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As he stands on the auction block, the ragged, starving boy, Thorby, is purchased by the crippled beggar Baslim, who leads him into adventures on the starship Sisu.

Everything changed on the day. The day the windows shattered. The day the power stopped. The day Dol's family dropped dead. The day Earth lost a war it didn't know it was fighting.

In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no human shall live a day past their fourteenth birthday. On that Sad Birthday, the children of the Dorms are taken to the Meat Factory, where they will be made into creatures whose sole purpose is to kill. The mysterious Shade, once a man but now more like the machines he fights, recruits the few teenagers who escape into a secret resistance force.

When things go bad at home, sisters Eleanor and Mike hide in a secret place under Eleanor's bed, telling monster stories. Often, it seems those stories and their mother's house magic are all that keep them safe from both busybodies and their dad's temper. But when their father breaks a family heirloom, a glass witch ball, a river suddenly appears beneath the bed, and Eleanor and Mike fall into a world where dreams are born, nightmares struggle to break into the real world, and secrets have big consequences.

A car accident shattered sixteen-year-old Morgan's family. Now her brother's dead, her mom's paralyzed in more ways than one, her dad lives at work and her seven-year-old sister Amy tries too freaking hard to salvage everything. What's more, high school is its own special kind of hell, where her ex-boyfriend delights in spreading rumors that shred her reputation and make her feel like a loser. When she finds an old camera in a creepy abandoned hospital, it seems like her luck is finally changing. And it is changing--from bad to worse. Because of course it is.

A multi-generational family saga of betrayal, survival, deception, revenge, and redemption caused by a chain of addictions. Sister against Sister. Three Sisters and a Man. A devotion between sisters bonded by a promise to their mother and their quest for survival and revenge. Brother against Brother. Three Brothers and a Secret. A bond between brothers bound to a kingdom and their struggle for power among themselves.

Two weeks in New York City should be the time of Pippa's life: she's attending the prestigious Tisch Photography Camp. But what should be 14 unforgettable days of bliss turns into chaos when her one and only nemesis, Ben Baxter, proves to be surprisingly more complex than she could've ever imagined, and her Tisch mentor, a renowned photographer, seems to have a lot more to do with her parents' past than anyone wants her to know. Is Pippa out of her depth?

A fresh voice in YA fiction brings a charming heroine to life in this series debut. Sixteen-year-old Pippa Greene never goes anywhere without her camera. She and her best friend/supermodel-in-training Dace long ago mapped out their life plan: Pippa will be the noted fashion photographer, and Dace the cover girl. But ever since last spring, things have changed for Pippa - and her junior year at Spalding High proves to have its own set of challenges. Not only is Vantage Point, the statewide photography competition, in three short weeks, but her mandatory volunteer placement lands her at St.

La voix de mon père raconte l'histoire de Ti'Loup qui, au seuil de l'adolescence, se sent invisible au sein de sa famille. Malgré tout, elle recherche l'affection et les mots chaleureux de son père ombrageux. Ti'Loup veut comprendre le monde des adolescents, mais elle souffre de n'avoir ni le vocabulaire ni la permission de parler de l'éveil « sentimental » dont elle ressent les effets. À l'image des adolescents d'aujourd'hui, parviendra-t-elle à échapper aux pièges et à déceler la véritable nature de l'amour paternel?

Promesse à un jaguar est le récit initiatique de Jacob, un enfant bègue, constamment menacé par la brute de l'école jusqu'au jour où il apprend à se défendre, et de Balam un jeune jaguar constamment menacé par les chasseurs et la déforestation, jusqu'au jour où il fera la connaissance de son protecteur. Rendus à l'âge adulte, leurs chemins se croise au coeur de la jungle brésilienne du Pantanal. Promesse à un jaguar est un roman destiné aux jeunes lecteurs de 13 à 18 ans mais qui pourra aussi plaire aux adultes.