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The third book in the adorable Itty Bitty Princess Kitty chapter book series.

After experiencing separate sexual assaults, Dylan and Audrey help one another navigate their pain and possibly find some healing and grace.

In a desperate attempt to clear her conscience, Abby Gray lets five balloons float into the sky with her deepest secrets attached to them-only to have them end up strewn all over her middle school. This middle-grade twist on To All The Boys I've Loved Before is perfect for reluctant readers!

When 16-year-old Fola Oduwole ends up trapped in Folkshore -- a concealed, magical borough of London -- she must fight an authoritarian council and save her community from destruction.

Lily regarde autour d'elle, et tout le monde semble avoir des amis, sauf elle. Elle se sent seule et triste. Elle se demande : comment fait-on pour avoir un ami ? Comment fait-on pour ÊTRE un ami ? Puis Lily rencontre Flocon, le bonhomme de neige fait avec de la neige magique.La découverte d'un meilleur ami est un cadeau précieux de l'enfance.

Ten-year-old Beverly is an ordinary girl with an extraordinary best friend. Her name is Kabungo, and she lives in a cave on Main Street. No one knows where she comes from or who she really is, but life is never dull when Kabungo is around.Beverly tries to teach her friend about the ways of the modern world ¿ the importance of teeth brushing, understanding strange holidays like Halloween, learning how to read. But Kabungo doesn¿t take well to being civilized, and she can be stubborn, bossy, and plain infuriating. Sometimes Beverly gets so mad that she just wants to move to Cincinnati.Besides, Kabungo is a skittish cavegirl, and it takes a while to win her trust, even among Star City¿s eccentric denizens, such as Mr. Gobshaw, who owns the local drug shop (¿We have everything!¿) where yoüll find the stuffed tigers right next to the breath mints. And there is Ms. VeDore, who seems to float as she walks around her decrepit mansion, and who throws the most amazing Halloween parties.Then, just when you least expect it, Kabungo will do something surprising (and when yoüre best friends with a cavegirl, yoüre not easily surprised). Like planning an unexpected birthday treat for Beverly (even though it isn¿t actually her birthday) ¿ at the city dump.In other words, Beverly learns that there are times for teaching, and times for tipping your head back and laughing.Hilarious and poignant, Kabungo is the most originally voiced and endearing middle-grade heroine since Pippi Longstocking. Accompanied by quirky line drawings by Milan Pavlovic, this is a gently humorous novel about friendship and community that raises for young readers deeper questions about finding beauty in unexpected places, accepting and celebrating differences, and what it really means to be civilized.

After sixteen-year-old Helen, a young Jewish girl from Russia, comes alone across the Atlantic to the Lower East Side of New York in the year 1900, she devotes herself to bringing the rest of her family to safety and opportunity in the new world-and finds love along the way.

The perfect coming-of-age romance by the most spectacularly funny and original debut voice.My name is Ellie. Ellie Pillai . . . And I suppose I am a little bit weird, but then, aren't we all, just a little bit?Most days, Ellie Pillai is somewhere between invisible, and not very cool - and usually she's okay with that. But suddenly, Ellie feels different. Maybe it's the new boy at school who makes her brain explode into rainbows every time she sees him (and also happens to be going out with her best friend), or maybe it's her new drama teacher, the one who seems to have noticed she exists. Suddenly, her misfit style, her skin colour, her songwriting and all that getting lost in the music in her head seem to be okay too. Because maybe standing out isn't a bad thing after all.'I adored this.' Simon James Green, author of Alex in Wonderland'I loved the fresh and original voice.' Bookseller, Highlights of the Season'A hilarious and heart-warming story.' Aisha Bushby, author of A Pocketful of Stars'Warm, funny and hopeful.' A M Dassu, author of Boy, Everywhere'A fresh, funny, feel-good story.' Rashmi Sirdeshpande

A gripping, haunting and brilliantly written book for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, They Both Die at the End and Holly Jackson.How can the things you love hurt so much? 17-year-old Luka isn't looking for love. She's trying to piece her life back together after a heartbreaking loss. But when she meets the gorgeous and charismatic Cosmo under a meteor shower at the Greenwich Observatory, it feels like destiny has played a hand. Surely theirs is a love written in the stars. But Cosmo isn't what he seems, using Luka's love for him to slowly take control of her life. As the pandemic starts to make headlines and lockdown sets in, she is trapped emotionally and physically in a coercive relationship. Luka's friends and brother can see what's happening, but struggle to reach her. Something will have to be sacrificed so Luka can free herself - but what will be left of her when she does?He tells me I'm the only one who can save him. But loving him is stealing the best of me.

Passt auf sie auf!Die liebenswürdige und hyperaktive Anastassja und ihr vertrauenswürdiger und verlässlicher Zwillingsbruder Aleksej, werden von ihren Eltern in eine Eliteschule für Mädchen und Jungen eingeschrieben. Aber vorerst sind sie von der schrulligen Tante Olga in den russischen Wald eingeladen. Schon am ersten Tag müssen sie schuften! Aleksej muss das Holz schlägern und schichten. und Anastassja muss im Haushalt aushelfen...Ich bin nicht schwul!Der Charmebolzen Florian Jackson ist besonders bei den Mädchen in der Schule beliebt. Bei Olga, wo er mit Freunden seine Ferien verbringt, begegnet er zufällig Justin aus der höheren Klasse. Sie fühlen sich zueinander hingezogen und es entwickelt sich mehr als eine Freundschaft, sehr zum Ärger von Papa Jackson... Als Florian sich vor seinen Eltern outet, rastet sein Dad aus. Das Familiendrama ist perfekt, sehr zur Erheiterung der Schüler vor dem Internat, die sich davon nichts entgehen lassen!