Young Adult genre books (389)


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Dry by Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman EN

Rating: 2.5 (2 votes)
Description:
“The authors do not hold back.” —Booklist (starred review) “The palpable desperation that pervades the plot…feels true, giving it a chilling air of inevitability.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “The Shustermans challenge readers.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “No one does doom like Neal Shusterman.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman. ... continue

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Eine Hand voller Sterne by Rafik Schami DE

Rating: 3 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Syria flag Syria
Description:
Über 2 Jahre hinweg berichtet ein 14-jähriger Syrer über sein Leben als Schüler, Handlanger und Mitstreiter einer Untergrundzeitung in Damaskus.


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El príncipe cruel by Holly Black ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
Jude tenía siete años cuando sus padres fueron asesinados y, junto con sus dos hermanas, fue trasladada a la traicionera Corte Suprema del Reino Feérico. Diez años más tarde, lo único que Jude desea, a pesar de ser una mera mortal, es sentir que pertenece a ese lugar. Pero muchos de los habitantes desprecian a los humanos. Especialmente el Príncipe Cardan, el hijo más joven y perverso del Alto Rey. Para hacerse un hueco en la Corte, Jude deberá enfrentarse a él. Y afrontar las consecuencias. Como resultado, se verá envuelta en las intrigas y engaños del palacio, ademas de descubrir su propia h... continue

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El secreto de la esfinge by Ana Alcolea Serrano ES

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
Antiguo Egipto, período intermedio. Neferad llora la muerte de su abuelo en una de las guerras del faraón, pero su duelo será corto. En breve tendrá que marcharse de su casa para convertirse en sacerdotisa de Isis. Algo que no desea, pues preferiría quedarse junto a su madre y sus hermanas y esperar a su padre, también en el frente. Todo se complicará aún más cuando comprende que siente algo por su esclavo Serq. En la actualidad, el abuelo de Carlos ha fallecido; a la pena por su desaparición se une la tensa relación entre la esposa del difunto y la madre de Carlos, que nunca aceptó ese nuevo ... continue

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Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
A stunning debut young adult novel about two misfits falling in love for the first time

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English: A Novel by Wang Gang EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
"I loved this book and can't stop talking about it. . . . Transcendent." —Carolyn See, The Washington Post In the tradition of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Wang Gang's English is a captivating coming-of-age novel about the power of language to launch a journey of self-discovery. When a new teacher—a tall, elegantly dressed man from Shanghai carrying an English dictionary under his arm—comes to Urumqi, the capital of China's far west region of Xinjiang, twelve-year-old Love Liu turns away from Chairman Mao's little red book and toward the teacher's big blue book for answers to his ... continue

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Everything Sad Is Untrue : (A True Story) by Daniel Nayeri EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Iran flag Iran
Description:
"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. But Khosrou's stories are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them, back to the refugee camps of Italy, and further back to Isfahan."--

99.

Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Philippines flag Philippines
Description:
Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged, moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity, masculinity, and their fraught father-son relationships. Watsonville, 1930. Francisco Maghabol barely ekes out a living in the fields of California. As he spends what little money he earns at dance halls and faces increasing violence from white men in town, Francisco wonders if he should’ve never left the Ph... continue

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Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon EN

Rating: 4 (6 votes)
Description:
Risk everything . . . for love with this #1 New York Times bestseller. What if you couldn’t touch anything in the outside world? Never breathe in the fresh air, feel the sun warm your face . . . or kiss the boy next door? In Everything, Everything, Maddy is a girl who’s literally allergic to the outside world, and Olly is the boy who moves in next door . . . and becomes the greatest risk she’s ever taken. My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nu... continue