Showing titles in Coming of Age

What happens when players get played? Hearts get broken, secrets get revealed, and no one is who they say they are. Ophelia Lopez is the most recent scholarship recipient to be admitted to Weis-Jameson Preparatory Academy. When she steps through the doors of WJ Prep, she lands on the wrong side of the Elites who rule the school. They’ve brought her here to play, ruin, and hurt. They’ve messed with the wrong girl. If she can get the Elites to trust her, to believe they’ve beaten her into submission, she will bring them down from the inside.

As sweet as a macaron from Laduree, this romantic novel set in Paris about an American ballerina and a charming French boy is parfait! And don't miss Anne-Sophie's swoony FRENCH KISSING IN NEW YORK! Mia Jenrow has always known she's destined to be a professional ballerina. In fact, it’s in...

""An emotion-filled collection."" —Kirkus Reviews Two teens take the stage and find their voice . . . A girl learns about her heritage and begins to find her community . . . A sister is haunted by the ghosts of loved ones lost . . . There is no universal adoption experience, and no two...

What’s the problem? Sixteen-year-old Filipino American Angelo Rivera will tell you flat out. Life sucks. He’s been uprooted from his San Diego home to a boring landlocked town in the middle of nowhere. Behind him, ocean waves, his girlfriend, and the biggest skateboarding competition on the California coast. Ahead, flipping burgers at his parents’ new diner and, as the only Asian in his all-white school, being trolled as “brown boy” by small-minded, thick-necked jocks. Resigned to being an outcast, Angelo isn’t alone.

Francesca is at the beginning of her second term in Year 11 at an all boy's school that has just started accepting girls. She still misses her old friends, and, to make things worse, her mother has had a breakdown and can barely move from her bed.

First-time novelist Jenny Han has penned a realistic story that all middle-graders will surely be able to relate to. Meet 12-year-old Annemarie “Shug” Wilcox. What’s not to like about her? She’s smart, she’s tall, and she has lots of freckles. She lives in a small Georgia town with her popular, gorgeous older sister and intellectual mother. Shug is excited about starting the seventh-grade, but she’s not prepared for all the vicious teasing that comes with the new school year.

Året er 2100, og skellet mellem rig og fattig i England er en gabende afgrund, der er umulig at krydse. Befolkningen er delt op i de rige 'kapier' og de fattige 'frittere', der bliver håbløst undertrykt. Zoe på 14 er kapier og har levet et liv i luksus skærmet fra samfundets ulykkelige side. Men da hun møder fritteren Daz på 15, ændrer alt sig. De forelsker sig i hinanden, og nu begynder det at gå op for Zoe, hvor uretfærdigt et samfund, hun lever i. Robert Swindells (f.1939) er en anerkendt engelsk ungdomsforfatter.

Er ist ein Junge, der verloren ist. Sie ist ein Mädchen, das vielleicht das Zuhause ist, das er nie hatte. Joey Lynch war schon immer ein Beschützer. Er baut wieder auf, was kaputt ist. Als sein älterer Bruder Darren die Stadt verlässt, stellt der zwölfjährige Joey fest, dass er auf seine jüngeren Geschwister und seine Mutter aufpassen muss. Als er in seine Teenagerjahre eintritt, verschärfen sich seine Kämpfe, wobei Joey der Sucht folgt, während er gleichzeitig seiner Familie gegenüber pflichtbewusst ist.

Some students enter their freshman year of college knowing exactly what they want to do with their lives. Elliot McHugh is not one of those people. But picking a major is the last thing on Elliot's mind when she's too busy experiencing all that college has to offer - from dancing all night at off-campus parties, to testing her RA Rose's patience, to making new friends, to having the best sex one can have on a twin-sized dorm room bed. But she may not be ready for the fallout when reality hits.

For the first printing only! This paperback features stenciled sprayed edges while the special edition supply lasts. A star hockey player and his biggest critic must reexamine their assumptions about each other when forced to work together at an after-school job in this feel-good young adult...

What you see isn't always what you get in this funny and heart-wrenching story about two girls from different crowds who find common ground, by National Book Award finalist Julie Anne Peters. Antonia is a "nerd," and Jazz is a "punk." Antonia belongs to the math club; Jazz hangs out at the...

Photographer and film buff Daniel Sanchez learned a long time ago that the only way to get by in an allistic world is to mask his autism and follow the script. Which means he knows that boisterous, buff, and beautiful soccer superstars like his best friend, Mona Sinclair, shouldn't be wasting time hanging out with introverts who prefer being behind the camera.

At first glance, Angel is a six-foot-six, powerful, menacing biker traveling the highways of the Southwest. Maggie Munoz, along with other characters in the story, see more than his intimidating demeanor; they see answers to their prayers. When 17-year-old Camden James runs from an abusive father in New Jersey, he falls right into the clutches of another vile beast. But as chance would have it, after a few of life’s tough lessons and a couple of brushes with death, Camden discovers his true identity.

Rain ha tenido siempre claro que quiere formar parte de la orden del Amanecer para algún día ser una de las Sabias del consejo. Una desaparición repentina la lleva a unirse a Ash Blake, el hijo de un infame brujo que busca venganza por la muerte de su padre. Rain hallará secretos de su mundo que cambiarán su perspectiva y que la empujarán hasta los límites de su moral. Y por el camino descubrirá una peligrosa e inevitable atracción por Ash Blake.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2002. Seventeen-year-old Cheeto-stained Asher is at his breaking point. A locker room brawl and a sick black eye push him over the edge. Luke, Palm Reef Prep's Abercrombie-clad frat boy fascist, needs to go. And Sam, Asher's vicious lust bunny, deserves better. So Asher does something totally deranged: he comes out as gay to get Luke expelled. Somehow, it works.

Normal? Nein, normal fühlt man sich nicht, wenn man gerade 17 Jahre alt ist und mit einer chaotischen Mutter und einer verschlossenen Zwillingsschwester...

Beautifully and authentically rendered by actor and playwright Adrian Vargas, these twelve stories tell of the almost unendurable journey most migrant campesinos undertake to find the "American Dream."

Wrongly accused of her brother’s murder, Sonara’s destiny was to die, sentenced to execution by her own mother. Punished and left for dead, the shadows have cursed her with a second life as a Shadowblood, cast out and hunted by society for her demon-like powers. Now known as the Devil of the Deadlands, Sonara survives as a thief on the edge of society, fighting for survival on a quest to uncover what really happened to her brother and whether he is even dead at all....

Dylan — a hopeless romantic — falls for Jordan, the new boy in town who runs hot and is able to conjure fire with the wave of his hand.

Preachers’ daughters aren’t supposed to be atheists. They’re also not supposed to make pacts to lose their virginity by the end of the year, but high school senior Meredith Beaumont is sick of letting other people tell her who to be. Spending the last four years as Mute Mare, the girl so shy just thinking about boys could trigger panic attacks, Meredith knows exactly what it’s like to be invisible. But when a vindictive mean girl gets her manicured claws on the anti-virginity pact and spreads it around the school, Mare’s not so invisible anymore. She just wishes she was.