Child Law

Finn Blackstone is in trouble. A mission to find out the truth about her mysteriously absent father has morphed into a perilous game of cat and mouse. Now Finn and her friends must navigate a terrifying futuristic landscape filled with machines intent on the group's annihilation. As Finn struggles against external forces, she faces an imminent threat as she grapples with her alter ego, Infinity.

Emma Putnam is dead, and it's all Sara Wharton's fault. At least, that's what everyone seems to think. Sara, along with her best friend and three other classmates, has been criminally charged for the bullying and harassment that led to Emma's shocking suicide. Now Sara is the one who's ostracized, already guilty according to her peers, the community, and the media. During the summer before her senior year, in between meetings with lawyers and a court-recommended therapist, Sara is forced to reflect on the events that brought her to this moment - and ultimately consider her role in an undeniable tragedy.

When a woman's body is found in a Portland park, suspicion falls on an awkward kid who lives only a few blocks away, a teen who collects knives, loves first-person shooter video games, and obsessively doodles violent scenes in his school notebooks. Nick Walker goes from being a member of Portland's Search and Rescue team to the prime suspect in a murder, his very interest in SAR seen as proof of his fascination with violence. How is this even possible? And can Alexis and Ruby find a way to help clear Nick's name before it's too late?

As the daughter of the wildly successful inspirational singer-author Skye - who died in a plane crash when Marnie was young - Marnie Skyedottir stands to inherit great wealth. But until she is old enough, she must survive a dreary life in private boarding school. She endures by escaping into an online role-playing game as much as possible, and steering well clear of the other girls. So when Marnie is kidnapped by someone who also claims to be Skye's daughter, she is terrified.

When Ruben and Jed find a dead body on the Rhode Island shore, they are certain it has something to do with smuggling liquor. It's the 1920s, Prohibition and bootlegging is in full swing, and almost everyone in the shore community is involved. Suddenly, the boys find themselves involved as well: didn't the dead man have something on him, and didn't they take it? It isn't long before Ruben is actually on the legendary Black Duck itself, caught in a war between two ferocious prohibition gangs.

Willa is lucky: She has a loving blended family that gets along. Not all families are so fortunate. But when a bloody crime takes place hundreds of miles away, it has an explosive effect on Willa's peaceful life. The estranged father she hardly remembers has murdered his new wife and children, and is headed east toward Willa and her mother. Under police protection, Willa discovers that her mother has harbored secrets that are threatening to boil over. Has everything Willa believed about herself been a lie?

Annie and Fia are ready to fight back. The sisters have been manipulated and controlled by the Keane Foundation for years, trapped in a never-ending battle for survival. Now they have found allies who can help them truly escape. After faking her own death, Annie has joined a group that is plotting to destroy the Foundation. And Fia is working with James Keane to bring his father down from the inside. But Annie’s visions of the future can’t show her who to trust in the present. And though James is Fia’s first love, Fia knows he’s hiding something.

Marley Z. is a hip, outgoing, and confident New York City kid just starting eighth grade. When her best friend is accused of stealing a priceless violin on display at The Juilliard School, Marley steps in to prove her friend’s innocence. So begins her mad dash around the city - from the Metropolitan Museum, to stately doormen buildings, to a violin teacher’s artsy brownstone, to her favorite neighborhood Italian restaurant. Suspects and motives appear and vanish, but intrepid Marley won’t stop until she has the right answers.

Aged seventeen, Lee is inside for a crime he has committed. And he soon finds out that prison is not the holiday camp he’s heard about. Warned to ‘play by the rules’, he has to decide whose rules - the screws’ or the other cons’. Life in a Young Offenders Institution is about survival. But the real struggle is inside Lee himself. Is he destined to be a ‘career con’ or can he choose to change his life? A powerful, compelling story for older children about one boy’s experience of prison, from acclaimed author J.A. Jarman.

Did you know that state universities in Virginia turned away more than 20,00 women in the early 1960s, but not a single man was denied admission? In the 1970s, the University of Georgia men's golf team got all the golf balls they needed, while the women's team was allowed only one per round. Here listeners are treated to the origins of the historic Title IX legislation that, among other things, mandated that equal funds must be available to boys' and girls' activities and interests.

Mr. Fred Grange claims to work as a clerk for a biscuit company, but he's out and about on the London streets at odd hours, and girl detective Maisie Hitchins soon discovers something very precious hidden in his rooms. Maisie is determined to unmask him as a thief, but the truth is far more complicated - and dangerous. Before long, Maisie and her friends are led into a web of mystery lurking in the London Underground.

With Gaia's graduation from high school, Pascal's best-selling series comes to an end...only to be reborn again. Can you feel the fear? Gaia learned what it's like to feel fear - and it wasn't pretty. Now, just in time for her last few weeks of high school, she's back to her normal, fearless self. Unfortunately, everything else is far from normal. An evil business empire is trying to manufacture and sell anti-fear drugs to U.S. Army soldiers. Gaia wants to call in the CIA, but it's risky: It means playing by a whole new set of rules.

Hours after Emma returns home from boarding school, she realizes that her mom is suffering from a schizophrenic break. Suddenly, Emma's entire childhood and identity is called into question. Desperate for answers, Emma turns to her boyfriend, Daniel. Will he love her even if she goes crazy too? But it's the lonely, brooding boy Emma meets while visiting her mother at the hospital who really understands Emma.

What’s next for Calvin the Piglin? Now that Tera and Kalo have been defeated, the Minecraft world is at peace again. Calvin can’t wait to have his vacation, while Peter is excited to be back working as a detective in the Crimson City Police Department in the Nether. But a letter from an ally is asking for help with capturing the seven most wanted criminals of the Overworld.

Monica fra betonbebyggelsen "Hulegården" har problemer derhjemme, og en nat stikker hun af for at finde sin far. Børnene fra den hemmelige klub får travlt med at lede efter hende, og hun bliver også eftersøgt af politimanden Snup-Søren, som hendes mor er forelsket i. Ole Frøstrup er født i 1936 og opvokset i Odense. Han er uddannet journalist og debuterede som forfatter i 1982 med romanen "Yetiernes sang". Siden har han skrevet mere end 30 bøger for både børn og voksne.

Detektivklubben har samlet sig om dagens avis, som Harry læser højt for de andre. Forsiden er dedikeret til dagens helt store historie om røveriet, og avisen skriver om tre bevæbnede mænd, der har truet sig til kassebeholdningen i Handelsbanken og er sluppet afsted med et bytte til en værdi af 350.000 kroner! Tørt må Detektivklubben konstaterere, at de hellere må komme på sagen - for det viser sig, at de ved mere end selv politiet.

Bøgerne om Nold fortæller om den vakse dreng Nold, der bor sammen med sin familie i Kristoffersgade i København. Her komme den kvikke dreng ud for ikke så lidt! Men livet for den 14-årige Nold er ikke altid lige let, og nogle gange er det bare lettest at tage nogle hurtige beslutninger - frem for at gøre det rigtige. Det må Nold sande, da han pludselig bliver involveret i nogle sager, som er ved at føre ham ud på noget af et skråplan... Torben Nielsen (1918-1985) var en dansk forfatter, der udgav bøger i flere forskellige genrer.

Skolekammeraterne Katrine, Alberte, Alexander, Lukas og Vikram samt Katrines dovne hund Chester har sammen dannet spiongruppen "Det seje sjak". Og da der en nat har været indbrud i kælderen hos Alexander, og der samtidig sker andre mystiske ting i kvarteret, kommer gruppen på arbejde. Vil det mon lykkes dem at opklare sagen? Serien om de fem skolekammerater i spiongruppen "Det seje sjak" består af de fire bøger "Det seje sjak", "Det seje sjak mødes under uret", "Det seje sjak sover i timen" og "Det seje sjak går i aktion".

Splint på 14 år lever op til sit navn - hun vejer kun 30 kilo. Det er noget andet med hendes ven Albin. Han er også 14, men vejer over fire gange så meget! De to venner er et dygtigt makkerpar, der altid er klar til at sætte en stopper for forbrydelser eller uretfærdighed. Og det er lige netop uretfærdigt, da de to forbrydere, som bliver kaldt elefanterne, forsøger at blive rige på nogle intetanende kolonihaveejeres bekostning. Det skal Splint og Albin nok få sat en stopper for! Den svenske forfatter Hans-Eric Hellberg (f.

12-årige Anton er lige flyttet til Esbjerg med sin familie, og han keder sig i de nye omgivelser. Men heldigvis møder han Sigurd og Sigurds spændende storesøster Pernille, og sammen med dem bliver han ført ind i en ny og eventyrlig verden. "Operation stinkbombe" er en bog der både handler om at føle sig alene som barn i en ny by, om venskab, spirende ungdom og forelskelse. Det er også en bog, der folder et spændende og gådefuldt plot ud, når Anton, Sigurd og Pernilles ledes på sporet af et gammelt arkiv og en værdifuld skat.