Bøger af Natalie Corbett Sampson

"Poignant, well-paced and compassionate, Game Plan is an achingly real look at how two families cope when life doesn't go as planned." - Tish Cohen, bestselling author of The Truth About Delilah Blue and Inside Out Girl. Just because the play goes wrong, doesn't mean you quit the game.Ella Parker seems to have everything: great friends, an awesome family and a star position on her high school basketball team. The only thing missing from her life is a boyfriend. That changes once she catches the eye of Sam Cleveland. With Sam by her side Ella has it all. When a drunken night results in an unwanted pregnancy, her perfect life is turned upside down and she's faced with an impossible decision. Katherine Frayne has always wanted to be a mother. But with the last results of her in vitro fertilization pointing to no chance of a baby, her hopes are dashed. Then her husband Danny suggests they adopt. At first Kat is resistant, but she soon warms to the idea.Ella and Katherine must navigate their lives amidst tough decisions, the consequences of which not only affect them but those they love the most.

"Akin to the haunting subtleties of Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Lowry's The Giver, Natalie Corbett Sampson delivers in Aptitude a richly-imagined dystopian world, which seems scarily all too plausible."- Jo Treggiari, author of Ashes, AshesHessa is busy marking her students' assignments when the Protectors arrive at her door. Naive and confused, she's swept away by the city's authorities and imprisoned before she can even figure out what's happening. But it doesn't take long for her to piece it together once the Judicians visit her cell. Hessa is left alone with several horrific facts: A man she loves is dead. That man was not her husband. It was her fault. And she's on trial for the crime.Set in a dystopian future where everyone has a role to fulfill and no one is given a choice in their life's path, Aptitude is the story of a young woman's struggle to decide between two men - one that society chose for her, and one she's fallen in love with.

Canada Book Awards Winner!Sometimes a situation is not what you think it is In high school perception can be the key to surviving. Especially if you're hiding something. The new girl - Emily hopes to leave a painful event behind her by starting at a new school, but it looks like that's just a pipe dream.The golden boy - Brogan is the big man on campus until a knee injury has him benched. Now he's struggling to hold on to his top dog position while pushed to the sidelines.The popularity seeker - Thomas desperately wants to shed his loser status. He can, as long as he doesn't let his nice guy instincts get in the way.The heart of gold - Henry doesn't know how different he is, although everyone else at school does. And the popular kids have no problem letting him know he doesn't fit in. As they go through an ordinary day of negotiating halls, classes and the baggage of their lives, each of them has no idea that their paths will cross in such a way that will change their lives forever.Sometimes what should have been a good day turns out to be the worst day of your life.

Can a life broken into pieces ever be put back together even if some pieces are missing?Layne Wheeler needs lists. Lists put her life in order and help her come up with a plan when things go off schedule. Stepping on a skateboard to impress her crush wasn't on any of Layne's To Do lists. And her accident triggers a cascade of events that spins her life so out of control that none of her lists can fix it. But a secret list she discovers centers her and forces her back on track. While Layne checks items off the list she realizes that not only does she have to find a new normal, she also has to come to terms with a past she can no longer recognize. How can she do that, though, when she isn't sure anything will be right again?In Take These Broken Wings, award-winning young adult author Natalie Corbett Sampson weaves a captivating and beautifully heartbreaking story of love, loss and trying to set things right.

Tina is finally old enough to join a real hockey team, but soon discovers that the local side is boys only. Tina risks ridicule and takes her fight for a place on the team to the Human Rights Commission, gaining a temporary position on the team, with the struggle only beginning at this development. Based on an inspiring true story.