Young Adult Literature

Having a superpower is ordinary. Your power determines your entire life. But 17-year-old Ugene is powerless. He can’t read minds or enhance his strength. He can’t manipulate natural matter or heal injuries. Determined to find out why he is different, Ugene submits himself as a test subject at Paragon. But nothing is as it seems. All exits from the testing floor are sealed. Subjects endure brutal and sometimes deadly injuries. No amount of power can save them.

The epic final instalment in Penny Jessup’s best-selling Alpha’s Son series. A year has passed since Max and Jasper faced a deadly attack. Now that they can mind-link, Jasper and Max have never felt more connected. Despite life’s usual challenges ––deciding which college to attend in the fall, defining their roles as leaders within the pack, and facing mounting pressure to confirm their love in a very public marking ceremony ––things are looking up for the star-crossed werewolves. Until a surprise attack heralds the resurgence of a hidden threat.

Keith faces his toughest challenges yet as he faces Lycanthian, the seemingly unstoppable Scion and first Guardian of the World Wall. Defeating the first guardian is only the first step if he ever wants to reach the final World Monster hiding within. New mysteries arise and discoveries are made, showing that Monstros is far more expansive than he'd first believed. The Inquisitors haven't been idle either, moving in the shadows as they plan to take him down for good.

Gods do exist. And if the scroll in my hands says the truth, they have a secret academy where their recruits train to become demigods. I’ve done really bad things in my life, but stealing Callie’s opportunity to attend the God’s Academy? It’s got to be the worst. If Gods find out I’m a faker, what was supposed to be someone else’s gift may turn into my personal curse.

A cursed ring. A silent demon girl. A town where the shadows are starting to move. Azrael only wanted an ordinary life in the frozen town of Iblis Valley. But when he wakes up with an unremovable purple ring fused to his finger, everything begins to change.

Water is scarce. Deserts have taken over the land. Nuclear war has devastated humanity. Humans live in walled super cities to keep out the irradiated. The land that was formerly known as America is divided into kingdoms ruled by royal elites. Born into the lowest Echelon of the Kingdom of Phangloria, 16-year-old Zea Calico faces a life of hunger, thirst, and toil. The only way out of this drudgery is revolution, and Zea is desperate to help the cause.

A comical collection of four classic tales written by America's favorite author. Read with rakish mastery by Carol Eason, the stories include "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", which concerns the controversial outcome of a frog jumping contest; "What Stumped the Blue Jay", regarding the plight of a particularly determined jay bird; "The Story of the Old Ram", where a group of miners gather to listen to a legendary tale; and "The Joke that Made Ed's Fortune", which concerns a devilish prank and its wry backfiring.

Es gibt eine Prophezeiung in Innererde, die den kleinen Kindern dort als Gute-Nacht-Geschichte erzählt wird. Das Märchen handelt von den Sonnenkindern, die an der neuen Welt beteiligt sind. Sie kommen von der äußeren Erde nach Innererde und entdecken ihre Fähigkeiten. Mit dem Wissen, das sie erwartet, ist die Welt plötzlich eine andere und es gibt kein Zurück!

„Die Basil and Josephine-Geschichten" sind eine Sammlung von zwei separaten Kurzgeschichtenfolgen, die ursprünglich als Fortsetzungen in der Zeitschrift „The Saturday Evening Post" erschienen. Einige davon wurden später in „Taps at Reveille" und posthumen Kurzgeschichtensammlungen zusammengefasst. Die Basil-Geschichten schildern die emotionale Entwicklung einer Figur namens Basil Duke Lee, der als junger Mann im Mittleren Westen lebt und schließlich im Alter von 17 Jahren bereit ist, die Welt von Yale zu erobern.

【電子書籍限定書き下ろしSS】付き！ 「君となら、どんな奇跡も起こせる」 大切な人を思う気持ちが、前に進む勇気をくれる──！ 冷血公爵×不遇令嬢のやり直し溺愛ファンタジー、愛の軌跡を辿るオーディオブック第4巻！ シリーズ累計２０万部突破！（電子書籍を含む）

Hugo e Solara são opostos: ele, um nerd com baixa autoestima; ela, uma hippie com razões ocultas para odiar o quanto sua beleza chama atenção. Unidos pelo bullying na escola, desenvolvem uma amizade profunda e se apaixonam. No entanto, circunstâncias acabam os separando. Quando ocorre o reencontro, anos depois, ambos estão transformados pelo tempo e por suas experiências de vida. Enquanto Hugo enfrenta um diagnóstico de esclerose múltipla e o estigma de sua doença, Solara lida com os próprios traumas do passado.

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, sometimes known more simply as Jekyll and Hyde, has enthralled and horrified listeners for over a century, so much so that the novella has impacted our natural language, with the phrase Jekyll and Hyde coming to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next. It is a classic to study for GCSE and is full of complexities that need to be understood.

Paragon altered Bianca’s memory. The Directorate turned her into a weapon. Seventeen-year-old Bianca Pond is the ultimate fighting machine. But when a ghost from her past comes back to haunt her, Bianca faces her toughest challenge yet...justice for all, or her own personal vengeance. (extra)ORDINARY runs parallel with events from the Powers series, giving readers a glimpse into the transformation that redefined Bianca’s loyalties - and love - in the months after Ugene’s escape.

In John Steinbeck's classic novella, we see two friends working through the farmlands in California during the time of the Great Depression. In this study guide for GCSE, we examine Of Mice and Men in detail, looking at the myriad of themes involved, the key characters, its context, the structure and the setting as well as giving a detailed step-by-step guide to each chapter, so you can easily follow the book and to prepare you for your exams.

Jacks und Evangeline Fox haben endlich ihr Glück gefunden. Hier im Hollowtal ist alles wunderbar und perfekt. Nichts wird schiefgehen. Niemand hat ein Geheimnis ... außer vielleicht einer Person. Aber keine Sorge, das wird weder die Realität neu schreiben noch die Geschichte verändern oder das Ende von Jacks' und Evangelines Geschichte beeinflussen. Auf keinen Fall ...

Crystal Fox is new to Riverstone Academy. She lives alone, has purple eyes, is half human and half...vampire?! Conan Knight is the son of an Alpha werewolf who is determined to chase her away so that he can keep the humans of his school safe. After learning of her past, he might change his mind on how he's viewed vampires his entire life... (Jewel Edition of book one of the Blood Fate Series, Young Adult version)

This fictionalized portrait of Joyce's youth is one of the most vivid accounts of the growth from childhood to adulthood. Dublin at the turn of the century provides the backdrop as Stephen Dedalus moves from town and society, towards the irrevocable decision to leave. It was the decision made by Joyce himself which resulted in the mature novels of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.

Quand Aelin Galathynius a juré de sauver son peuple, elle ignorait quel en serait le prix. Enfermée dans un cercueil par la reine des Fae, Aelin doit puiser dans sa volonté de fer alors qu'elle endure des mois de torture. Céder condamnerait ceux qu'elle aime et tous les royaumes d'Erilea, mais sa détermination faiblit de jour en jour… En son absence, amis et alliés se sont dispersés, certains en quête d'un miracle, d'autres pour en finir.

The neighboring towns of Pennington and Willowbrook gather together for the annual Yankee Doodle Fireworks and Cookout Spectacular. The Fourth of July celebration normally goes off without a hitch, but when zombies interrupt the high school band concert, MacKenzie Shaw, her best friend Kirsti, and an unlikely group of friends must team up in an attempt to survive the invasion of the undead.

Placed under a death debt to a local king by the actions of her mother, Cups finds she can't grow her wings like a proper fairy should. Faced with a sentence of life without the possibility of flight unless she can fulfill her mother's oath, she takes a job at the castle as the Least Jester - only to find the job riddled with all manner of dangers from cupcakes to tea daemons to earth dragons and, worst of all, daydreaming princesses.