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Det er frysende kold vinter. Det er ikke mere end et par måneder siden, Pony prøvede at slå op med to kærester på én gang. Selvom hun stadig savner Jonathan lidt, selvom hun er trist over, at det ikke var Tessa, der var under juletræet i år - og selvom hun er død misundelig over at Majas forældre har købt Rainbow og Melody til Maja, så er der også mange store lyspunkter. Hun har fået lov til at ride Bajads til fastelavnsridningen og Tessa er ved at være frisk igen. Så selvfølgelig siger Pony ja, når Maja skal rejse til Indien og spørger, om hun og Lise vil se efter hendes ponyer.

Pony har fået kæreste på - og dermed også et problem. Han elsker fodbold, hun elsker heste... Så hvordan får man tingene til at hænge sammen, når man samtidig også er ret genert og ikke nær så modig, når Jonathan er i nærheden, som man er, når man rider vild galop på Tessa? Så sker der noget, da Pony er på ridelejr, der får hende til at tænke sig om en ekstra gang; På ridelejren er der en sød dreng ved navn Oliver, som meget gerne vil snakke om heste... Og et natløb i skoven udvikler sig til et mareridt, da Tessa og nogle andre heste forsvinder.

Pony og Lise må lægge hovederne i blød, for Maja begynder at opføre sig meget underligt og rastløst - og ikke rigtig gider være sammen med dem. De oplever også deres første ridetur til havet og at blive jagtet af hyrdehunde - og så prøver de at få deres egen køretur i Majas forældres bil. En serie om tre vidt forskellige piger på 12-13 år og deres hverdag med heste, skole, drenge og hinanden. Pony (Karen) er en rigtig hestepige. Hun er meget omsorgsfuld over for sine veninder og ville gerne redde hele verden, hvis hun kunne. Maja er bare god til alting.

Pony og Tessa udgør et superpar. Især når det kommer til at ride ponyvæddeløb. Det har dog en enkelt ulempe at begynde at deltage i konkurrencerne. Der er pludselig rigtig mange piger, der opdager, hvor smuk og sød og dygtig - og hurtig - den mørkegrå Welsh Mountain-pony er. Pony & Co. gør selvfølgelig alt, hvad de kan, for at ingen skal opdage, at Tessa faktisk er til salg, og at det jo ikke er Pony selv, der er den lykkelige ejer. Men det lykkes ikke rigtig. Flere og flere piger med rige forældre kommer på besøg i stalden. Og Pony bliver mere og mere fortvivlet.

Ihr Leben lang hat Audrey auf diesen Moment hingefiebert: Sie und ihre beste Freundin Emma haben die Chance, bei der Olympiade zu zeigen, dass sie zu den besten Turnerinnen der Welt gehören. Aber es kommt anders als geplant. Denn ihr Trainer, dem beide Mädchen vertrauen, seit sie drei Jahre alt sind, wird wegen Missbrauch an ihrer Mannschaftskollegin verhaftet. Das Team steht vor einem Scherbenhaufen. Obwohl Audrey in Leo, dem Sohn der neuen Trainerin, ihre große Liebe findet, hat sie keine Ahnung, wie sie Olympia bestehen soll.

Charlie Hastings ist Star ihres Baseballteams - und der typische Kumpeltyp. Als ihr bester Freund, Teamkollege und Schwarm mit einem anderen Mädchen ausgeht, ist sie am Boden zerstört. Veränderung muss her, und Charlie will den Sport an den Nagel hängen. Aber die Meisterschaften sind nah, und die Roosevelt High Ravens ohne Charlie aufgeschmissen. Da macht Kapitän Jace ihr ein Angebot: Wenn sie bleibt, hilft er ihr, mehr als Mädchen wahrgenommen zu werden. Vielleicht gewinnt er ja so ihr Herz.

In seinem Heimatdorf schießt Thomas Tore wie am Fließband. Seine Mannschaft ist so gut, dass sie sogar an einem großen Turnier teilnehmen darf. Danach geht Thomas' absoluter Traum in Erfüllung: Er darf zum größten Münchner Verein. Doch dort sitzt er erstmal auf der Ersatzbank. Aufgeben? Von wegen - Thomas trainiert noch härter, denn so schafft er es bestimmt.

Wie man als junge Frau in einer Männerwelt erwachsen wird New York, 1993: Die 17-jährige Lucy Adler ist klug und auf dem Basketballplatz ein Ass. Angesehen wäre sie jedoch nur, würde sie mit dem Strom schwimmen und die Jungs vom Rand aus anfeuern. Lucy ist seit einer gefühlten Ewigkeit in...

A Franc piace da impazzire il basket, ma non sa giocare. Ci prova e ci riprova, ma - deluso perché non riesce mai a fare canestro - è pronto a darsi per vinto. Quando si avvia col padre verso il campetto per un'ultima partita, avviene qualcosa di inatteso e sconvolgente che lo catapulterà in un mondo di fantasia, animato da personaggi oscuri e inquietanti che cercheranno di approfittarsi di lui. Per riappropriarsi di quel che è suo sarà necessario sconfiggere la paura, riconquistare il corpo e i desideri, fare un canestro decisivo: usare al meglio il suo cuore.

Una sera, per caso, Mario Balotelli incontra Jack, un quindicenne che vive a testa in giù come un fante delle carte, ma fa rovesciate fantastiche. A scuola, in chiesa, con le ragazze, Jack deve affrontare i bulletti che gli lanciano banane, un sindaco sceriffo e le "Ronde della tranquillità". Poi un giorno Mario, dalla tv, gli dedica un gol. Un romanzo intelligente, comico ed emozionante sulla lotta di un ragazzo e di un campione contro la stupidità e la violenza degli altri. Che culmina in un'indimenticabile partita "capovolta" con altri campioni: Ibra, Buffon, Gattuso, Santon e Totti.

Hawk, a First Nations teen from northern Alberta, is a cross-country runner who aims to win gold in an upcoming competition between all the schools in Fort McMurray. But when Hawk discovers he has leukemia, his identity as a star athlete is stripped away, along with his muscles and energy. When he finds an osprey, "a fish hawk," mired in a pond of toxic residue from the oil sands industry, he sees his life-or-death struggle echoed by the young bird.

For most of high school, Bijan Majidi has flown under the radar. He gets good grades, reads comics, hangs out with his best friend, Sean, and secretly crushes on Elle, one of the most popular girls in his school. When he's called off the basketball team's varsity bench and makes the winning basket in a playoff game, everything changes in an instant. But not everyone is happy Bijan is the man of the hour: An anonymous cyberbully sends the entire school a picture of Bijan photoshopped to look like a terrorist.   

After living away for years, Sandy Lafonde returns to her childhood home at the Watishka First Nation reserve. Little has changed since she left - a local gang menaces the area, the community is splintered, and the Cree youth are left restless and frustrated. Sandy realizes that she needs to do something to help, so she proposes to start a junior hockey team. Drawing on her own past, Sandy steps in as coach and tries to reign in the star player, hot-headed Sheldon Lambert, a 15-year-old hockey prodigy who just can’t seem to stay out of trouble.

Seventeen-year-old Chloe had a plan: work hard, get good grades, and attend a top-tier college. But after she collapses during cross-country practice and is told that she needs a new heart, all her careful preparations are laid to waste. Eight months after her transplant, everything is different. Stuck in summer school with the underachievers, all she wants to do now is grab her surfboard and hit the waves - which is strange, because she wasn’t interested in surfing before her transplant. (It doesn’t hurt that her instructor, Kai, is seriously good-looking.)

Henry "Biggie" Abbott is the son of one of Finch, Iowa's most famous athletes. His father was a baseball legend and his step-dad is a close second. At an obese 300+ pounds though, Biggie himself prefers classroom success to sports. As a perfectionist, he doesn't understand why someone would...

Dre, a rising basketball star and budding artist, has a glorious future ahead of him. Unfortunately, rumor has it that he's involved in activities that could ruin his chances of ever hooking up with Denim or achieving his dreams of going to college and the NBA. Denim realizes her relationship with Dre could be shattered if her parents find out she violated their trust. One lie, one party, and one bullet change the course of both of their lives forever.

Alyssa Duncan is a beast on the soccer field. As the Copperheads' starting goalie, she might be the difference between a state title and total defeat - and she likes it that way. When a concussion takes Alyssa out of the lineup, her rising-star teammate Becca Miller takes over in goal. Becca turns out to be pretty good, too. And what seemed like a temporary change might not be so temporary after all. Will Alyssa heal in time for playoffs? And even if she recovers, what kind of beast will she have to be to knock Becca back to her old position?

This fearless debut novel explores racism, injustice, and self-expression through the story of a promising Black football star in Louisiana. The system is rigged. For guys like Russell Boudreaux, football is the only way out of their small town. As the team’s varsity tight end, Rus has a...

At first, when a massive ice storm traps 14-year-old Hannah and her family in a remote cabin, it feels like a game to practice the survival skills she's been learning. That all changes when an accident leaves her mother desperately low on insulin. With no power and no way to contact the outside world, Hannah steals away with the four family dogs tied to an old dogsled. All she has to do is make it to the nearest cabin and find a working phone to save the day. But a wrong turn and worsening weather leave her in grave danger and saddled with an unexpected passenger.

It’s one single steamy July day at the West 4th Street Court in New York City, otherwise known as the Cage. Hotshot baller ESPN is wooing the scouts, Boo is struggling to guard the weird new guy named Waco, a Spike Lee wannabe has video rolling, and virgin Irene is sizing up six-foot-eight-and-a-half-inch-tall Chester. Nine of young-adult literature’s top writers reveal how it all goes down in this searing novel in short stories that each ingeniously pick up where the last one ends.