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The upside of unrequited
Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love. No matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can't stomach the idea of rejection. So she's careful. Fat girls always have to be careful.
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The crossover
Josh Bell är 12 år. Han och hans tvillingbror Jordan äger på basketplanen. Pappan är en före detta basketspelare med vacklande hälsa. Det blir ett år som kommer att forma brödernas liv och relation på och utanför planen. Men Josh har ord och galna beats. På fri vers och i ett ursinnigt tempo berättar Josh sin familjs historia. En historia om brödraskap och kärlek men också om sorg och förlust.
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The boy in the striped pajamas
Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people in the distance.
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Johnny delgado
Gritty urban drama about a teenage detective. Johnny wants to be a detective, and he's got it all figured out. So what is he to do when two of the most beautiful girls in the world give him a job to investigate? Investigate it of course. But quickly things spin out of Johnny's control, and he gets tangled up with the local gangs. Can he work out how he's ended up in this mess?
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The diary of a young girl
In July 1942, thirteen-year-old Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, went into hiding in an Amsterdam warehouse. Over the next two years Anne vividly describes in her diary not only the daily frustrations of living in such close quarters, but also her thoughts, feelings and longings as she grows up. Her diary ends abruptly and tragically when, in August 1944, Anne and her family were all finally betrayed.
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Looking for Alaska
Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words - and tired of his safe, boring and rather lonely life at home. He leaves for boarding school filled with cautious optimism. His roommate there introduces him to Alaska Young and he develops a crush on her.
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Stalking Jack the Ripper
Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life. Against her stern father's wishes and society's expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine.
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The 100
Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents -- considered expendable by society -- are being sent on a dangerous mission: to recolonize the planet. It could be their second chance at life...or it could be a suicide mission.
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Sarahs nyckel
Paris 1942. Sarah, en 10-årig judisk flicka, gömmer sin yngre bror i garderoben strax innan familjen brutalt arresteras av den franska polisen i den beryktade hopsamlingen av judiska familjer Vel d Hiv. Hon låser garderobsdörren och stoppar nyckeln i fickan, övertygad om att hon ska komma tillbaka om några timmar. Men timmarna blir till dygn och Sarahs desperation växer.
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The fork, the witch, and the worm
It's been a year since Eragon departed Alagaësia in search of the perfect home to train a new generation of Dragon Riders. Now he is struggling with an endless sea of tasks: constructing a vast dragonhold, wrangling with suppliers, guarding dragon eggs and dealing with belligerent Urgals and haughty elves. Then a vision from the Eldunarí, unexpected visitors and an exciting Urgal legend offer a much-needed distraction and a new perspective.
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Neverworld
Five friends. Only one can survive the Neverworld Wake. Who would you choose? From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics and Night Film comes an absorbing psychological suspense thriller in which fears are physical and memories come alive.
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How I live now
Fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy is sent to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met. When England is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy, the cousins find themselves on their own. Power fails, system fail. As they grow more isolated, the farm becomes a kind of Eden, with no rules. Until the war arrives in their midst. Daisy's is a war story, a survival story, a love story--all told in the voice of a subversive and witty teenager. This book crackles with anxiety and with lust. It's a stunning and unforgettable first novel that captures the essence of the age of terrorism: how we live now.
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Eleanor & Park
Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits-smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you'll remember your own first love-and just how hard it pulled you under.
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Holes
Stanley Yelnats' family has a history of bad luck, so when a miscarriage of justice sends him to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Centre (which isn't green and doesn't have a lake) he is not surprised. Every day he and the other inmates are told to dig a hole, five foot wide by five foot deep, reporting anything they find. Why? The evil warden claims that it's character building, but this is a lie. It's up to Stanley to dig up the truth.
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On the come up
As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri's got massive shoes to fill. But when her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, Bri finds herself at the centre of controversy and portrayed by the media as more menace than MC. And with an eviction notice staring her family down, Bri no longer just wants to make it - she has to. Even if it means becoming the very thing the public has made her out to be.
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Morrigan Crows magiska förbannelse
Morrigan Crow is cursed. Having been born on Eventide, the unluckiest day for any child to be born, she's blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks--and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on her eleventh birthday. But as Morrigan awaits her fate, a strange and remarkable man named Jupiter North appears. Chased by black-smoke hounds and shadowy hunters on horseback, he whisks her away into the safety of a secret, magical city called Nevermoor.
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Brown girl dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson shares what it was like to grow up as an African-American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, her poems are accessible and emotionally charged glimpses into a child's soul as she searches for her place in the world.
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Blindside
An emotionally challenging and beautifully written drama that confronts the messiness of life head-on. (Lättläst)
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The greatest show of all
Dramatic and evocative reworking of William Shakespeare's The Twelfth Night. Kitty runs away to join the circus but must disguide herself as a boy. (Lättläst)
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You killed me!
Toby is a murderer. That's what the ghost at the end of his bed tells him. Toby is taken back in time to see the repercussions of his actions and unravel the series of events that led to the man's death. (Lättläst)
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Ring of roses
Intensely powerful novel set in London during the height of the Plague in the 1600s. A companion piece to Mary Hooper's bestselling At the Sign of the Sugared Plum. (Lättläst)
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Snowboard struggle
Alex has to choose right from wrong and stand up to his best friend when the new kid in town is bullied for being poor and for jealousy about his great moves on the slopes. (Lättläst)
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Ghost stadium
Lucas, Irfan, and Jack want to mark the beginning of their summer holidays in style Tricking their parents with a camping cover story, the boys sneak into the old abandoned football stadium to spend the night. Are the rumours about it being haunted true? They're about to find out. (Lättläst)
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Miss Ghost
Fröken Spöke - nu också på engelska! Alla i klassen märker genast att det är något särskilt med deras vikarie. Fröken Sparre är mycket lång och mycket smal och hon har iskalla händer. Dessutom tål hon inte solen och verkar kunna läsa tankar. Är hon kanske en vampyr? Eller kanske ett spöke? Ebba och Ivar bestämmer sig för att ta reda på det! (Lättläst)