Teen Art

Lee's tried her best to downplay her extraordinary swimming abilities. Who needs more attention when you're already six feet tall at 15? Can you say "bully magnet"? So when she's sent to a land-locked town in British Columbia to train with an elite swim team, Lee's beyond horrified. Her summer is over before it even began. Now all she wants to do is get through it.

He lost it all - his family, his health, his job. The sole purpose of his life is now vengeance against an enemy who he has followed into another world with no chance of returning. In this world he is a teenager, sold for debts to the School of Quan, which belongs to the mighty Zhou clan. Now he is called Lei, which means Thunder. Lei has managed to complete the trial to become a fighter of the school, and now he must compete in a tournament against fighters of other schools. In the meantime, there is a shift underway in the upper ranks of clan Zhou.

It all started as stories - playground tales handed down for generations, stories of plague graves, vanished children and hidden steps leading to a festering underworld. A world so real you could almost smell it.... But when another child goes missing, Fraser wonders if there's some truth in the tales.

Cal's got this thing about fire. It's nothing big at first, just lighting matches, watching matches burn, enjoying the calming effects of the flame... It helps him cope with stuff. Then he meets Abby, and things start to get out of control. She winds him up, playing with him until he thinks he might lose his santiy, and suddenly the matches just aren't enough anymore.

Here's some good news for everyone who's ever been bullied into believing they can't speak their own language: The grammar snobs are bluffing. Half the "rules" they use to humiliate others are really just judgment calls and the rest they don't even understand themselves. Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies is a laugh-out-loud funny collection of anecdotes and essays on grammar and punctuation, as well as hilarious critiques of the self-appointed language experts.

Teen pop is a sub-genre of popular music marketed to tweens and teens. Its melodic yearning and veneer of sincerity appeal to an emerging romantic eroticism and autonomy. But tweens and teens buy music that isn’t primarily marketed to them, too. Teen pop encompasses several kinds of musical styles, not limiting itself to just one—teen pop wants to play. Although it’s very difficult to attain and maintain social progress and play it forward—there are so many tragedies—'70s Teen Pop examines how liberation and a true counterculture can be possible through music.

In a modern world ruled by territorial Greek gods, the human race has been oppressed, exploited, and now nearly destroyed by the constant infighting of gods. However, a human girl with the power of a goddess is coming of age. Alessandra is the Oracle of Delphi - the last prophesized - and bears the mark of the double omega. Soon after she turns 18, Alessandra is told her destiny: to step between the warring gods and the human race and save her world from certain ruin.

Humankind is on the precipice of the apocalypse. As the Demons grow bolder and the walls between the planes of existence weaken, Ember is forced to develop her powers as quickly as possible, and she seeks out a powerful earth Watcher to continue her supernatural lessons. Her glimpse of the future demands she fight the dark forces spreading across the earth. But her new mentor has his own agenda, making her question everyone and everything she ever trusted.

Five extraordinary sisters discover that they each have a unique talent, an extra-sensory perception that enables them to see what others can't. It makes them incredible, it puts them in danger, and it brings them closer to learning the secrets that have haunted them their entire lives. These are the Delta Girls.... Serena and her sisters read a private letter their father wrote to their mother, revealing a clue about his disappearance that they never knew about before.

William Shakespeare, lasciati momentaneamente moglie e figli nell’amata Inghilterra, è in missione per conto della Corona. La missione è segreta, segretissima, e lui, che non sa ancora di essere poeta, sbarca nelle terre della Serenissima e si stabilisce a Padova, dove c’è un inglese da trovare e riportare in patria. Padova è il centro della Repubblica di Venezia e della vita intellettuale, politica e mondana, affollata di preti, nobili, mezzane, medici, maghi o sedicenti tali, studenti, teste calde, uomini d’arme e uomini che hanno abbandonato le armi.

Fifteen-year-old Wonder Blake and her family are trying to recover from the death of Wonder's older sister Lucky, who was about to sign a major record deal when she died. When Lucky's talent manager runs into Wonder at the Dairy Queen where she works, her life takes a dramatic turn. Suddenly, despite her own ambivalence, she is the one signing the record deal. Transformed into a teen idol and thrust into the spotlight, Wonder learns what it takes to be a star, and also what it costs.

When Peter Mills descends into the creepy basement of Finley Junior High, he discovers a dark and twisted truth: Girls haven't always ruled the world. Now armed with a book of ancient, forbidden man secrets (such as how to make paper airplanes, stink bombs, and beef jerky), Peter and his friends think they've found the recipe to changing their lives. But the boys of the Beef Jerky Gang will soon find out that the girls aren't about to give up control to a bunch of prank-pulling punks.

Brando è nato per la danza. Corpo perfetto, movimenti che incantano. Sua madre ha cucito su di lui un sogno preciso, che forse gli va troppo stretto. Ma quando il mondo tace, Brando disegna. Disegna per sentirsi libero, per correre incontro alla sua vera essenza. Ettore è l'opposto. La danza non lo ha scelto, lui l'ha strappata al suo corpo con ostinazione e fatica. Ogni passo è una sfida, ogni errore un colpo incassato. Suo padre non capisce, ma Ettore continua a danzare. Perché lottare è tutto ciò che conosce. Ettore però ha anche un talento naturale.

One mistake and those I love could die. Hiding behind my brother and his friends has made it easy to keep my secrets, but since Merith came to Arda only months ago, my life has been wrecked. My father exposed, my brother obsessed...and now, because I let myself care about someone who is practically a stranger to me, I've been revealed as what I truly am. This curse's hold over me is irrevocable, my life more entwined in it than I can manage on my own.

Destruction. In a family of healers who save, all I do is destroy. My enforced solitude is for my own safety as well as that of the world, or so my mother tells me. When the boy next door beckons, I can't help but sneak out to forge a friendship with him. Loneliness leads me to defy my family, but desperation prevails when I discover that the grounds of his private academy hold a secret that could help me learn why my ability is so disastrous...or push me to create a catastrophe that will bring about my family's deaths.

Dinah has lost everyone she ever loved. Her brother was brutally murdered. The wicked man she believed was her father betrayed her. Her loyal subjects have been devastated by war. And the boy she gave her heart to broke it completely. Now, a dark queen has risen out of the ashes of her former life. Fury is blooming inside Dinah, poisoning her soul and twisting her mind. All she has left is Wonderland and her crown and her obsession to fight for both.

Meet Simone, the bohemian transfer student from London, who is thrust into the strange new reality of an American high school; Mallory, the hypercompetitive queen bee; and Stephen, the first-generation genius who struggles with crippling self-doubt. Each one is shocked when a popular classmate takes his own life...except not too shocked. It's happened before. With so many students facing their own demons, can they find a way to save each other - as well as themselves?

When Hazel Stanczak was born, an interdimensional rift tore open near her family's home, which prompted immediate government attention. They soon learned that if Hazel strayed too far, the rift would become volatile and fling things from other dimensions onto their front lawn-or it could swallow up their whole town. As a result, Hazel has never left her small Pennsylvania town, and the government agents garrisoned on her lawn make sure it stays that way.

Behold, a heart entangled in a triangle of love, where an art student ventures into realms of the unknown, a world of first experiences. Ashley is a Christian who hesitates to enter the art world and save herself for marriage. She starts college and reconnects with her former flame Nicholas while interning at a photography studio. Ashley develops a crush on Gary but faces drama from her boss and peers.

My father pays heaps of money for doctors at the Norfolk Psychiatric Center to fix me. I've spent six months of my prime teenage years at this residential facility - a place for teenagers who've gone mental. Just when I begin to feel myself fade away, a boy with a wolfish smile and mischievous eyes reels me in. Julian is broken, too, but he believes in me enough for the both of us. Through him I begin to experience this thing called hope. Doctors can't fix me, my parents can't either, but maybe it's not me who needs fixing.