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Le Cipolline sono riuscite a battere l'Accademia Blu nella finalissima di campionato! Per festeggiare,Tommi e i suoi amici sono arrivati a Roma, dove disputeranno il Torneo delle Regioni. Lino è al colmo della gioia: è riuscito a intervistare niente meno che Francesco Totti, e forse riuscirà a vedere pubblicato il suo articolo!

Il girone di ritorno del campionato è finito e non resta che la finalissima. Come l'anno scorso, a contendersi la coppa sono Cipolline e Accademia Blu. Questa volta, però, i ragazzi di Champignon sono intenzionati a conquistare la vittoria. Perché chi si diverte non perde mai, è vero... ma è anche vero che chi vince si diverte il doppio!

Il girone di ritorno del campionato è iniziato e le Cipolline sono più cariche che mai: Tommi è di nuovo tra loro e l'insopportabile Loris è tornato all'Accademia Blu. Eppure qualcosa non va... Tommi litiga con tutti, Champignon ha uno strano dolorino al petto e i ragazzi sembrano tanti petali, ma non un fiore! Riusciranno a giocare la finalissima?

Seventeen-year-old Meg Barnes is all about control. However, the only kind of control she can find is with a razor. As if life wasn't hard enough, an accident has forced her to view everything from a wheelchair. Then a promise to an old friend forces her to resume her martial arts training and save the Little Ninja Program. While relearning self defense and pushing the limits of her body, new friends drag her to church

Emmeline Escot knows that she was born to ride in Seren's cutthroat velocipede races. The only problem: She's female in a world where women lead tightly laced lives. Emmeline watches her twin brother gain success as a professional racing jockey while her own life grows increasingly narrow. Ever more stifled by rules, corsets, and her upcoming marriage of convenience to a brusque stranger, Emmy rebels - with stunning consequences. Can her dream to race survive scandal, scrutiny, and heartbreak?

Pocho es una historia de amistad, aceptación y la lucha por encontrar tu identidad en el mundo. Danny es alto y delgado. A pesar de no ser fuerte, sus brazos son lo suficientemente largos como para lanzar un balón de fútbol americano con tanta fuerza, que cualquier cazatalentos lo...

En Sidro juga a l'equip de futbol del seu poble i marca tants gols que crida l'atenció dels observadors dels equips més importants de Primera Divisió. Vol rendir al màxim, sobretot ara que el partit crucial que podria definir el seu futur s'acosta, però en Sidro no pot evitar pensar que l'única cosa que a ell realment li agradaria és jugar a bàsquet i estar amb la Clàudia... Un entranyable relat sobre l'adolescència, l'amistat, l'honestedat i el camí de la recerca interior.

With a rocky start to senior year, cheerleaders and lifelong best friends Eleanor and Chanel have a lot on their minds. Eleanor is still in physical therapy months after a serious concussion from a failed cheer stunt. Chanel starts making questionable decisions to deal with the mounting pressure of college applications. But they have each other's backs - just as always, until Eleanor's new relationship with star quarterback Three starts a rift between them.

Lily Ford has always been a wallflower. But it’s senior year, and she wants nothing more than to try to push her boundaries and embrace the last year of high school. Kaiden Thatcher has always been the star on the football field. But now he finds himself in enemy territory forced to prove himself to his new coach and teammates. It starts with a dare. Seven minutes of heaven in a boat shed. But it quickly turns into something neither of them saw coming.

Escaping his troubled past - including a deadly one-on-one basketball league - Troy Blake confronts his inner demons by working on a commercial fishing boat in the Bering Sea. A year later, having fished the most dangerous waters in the world, he's a changed man, and no longer resorts to violence to solve his problems.

Amberlyn didn’t realize her boyfriend was spending more time with her best friend than with her. Betrayed and publicly humiliated, she needed a box of tissues and a shoulder to cry on. Aiden was happy to supply them. Having a crush on Amberlyn for years, he was secretly glad her boyfriend had dumped her.

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Charlie Hastings ist Star ihres Baseballteams - und der typische Kumpeltyp. Als ihr bester Freund, Teamkollege und Schwarm mit einem anderen Mädchen ausgeht, ist sie am Boden zerstört. Veränderung muss her, und Charlie will den Sport an den Nagel hängen. Aber die Meisterschaften sind nah, und die Roosevelt High Ravens ohne Charlie aufgeschmissen. Da macht Kapitän Jace ihr ein Angebot: Wenn sie bleibt, hilft er ihr, mehr als Mädchen wahrgenommen zu werden. Vielleicht gewinnt er ja so ihr Herz.

There was a time when all was right in Taylor Dresden’s world - that is, as long as she was on the baseball diamond, pitching with all her heart. But that was years ago. Now, as she heads toward her senior year, the magic is gone. There’s no competition in her New Jersey high school, and summer league is not much better. With the scouts losing interest on account of her poor grades, and with the challenge of the game gone, Taylor has made a difficult decision: She won’t be playing her senior year.

After not earning a spot on his junior high school basketball team, Ray is confused on what direction he should take. He has always played sports, but he is now at a crossroads. He takes up skateboarding, and with it come Ray’s downfall. He lets a stereotype control his life. He stops hanging out with longtime friends. He begins socializing with a rough crowd. He shoplifts, and just when he thinks he has become invincible, he is arrested.

A ninth-grader living with Asperger’s dreams of pitching for his high school baseball team and receives help from his feisty grandmother, who tells him of a clandestine family record of an integrated baseball game played on the family farm during the segregation era that featured Major and Negro League All Stars. Scorecard is an audiobook a family can listen to, enjoy, learn from, and discuss.

Maybe, she’s right to be miserable. A social misfit and mediocre student, she has never known her mother, and her father seems to hate her. This is the life of Taylor Dresden, a freshman in a gritty New Jersey high school. The only pleasure she’s ever had was playing baseball. But at the age of eight, she stopped playing when she overheard her dad say how embarrassed he was that her athletic talent far exceeded her older brother’s.

Im Jahr 1610 versenken Piraten vor der Küste Japans ein englisches Handelsschiff. Jack Fletcher, der Sohn des Steuermanns, ist der einzige Überlebende. Der berühmte Schwertmeister Masamoto Takeshi adoptiert ihn und lässt ihn zum Samurai ausbilden. Doch noch immer schwebt Jack in Lebensgefahr. Der gefürchtete Ninja Drachenauge hat es auf einen großen Schatz abgesehen, den Jack aus dem Schiff gerettet hat: das Logbuch seines Vaters. Ein junger Engländer. Gestrandet in Japan. Ausgebildet zum Samurai. Bereit für den Kampf seines Lebens.

What if you could do things no one else could? Life would be so much easier if you could run faster than a train or leap over a building. You could go anywhere - be anything you wanted to be. Dating would be easier. Money would come freely. The world would be your playground. Everything would change for the better. Well, I’m here to tell you, that just isn’t true. And I would know...Super is a young adult fiction novel that follows the story of JJ Morris - a junior at Oak Hill High School.

Too many basketballs and not enough kissing. All Matt Bailey wants is to focus on his position as starting point guard for the varsity basketball team. When an epic kiss and a social media scandal forces him into the arms of the beautiful and spunky Trina Wynter, he finds himself in a fake relationship with a girl just crazy enough to think she can take on the world.