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Benito's father, Xavier, has been in Iraq for more than a year. When he returns, Benito's family life is not the same. Xavier suffers from PTSD - post-traumatic stress disorder - and yells constantly. He causes such a scene at a school function that Benny is embarrassed to go to back to Southside High. Benny can't handle seeing his dad so crazy, so he decides to run away. Will Benny find a new life? Or will he learn how to deal with his dad - through good times and bad?

Hun går langsomt nærmere og stirrer på de hvide silkebånd. "Fuck!" skriger hun, så højt hun kan. Sofie Lund, står der skrevet med guldbogstaver. "Fuck. Jeg er død. Hvad skal jeg gøre?" Det giver et sæt i hende, da kirkeklokken begynder at bimle.

Primo anno di liceo. Stefania e Giada sono migliori amiche e compagne di banco da sempre. Giada è una ragazza mite, introversa, amante della natura, che adora passare il tempo libero in campagna, nella stalla di suo nonno. Forse è per questo che Eli e Bea, considerate le più belle della scuola, iniziano a prenderla in giro e a emarginarla.

Die heiß ersehnte Fortsetzung von "One of Us Is Lying"! Es ist ein Jahr her, seit Simon starb. Maeve ist inzwischen in ihrem Abschlussjahr an der Bayview High. Simons Tod und dessen Folgen sind langsam verwunden. Da wird der friedliche Schulbetrieb wieder ausgehebelt: Ein anonymes Wahrheit-oder-Pflicht-Spiel hält die gesamte Schülerschaft in Atem. Jeder, der nicht mitspielt, wird bloßgestellt. Doch als Maeve an der Reihe ist, weigert sie sich, mitzumachen - das virtuelle Spiel, ausgerichtet von "DarkestMind", macht sie extrem misstrauisch.

Weekends are for partying with friends while trying to survive the mindnumbingness that is high school. The countdown to graduation is on, and Skye has her sights set on escaping to art school and not looking back. But her party-first-ask-questions-later lifestyle starts to crumble when her mom rekindles her romance with the man who betrayed Skye's boundaries when he was supposed to be protecting her. She was too young to understand what was happening at the time, but now she doesn't know whether to run as far away from him as possible or give up her dreams to save her little sister.

Running away from home hasn’t solved Iphigenia Murphy’s problems. In fact, it’s only a matter of time before they’ll catch up with her. Iffy is desperate to find her long-lost mother, and, so far, in spite of the need to forage for food and shelter and fend off an unending number of creeps, living in Queens’ Forest Park has felt safer than living at home. But as the summer days get shorter, it all threatens to fall apart.

Every year, summer begins when the Callahans arrive on Mariposa Island. That's when Elena Finney gets to escape her unstable, controlling mother by babysitting for their two children. And the summer of 1986 promises to be extra special when she meets J.C., the new boy in town, whose kisses make Elena feel like she's been transported to a new world. Joaquin Finney can't imagine why anyone would want to come to Mariposa Island. He just graduated from high school and dreams about going to California to find his father and escape his mother's manipulation.

When it comes to being social, Athena Graves is far more comfortable creating a mixtape playlist than she is talking to cute boys - or anyone, for that matter. Plus, her staunchly feminist views and love of punk rock aren’t exactly mainstream at St. Ann’s, her conservative Catholic high school. Then a malicious rumor starts spreading through the halls...a rumor that her popular, pretty pro-life sister had an abortion over the summer...a rumor that has the power to not only hurt Helen but possibly see her expelled.

After school one day, Frankie, a lover of physics and astronomy, has her first sexual experience with quiet and gorgeous Benjamin - and gets her period. It’s only blood, they agree. But soon a gruesome meme goes viral, turning an intimate, affectionate afternoon into something sordid, mortifying, and damaging. In the time it takes to swipe a screen, Frankie’s universe implodes. Who can she trust? Not Harriet, her suddenly cruel best friend, and certainly not Benjamin, the only one who knows about the incident.

Here, in a luminous poetic narrative, acclaimed author Carole Boston Weatherford tells Marilyn's story in a way that restores her voice to its rightful place: center stage. Revisiting Marilyn's often traumatic early life - foster homes, loneliness, sexual abuse, teen marriage - through a hard-won, meteoric rise to stardom that brought with it exploitation, pill dependency, and depression, the lyrical narrative continues through Marilyn's famous performance at JFKs birthday party, three months before her death.

At Jonesville High, casual misogyny runs rampant, slut-shaming is a given, and school athletes are glorified above all else. Best friends Suze, Nikki, Ani, and Lydia swear they'll always have each other's backs against predatory guys - so when Suze suddenly starts dating wrestling star and toxic douchebag Tarkin Shaw, it's a big betrayal. Turns out, it's not a relationship - it's blackmail. At first, Suze feels like she has no choice but to go along with it, but when Tarkin starts demanding more, she enlists the help of intelligent misfits DeShawn and Marcus....

Jessie Archer is a member of the Athena Protocol, an elite organization of female spies who enact vigilante justice around the world. Athena operatives are never supposed to shoot to kill - so when Jessie can’t stop herself from pulling the trigger, she gets kicked out of the organization, right before a huge mission to take down a human trafficker in Belgrade. Jessie needs to right her wrong and prove herself, so she starts her own investigation into the trafficking.

Was, wenn du dich an alles erinnern kannst - außer an deine Gefühle? Diese Frage stellt sich Norah nach einem schweren Autounfall. Zwar erinnert sie sich an die meisten Momente ihres Lebens, aber eben nicht an das, was sie dabei empfunden hat. Liest sie gern? Liebt sie ihren Freund? Findet sie ihre kleine Schwester tatsächlich so nervig? Nur ihren Sandkastenfreund Sam verbindet sie noch mit einem Gefühl. Doch sie hatten seit Jahren keinen Kontakt, weil Norah beliebt wurde und Sam nicht.

Sofía es una niña muy distinta a las demás. Odia enfrentarse todos los días al ejército de monjas bigotonas y regañonas que tiene como profesoras. Además, siente que su madre la subestima: «Si repruebas de año, te rapo y te meto de criada». ¿Por qué sus compañeras parecen tan contentas? ¿Sus madres no las atosigan con el mismo sermón? Sofía odia el mundo real, sobre todo el de los adultos, por ello a veces recurre a unos polvos mágicos que le sirven para hacerse invisible y aislarse en un mundo sin enojos ni reclamos.

Der zweite Band der spannenden Buchreihe zur Netflix-Serie! Am Anfang waren Kitty, Margot, Bree und Olivia von der DGM bloß wütend und setzten sich mit ihren Rachefeldzügen gegen Bullys zur Wehr - aber jetzt bekommen sie Angst. Nicht nur, dass es Tote an der Schule gab; Margot liegt im Koma, nachdem ein Unbekannter sie angegriffen hat und Bree musste ins Jugendgefängnis, weil sie die Verantwortung für die DGM-Aktionen übernommen hat. Also sind nur noch Olivia und Kitty übrig, um ihren tödlichen Verfolger unschädlich zu machen.

Un juego inocente que se desboca hasta dejar de ser un juego. Una broma, una burla, un mote, un rumor, un mensaje anónimo, una amenaza, un golpe, una paliza. Así empieza todo, y no como en las películas. Una historia que sucede todos los días, en todas partes, a un montón de personas distintas. Víctimas que ya no saben si se meten con ellas por ser como son o si son así porque se meten con ellas. Hasta que, un día, una de esas víctimas decide que, si no puede dejar de sentir miedo, será quien lo infunda.

As rehearsals begin for the ballet version of Peter Pan, the teenaged members of an Ohio dance troupe lose their focus when one of their own goes missing. The Crystal Pointe Dance Academy is a refuge for the group of students who take classes and participate in dance recitals. Each of them - Diamond, Layla, Mercedes and Justin, the only boy in the group - has a different reason to dance, but they all want to earn a role in the upcoming production of Peter Pan.

Stolen as a child from her large and loving family, and on the run with her mom for more than ten years, Callie has only the barest idea of what normal life might be like. She's never had a home, never gone to school, and has gotten most of her meals from laundromat vending machines. Her dreams are haunted by memories she'd like to forget completely.

Angelina and Zack couldn’t be anymore different; one lives in apparent riches and the other in poverty. They meet online and a friendship blooms, but then things in Angelina’s life take a turn for the worst and she finds herself turning to the only person she thinks loves her – Zack. With everything against them, can Zack and Angelina cross the distance to change her life before it's too late?

After almost six months at her new school, Rachel feels invisible. Even though her twin brother, Liam, had no trouble adjusting, Rachel still feels like an outsider. When a new friend invites her to a party, she's hopeful she might finally get her chance to be seen. But when a photo from the party starts circulating around school, Rachel becomes anything but invisible, but for all the wrong reasons. It seems everyone, including Liam, has seen the embarrassing photo.