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During the kissing season, one kiss from Remy or her older sister Maggie will give the boy—or girl—good luck. Or so it has been for all the Holloway girls before. But this year, Remy's first season, she doesn't follow the rules, dooming the boy she kisses to bad luck that almost kills him and leaving Remy with a cursed kissing season. Now Remy is adamant about keeping her lips to herself. But the new boy in town is making it hard to keep her promise. Especially because he seems to really want to get to know her, and isn't just using her for the Holloway luck.

"17 km syd for Aalborg" er en kollektivroman for unge i Zoom On-serien. Samme lille by opleves en lørdag aften fra ti forskellige unges synsvinkel. Mikkel synes, at Marie er interessant, men flirter med Rebekka, som i virkeligheden bedst kan lide Johan, og så bliver Sofie jaloux. Peter kender sandheden om det, der ligger i en plovfure, men Johan og Lasses fantasi løber løbsk. De mødes til en fest hos Lau, de fleste af dem, måske blot for en kortere bemærkning. Men for nogle af dem bliver det en afgørende aften, en vej mod frigørelse.

Neils liv tager en fucked up drejning, den dag han bliver smidt ud af skolen. Hans mor henter ham i det skramlende lig af en bil, som hun har stjålet fra sin voldelige eks. Destination: Udkants-Danmark, hvor Neils syge moster bor. Det er ikke så fedt at komme til Jylland, når man hellere ville til månen. Her er ingen internetforbindelse. Kun en kat med et brækket ben. Og en gammel nazi-pistol. Men i Jylland møder han også pigen Thea, og snart bliver alt andet ligegyldigt.

Teodor er 13 år og elsker at cykle. Han drømmer om en dag at deltage i Tour de France. Gerne med Sofie fra klassen på bagsmækken, hvis det kan lade sig gøre. Sammen med vennen Kurt cykler han lange ture i det bakkede terræn uden for byen. Så er han også fri for at være hjemme i lejligheden hvor hans pirrelige storesøster roder med en ny kæreste, og hvor hans lillebror sidder foran computeren og skyder grønne mænd. Men det hele begynder den dag, da Teodor kommer til at gå ind i svømmehallen uden badebukser på.

Rune bryder sig ikke om den klasse han går i, og klassen, anført af Merlin og Sanne, bryder sig heller ikke om ham. Han er tvunget til at tage med på lejrskole til den svenske skov, selvom han frygter for, hvad de andre kan finde på at gøre ved ham... "DET SORTE VAND" er en barsk historie om mobning i sin yderste konsekvens.

Dette er anden bog om Ida: en kaotisk, dramatisk og temmelig bandende 15-årig, der har det lige så hårdt som de fleste andre teenagere. Eller måske faktisk ret meget værre. Hun lægger ikke fingrene imellem, når hun udbreder sig om sit elendige teenageliv og alle de håbløse mennesker, hun er tvunget til at forholde sig til, herunder hendes mor og hendes stedfar Jørn.

»Jeg er ligeglad, jeg hader december. Det er den værste måned. Når andre tæller ned til jul, tæller jeg ned til katastrofe. Og jeg behøver ikke engang at vente til den 24.«

– Citat fra bogen

Lucia hader december. Især den 13. december, Luciadag. Dagen hun er født og opkaldt efter, og dagen det unævnelige skete. I skolen er hun en freak. Hendes eneste ven er Ghita, og det er kun, fordi solo er no go, medmindre man har et seriøst dødsønske. Alligevel går Lucia med på sin fars ide om, at hun skal holde en stor fødselsdagsfest for klassen.

Me llamo Rafaela Rivera y tengo 16 años. No me veo redonda, pero estoy lejos de tener el cuerpo que muchos esperan. Me harté de escuchar el típico "tenés una cara preciosa" mientras piensan "lástima el cuerpo". Incluso mi mamá suele recordarme lo distinta que debería ser.

It's summertime and 17-year-old Coley is alone, again. Forced to move to middle of nowhere Oregon after losing her mother, she is in no position to risk her already fragile heart. But when she meets Sonya, the attraction is immediate. Coley worries she isn't worthy of love. Up until now, everyone she's loved has left her. And Sonya's never been with a girl before. What if by opening her heart, Coley's risking it all?

Film club nerd Cleo Ferrara’s senior year was like a storyboard waiting to be filmed. She knew the scenes, the players, and the eventual happy ending. Attend film school with her boyfriend, Daniel Sheridan. Become a film-making power couple. Take Hollywood by storm. Cut. Print. Fade to black.? But in a plot twist Cleo never saw coming, Daniel dumps her for Kiki Pearson, the head cheerleader.

When the future of Grandeur nears the brink of collapse in the face of band rivalry, Tess finds to her chagrin that she must team up with Brandon in a desperate attempt to revive the company. As Tess and Brandon spend more time together, Tess begins to wonder if everything she thought she knew might not be so certain after all….

Amy Larsen has spent every summer with her cousin Ben and their best friend Teddy in River Run, Kentucky, loving country life and welcoming the break from her intensive ambitions and overbearing mother—until the summer she and Teddy confront the changing feelings and simmering sexual tension growing between them, destroying the threesome's friendship in a dramatic face-off. One year later, Amy returns to River Run dreading what she might find. But when Teddy's sister disappears, Amy, Ben, and Teddy agree to put aside their differences to search for her.

New York City. Summer 1983. A summer internship in New York was meant to be everything Beth wanted. But from the moment she arrives in the city she feels wrong: wrong hair, terrible clothes, defective smile, too obviously a virgin. Sharing a hot, cockroach-filled apartment with a couple falling out of love completes the dream picture. Then she meets her fellow interns: ambitious out-of-towner Dan, preppy rich boy Oliver, and Edie—a beautiful, brittle, magnetic, instant best friend. Irresistible people are like gravity. You can’t help being pulled towards them—can you?

When their father went to prison last year for embezzlement, twins Alex and Olly Brucke lost everything: their house, their college funds, most of their friends, and even their mother, who’s so focused on making ends meet that she’s never around anymore. The only thing they can count on lately is each other. But after their father dies unexpectedly in prison, the twins start to fracture. Alex is spiraling, skipping classes to spend all of her time drunk or high. And Olly is struggling with a secret his dad ordered him to keep: they have a secret half-brother named Tyler.

Teen assassin Isabel Ryans now works for Comma, and she’s good at it: the Moth is the guild’s most notorious killer, infamous throughout the city of Espera. But Isabel still craves normality, and she won’t find it inside the guild. She moves in with a civilian flatmate, Laura, and begins living a double life, one where she gets to pretend she’s free. But when Isabel’s day job tangles her up with an anti-guild abolitionist movement, it becomes harder to keep her two lives separate.

I en förort till Stockholm lever 11-åriga Mik tillsammans med sin storebror Tony och deras pappa. Med en bortgången mamma och en pappa som tillbringar mer tid i baren än hemma är Tony den enda han har att luta sig mot. Men när socialnämnden ringer på dörren splittras den dysfunktionella familjen. Mik sätts ensam på en buss som för honom från storstaden till hans faster uppe i Norrland. Vädret är kallare än vad han är van vid, alla i staden verkar känna varandra och det finns en hund som vill äta upp honom. Men just när Mik börjar lätta på garden mot folket i byn rycks han iväg.

In Waraka herrscht die Angst: Furcht vor der gottgleichen Großen Schlange, Furcht vor Skarf, ihrem Hüter, Furcht vor den Bestien außerhalb der Stadt. Auch Prinz Arkyn soll lernen, Angst zu verbreiten. Denn die Angst der anderen ist seine Macht. Doch Arkyn rebelliert. Gemeinsam mit seinem Seelentier, einem Säbelzahnjaguar, flieht er aus dem goldenen Käfig. Er trifft auf Saga, die von den windumtosten Inseln der Wulfen aufgebrochen ist, um das legendäre Waraka zu finden.

Ariana Ruiz wants to be noticed. But as an autistic girl who never talks, she goes largely ignored by her peers—despite her bold fashion choices. So when cute, popular Luis starts to pay attention to her, Ari finally feels seen. Luis’s attention soon turns to something more, and they have sex at a party—while Ari didn’t say no, she definitely didn’t say yes. Before she has a chance to process what happened and decide if she even has the right to be mad at Luis, the rumor mill begins churning.

Seventeen-year-old Virginia makes bad choices. In fact, she’s That Kind of Girl, according to the whispers. But as long as she has her tight group of best friends by her side, she’s able to ignore the gossipers. Until she finds herself spending time with Rumi, Poppy’s boyfriend. Breaking with tradition, she doesn’t hook up with Rumi. Worse, she falls in love with him.

Aspiring nature photographer Kenzie Reed just can’t get her straitlaced family of optometrists to take her art seriously. She’s resigned to putting aside her dreams and accepting the depressing life that awaits her at the family business. She even makes up a fake, boring boyfriend—Jacob—to get her parents off her back. But when the Reeds arrive in Hawaii for spring break, Kenzie is shocked that "Jacob" shows up at the airport—and joins their vacation.