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KATIE CHEN, 16, lives in the unremarkable suburb of Narre Warren in Australia with her somewhat reclusive Malaysian father. Coming to Australia when she was 5 and losing her mother at 7, she has always struggled with issues of identity.One day, she goes back to Malaysia for her grandmother’s funeral and discovers that her mother – long-thought-dead – is alive.

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Lei è una ragazza forte che non si arrende agli ostacoli. E' un viaggio nel viaggio, che inizia quando pensa che se non fugge da un destino scritto da altri, la libertà è perduta; un viaggio dentro se stessa e fisico verso esperienze e posti incredibili. Tutto parte da una crisi interiore e da una dura critica alla società occidentale, per arrivare a conoscere la libertà, i sentimenti più nascosti, ritrovare un percorso, e in un abbraccio con culture lontane, creare ponti percorribili da tutti.

Harvey's dads are splitting up. It's been on the cards for a while, but it's still sudden. Woken-by-his-father-to-catch-a-red-eye sudden. Now he's restarting his life in a new city, living above a cafe with the extended Greek family he barely knows. Sotiris is a rising star. At 17, he's already achieved his dream of publishing a novel. When his career falters, a cute, wise-cracking bookseller named Jem upends his world.

मंडाला में आर्चरी competition होने वाला है जहां पूरे देश से participants आने वाले हैं. अर्णव के पापा विवान को, सूर्या का आर्चरी competition में भाग लेना पसंद नहीं आता है. वो अर्णव को लेकर काफी पजेसिव हैं. सूर्या जब बस से मंडाला जा रहा होता हैं तो मौसम खराब होने की वजह से उसकी बस का एक्सीडेंट हो जाता है.

सूर्या अपने दोस्तों के साथ कोच देवेंद्र ठाकुर के दिये टास्क को पूरा करने जंगल में जाता है. वहाँ उसकी दोस्तों से झड़प होती है, बात हाथापाई तक पहुँच जाती है. और वो घाटी में गिर जाता है. तभी वहाँ जंगली सूअरों का झुंड आ जाता है और हमला कर देता है. दोस्त घबराकर भाग खड़े होते हैं.

सूर्या के दोस्त, बांगुर के हाथ एक न्यूज पेपर का टुकड़ा लगता है. उसमें एक ऐसे competition का जिक्र है जो slum में रहने वाले सूर्या और बांगुर की किस्मत बदल सकता है. लेकिन सूर्या competition में भाग नहीं लेना चाहता. जबकि बांगुर को पूरा यकीन है कि अचूक निशानेबाज सूर्या उस competition को जीत सकता है.

दोस्तों की शरारत: अर्णव सूर्या को अपने से बेहतर प्रदर्शन करता देख चिढ़ जाता है. वो उसे हर वक्त नीचा दिखाने की ताक में रहता है. आखिर उसे मौका मिल जाता है, एक दिन कोई सूर्या के बैग में बिच्छू रख देता है जो उसे काट लेता है. कोच सर डर जाते हैं लेकिन सूर्या इस सबसे बेअसर ऐसे वापस उठ खड़ा होता है कि जैसे उसे कुछ हुआ ही न हो.

सूर्या बड़े मन से आर्चरी की प्रैक्टिस करता है. उसका पूरा फोकस competition जीतने में है. इसी बीच गुंडों को पता चल जाता है कि सूर्या के पास कुछ चमात्कारिक शक्तियां हैं तो वो मौका देखकर उसका अपहरण कर लेते हैं.

सूर्या और बांगुर पर कुछ गुंडे अटैक कर देते हैं. बांगुर बुरी तरह घायल हो जाता है. सूर्या बांगुर को बचाने के लिए उनसे भिड़ जाता है, गुंडे उस पर टूट पड़ते हैं. सूर्या उनके बीच फंस जाता है, घायल बांगुर दूर बैठा बेबस चीखता चिल्लाता रहता है, लेकिन गुंडों पर कोई असर नहीं होता, कौन थे वे गुंडे और किसके इशारे पर काम कर रहे थे?

Nelle aspre e selvagge Altelande, vivono uomini che possiedono un dono. È tramandato attraverso le generazioni, per via ereditaria, fin da quando se ne ha memoria. Sono doni meravigliosi, che permettono di evocare animali e mutare paesaggi... Ma sono anche terribili, perché possono ottenebrare le menti o infliggere malattie.Orrec appartiene alla famiglia dei Caspromant, tanto famosa quanto temuta per il dono del disfacimento: un potere distruttivo, in grado di annientare qualsiasi cosa o persona, con la sola imposizione dello sguardo.

Seventeen-year-old Phoenix has spent much of her life drifting from town to town with her mom Nina, using their charms to swindle and steal to get by. Now they’ve made it to their ultimate destination, Mom’s hometown of Jasper Hollow. The plan: bring down Ellis Bowman, the man who ruined Nina’s life. When Phoenix gets caught spying on Ellis, she spins a convincing story that inadvertently gives her full access to the Bowman family.

Emilie Day believes in playing it safe: She's homeschooled, her best friend is her seizure dog, and she's probably the only girl on the Outer Banks of North Carolina who can't swim. Then Emilie's mom enrolls her in public school, and Emilie goes from studying at home in her pj's to halls full of strangers. To make matters worse, Emilie is paired with starting point guard Chatham York for a major research project on Emily Dickinson. She should be ecstatic when Chatham shows interest, but she has a problem. She hasn't told anyone about her epilepsy.

Kurara has never known any other life than being a servant onboard the Midori, a flying ship serving the military elite of the Mikoshiman Empire, a vast realm of floating cities. Kurara also has a secret—she can make folded paper figures come to life with a flick of her finger. But when the Midori is attacked and Kurara's secret turns out to be a power treasured across the empire, a gut-wrenching escape leads her to the gruff Himura, who takes her under his wing.

Being crammed into a house in Queens with her cousins is not how Dua envisions her trip to New York City. But here she is, spending the holy month of Ramadan with extended family she hasn’t seen in years. Dua struggles to find her place in the conservative household and to connect with her aloof, engaged-to-be-married cousin, Mahnoor. And as if fasting the whole day wasn’t tiring enough, she must battle her hormones whenever she sees Hassan, the cute drummer in a Muslim band who has a habit of showing up at her most awkward moments.

Mahalia Harris wants. She wants a big Sweet Sixteen like her best friend, Naomi. She wants the super-cute new girl Siobhan to like her back. She wants a break from worrying—about money, snide remarks from white classmates, pitying looks from church ladies . . . all of it.

One small fandom convention. One teen beauty pageant. One meet-cute waiting to happen. When Teagan and Kay bump into one another the first night, sparks fly. Their connection is intense - as is their shared enemy. If they’re spotted, the safe space of GreatCon will be shattered, and all their secrets will follow them home. The risks are great...but could the reward of embracing their true selves be worth it?

Twenty-one-year-old Max Monroe has it all: beauty, friends, and a glittering life filled with adventure. With tons of followers on Instagram, her picture-perfect existence seems eminently enviable. Except it’s all fake. Max is actually 16-year-old Kat Sanchez, a quiet and sarcastic teenager living in drab Bakersfield, California. Nothing glamorous in her existence—just sprawl, bad house parties, a crap school year, and the awkwardness of dealing with her best friend Hari’s unrequited love. But while Kat’s life is far from perfect, she thrives as Max.

After getting kicked off the basketball team for a fight that was absolutely totally not her fault (okay maybe a little her fault), Mara is dying to find a new sport to play to prove to her coach that she can be a team player. A lifelong football fan, Mara decides to hit the gridiron with her brother, Noah, and best friend, Quinn - and she turns out to be a natural. But joining the team sets off a chain of events in her small Oregon town - and within her family - that she never could have predicted.

Preachers’ daughters aren’t supposed to be atheists. They’re also not supposed to make pacts to lose their virginity by the end of the year, but high school senior Meredith Beaumont is sick of letting other people tell her who to be. Spending the last four years as Mute Mare, the girl so shy just thinking about boys could trigger panic attacks, Meredith knows exactly what it’s like to be invisible. But when a vindictive mean girl gets her manicured claws on the anti-virginity pact and spreads it around the school, Mare’s not so invisible anymore. She just wishes she was.