Kids Young Teen

Fifteen-year-old Nikka is invited to attend Wildwood Academy, a prestigious but secret boarding school for talented youth, located deep in the Californian mountains. Once there, Nikka quickly falls in love with her bizarre classes, the jaw-dropping scenery, and two very different boys. However, Wildwood Academy has a dark and twisted secret, one that could cost Nikka the one thing she had never imagined she could lose, the one thing that money can’t buy. It is this very thing that Wildwood Academy was created to steal.

What if the last hope to save your family is the person who broke it up to begin with? Michelle and her little siblings Cass and Denny are African-American and living on the poverty line in urban Baltimore, struggling to keep it together with their mom in jail and only Michelle’s part-time job at the Taco Bell to sustain them. Leah and her stepbrother Tim are White and middle class from suburban Maryland, with few worries beyond winning lacrosse games and getting college applications in on time.

Chloe missed her bus home thanks to the terrible Miss Langley. Thankfully, she's able to catch the back-up bus. Unfortunately for Chloe...there is no back up bus. As more and more students go missing without explanation and the authorities are stumped, Kaitlin and her friends become entangled in this deeply unsettling mystery that goes far deeper than any of them expected.

You need to work to live. That’s the truth for most people, and plenty of people in power have been abusing that truth for centuries. Long before the first labor unions were formed, workers still knew what exploitation looked like. It looked like the enslavement of Black people. It looked like generations of children dying in dangerous jobs. It looked like wealthy people hiring private militaries to attack their employees. But workers have always found a way to fight back.

Growing up impoverished and shuttled between different households, it seemed life was bound to take a certain path for Eddie Chuculate. Despite the challenges he faced, his upbringing was rich with love and bountiful lessons from his Creek and Cherokee heritage, deep-rooted traditions he embraced even as he learned to live within the culture of white, small-town America that dominated his migratory childhood.

Seventeen-year-old Hope Long's life revolves around her brother Jeremy. So when Jeremy is accused of killing the town's beloved baseball coach, Hope's world begins to unravel. Everyone is convinced Jeremy did it, and since he hasn't spoken a word in 9 years, he's unable to defend himself. Their lawyer instructs Hope to convince the jury that Jeremy is insane, but all her life Hope has known that Jeremy's just different than other people - better, even.

It’s eighteen-year-old Gita Desai’s first year at Stanford, and the fact that she’s here and not already married off by her traditional Gujarati parents is a miracle. She’s determined to death-grip her good-girl, model student rep all the way to med school. Should be easy: If there’s one thing she’s learned from her family, it’s how to chup-re—to “shut up,” fade into the background. But when childhood memories of her aunt’s desertion and her then-uncle’s best friend resurface, Gita ends up ditching the books night after night in favor of partying and hooking up with strangers.

This teens and kids section of Directory Manual provides information as well as challenges in teens' lives, their day-to-day issues, sexual abuse, divorce, rape, and so much more.

Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, a brilliant writer, a passionate teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More, she illuminates the link between human habits and our imperiled planet. In concise, easy-to-understand chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions—from electric power to large-scale farming to automobiles—that, even as they help us, release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere like never before.

The last thing Mason Starling remembers is the train crossing a bridge. An explosion...a blinding light...then darkness. Now she is alone, stranded in Asgard - the realm of Norse legend - and the only way for her to get home is to find the Spear of Odin, a powerful relic left behind by vanished gods. The Fennrys Wolf knows all about Asgard. He was once trapped there. And he'll do whatever it takes to find the girl who's stolen his heart and bring her back - even if it means a treacherous descent into the Underworld.

Sam Cooper is 14 years old, and things aren't always as blocky and bright as they seem. Enemies aren't easy to run from and mobs are very, very hard to kill. They are now facing a threat from their biggest enemy yet!. They have somehow found themselves in a war between Kin.Enderman against Enderman. Along with his friends, his dragon, and his cat, Sammy is about 85 percent sure that they will succeed.

Through funny stories, Scripture, and a Speak Love Revolution challenge that could help you change the lives of every person you see, tweet, or message for the better, Annie F. Downs explores the difference you can make when you speak love to others, to God, and to yourself.

Alexandra Styron's stirring call for resistance and citizen activism will be clearly heard by young people who don't accept "it is what it is", who want to make sure everybody gets an equal piece of the American pie, and who know that the future of the planet is now. Styron's irreverent and informative primer on how to make a difference is organized into three sections: The Why, The What, and The How. The book opens with a personal essay and a historic look at civil disobedience and teenage activism in America followed by a deep dive into several key issues.

Based on the popular S.H.A.P.E. book for adults, this teen version walks through the same process of discovery with students. Written by the bestselling author and pastor at Saddleback Church, Doug Fields, this book will help teenagers understand who they are, how they can serve, and why they serve.

Himmel hilf! Sven ist wieder da, Jojos Exfreund und große Liebe. Immer wenn sie sich treffen, bringt er Jojo zum Lachen – und nicht nur das. Ein ganzer Schwarm Schmetterlinge flattert in ihrem Bauch. Dabei ist Jojo doch noch mit Benedikt zusammen.

Schon ewig himmelt Sara Jörg an. Und nun sind sie endlich ein Paar! Eigentlich müsste Sara überglücklich sein. Wenn nur diese blöden Mandeln nicht wären! Wegen denen liegt sie im Krankenhaus. Die Schmerzen nach der OP sind gar nicht mal das Schlimmste. Aber Jörg meldet sich nicht! Kein Besuch, keine SMS, nichts. Ob er sie vergessen hat? Oder hat er eine Neue? Da gibt es nur eines: Sara schleicht sich nachts heimlich aus dem Krankenhaus, um der Sache auf den Grund zu gehen.

In Tims Armen liegen ist das Wunderschönste für Jojo! Eigentlich ist sie das glücklichste Mädchen des Universums. Tja, eigentlich. Denn Jojo hat fremdgeküsst. Und Tim darf nie etwas von dieser Riesendummheit erfahren.

Ganz klar, Vincent ist der Richtige für Lotte. Dumm nur, dass er so gar nichts davon weiß. Das muss sich ändern! Und wenn Lotte dafür Regisseurin wird. An der Schule laufen nämlich gerade Projektwochen. Und für die hat Vincent sich als Kameramann gemeldet. Wenn Lotte gemeinsam mit ihm einen Film dreht, kann nichts mehr schiefgehen. Denkt sie. Und wird mit dem Langweiler Paul in eine Gruppe gesteckt.

Erwischt! Kikis Freund Meik hat fremdgeflirtet. Ausgerechnet mit Mandy, die sich in der Bio-AG an ihn ranschleimt. Und dann säuselt ihr auch noch Simon bei der Deutschnachhilfe selbst verfasste Liebesgedichte ins Ohr! Dabei will Kiki doch nur Meik zurück. Als sie sich verkleidet auf Mandys Geburtstagsparty schmuggelt, ist die Katastrophe vorprogrammiert.

Zwölf lange Tage ohne Tim! Das überlebt Jojo nie und nimmer. So ein Schüleraustausch ist die reinste Folter für Verliebte. Bis Clement auftaucht, ein Franzose wie aus dem Bilderbuch: charmant, romantisch und hach! Jeden Morgen überrascht er Jojo mit einem frischen Croissant auf der Fensterbank. Schenkt ihr Rosen. Und macht Komplimente, dass einem das Herz schmilzt. Tim dagegen meldet sich nicht ein einziges Mal.