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The compelling companion title to the much-lauded Just One Day follows Willem's transformative journey toward self-discovery and true love, by the author of If I Stay.Picking up where Just One Day ended, Just One Year tells Willem's side of the story. After spending an amazing day and night with Allyson in Paris that ends in separation, Willem and Allyson are both searching for one another. His story of their year of quiet longing and near misses is a perfect counterpoint to Allyson's own as Willem undergoes a transformative journey, questioning his path, finding love, and ultimately, redefining himself.* "The complexity of Willem's character, the twisting plot, and far-flung settings (including the Netherlands, Mexico, and India) create an alluring story that pushes beyond the realm of star-crossed romance.”— Publishers Weekly starred review "As much a travelogue as it is a romance, this novel will appeal to fans of the movie Before Sunrise or Maureen Johnson's 13 Little Blue Envelopes (HarperCollins, 2005).”—School Library Journal"As [Willem] becomes engaged personally and professionally, readers will find their interest quickening, right up to the satisfying denouement.”—Kirkus Reviews

In these forty life-altering, life-affirming, and extremely short short stories, the award-winning poet Naomi Shihab Nye proposes that no matter how great the divide between friends, siblings, life and death, classmates, enemies, happiness and misery, war and peace, breakfast and lunch, parent and child, country and city, there is, in fact, no long distance. Not anymore.

A coming of age story about a girl trying to find herself.The story is set in an African village, which despite modernity, still clings to traditions.Abandoned as a child, she's adopted by a kindly man who brings her up as his own. Though she is seen as a foreigner by most and is often teased for her looks, in her father's house she finds happiness, acceptance, and eventually love.

"For the first time in her life, Natalie feels confident. Her talents are being recognized, she has supportive friends, and she's spending a ton of time with her crush, Derek. But when Derek tells Natalie that he just wants to be friends, Natalie's self-confidence quickly changes to self-doubt. As she tries to recover from her broken heart, Natalie casts aside her talents and even her friends. With no one to turn to, Natalie will have to pull herself out of this mess on her own"--Dust jacket flap.

Within the heart lies darkness.Tabitha is set to have another birthday without a father, without a coven, without the answers she's been longing for, but this year, it all changes. When the head of the infamous Rouzan Coven shows up at her doorstep, claiming to be her father, Tabitha voluntarily leaves with him, abandoning the ones closest to her.With a flick of her hand, she closes the gate on her old life and embraces a life she had been deprived of for nearly eighteen years. At the exact hour of her birth, her new role as the next coven leader will begin, and she'll have more magic than she has ever dreamed of.But her power comes at a dark price, one an innocent heart should never pay.

How do you trust the ground when all you've known is flight? In this breathtaking debut, Leigh Ansell has created a compelling, heartbreaking, and truly engaging story about a young girl used to flying high only to be faced with living life with her two feet firmly on the ground . . . Seventeen-year-old Corey Ryder can't remember a time when she wasn't gliding through the air of Cirque Mystique's big top. As a trapeze artist in a traveling circus, Corey wakes up every day in a different place, buzzing for the moment she can suspend gravity during the night's performance. When the circus pulls into small-town Sherwood, California, everything seems normal-aside from meeting the exceptionally cute Luke Everett at a local diner. But that night, in the midst of the performance, tragedy strikes and flames overtake the tent. While Corey narrowly escapes, in the ashes of the circus pitch lies the only home she's ever known.Repeatedly thrown out of her comfort zone, Corey must learn how to push toward her future without forgetting her past, what it means to be a daughter to a mother she's never known, and how to navigate the confusing magic of first love, even as she performs the high-wire act of being true to who you really are.

From the outside, Everest has it all, but there's only one person who can see him for who he truly is . . . and it changes his life forever. In this tender, poignant debut novel by newcomer Sky Chase, two teenagers on the cusp of adulthood learn to embrace life in ways neither of them ever anticipated. Everest is the most popular boy in school. He's handsome, wealthy, and captain of the football team-he has the world at his fingertips, but he's desperately unhappy. And when those feelings become too much to bear, he tries to take his own life. On the surface, Beverly's different from Everest in every possible way. She's quiet, shy, hard working, and keeps to herself on campus, focusing on her schoolwork and her part-time job, distracting herself from her less-than-perfect upbringing. When Everest returns to school after his attempt, he's in more pain than ever. Discarded by his friends, he draws little empathy and too much attention from those who surround him. But when Beverly and Everest meet unexpectedly in a dusty corner of the old library, they discover together just how rich life can be when given the freedom to just be yourself.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret and the adult bestseller In the Unlikely Event comes a tale of family, friendship, and pre-teen life like only JUDY BLUME can deliver. The companion to Just As Long As We're Together. CAN YOU BE too perfect? From the outside, Rachel looks like the perfect daughter in the perfect family. She's a straight-A student, a gifted musician, and a good friend. But Rachel feels as if it's all falling apart. Her brother, Charles, was just kicked out of boarding school and is now at home, wreaking havoc. Her sister, Jessica, has problems of her own, which Rachel thinks it's her job to help solve. And Rachel herself is considering adding drama club, community service, and class president to her already crowded roster of activities. Rachel's best friends, Stephanie and Alison, urge Rachel to lighten up and enjoy the end of seventh grade. Easy for them to say. Not so easy for Rachel. Not even when Jeremy Dragon, the coolest boy in ninth grade, notices her. Is it possible that perfection isn't the key to an exciting life? An ALA Best Book for Young Adults "A master." -SLJ

"Thrillingly full of intrigue, magic, and emotion...Un-put-downable."The Prairies Book ReviewYour father and I are fae.I want to see you someday.When you are ready, follow the clues.*****The summer before her senior year had been a major disappointment for seventeen-year-old Eevee. Especially the bit at the end, when she had been dumped by her boyfriend of ten months. But her friends Maggie and Cam are a text away to help her pick up the pieces of her broken heart.On top of this, Eevee's parents give her a sealed envelope containing information about her adoption, and Eevee learns her birth parents aren't even human. They're fae. The note is short and leaves Eevee with more questions than answers.With these questions in mind, and accompanied by an unlikely ally, Eevee follows a trail of mysterious clues scattered across the fae realm. However, when powerful enemies in the Unseelie Court take note of her activity in the fae realm, Eevee debates whether it's worth it to find the answers she's longed to know about her past.

A beautiful collector's hardback of the prequel novela to the bestselling A Good Girl's Guide to Guide to Murder series. Find out where it all began for Pip!

Antología de cuentos realizados en el año 2022, y con uno especial que le da título a la publicación. En general, son cuentos sobre el amor en todas sus facetas: de pareja, filial, fraternal y obviamente sobre la amistad: esa familia que elegimos.

"Coming-of-age never looked so beautiful." - Kirkus (Starred Review)"[A] powerful story of growth and change, brimming with honesty and hope." - Publishers Weekly"Students who might not yet be ready for Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give will find an equally compelling narrator and story in Pretty." - VOYA ReviewsSophie's perspective on what being pretty really means changes drastically in the second adjective-busting novel by the author of Husky, Justin Sayre. Sayre details the private and public life of a thirteen-year-old burdened with far more than the middle-school adjective of Pretty. Though she appears confident, stylish, and easygoing at school, Sophie lives a nightmare at home. When her mother's alcohol addiction spirals out of control, Sophie's Auntie Amara steps in to help. She teaches Sophie new lessons about her family and heritage, while also challenging her to rethink how she feels about friends, boys, and even her sense of place in the Brooklyn neighborhood where she lives. Sayre, a master storyteller in the coming-of-age genre, asks readers to confront superficial assumptions about gender and beauty, and breathes new life into the canon of middle-grade realistic fiction.

Aliens, talking cats, invisibility-it's all possible in this hilarious early chapter book series! As an alien, Zeke Zander is still confused by the weird things humans do. But he knows humans would also find zeebop behavior pretty strange. So when Zeke catches the flu, he has to hide symptoms like green goo that leaks from his eyes. Will his new human friends understand, especially now that they have a group project for school? Maybe being a little bit different is the only way to fix things with his friends!From the author of the George Brown and Katie Kazoo books, The Kid from Planet Z is easy-to-read, highly-illustrated, and printed in black and blue. Follow along as this adorable alien struggles through life on planet Earth in this hilarious story, perfect for a first chapter book!

Celebrate more than 25 years of Horrible Harry with the 30th book in this beloved classroom chapter book series! Catastrophe strikes Room 3B when the diamond on Miss Mackle's engagement ring disappears. Fortunately, Harry is on the case! The third-grade talent show is coming up, and he wants to show off his skills as South School's greatest detective. Doug, on the other hand, has no idea what to do for his act. The best friends need to find both Doug's talent and the teacher's diamond, or else the talent show will be a horrible disaster for everyone! A Children's Book of the Month Club Selection

He set himself out to ruin me. But I'm not going down without a fight.When my parents sent me away, little did I know it would turn out to be the best and most heartbreaking summer of my life.My complicated existence began once I moved to Feather Lake, North Carolina. A job offer and a bus ticket and I was gone for the entire summer. My parents just forgot to mention my "vacation" would last for more than a week. A little detail that didn't sit well with me.My nightmare started that day. When I got hauled away from the perfect summer with my friends and had to leave with only two pieces of luggage and an angry heart.From there, everything went down the rabbit hole.It took two days. Two days once I arrived there for me to notice him the first time. And to never forget him afterward. Two days for him to infiltrate my heart, dig his claws into its beating parts, and bleed it to death.I've decided to not let him spoil my summer vacation. And my new friendships. Because there's a boy who lights up my days and makes me smile, and with him, I'm feeling things I never did before. And right now, I'm addicted.Cast Away is book one in the Wrecked series.

Life was good. Life was great and normal. I should have never gotten out of that stupid car.Xander Williams is a normal sixteen-year-old. He goes to school, works a crappy job at the local grocery store, and has great friends and parents that drive him crazy but ultimately he loves dearly. However an incident one night changes his normal life forever.Now he starts to be able to do things he has never been able to do before that are not even possible. And on top of that, a handful of kids in his school start to experience the same thing, including the mysterious new girl.An ancient evil is rising, seeking to destroy all that Xander knows and loves. This unlikely team will have to come together and trust each other like never before despite whatever truth comes to light.