Showing titles in Coming of Age

Fifteen-year-old Sam isn't special. He's not a famous vlogger, he's never gone viral and he doesn't want to be the Next Big Thing. What he likes most is chatting to his friends and having a bit of a kick about. None of which was a problem until Dad got rich and Mum made the whole family move to London. Now Sam is being made to go to the North London Academy for the Gifted and Talented, where every student is too busy planning Hollywood domination or starting alt-metal psychedelica crossover bands or making clothes out of bathmats to give someone as normal as him the time of day.

Verity Wolf dreams of being a poet - not that she'd ever admit it to anyone. Her best friend, Jess, thinks she's definitely got what it takes while her cat, Zorro, is characteristically indifferent. As for the cute boy she's just met, he's about to discover her best-kept secret. When Verity stumbles on an old, mysterious book, Poemsia, she finds herself suddenly thrust into the dizzying world of social media stardom, where poets are the new rock stars and fame is sometimes just a click away.

Fourteen-year-old Molly worries about school, friends, and her parents’ failed marriage, but mostly about her mother’s growing depression. Molly knows her mother is nursing a carefully kept secret. A writer with an obsession for other people’s life stories, Elaine Donnelly is the poster child of repressed emotions. Molly spends her California summer alternately watching out for her little brother Angus and tiptoeing around her mother’s raw feelings. Molly needs her mother more than ever, but Elaine shuts herself off from real human connections.

Tilly isn't looking for a girlfriend, but her best friend Teddy is. Enter Katherine Cooper-Bunting: beautiful, charming, and perfect for Teddy. So why does Tilly find herself using any excuse to join the theatre production they're starring in? And why can't she stop thinking about Katherine?

Natalie is living her dream: topping the charts and setting records as a Brazilian pop star...until she's dumped spectacularly on live television. Not only is it humiliating - it could end her career. Her PR team's desperate plan? A gorgeous yet oh-so-fake boyfriend. Nati reluctantly agrees, but William is not what she expected. She was hoping for a fierce bad boy - not a soft-hearted British indie film star.

I’m a witch. My mom, and my aunt, and their mom were also witches. Maybe my dad? There’s just a whole lotta witches in my family. And in this town too. Stormy Josie, off-limits Beck, even cocky-boy Spade all have enchanted abilities. We were supposed to get invites to the High Council Witch Academy… maybe. But, the death of a classmate interrupted our fate. Now, no one’s sure. (You’d think fate would know, after all, it’s fate. But, I digress.) The High Council will only accept the strongest, most magical bonds. So now, we’ve got to do it all again.

One hot summer morning, Davie steps boldly out of his front door. The world he enters is very familiar - the little Tyneside town that has always been his home - but as the day passes, it becomes ever more mysterious. A boy has been killed, and Davie thinks he might know who is responsible. He turns away from the gossip and excitement and sets off roaming towards the sunlit hills above the town. As the day goes on, the real and the imaginary start to merge, and Davie knows that neither he nor his world will ever be the same again.

This heartfelt and humorous contemporary take on Sense and Sensibility follows two sisters - complete opposites - who discover the secrets they’ve been keeping make them more alike than they’d realized.

Hay quienes definen cuatro tiempos para que dos amigos se enamoren el uno del otro: temporalmente, en el momento equivocado, demasiado tarde… o para siempre. Para Isabel parece ser el momento equivocado. Aunque desearía que su mejor amigo Justin demostrara más que un interés fraterno por ella, sabe que cualquier intento perjudicaría la única relación que le agrega felicidad a una vida con la que intenta conformarse. Una vida de conflictos con su madre, una relación nula con su padre y una apatía hacia el común de los adolescentes que la aísla de su entorno.

A Silvia, la chica más guapa del instituto y de todo el barrio, se le presenta por fin la oportunidad de convertirse en una estrella de cine: André, un director polaco afincado en París, la contrata para hacer una película en la capital francesa. Y allí, en París, Silvia roza primero la gloria y después se topa con la decepción que producen los sueños incumplidos, y todo ello la obliga a hacerse definitivamente mayor.

Inconformistas, irreverentes, creativos, autodidactas, expertos digitales, defensores del medio ambiente y de la vida saludable... Estos son algunos de los calificativos que podrían definir a las llamadas generaciones Y y Z. Desapegados de lo tradicional, han decidido reinventar un modelo de sociedad donde prima lo virtual, lo digital, lo global frente a lo local, lo aparente frente a lo auténtico, los acrónimos en inglés y el abuso de abreviaturas frente a la riqueza de la lengua de Cervantes.

Inconformistas, irreverentes, creativos, autodidactas, expertos digitales, defensores del medio ambiente y de la vida saludable... Estos son algunos de los calificativos que podrían definir a las llamadas generaciones Y y Z. Desapegados de lo tradicional, han decidido reinventar un modelo de sociedad donde prima lo virtual, lo digital, lo global frente a lo local, lo aparente frente a lo auténtico, los acrónimos en inglés y el abuso de abreviaturas frente a la riqueza de la lengua de Cervantes.

Inconformistas, irreverentes, creativos, autodidactas, expertos digitales, defensores del medio ambiente y de la vida saludable... Estos son algunos de los calificativos que podrían definir a las llamadas generaciones Y y Z. Desapegados de lo tradicional, han decidido reinventar un modelo de sociedad donde prima lo virtual, lo digital, lo global frente a lo local, lo aparente frente a lo auténtico, los acrónimos en inglés y el abuso de abreviaturas frente a la riqueza de la lengua de Cervantes.

Caleb no es un chico corriente. Ha tenido una vida complicada, quizá por las habilidades especiales que lo convierten, a sus ojos, en un monstruo. El destino lo ha llevado a trabajar para gente de moral dudosa, a hacer cosas que le han manchado las manos y el alma. Entonces, una de sus misiones se complica y se le asigna vigilar a Victoria, una humana tan normal como cualquier otra, con un trabajo rutinario, un apartamento pequeño y un gato extraño.

Los protagonistas de este libro, el primero, de una saga de 11 títulos son cuatro adolescentes compañeros de séptimo grado. Un día, aburridos en la clase de Geografía, deciden escaparse y esconderse en el sótano de la escuela. Todo parece diversión hasta que los descubre la buchona del grado, que amenaza con contar su travesura si no la aceptan en el grupo. ¿Aceptarán los chicos o se arriesgarán a las consecuencias? Aventura, convivencia en el ámbito escolar, amistad, amor, familia son el eje principal de estos relatos.

Neglected by self-absorbed parents who wind up divorcing by the time she’s sixteen, Carly Klein is sustained by her best friend, Lauren. But when Lauren and her family move away, Carly is forced to find new ways to entertain herself. It doesn’t take her long to locate the perfect subject: her therapist mother’s patients. Carly soon becomes obsessed with one patient in particular—Daniel, a blind junior at Columbia College—and, desperate to become part of his life and knowing he’ll never go for a high school girl, gets close to him by pretending to be a student at neighboring Barnard College.

When Thalia, Kalliope, and Charis set off to Regency London for their first Season, they each have clear goals―few of which include matrimony. Thalia means to make her mark among the intelligentsia and publish her poetry, Charis hopes to earn her place among the scientific elite, and Kalliope aims to take the fashionable ton by storm. But this Season, it doesn’t take long for things to fall apart. Can this roller-coaster Season find its happily ever after?

Sabiha and her mother Bahra are more than mother and daughter, they’re best friends. It’s been them against the world, with Sabiha being her mother’s carer and confidante during her periodic bipolar breakdowns.

Since Shelbi enrolled at Windward Academy as a senior and won’t be there very long, she hasn’t bothered making friends. What her classmates don’t know about her can’t be used to hurt her. Andy Criddle is not okay. At all. He’s had far too much to drink. Again. Which is bad. And things are about to get worse. When Shelbi sees Andy at his lowest, she can relate. So she doesn’t resist reaching out. And there’s no doubt their connection has them both seeing stars...but the closer they get, the more the past threatens to pull their universes apart.

Samantha Kang has always butted heads with her mom, Priscilla, who is a first-generation Korean American, a former high school cheerleader and expects Sam to want the same all-American nightmare. Meanwhile, Sam is a girl of the times who has no energy for clichéd high school aspirations. After a huge fight, Sam is desperate to get away from Priscilla, but instead, finds herself thrown back. Way back. To her shock, Sam lands in the '90s...alongside a 17-year-old Priscilla.