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Rosie Radeke firmly believes that happiness can be found at the bottom of a mixing bowl. But she never expected that she, a nobody from East Liberty, Ohio, would be accepted to celebrity chef Denis Laurent's school in Paris, the most prestigious cooking program for teens in the entire world. Life in Paris, however, isn't all cream puffs and crepes. Faced with a challenging curriculum and a nightmare professor, Rosie begins to doubt her dishes. Henry Yi grew up in his dad's restaurant in Chicago, and his lifelong love affair with food landed him a coveted spot in Laurent's school.

The doorway between the magical Visempirum and the human world has been reopened. Paladin are once more living in the citadel where Zuhra and Inara grew up completely isolated by the magical hedge that trapped them there. Amid the brewing conflict between the Paladin and humans looms the threat of Barloc, who has stolen Inara's immense power and continues to elude the Paladin who are desperately searching for him.

The Shadow Club doesn't exist anymore. The group of second-best kids used to play anonymous practical jokes on their rivals, until things spiraled out of control. Now Jared and the ex-Shadow Club members are having a hard time shaking their reputation. And when the new golden boy at school is the victim of a series of nasty pranks, everyone's convinced Jared is to blame. Determined to prove his innocence, Jared soon becomes wrapped up in a nightmare worse than anything the Shadow Club ever caused.

Merlin the wizard is a good-looking, but very well-disguised woman. She's also ambitious and becomes Arthur's mentor, falling in love with him. It's reciprocated, and they elope, leaving the wizard's cave to Tertia, Unita, and Marlene (Merlin's apprentices and her sister). They start a detective agency, however bored with the lack of fifth century crime, they start up the Temporal Detective Agency and use Merlin's time portal to move from Camelot to the 21st century, where the cases are better.

Olivia Sloane doesn't want to live anymore. Her whole life is a struggle. Her health, her school, her social life, and even her relationship with her mother are all a mess. The world itself is a mess. With lethal acid rain and stifling, ever-present fog, nothing thrives in her home city, and it's even worse outside - or so she's been taught.

Alone and hurt, Alice is trying to pick up the pieces after the world crumbles around her. New York is just emerging from a devastating technological meltdown, and the authorities are blaming Alice. Just when she is feeling she can survive, she is jettisoned into a world she doesn’t recognize and questions her reality.

What if there was a way to discover the impact you were uniquely designed to have on others? Perhaps coming across this book is no random circumstance. In Throat Punch Normal, we step into your story and take you on a journey of self-discovery that is deeply challenging and eye-opening. Using examples from the life of the Apostle Paul and the mentorship he received from Jesus, we will detail how, as a teen, you can unlock your true potential; piece together your unique design; decipher your specific calling; execute a strategy to attack your normal; and more.

The Beech Bank Girls are back! Teenage friends Chloe, Willow, Annie, Rachel, Holly, and Amber become absorbed in a diary from the First World War, and discover that the choices they make have consequences, just as they did for 14-year-old Grace 100 years ago...the girls continue to live, love, and laugh together through all the trials and joys of life. And discover that even when things seem to be going wrong, God is still at work.

Madhuri Iyer is doomed. Doomed for her upcoming senior year to be a total failure, according to her astrology-obsessed mother, and doomed to a happily ever after with her first boyfriend, according to her family curse. Determined to prove the existence of her free will, Madhuri devises an experimental relationship with the one boy she knows she’ll never fall for: her childhood best friend, Arjun Mehta. But Arjun’s feelings for her are a variable she didn’t account for.

Funny Business is based around the theme of - what else - humor, and if you’re familiar with Jon and Guys Read, you already know what you’re in store for: an hilarious story.

Bullied and lonely, teenager Mona Parker’s plan to end her life is interrupted when her guardian angel appears one night. He brings her a proposition. Swap your life with another. Mona agrees and awakens on Meredith, a magical world filled with flying horses, gnomes, and faeries.

Shara, la guapísima y cristiana hija del director, desaparece la noche del baile tras haber besado a Chloe. Esta deberá unirse a Smith (el novio de Shara) y Rory (el chico enamorado de Shara) para encontrar a su némesis antes de que se revele cuál de las dos es la valedictorian (alumna con mejores notas). Por suerte, Shara ha dejado pistas para los tres.

What if you and your spouse have been kidnapped? The kidnappers have committed a murder right in front of you, in your own home? What if a person died while trying to defend you? What would you do? These are the questions that community role model Charles Champion must resolve. Before the incident, Charles, the protagonist of the story, was able to live out his dreams at a young age, despite the many discouraging situations that surrounded his life. Growing up in the ghetto was a struggle, but having a mother in and out of jail was not easy for him to deal with.

The eagerly awaited third installment in the riotous Tripp Diaries series. Written and read by one of the most entertaining children's narrators around, Stig Wemyss.

Twelve-year old Edison Jones is a prodigy with a passion for technology and inventions. Paralyzed from the waist down since the age of five, he hasn’t let his disability slow him down. Then his world changes overnight when his grandfather, a billionaire tech company owner, decides to enroll him in a public school.

Book three introduces Spero, the granddaughter of Alex, and the daughter of a loving interracial couple, Kevin and Jennifer. The past is finally revealed about Oliver Lee and the lies he told to save Kevin, Jennifer, Spero, and others. Their Streamed stories unveil the relationship between a young Black man, Ollie, and an ambitious young White woman named Erica.

Hope is a decision, but it is a hard one to recognize in the face of oppression, belittlement, alienation, and defeat. To help embolden hope, here is a powerhouse collection of essays and personal stories that speak directly to teens and all YA readers. Featuring Angie Thomas, Marie Lu, Nicola Yoon, David Levithan, Libba Bray, Jason Reynolds, Renée Ahdieh, and many more!

In our world exists a group of unique individuals, self-identified as Titans, that have been blessed with unique abilities. These seven abilities include telepathy, orientopathy, chronopathy, herculopathy, zoonophonia, hippocratesense, and hoplonosmithy. These skills are utilized by The Band of Fire, a unique underground organization living among us, to protect the world from evil individuals and evil influences. It was James Adamson, at age eight, who began to notice he had unique—even strange—abilities.

As one of the last Seers, Nathan Masterson is struggling to fit into his new role as an Organization Detective. He and his partner Leigh Vashti are charged with recovering the the sins and apprehending the culprit, while at the same time pursuing a potential lead into the genocide of the Seer Clan. Along with a new partner who has a bad attitude and a mysterious ability to back it up, they're on the case. But something's amiss, and the culprit may hit closer to home than either of the detectives may think.

Fort Alexander Academy is a boarding school in Marietta, Georgia. It’s not your ordinary school, though. It's a training facility for both guardians and soldiers. Five guardians were assigned to protect the gateway when the veil was torn. The trouble is, no one knows the truth of how or why it happened. Now, four teenagers who barely know each other, along with one man who knows far more than he's able to say, are humanity's defense...but against what? What is hidden in the depths of Fort Alexander?