Résultats pour "Georgie" dans Adolescents et jeunes adultes

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Georgiana Darcy should have been expelled after The Incident with Wickham Foster last year—at least if you ask any of her Pemberley Academy classmates. She may have escaped expulsion because of her family name, but she didn’t escape the disappointment of her big brother Fitz, the scorn of the entire school, or, it turns out, Wickham’s influence.

Blood holds all kinds of curses. Seven generations of women in Susana Prather’s family have been lost to the Georgia swamp behind her house. The morning after her eighteenth birthday, she awakens soaked with water, with no memory of sleepwalking. No matter how she tries to stop it, she’s...

The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, ushered in the French Revolution. Within four years, the king was executed and a revolutionary tribunal was established to judge "enemies of the people." The property of nobles was seized and "enemies" tried and sent to the guillotine. Harry Sandwith, a companion of a French family, wins their confidence and becomes the protector of the three daughters. After the girls are condemned to death in the coffin-ships, Harry saves the girls and the gets them safely to England.

From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys. Both a primer for teens eager to be allies as well as a reassuring testimony for young queer men of color, All Boys Aren't Blue covers topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, structural marginalization, consent, and Black joy.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'It's time we told our story too. The melanin speaks for itself.' - George the Poet Part of a Story That Started Before Me is an extraordinary new collection of poems chosen by acclaimed spoken-word performer and social commentator George the Poet. Taking readers on a...

In this heroic clash of opposing conviction, Vincent Wingfield, a young spirited teenager and heir to a southern slave plantation, bravely proves his sympathy for brutally treated slaves and becomes a staunch supporter of slaves' rights. But, with the onset of the Civil War, Wingfield's fidelity to the state of Virginia leads him to serve under Robert E. Lee's cavalry and fight for the Confederacy.

Bolly and Denny's unusual family is fighting to survive the "Lurcher" epidemic destroying their world. But then tragedy strikes when Denny is infected, and Bolly must fufill his dying wish while battling Lurchers, Hybrids, and their vampire overlords—The Brethren!

Die junge Sängerin Patty Boyle gastiert in der Londoner Albert Hall. Doch zur Überraschung ihrer Fans sagt sie die Konzerte kurzfristig ab. Der Grund: Ein Unbekannter hat ihre Eltern entführt. Die Brixton Boys bieten ihr Hilfe an und heften sich an die Fersen des Phantoms.

Jenna and her friends have escaped from the agency and its covert agents who lied to her about what she was and what her new powers really mean. She’s physically injured and emotionally broken but intends to fight the agency to protect the ethereal, advanced race known as faders. Jenna needs the special abilities of David, a fader she’s never met but who is closely linked with her family’s past.

One day, 13-year-old Jessie Bollier is earning pennies playing his fife on the docks of New Orleans; the next, he is kidnapped and thrown aboard a slave ship, where his job is to provide music while shackled slaves "dance" to keep their muscles strong and their bodies profitable. As the endless voyage continues, Jessie grows increasingly sickened by the greed, brutality, and inhumanity of the slave trade, but nothing prepares him for the ultimate horror he will witness before his nightmare ends - a horror that will change his life forever.

The sac isn't shrinking, but those alive are! New faces are introduced, old friends are trying their best to remain alive! Who will survive, who will perish? Find out in book number five of Zombies on Other Block - Survival Isn't for All.

Seth and family didn't think things could get much worse. But this vacation from hell is giving them one hell of a run for their money. There is nothing they can do but fight and do everything they can to try and survive. Not everyone is going to make it through this one. Which of your characters will make it to the end?

World War Z meets Independence Day in this apocalyptic, extraterrestrial, genre-blending mashup adventure! Can Seth and his family survive all while trying to keep Earl from starting an interplanetary war? Will there be another day, or will everyone perish? The Williams will have to fight to survive, to elude ravished zombies and aliens who seem to only want one thing...to conquer Earth.

Teenager zu sein ist gar nicht so leicht - erst recht nicht an so einem verdammten Dienstag wie diesem! Erst wird Fabsi jäh von seiner Mutter aus seinen Träumen gerissen, und dann erwarten ihn in der Schule auch noch Geschichte und Mathe, ganz zu schweigen von dem Schlägertyp Liebenhoff, der ihm die Pause zur Hölle macht. Nur der Gedanke an die schöne Vicky macht das alles etwas erträglicher.