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The year is 1938 and a family in the small South Carolina town of Beaufort faces serious adversity. After the birth of her long awaited son, Mary Banks dives into a dark postpartum period, throwing her into a deep depression. Thinking that her sister, Rose, is offering her a helping hand, Mary leaves her family and goes to Boston in search of a medical cure, not to be heard from again.

We follow the incredible journey of Jane Sandis, a young woman who was uprooted from the comfort of her town, in this moving short story of resilience and hope.

A dark sorcerer, a corrupt king, and a hidden village of rebels. Assassins are not always the bad guys. It was an accident. But that matters little in Abbarkon. A duke is dead, and Flint is sentenced to hang by the neck until dead. Steps away from the gallows, a mysterious jester and a black-cloaked man snatch him from his guards.

Ellie remembers how the boys kissed her. Touched her. How they begged for more. And when she gave it to them, she felt loved. For a while anyway. So when Josh, an eager virgin with a troubled home life, leads her from a party to the backseat of his van, Ellie follows. But their “onetime thing” is far from perfect: Ellie gets pregnant.

Sixteen-year-old Amina Conteh has always believed in using her tongue as her weapon—even when it gets her into trouble. After cursing at a classmate, her father forces her to volunteer at their church with Pastor Johnson. But Pastor Johnson isn’t the holy man everyone thinks he is. The same voice Amina uses to fight falls quiet the night she is sexually assaulted by Pastor Johnson. After that, her life starts to unravel: her father is frustrated that her grades are slipping, and her best friend and boyfriend don’t understand why the once loud and proud girl is now quiet and distant.

I'm determined to make my senior year epic. I'd finally risen up in social rank, and I'm ready to rule the school. Everything seems perfect, until I find myself standing in front of Colten.

Bradley Bernadet is growing up fast. He lives in an isolated paradise in the backwoods of Virginia with his two dads and brothers. That's where they run a little cabin rental business on Air B&B. He's pretty happy with his life. There's just one thing missing. Unfortunately, he's not quite sure what it is yet.

An intimate coming-of age novel for teens, told in verse, chronicling the beauty, magic and transformative power of summer camp, for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo and Judy Blume. After having her heart broken, seventeen-year-old Nora Nichols decides to escape her hometown and take a summer job as...

Sehnsüchtig erwartet: Die Story um Prinzessin Margrethe der erfolgreichen Coming-of-Age-Reihe "Royalteen", verfilmt von Netflix! Prinzessin Margrethe ist klug, schön und weiß immer, wie sie in der Öffentlichkeit auftreten muss. Doch hinter der perfekten Fassade bröckelt es: Ihre Familie bricht auseinander, jeder kämpft mit seinen eigenen Problemen. Ihre beste Freundin kündigt ihr die Freundschaft und die vergangene Halloweennacht hängt wie ein Damoklesschwert über Margrethe.

Merletta is out of time, and so are the triple kingdoms. She can't outswim her mistakes, and if she can't expose the Center's lies, so many will pay the price. Matters of the heart have no place—whether on land with Heath, or in her underwater search for her family. Heath has accepted that there's no simple way for him and Merletta to be together. With the wrath of the dragons hanging over Merletta, and the increasingly desperate need to clear Percival's name, Heath has never felt more torn between worlds.

Sixteen-year-old Alesea thinks her sole extraordinary trait is her musical talent. That changes when foreign Watchers invade her tiny island on the night of her professional debut. She alone escapes, unwittingly using the powers of a Knower.

Embark on an enthralling odyssey through the timeless clash of dark and light, where an ancient brotherhood beckons Coinin and Marrok Wulf to a clandestine gathering nestled within the depths of a volcano.

From the author of THE NOH FAMILY, a second standalone YA novel that follows a Korean American teen as she navigates the treacherous world of nepo babies and cultural appropriation that is the Los Angeles music scene. Perfect for fans of Mary H. K. Choi, Maurene Goo, and Emiko Jean. Riley Jo is...

A wistful coming-of-age story with a haunting twist about four friends who spend their summer learning to become invisible—but disappearing comes at a cost. Four girls. Four girls skating home, both sides of the road, fearless. Four girls at the mouth of an infinite ocean, sugared and salted...

Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit is a beautifully written novel in verse loosely based on author Colby Cedar Smith’s maternal grandmother. The story follows Mary as she and her family emigrate from Greece to Detroit in the 1930s, creating a historically accurate portrayal of life as an immigrant during the Great Depression, hunger strikes, and violent riots. Mary lives in a tiny apartment with her immigrant parents, her brothers, and her twin sister, and she questions why her parents ever came to America.

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! An Amazon Best Book of 2023 A Kirkus Best YA and Teen Book of 2023 A Powell's Best Book of 2023 ★ “In her emotionally vulnerable YA debut, Wahl...revisits her high school diaries to deliver a fictional adaptation of her adolescence…skillfully presenting...

On a warm summer's morning, a bicycle chime outside Lily's window plunges her into waking consciousness, followed by the scowl of a girl with twintailed hair. As the days grow steadily longer, she struggles to navigate the mountains which conspire to ruin her peaceful days. And yet her hardships only begin when she makes her way across the finishing line.

I 1992 flygter den 12-årige Vladimir med sin mor og storebror fra krigen i Jugoslavien. Han ender sammen med tusind andre flygtninge på skibet Flotel Europa i Københavns Havn. Her skal de tre dele en lille kahyt på ubestemt tid.

På Flotel Europa indgår Vladimir i nye vennegrupper og forelsker sig i den smukke Selma. Han går til koncerter på Christiania, samler flasker i Københavns gader, hænger ud med vennerne på lossepladsen ved Refshaleøen, og en form for normalitet opstår midt i undtagelsestilstanden.

Efter sin meget roste trilogi om drenge fra forskellige samfundslag har Ronnie Andersen skrevet sin fjerde ungdomsroman, der blandt andet adskiller sig fra de forrige ved at have en pige som jeg-fortæller. Komatøs fortæller om svigt og rodløshed, og om en pige, som bliver hos sin dysfunktionelle mor - og tvinges ud i situationer, ingen 16-årig burde havne i …

Komatøs handler om Maj, der flytter med sin mor fra kommune til kommune og gang på gang skal starte i nye skoler. Og det går ikke særligt godt, slet ikke i det jyske, hvor moren og Maj parkerer campingvognen og skiller sig en del ud fra det normale.

Idolernes by er andet og selvstændige bind i Lise Bidstrups tematiske trilogi om samfundstendenser. I Spillets by handlede det om reality shows, i Idolernes by er det idoldyrkelsen og manglen på kritisk og personlig stillingtagen, Lise Bidstrup sætter under luppen.