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Fifteen-year-old Kate Steiner is not sure why she is suddenly boarding at an East Coast school for troubled kids, though there is evidence that her lawyer parents are having marital problems. It is the mid-1970s, and at the progressive school where she has landed, Kate is initiated into a stratified society inhabited by kids who fell through the cracks. Kate must grapple with moral ambiguities when she discovers that Patrick, her first boyfriend, is also a slip-sliding drug addict.

Anastasia Krupnik's little brother, Sam, wants fangs more than anything in the world. But there is one big problem. Sam's mother, Mrs. Krupnik, has fangphobia and forbids Sam even to touch his plastic vampire fangs in the house. How can she not see how cool fangs really are? Sure, they make it hard to eat hot dogs, but they make him look disgusting - and Sam loves to took disgusting.

Leo's running from her past. Finlay's running into trouble. Together, they stumble into a crazy new world of secrets, lies and Chinese food. But someone is on Leo's trail. With Finlay's help, can she escape her pursuer and find what she is desperately searching for? Don't tread on the cracks. If you tread on a crack, it could be him.

Pram Bellamy is special - she can talk to ghosts. She doesn't have too many friends amongst the living, but that's all right. She has her books, she has her aunts, and she has her best friend, the ghostly Felix. Then Pram meets Clarence, a boy from school who has also lost a parent and is looking for answers. Together they arrive at the door of the mysterious Lady Savant, who promises to help. But this spiritualist knows the true nature of Pram's power, and what she has planned is more terrifying than any ghost.

Twelve-year-old Dani is running away from home - or what’s left of home anyway. Her older brother, who had muscular dystrophy, died a few months ago. Then her father left and her parents got divorced. Now home is just Dani and her sad, silent mother, and Dani’s got to get away. She plans to do something amazing, and go where her parents will never find her: She’s going to hike the whole Appalachian Trail, from Georgia to Maine. The trail is a legend in her family, the place where her parents met, fell in love, and got married 14 years before.

My heart is a kaleidoscope, and when we kiss it makes my world unravel.... Last summer, Gottie's life fell apart. Her beloved grandfather, Grey, died, and Jason left her - the boy to whom she lost her virginity (and her heart) - and he wouldn't even hold her hand at the funeral! This summer, still reeling from twin heartbreaks, Gottie is lost and alone and burying herself in equations. Until, after five years' absence, Thomas comes home: former boy next door. Former best friend. Former everything.

When 12-year-old Hershey must run away with her mother to a women's shelter, she wonders how, among other things, she'll compete in the town talent show with her best friend, Phoebe; who will take care of her cat, Augustus Gloop; and if she'll survive being on a new bus route with her sworn enemy.

Why has their grandmother bothered keeping a menu from a restaurant that closed years ago, a restaurant that never served very good food in the first place? Three cousins listen to Gee's own story, set in the early days of lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville, a time when a black child could sit up front in a city bus but still could not get a milk shake at a downtown restaurant.

Giovanni è un bambino di Palermo. Per il suo decimo compleanno, il papà gli regala una giornata speciale, da trascorrere insieme, per spiegargli come mai, di tutti i nomi possibili, per lui è stato scelto proprio Giovanni. Tappa dopo tappa, mentre prende vita il racconto, padre e figlio esplorano Palermo, e la storia di Giovanni Falcone, rievocata nei suoi momenti chiave, s'intreccia al presente di una città che lotta per cambiare. Giovanni scopre che il papà non parla di cose astratte: la mafia c'è anche a scuola, nelle piccole prepotenze dei compagni di classe.

Razzismo, malattie, terrorismo, cyberbullismo... sono solo alcune tra le realtà del mondo intorno a noi che fanno paura a molti, forse anche a te. E magari anche a te capita, quando qualcosa ti spaventa, di non volerne parlare. Eppure, il modo migliore per sconfiggere la paura è informarsi su ciò che più ci intimorisce. Ma allora perché quando hai il coraggio di fare domande i grandi non sanno cosa risponderti? Per fortuna, con questo libro non ci saranno più quesiti che cadono nel vuoto, né curiosità scomode, proibite o pericolose.

Il profumo dei cedri libanesi, il colore ocra del tardo pomeriggio afghano, il sorriso di un uomo siriano che in silenzio studia un’ospite straniera per capire se raccontarle la propria storia. Sono solo alcune delle nitide immagini che vedremo attraverso lo sguardo oltre il confine di Francesca Mannocchi, giornalista di guerra sul campo che da molti anni porta nelle nostre case la cronaca di ciò che succede attorno a noi, nelle regioni di Iraq, Libano, Afghanistan, Libia, Siria, fino alle città dell’Ucraina.