.

The fall of the Awesome Threesome is the talk of the junior class. The three friends - Jennie, Emily, and Hillary - thought they’d be a trio forever. But what with Jennie’s relentless ambition, Emily’s jealousy, and Hillary’s building resentment, it seems the Awesome Threesome is over.

In first grade, twins Alexis and Adam wrote down what they wanted to be when they grew up and put it in their teacher’s time capsule. Now entering their senior year in high school, they are surprised to find out what they wrote: Alexis wanted to "help people" and Adam wanted to be a fireman. But that was before Adam got sick and their family fell apart. Adam’s leukemia is now in remission but, sadly, so is the twins’ family. Their mother and father are always working - not only don’t they have time for Alexis and Adam, they don’t have time for each other. Alexis can’t even convince them to take a weekend off for one last family vacation to Disney World.

Thea Galehouse has always known how to take care of herself. With a flighty club-owner mom and a standoffish, recovering-alcoholic dad, Thea has made her own way in her hometown of New York, attending the prestigious and competitive Stuyvesant High School. But one chat with Will, a handsome and witty senior, and she's a goner - completely hooked on him and unable to concentrate on anything else. Always worried that she loves Will more than he loves her, Thea is pleasantly surprised when their romance weathers his move to college and Will goes out of his way to involve her in his life. But then, Thea misses a period.

When her best guy friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, 16-year-old Cat sets out to discover who in her small town did it. Richly atmospheric, this daring mystery mines the secrets of a tightly knit Southern community and examines the strength of will it takes to go against everyone you know in the name of justice.

For eight years, Loa Sollilja's world ran like one of those mechanical models of the solar system, with her baby sister, Asta, as the sun. Asta suffered from a genetic disorder that left her a permanent infant, and caring for her was Loa's life. Everything spun neatly and regularly as the whole family orbited around Asta. But now Asta's dead, and 16-year-old Loa's clockwork galaxy has collapsed.

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.

Kataoka Noni è la figlia di Shizukuishi e ha due papà, Kaede e Kataoka. In "Another World", capitolo conclusivo della quadrilogia "Il Regno", il percorso di crescita di Shizukuishi è ormai compiuto, Kaede è morto e Kataoka è un padre - a modo suo - amorevole. Ambientata tra Mykonos, Okinawa e Tokyo, la storia di Noni è la chiusura di un cerchio: torna la forza delle piante e delle pietre, l'amore della natura e quello, complesso e ingovernabile, tra gli esseri umani, il confronto con la morte e l'abbandono.

Inquiete, sfrontate, aggressive. Scontente. Cinque terribili ragazze alla ricerca di "qualcosa di diverso, ma divertente", dentro e fuori dalla scuola, per non annoiarsi pianificano azioni sempre più rischiose e illegali. Tra un furtarello, un furto, un colpo grosso (e decisivo) mettono in gioco se stesse, la loro amicizia, la loro adolescenza. Gli sbagli le faranno crescere, loro malgrado. Le porranno di fronte a valori che credevano privi di significato: responsabilità, etica, coscienza. Ma la prova più grande che dovranno affrontare arriverà imprevista.

Anna ha quindici anni, vive a Milano e vorrebbe fare la giornalista. Nel suo diario ha scritto una frase di un articolo della Politkovskaja pubblicato poco prima che fosse assassinata: "Non sono un vero animale politico. Non ho aderito a nessun partito perché lo considero un errore per un giornalista, almeno in Russia. Quale crimine ho commesso per essere bollata come 'una contro di noi'? Mi sono limitata a riferire i fatti di cui sono stata testimone. Ho scritto e, più raramente, ho parlato".

Domenica, detta Mimì, diciassette anni, vive con la mamma Caterina e la zia Diletta a Roma. Da un giorno all'altro la sua famiglia si trasferisce in un piccolo paese, Piandiperi, dove la fabbrica presso cui Caterina lavora come operaia ha aperto un nuovo stabilimento. Per Mimì si tratta di un cataclisma che stravolge la sua esistenza tranquilla e rassicurante.

Rosa vive em um lugar “desnuvado”: lá, a chuva não cai, a plantação não vinga e a vida é dura. As coisas começam a melhorar quando ela faz amizade com Guto e os dois adotam um bichinho “descomum”. Em busca de uma vida melhor, a família deixa para trás a fazenda, mas logo todos se veem envolvidos nos conflitos pela terra. Rosa terá então que escolher seu caminho.

When 15-year-old Becs meets Bracken, she is convinced she's found her soul mate. So what if he's much older? He understands her, she feels free with him and when he holds her she feels safe. But is she?Some young women in the area have been sexually assaulted. It's the talk of the school. And when Bec's best friend, Mary-Jane, becomes his latest victim, the true dangers hit home: just as Rebecca is starting to wonder about her future with Bracken, poor M-J rapidly shrinks away from life....

L'hiver s'installe à Castlecatz. Le Manoir a survécu au désastre de Chamonios, le danger semble écarté. Pourquoi, alors, les perturbations magiques continuent-elles ? Qu'est-ce que l'Ordre du Kháos originel vient faire entre ses murs ? Pour quelles raisons Kovhan, Bruyne, Lexios et Serenya sont-ils contraints de mentir ? Tandis que les leçons se compliquent, le Deuxième quart apporte une énigme de taille : KERNUNNOS Ce mot n'existe nulle part. Serait-ce un nom ? Un lieu ? Un événement ? Les Aspirants s'attèlent à le découvrir, intrigués et inquiets.