In this raw, searingly honest debut young adult novel, a former aspiring ballerina must confront her past in order to move forward from a devastating fall that leaves her without the use of her legs.Genie used to fouetté across the stage. Now the only thing she’s turning are the wheels to her wheelchair. Genie was the star pupil at her exclusive New York dance school, with a bright future and endless possibilities before her. Now that the future she’s spent years building toward has been snatche...
Make Lemonade (Make Lemonade Trilogy (Audio)) (Make Lemonade Trilogy (Hardcover))
by Virginia Euwer Wolff
In order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a teenage mother.
Mina, Penny, and Sheryl have the typical expectations of prom night in 2005: dresses, dancing, and of course some coming-of-age moments. None of them plan to get pregnant on prom night, but when all three do, they band together as they face decisions that have the power to shape the rest of their lives. In 2024, their three children - Blossom, Amber, and Cole - are seniors gearing up to go to the prom and facing some big decisions of their own. As they seek to understand who they are and who th...
Hollywood glitz collides with workingclass aspirations in this satirical tale of an impulsive starlet and a sharp-witted small-town teen. Cherry Kerrigan loves her simple life, her family’s tiny trailer, even working at Burrito Barn. Forget college — she’s marrying her sweetheart from next door. But here comes Ardelia Deen, a glamorous starlet who sweeps Cherry into a world of fast cars and penthouse parties. Now Cherry’s small-town life just seems so . . . small. When Ardelia drops a bomb of a...
A sharply observed, bittersweet tale of the trials of teenage pregnancy. Lana Spiggs is fed up with everyone telling her what to do. If it isn't her mother nagging and shouting, it's her teachers nagging and shouting. What Lana wants is to be grownup. She wants her own flat, her own husband and her own children - and then no one will be able to boss her around any more. When Lana meets Les on her fifteenth birthday, she knows he is the one. And when she gets pregnant without even trying, she kno...
'Amy, wait till you hear this...' I hold my breath. 'What?' I say. 'Last night someone left a baby on our doorstep.' This is it, I think. No going back now.16-year-old Amy is used to keeping secrets - Mum's illness, her runaway sister, her ex-boyfriend. But she has one secret that can't be kept. Now she has two choices: tell the truth about the abandoned baby, or keep quiet...for ever.
Two impulsive decisions.Two toxic secrets. Too many hearts broken.Laurie is a good girl. So everyone thinks. But eight months ago, she did something she can't undo. And it's tearing her apart.Charlie used to be her best friend. He's also done something he regrets. And now someone has died.When guilt shatters your world, the hardest person to forgive is yourself.
When fifteen-year-old Hannah becomes pregnant and her rich, popular boyfriend claims he is not responsible, she is forced to face some hard facts about her life.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Angeline Boulley takes us back into the world of Firekeeper's Daughter in this high-stakes mystery about the power of discovering your stolen history A Waterstones Best YA Books of 2023 A Financial Times Best YA Summer Book 2023 HONOUR YOUR ROOTS. BREAK THE RULES. UNCOVER THE TRUTH. Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is — the laid-back twin, the troublemaker, the best fisher on Sugar Island. Whilst her overachieving sister works away at an in...
Dear Nobody (Collins Drama) (A Puffin Book)
by Berlie Doherty
The moving and very real story of two teenagers and an unplanned pregnancy. It is told from two viewpoints - that of Helen as she writes her thoughts in a series of letters to the unborn baby, the Dear Nobody of the title, and of Chris as he reads the letters and relives events as Helen is in labour.
From the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Once and for All The world is a terrible place not to have a best friend. Scarlett was always the strong one. Halley was always content to follow in her wake. Then Scarlett’s boyfriend died, and Scarlett learned that she was pregnant. Now Halley has to find the strength to take the lead and help Scarlett get through it. Because true friendship is a promise you keep forever. * “Dessen has written a powerful, polished sto...
16-årige Reena bliver endelig kæreste med Sawyer, som hun har været hemmeligt forelsket i altid. Hun er på vej på college, han ud i noget skidt, og da han forlader hende og Florida efter et skænderi, er hun gravid. Nu tre år senere dukker han op igen og ved ikke, at han er blevet far
This teen debut by the bestselling authors of The Nanny Diaries takes a hilarious look at what happens when a regular girl is thrown into a whirlwind of reality TV as a popular television network uses her to find the real Hampton Beach.
I've loved him forever, but he can never be mine. brittany is determined to prove herself to the Dark Guardians. And yet she's been keeping a devastating secret: She hasn't experienced any of the intense, early signs of change that mark a Dark Guardian's transformation. The only intense feelings she has are for Connor-and she's kept that a secret, too. But she knows she'll never truly have Connor's love if she's not a Shifter like him. At the first full moon after her birthday, her greatest fe...
The price of a lie will be paid in blood. Nightland’s attack shattered the safety of the domes, leaving dead to be burned and debts to be settled. As the Domers struggle to rebuild, Nola tries to forget everything she learned beyond the glass walls. The people on the outside aren’t hers to save. There is nothing left for them but pain and death. Nola’s life will continue trapped in the domes, Jeremy by her side. When the chaos of the city reaches the glass, the line between murder and protecti...
