Young Adult genre books (389)
Spain192.
Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Marcelo Sandoval, a 17-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.
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Mauvais fils by Raphaële Frier FR
FranceDescription:
Fils unique, Ghislain a du mal à être ce que l’on attend de lui : un bon élève, viril et surtout hétérosexuel. Devant ses résultats médiocres au lycée, son père le pousse à se former au métier d’électricien, un vrai métier d’homme. Après des journées à cacher des fils et poser des prises, Ghislain passe ses soirées dans des bars gays où il vit ses premières expériences sexuelles. Lorsque son père s’en aperçoit, il le met à la porte. Un livre soutenu par Amnesty International Après avoir publié des albums, un documentaire remarqué, Martin et Rosa, et des romans, dont Je veux un python pour mon ... continue
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Memory of Water : A Novel by Emmi Itäranta EN
FinlandDescription:
An amazing, award-winning speculative fiction debut novel by a major new talent, in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin. Global warming has changed the world’s geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and China rules Europe, including the Scandinavian Union, which is occupied by the power state of New Qian. In this far north place, seventeen-year-old Noria Kaitio is learning to become a tea master like her father, a position that holds great responsibility and great secrets. Tea masters alone know the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring that Noria’s father te... continue
195.
Country: Oceania / 
New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens’s classic Great Expectations. So begins this rare, original story about the abiding ... continue
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Morning Star by Pierce Brown EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Red Rising thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. Golden Son changed the game and took the story of Darrow to the next level. Now comes the exhilarating next chapter in the Red Rising Saga: Morning Star. ITW THRILLER AWARD FINALIST • “[Brown’s] achievement is in creating an uncomfortably familiar world of flaw, fear, and promise.”—Entertainment Weekly Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to figh... continue
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My Heart Underwater by Laurel Flores Fantauzzo EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Reeling from her father's coma and kissing a female teacher, seventeen-year-old Corazon suddenly finds herself in the Philippines with a half-brother she had never met.
198.
My Sister Rosa by Justine Larbalestier EN
AustraliaDescription:
"Beats The Silence of the Lambs for suspense—it's the kind of book that had me literally gasping aloud as it rattled to its incredible conclusion." —Cory Doctorow, New York Times bestselling author of Homeland What if the most terrifying person you know is your ten-year-old sister? Seventeen-year-old Aussie Che Taylor loves his younger sister, Rosa. But he’s also certain that she’s a psychopath—clinically, threateningly, dangerously. Recently Rosa has been making trouble, hurting things. Che is the only one who knows; he’s the only one his sister trusts. Rosa is smart, talented, pretty, and ve... continue
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Mzzlmeiden Winterlove by Marion van de Coolwijk NL
Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
Joan, Hanna en Tanja gaan skiën! Deze keer wordt het een echte zussenvakantie, vriendjes mogen niet mee. Brent is zwaar teleurgesteld. Als Joan en Hanna na een lange busreis in Oostenrijk aankomen, staat hun een onaangename verrassing te wachten: Tanja heeft Danny doodleuk meegenomen! Vooral Joan is boos omdat zij Brent wel heeft thuisgelaten. Tanja trekt zich hier weinig van aan: haar relatie met Danny bloeit als nooit tevoren. De twee tortelduiven zijn niet van elkaar weg te slaan. Ondanks de ergernissen, brengt de sneeuw veel plezier én ook liefde: Hanna ontmoet op de piste een heel leuke j... continue
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NorwayDescription:
Troubled by an inability to find any meaning in his life, the 25-year-old narrator of Naive. Super quits university in an attempt to discover a raison d'etre. He recounts a series of anecdotes, which culminate in a trip to stay with his brother in New York. He writes lists. He becomes obsessed by time and whether it actually matters. He befriends a small boy who lives next door. He yearns to get to the bottom of life and how best to live it.