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"Local color" author Frances Gilchrist Wood wrote this powerful tale of a young wife who proves better able to succeed on the homestead frontier than does her husband.

Eleven-year-old Olivia Brown has been in care since she was five. She has just been asked to leave her eighteenth placement. Her new home is a secluded farmhouse, centuries old, where she slowly bonds with her foster family. But the house holds dark secrets. The danger is real - but does it come from the twisted mind of a very disturbed child?

Want to know if that special guy is really crush-worthy? Or how to keep peace on Planet Friendship? The Girls' Life Guide to Growing Up, from the editors of the popular , will fill you in on all the details girls like you need, from parent problems and friendship drama to body image and secret crushes.

The eagerly awaited third installment in the riotous Tripp Diaries series. Written and read by one of the most entertaining children's narrators around, Stig Wemyss.

*this sequel to That Night can be read as a standalone. Is her role as the "good girl" leading Mia down a destructive path . . . following in her beloved sister's tragic footsteps? Once upon a time, Mia had the perfect older sister. She's been an only child for over four years now, and life without her sister's guidance has grown painfully difficult. Her parents, ashamed of how her sister died, act like she never existed at all, but Mia needs her now more than ever. Her first year of high school, her first boyfriend, her first kiss . . . all dulled by her habit of comparing herself to her ...

A thrilling true story of a young adopted girl in search of her biological parents with a broken Iidentity. Blinded by what she found, the realization of what she had comes to life, life becomes something to live for, yet her past haunts her. She prevails in her search and courage to walk away from what she thought was biological parents, DNA, and traits carried over from parents. Truth hits her when she realizes after years of belittling, battering, and insults, identity is not the blood that runs through your veins.

Als Nina 13 Jahre alt war, herrschte bei ihr - wie überall - dicke Luft. Kein Wunder, hörte sie immer, sie sei ja schließlich ein Teenager und käme gerade in die Pubertät. Dass das Wort "Teenager" dabei wie eine Art Schimpfwort gebraucht wurde, das alles Böse verkörpert und für alles Schlechte die Begründung ist, war ihr schon immer ein Dorn im Auge. Sie hat erkannt: auch Eltern stecken meist zeitgleich in einer schwierigen Phase. Die "Elternphase", wie die Autorin diese nennt, schließt dabei sowohl die Wechseljahre der Mütter als auch die Midlife-Crisis der Väter ein.

Is a relationship looming on the horizon? Or maybe you hope a relationship will happen soon? Are you currently in a relationship? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, do you know what to do and where you are going - or does it feel like a maze? If you’re unsure about relationships (or even if you think, I’ve got this), Lost in Love: A Young Person’s Map Through Relationships is for you. In this book, author Scott Torres draws from his personal mistakes and years of working with students to help you navigate the complexity that relationships bring.

Leigh é uma garota meio asiática, meio americana, e precisa lidar com um fato: no mesmo dia em que beijou Axel, seu melhor amigo (e paixão secreta há anos), sua mãe se suicidou. Além disso, Leigh tem plena certeza de que a mãe virou um pássaro. Ao viajar rumo a Taiwan para encontrar os avós maternos pela primeira vez, ela está determinada a também encontrar sua mãe, o pássaro. Nessa busca, a garota precisa enfrentar fantasmas antigos ao descobrir segredos da família e desenvolver uma nova relação com seus avós, ao mesmo tempo em que lida com o próprio luto.

Life's a constant hustle for Mo. Her mum's boyfriend, Lloyd, is just another man who likes to beat down women; the South Crong streets are fraught with hazards and nasty G's; and when it comes to matters of the heart...she's still hung up on Sam. No wonder she's vexed so much of the time. Thank god her sistrens, Elaine and Naomi, are on her side: if one of them falls then they all fall. But when badness goes down and a life is left hanging in the balance, Mo has to face her hot urge for revenge...and she might end up losing more than she wins.

Dash and Lily were feeling closer than ever...it’s just too bad they’re now an ocean apart. After Dash gets accepted to Oxford University and Lily stays in New York to take care of her dogwalking business, the devoted couple are struggling to make a long-distance relationship work. And when Dash breaks the news that he won’t be coming home for Christmas, Lily makes a decision: if Dash can’t come to her, she’ll join him in London. It’s a perfect romantic gesture...that spins out of Lily’s control.

At 26, Anu Singh Choudhary presumed that everything in life had become sort of perfect, and her life at that moment was really the happy fairy tale ending one had grown up striving for. A supportive family, a wonderful husband, and twins (that too a boy and a girl) - is this not what a woman ultimately wants? But what followed was a roller-coaster ride while she struggled through finding a balance between her quest for self and raising a family which demanded undivided attention.

During a travel in Romania as a social clown, in October 2006, together with my friends we visited an institute hosting orphaned. The children were more than a hundred and the service staff in total counted no more than six people. In particular, I was impressed by a child among many; although he was three years old, he wasn’t able to speak. No one spent time teaching him. Something broke and, at the same time, something was born in me. It was a new awareness that, left for years at the bottom of my heart, day after day, pulse after pulse, helped me in writing this audiobook.

While working in Washington, DC, in 1984 as the press secretary for Congressman Hamilton Fish Jr., Pari Forood gets a phone call from her father. Her 17-year-old Iranian cousin has been drafted during the Iran/Iraq war. He must flee from Iran or face an almost certain death. Joining a cast of international characters that include Pakistani black market passport dealers and members of Francois Mitterrand's inner political sanctum, Forood uses her ties in Washington to help extricate her young cousin.

A boy. A girl. A bump. Trouble. A smart, touching and funny contemporary young adult book from an extraordinary new talent. Hannah's smart and funny.... She's also 15 and pregnant. Aaron is new at school and doesn't want to attract attention. So why does he offer to be the pretend dad to Hannah's unborn baby? Growing up can be trouble, but that’s how you find out what really matters.

This is a collection of various tips and advice pertaining to basic human interaction.

The world can tip at any moment... a fact that 15-year-old Pearl is all too aware of when her mom dies after giving birth to her baby sister, Rose, who looks exactly like a baby rat, all pink, wrinkled, and writhing. This little Rat has destroyed everything, even ruined the wonderful relationship that Pearl had with her stepfather, the Rat's biological father.

È l'ultima estate prima del passaggio alle superiori ed Ezra la trascorre girando per il quartiere con la sorellina Zoe, di otto anni. A casa, le cose non vanno proprio bene: da quando il loro papà è tornato dalla missione di pace, soffre di disturbo post traumatico ed Ezra, con una risolutezza da persona adulta, si è prefissata di realizzare il proprio unico desiderio: che tutto torni come prima. Un tema drammatico, ma sviluppato attraverso dialoghi umoristici e spontanei.

Time is running out. Everything was going fine in Elise's life. Still a family outcast? Check. Surviving her summer job? Double check. Leaving for her dream school in the fall? Triple check. Weird heirloom changing color the night of her birthday forcing her to hunt down the one guy who's supposed to be her one true love and finding two who fit the bill? Yeah, so not part of the plan. Or any plan for that matter! Suddenly Elise is forced to balance work, school, family, internships and finding her Prince Charming! How's a girl supposed to cope, especially with the clock ticking towards her ...

Will he be able to hit the apple with his arrow? Willie isn't sure. He's not very good with bows and arrows, but his sister's life depends on it...