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It's Saturday night in Santa Barbara and it seems like everyone is headed to the same destination. The reason is simple: To celebrate the end of school. But for eleven different people the motives are bit more complicated - to be noticed, to hook up, to make friends, to numb the pain, to get over an ex, to say goodbye. As each character takes a turn and tells his/her story, the eleven individuals intersect, reconnect, and combine in ways that none of them ever saw coming.

Caroline is counting the days until September when she'll turn 17 and she and her older boyfriend, Jake, will run away together. She doesn't feel connected to anyone at home now that she has him, and she can't wait to see the world with the most important person in her life. So with just a few more months until freedom, she spends her summer working at the local aquarium gift shop and dreaming of the fall. Then she meets Georgia, a counselor at the aquarium's camp, and Caroline's world changes.

Set over the course of one day, Aminah Mae Safi's This Is All Your Fault is a smart and voice-driven YA novel that follows three young women determined to save their indie bookstore.

Christopher is the sort of guy that no one notices, yet when Air catches sight of him making intricate paper birds in the airport, she can’t look away. But their worlds are about to collide in ways they never expected. Someone they love is on Flight 0217 from London Heathrow. And it’s missing. Convinced that her brother was on a different flight, Air drives them hundreds of miles across the country, on a trip that will change their lives forever.

It's hard enough for Eve to adjust to a new high school without the extra weight she's gained over the summer. Her best friend is ashamed to hang out with her, and she's become the focus of a schoolmate's cruelty. Determined not to be "that pathetic fat girl" at school, Eve struggles with a diet and forces herself to join a mentoring program. The diet only makes her food obsessed, and she feels she is failing as a mentor. How can a lonely fat girl gain the confidence she needs to succeed?

Bex has explored almost every abandoned building and tunnel in the city. He's into "urban exploration"—going where he's not supposed to go. Bex has always done it just for fun and bragging rights, taking nothing but pictures and leaving nothing but footprints. But that changes when a new kid arrives at school. Kieran is edgy, dangerous and into urban exploration as well. Together, they start pushing each other to radical extremes.

Budding artist Dinah Zimmerman is recovering from a relationship with the boy next door who happens to be hounding her to get back together. When she visits the famous Carnivalesque one night, she meets Harvey—a smooth talker who asks her to dance. But their dance is interrupted when several of his exes bathe him in milkshakes and douse him with water balloons. Dinah has little interest in dating yet another bad boy. Nonetheless, her plans are derailed when Harvey offers her exactly what she needs-space from her ex.

Aralyn has lost everything—the coveted glass slipper, the prince's hand in marriage, and her only chance to save her mother and sister from destitution. Now she spends her days sweeping the cinders and washing dresses as her stepsister, Ellarose, once did, plotting her revenge against the girl who robbed her of her future. But when Ellarose, now the princess, comes to beg her help in saving the kingdom from ruin, Aralyn seizes the opportunity to get everything she's ever wanted.

Celia Gilbert is the perfect friend—loyal, trustworthy, and committed to mending her best friends’ broken hearts. She’s the reason the trio is spending the summer in Lovesick Falls, the idyllic little town where Touchstone’s sort-of-uncle’s cabin was waiting to be house-sat by three unsupervised (but totally responsible) teenagers. After all, Celia, Ros, and Touchstone have been best friends since childhood. Sure, Celia is in love with Ros, and Touchstone was once in love with Celia—but that’s the beauty of a place like Lovesick Falls. If you fell in love, you could fall out.

Lia and Diana are the "it girls" of Empire Hill High. Their lives are perfect . . . until Diana disappears and the rumors start flying. Everyone thinks Diana is a runaway, including the police. Lia is secretly convinced it's all a prank. Then she finds a crushed red rose tied with a candy-cane ribbon where Diana went missing. And next to it, a note: YOU.

Después de huir de Coroa y dejar atrás el recuerdo de su amado Silas, Hollis se está adaptando inestablemente a la vida en Isolte.

Malin no necesita compañía, no la quiere, pero es ambiciosa y desea llegar lejos, por eso, cuando consigue entrar en una universidad de élite gracias a su impecable expediente, su mayor reto será entablar relaciones sociales y fingir ser una persona normal. A su llegada al campus, Malin se sorprende por lo sencillo que le resulta hacerse de un grupo de amigos: Gemma, una chica inglesa extrovertida y dicharachera, apasionada por el teatro; Ruby, la joven perfecta: guapa, carismática, amable y sincera; John, popular, de buena familia y muy atractivo.

Nuestros cuatro amigos de Caídos del Mapa y Caídos del Mapa II, emprenden el tan ansiado viaje de egresados a La Falda. El viaje en micro, con un escondido tripulante y las vicisitudes que este personajeles ocasiona, nos entretienen y apasionan.

Sixteen-year-old Quinn is a liar, but she isn’t a murderer. When her sleepy town of Boiling Springs, North Carolina is roused by the murder of a local teen, Quinn is thrust into a life of danger, disrupting her normally unnoticeable existence. Now romantically involved with Gilly, the best friend of the dead girl who also happens to be the sheriff’s daughter, Quinn must navigate a budding relationship in the midst of all the chaos surrounding Gilly and her friend group.

Graciela se tiene que ir a vivir a España con su familia. La noticia causa gran conmoción en el grupo, especialmente para Paula, que a toda costa quiere hacer algo para evitar el viaje. pero Graciela está deprimida y malhumorada. ¿Qué va a pasar ahora con Federico? Ni siquiera quiere oír hablar del tema. Todos buscan soluciones y lo único que encuentran son problemas. Para colmo, Miriam, como siempre, complica mucho más las cosas. ¿Encontrarán la forma de hacer que Graciela se quede o tendrán que separarse para siempre?

Paula, Federico, Y Fabián acababan de llegar a España, a Zamora, donde Graciela viviá ahora, junto a su familia. No habián llegado solos: Miriam y su mamá los acompañaban. Desde Buenos Aires, todos juntos. En Zamora, todos juntos. En la casa de Graciela, todos juntos. No era difícil sospechar por qué estaban tan callados...¿Cómo lograr que Miriam no esté presente en cada charla, en cada momento? En el noveno libro de la saga Caídos del Mapa, los cuatro amigos viven un reencuentro soñado... hasta que entienden que convivir con Miriam es parte del viaje.

¿Cuánto cuesta un pasaje de idea y vuelta a Madrid? Los cuatro amigos están separados, y esta vez, por un océano entero. MIentras Graciela intenta adaptarse a su nueva vida en España, Paula Fabián y Fede planean secretamente su mejor y más arriesgada aventura: conseguir pasajes a Madrid y sorprender a su amiga con un reencuentro "de película".

Se cumplen 10 años de egresados de séptimo grado y… ¡Miriam se propone festejarlo en grande! Para eso, invita a sus compañeros a una fiesta en la cual la única condición es llevar un objeto y una anécdota de la Primaria para compartir con el grupo.

Emilie pareciera ser una chica como cualquiera, preocupada por su aspecto, por las calorías, por el ejercicio. Sin embargo, para ella la comida representa una lucha constante todos los días y ya es difícil ocultárselo a sus padres. Samuel es un chico de Ghana que se embarca en un peligroso viaje para llegar a Europa, encontrar trabajo y enviar algo de dinero a su familia. Eso es lo que hacen todos los chicos de su edad para dejar atrás la pobreza y encontrar un mejor futuro; incluso si para ello tienen que arriesgar la vida.

Reunited in New Jotunheim, Reginn, Eiric and Liv discover that they are game pieces being played on a hidden board. Eiric’s slaughter of the old council has opened Tyra's path to power—she now has the perfect excuse to launch a war against the Archipelago. Tyra is also using her dottir, Liv, as a vehicle to raise a dangerous goddess. And Reginn is tasked with crossing the boundary between the living and the dead to gain access to powerful magical secrets.