Hannah Ward, nineteen, revels in the competition, intense rehearsals, and dazzling performances that come with being a member of Manhattan Ballet Company's corps de ballet, but after meeting handsome musician Jacob she begins to realize there could be more to her life.
Two sixteen-year-old girls in Australia come together at an outdoor semester of school, before university--one thinking about boys and growing up, the other about death and grief, but somehow they must help each other to find themselves.
Meet Regret the Egret and his friends who live in the Bayous of South Louisiana. Follow his adventures as he discovers the importance of being true to oneself.
When Elizabeth Lavenza enrolled at Ingold as its first female medical student, she knew she wouldn t have an easy time. From class demands to being an outsider among her male cohorts, she ll have to go above and beyond to prove herself. So when she stumbles across what appears to be a faulty Bio-mechanical one of the mechanized cadavers created to service the school she jumps at the chance to fix it and get ahead in the program.
'Very funny, very touching, very truthful - a total delight to read.' Jacqueline Wilson 'Amazing' Noel Fielding A laugh-out-loud, against-all-odds triumph of a story: the funniest debut of 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD SELECTED FOR THE 2022 READ FOR EMPATHY COLLECTION Billy Plimpton is an eleven-year-old boy with a big dr...
Justin spends time with Jinsen, the unusual and artistic new student whom the school bullies torment and call Buddha Boy, and ends up making choices that impact Jinsen, himself, and the entire school.
Land of Hope (Ellis Island Stories, #1) (Ellis Island S.)
by Joan Lowery Nixon
Rebekah, a fifteen-year-old Jewish immigrant arriving in New York City in 1902, almost abandons her dream of getting an education when she is forced to work in a sweatshop.
Carmen
by Carole Frechette, Carole Frichette, Carole Frh"(ette, and Carole Fra(c)Chette
Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pin. She's just moved from New York City to the suburbs, and she's anxious to fit in with her new friends, so when they form a secret club to talk about boys, bras, and getting their first periods, Margaret is happy to belong. But none of them can believe Margaret doesn't have a religion. And Margaret can't tell them the truth: that she can talk to God anyway, about everything that's on her mind--in...
Selected as the launch title for the Zoella Book Club. Amanda Hardy is the new girl at school. Like everyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is holding back. Even from Grant, the guy she's falling in love with. Amanda has a secret. At her old school, she used to be called Andrew. And secrets always have a way of getting out...
Sixteen-year-old Meghan used to be a runner. Top notch. Hermes couldn't catch her. But cancer destroyed that.She used to have a brother. Killian. Meghan thought he was her white knight. But her father and Vietnam destroyed him. She used to have a father, but he's become a steely stranger in a navy blue suit... She does have an idol. A school thesis draws Meghan to someone who knew even greater pain, who faced more intolerable circumstances, who could still summon the strength to rise above it...