A. S. King

Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.

"Astrid Jones copes with her small town's gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that she's sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying high over her backyard. Maybe they'll know what to do with it. Maybe it'll make them happy. Maybe they'll need it. Her mother doesn't want it, her father's always stoned, her perfect sister's too busy trying to fit in, and the people in her small town would never allow her to love the person she really wants to: another girl named Dee. There's no one Astrid feels she can talk to about this deep secret or the profound questions that she's trying to answer. But little does she know just how much sending her love--and asking the right questions--will affect the passengers' lives, and her own, for the better"--

a novel

Ask the passengers

When her best friend, whom she secretly loves, betrays her and then dies under mysterious circumstances, high school senior Vera Dietz struggles with secrets that could help clear his name.

Please ignore Vera Dietz

"Set in a parallel version of America where time has stopped, the novel tells the story of one teenage girl trying to untangle her toxic family's secrets--and maybe restart the world's clocks in the process"--

Switch

Overburdened by his parents' bickering and a bully's attacks, fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman begins dreaming of being with his grandfather, who went missing during the Vietnam War, but during a visit to Arizona, his aunt and uncle and their beautiful neighbor, Ginny, help him find a new perspective.

Everybody sees the ants

Attack of the Black Rectangles

Four teenagers are on the verge of exploding. The anxieties they face at every turn have nearly pushed them to the point of surrender: senseless high-stakes testing, the lingering damage of past trauma, the buried grief and guilt of tragic loss. They are desperate to cope, but no one is listening.

I crawl through it

16-year-old Sarah is an aspiring artist who has dropped out of school and thinks she's in the middle of an existential crisis. Maybe that explains why she keeps running into different versions of herself all across town. When a big family secret is revealed, Sarah sets out to discover what went wrong on the day six years ago when her brother Bruce left home for good.

Still Life with Tornado

In this masterpiece about freedom, feminism, and destiny, Printz Honor author A.S. King tells the epic story of a girl coping with devastating loss at long last--a girl who has no idea that the future needs her, and that the present needs her even more. Graduating from high school is a time of limitless possibilities--but not for Glory, who has no plan for what's next. Her mother committed suicide when Glory was only four years old, and she's never stopped wondering if she will eventually go the same way...until a transformative night when she begins to experience an astonishing new power to see a person's infinite past and future. From ancient ancestors to many generations forward, Glory is bombarded with visions--and what she sees ahead of her is terrifying: A tyrannical new leader raises an army. Women's rights disappear. A violent second civil war breaks out. And young girls vanish daily, sold off or interned in camps. Glory makes it her mission to record everything she sees, hoping her notes will somehow make a difference. She may not see a future for herself, but she'll do anything to make sure this one doesn't come to pass.

Glory O'Briens History of the Future

An emotionally damaged seventeen-year-old boy in Pennsylvania who was once an infamous reality television show star, meets a girl from another dysfunctional family, and she helps him out of his angry shell.

Reality Boy

"O movimento é impossível." É o que Astrid Jones, 17 anos, aprendeu na sua aula de filosofia. E, vivendo na pequena cidade em que mora, ela começa a acreditar que isso é mesmo verdade. São sempre as mesmas pessoas, as mesmas fofocas, a mesma visão de mundo limitada, como se estivessem todos presos em uma caverna, nunca enxergando nada além. Nesse ambiente, ela não tem com quem desabafar suas angústias, e por isso deita-se em seu jardim, olha os aviões no céu, e expõe suas dúvidas mais secretas aos passageiros, já que eles nunca irão julgá-la. Em seu conflito solitário, ela se vê dividida entre dois mundos: um em que é livre para ser quem é de verdade e dar vazão ao que vai em seu íntimo, e outro em que precisa se enquadrar desconfortavelmente em convenções sociais. Em um retrato original de uma garota que luta para se libertar de definições ultrapassadas, este livro leva os leitores a questionarem tudo e oferece esperança para aqueles que nunca deixarão de buscar o significado do amor verdadeiro.

Os dois mundos de Astrid Jones

an Anthology

Collectors

B. A. Morton

Jim Ody

Anita Waller

Louise Jensen

David Evans

April Taylor

Nick Jackson

Betsy Reavley

Ross Greenwood

Lucy V. Hay

Lisa Hall

Alex Shaw

Tara Lyons

Jt Lawrence

S.E. Lynes

Alex Walters

A.J. Sendall

Charlie Flowers

Jane E. James

Paul D. Brazill

Paul Gitsham

Stephen Edger

Pete Adams

Emma Pullar

Bernie Steadman

Richard T. Burke

Tony R. Cox

Ron Nicholson

KA Richardson

L J Ross

Joel Hames

Simon Maltman

Steve Dunne

Peter Best

Tess Makovesky

M.A. Comley

Roz White

Mark L. Fowler

Hannah Haq

Jenna-Leigh Golding

Dark Minds

Year We Fell from Space

A 1a coisa que você precisa saber é que tudo o que eu fiz foi uma pergunta idiota. A 2a coisa que você precisa saber é que essa pergunta idiota me trouxe muitos problemas com Nader McMillan, o cara que faz bullying comigo desde que eu tinha 7 anos. E uma semana atrás ele pegou bem pesado comigo. Foi aí que eu comecei a ver formigas. A 3a coisa que você precisa saber é que meu avô Harry desapareceu durante a Guerra do Vietnã e nunca foi encontrado. Então, todas as noites, eu tento resgatá-lo da sua prisão na selva em meus sonhos. Mas nunca consigo. A 4a coisa que você precisa saber é que minha mãe é uma lula e meu pai, uma tartaruga. Ela tenta afogar os seus problemas nadando o dia todo em uma piscina pública, e ele nunca está por perto e desaparece dentro da casca no primeiro sinal de confronto. Então, se juntarmos Nader McMillan, a minha pergunta idiota, vovô, e tudo o mais na minha vida, somos só eu e as formigas. "A grande sacada de Todo mundo vê formigas é que ele vai ajudá-lo a entender que as pessoas que parecem muito diferentes de você, na verdade são muito parecidas. Faça um enorme favor a você mesmo e leia este livro!" – James Patterson, autor da série best-seller Bruxos e Bruxas

Todo mundo tem algo a dizer

Todo mundo vê formigas

Please Ignore Vera Dietz

Zrnko predsudkov a rasizmu je zasiate v každom z nás. A stačí málo, aby vyklíčilo. Zrnko predsudkov a rasizmu je zasiate v každom z nás. A stačí málo, aby vyklíčilo. Hemmingsovci sú presvedčení, že ich sa to netýka. Chystajú sa na oslavu Veľkej noci, akoby ich veľkolepá výzdoba a varená šunka mohli zachrániť. Ich najmladšie potomstvo, piati tínedžeri, ktorí to s rodinou už nemôžu vydržať, padajú do tunela neistoty. Kam sa z tejto rodiny vytratila láska? Keď však tínedžeri začnú kopať trochu hlbšie, zisťujú, že sú tou generáciou, ktorá môže všetko zmeniť k lepšiemu.

V tejto rodine kopte hlbšie

In the late 17th century, teenage pirate Emer Morrisey was slain and cursed to living 100 lives as a dog before returning to a human body--with her memories intact. Now a contemporary American teenager, all she needs to escape is a shovel and a ride to Jamaica.

The Dust of 100 Dogs

Vera Dietzová sa učí dobre, ale nevytŕča z davu. Prečo? Lebo jej otec je abstinujúci alkoholik, ktorý musel veľmi rýchlo dospieť, aby sa sám postaral o dcéru. Stále jej opakuje, že treba tvrdo makať, a tak Vera roznáša pizzu. A po práci pije, lebo nevie, ako inak uniknúť z tohto sveta, pred vlastnými traumami a strachmi. Vere totiž zomrel sused, donedávna najlepší kamoš a platonická láska v jednom. Vera mu chcela pomôcť, no doma sa riadili heslom: Nevšímaj si to. Ale toho má už plné zuby!

Veru Dietzovú si láskavo nevšímajte

In the dark land of Novus, a Light is beginning to move. As the true High King attempts to rally his forces, crystalline beings move among mortals, seen and heard only by those specially attuned to their existence. One of the Erela stands supreme above all the rest. Known as the Dark One, Zohar has all but succeeded in erasing the name of the High King from the hearts and minds of everyone in Novus. It is now up to the rest of the Erela to stop his wrath. In an unknown community tucked away in a hidden valley, an Erela recruits a young apprentice to help carry out their important mission. As Levi embarks on a dangerous quest to fetch a princess and bring her to Zion to fulfill her destiny, she is struggling to understand why she has been chosen to be the new Queen of Novus. After twelve-year-old Aliatta learns the truth about her identity, her life intertwines with Levi’s. As the pair begins the long trek to Zion, they have no idea that the Dark One’s fury has just begun. The Quest for Hope begins an exciting saga of good versus evil as a young apprentice and a princess journey through a perilous land so she can fulfill her purpose to become their new queen.

Invisible Battles:

The Quest for Hope

A. S. King

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