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It's the summer before her senior year of high school and Katherine (Kitty to her family) wants to be spending it interning for an important organization or doing something impressive--instead, she's spending an entire month with her family at a camp on the coast of southern California. When she stumbles across a staff party on the first night, she's jealous of their joyful, uninhibited dancing. She hasn't danced like that since two years ago, when the insults forced her to quit ballet, which she once loved more than anything.

Sun, surf, sand and Alex--Katie was swept away! Katie eagerly agrees to pretend she is Alex's girlfriend for the summer in order to protect his job. Amid sundrenched waves, they develop a friendship that is on the verge of turning romantic, when who should arrive but Nicole, Alex's old girlfriend. In three days, Nicole ruins Katie's relationship with Alex. So Katie gets involved with Logan, Nicole's handsome older brother, though Alex is the one for her. Soon enough Katie learns that fake romances can get out of hand and lead to complications she never imagined.

Je n'aurais jamais dû croiser la route d'Alister Howl, le quarterback remplaçant d'Avix University. Mais Alister ne renonce jamais. Ce que je sais en revanche, c'est qu'à partir de cet instant, tout dérape. Faire semblant de sortir avec un joueur alors que son coéquipier tente de me reconquérir, c'est comme jouer avec le feu. Et sur ce terrain-là, je le sens… il n'y aura que des perdants.

Bloomsbury presents… Almost Nothing Happened by Meg Rosoff read by Jaouhar Ben Ayed Paris. August. One long summer of nothing. 48 hours of everything. From the inimitable Meg Rosoff comes a chaotic and irresistible YA. 17-year-old Callum is facing an unfortunate truth: his summer exchange in...

Adriana Russo lo tiene claro. Quiere conseguir la victoria y salvar el legado familiar. Pero cuando un imprevisto hace que su plan se tambalee, solo le queda una opción para lograrlo: fingir que la química con su pareja de pista va más allá del hielo. Brayden Elliot no es lo que se dice su tipo ideal, pero ni Adriana es capaz de no caer rendida ante sus encantos. Y no sería difícil creerse su relación (ni que se volviese real) si no fuese por Freddie O'Connell.

'A light, swoony, escapist YA romcom, ideal for Jenny Han fans' - Guardian Seyoon Shin knows she's not everyone's favourite teammate - but she does know she's a winner, despite what her deadbeat dad told her on his way out the door. So when Forest Feud - a decades-old wilderness TV game show...

You know, I never imagined having one boyfriend, much less four. Jake, Archie, Coop, and Ian are still my best friends. They’re also even more entrenched in my life than I ever imagined. They’ve been my rocks, but I’m not the only one with issues. We’re fighting our way to a new normal. I’m in therapy. Ian and I are dating. Archie introduced me to his grandfather. Both Coop and Jake’s moms refer to me as their son’s girlfriend. I don’t know how much our parents know about our relationship, but I also don’t care. Not anymore.

The heart-rending and inspiring novel from the critically acclaimed author of NOT IF I SEE YOU FIRST. How can you have a future if you can’t accept your past? Mel Hannigan doesn’t have it easy. Mourning the death of her firework of a brother, facing the loss of three friendships that used to...

Michael usually concerns himself with basketball and hanging out with his friends, but every once in a while, his parents drag him to meetings and rallies with their anti-immigrant group. And it all makes sense to Michael. Until Mina, a beautiful girl from the other side of the protest lines, shows up at his school and turns out to be funny, smart - and a Muslim refugee from Afghanistan. Suddenly his parents' politics seem much more complicated.

Raz has been offered the chance of a lifetime— a trip to Hollywood, to prove his acting skills to the world and shoot his shot at stardom. This vacation is one he’s never going to forget. He’s in California to land a lead role, but chasing his dreams won’t be as easy as he wants to believe, and his friends aren’t as supportive as they once were.

Tras ser suspendida de Maxton Hall, Ruby está desesperada: Oxford y todos los sueños que finalmente parecían estar a su alcance se ven amenazados por una mancha muy grave en su expediente académico. Lo peor, sin embargo, es que todo parece apuntar a James como el único responsable del...

The Secret History meets The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in #1 bestselling author Ava Reid’s brand new, thrilling, dystopian YA novel. There is no application process for Valeran Academy, but it boasts the brightest – and precociously criminal – students in the nation. A disgraced...

Kamila Hamilton muss sich zwischen den beiden Di-Bianco-Brüdern entscheiden: Thiago oder Taylor? Sich für den einen zu entscheiden, bedeutet, den anderen für immer zu verlieren. Wie kann sie einen Teil von sich selbst aufgeben? Thiago lässt sie Unvergleichliches spüren, doch Taylor wird immer für sie da sein. Aber als Kami glaubt, dass sich ihr Herz endlich entschieden hat, kommt das Leben dazwischen, und ein schrecklicher Albtraum beginnt, in dem Liebe alles zu zerstören scheint.

I might have been the one who walked away, but that doesn’t mean I’m not still haunted by her - by what I did to her. But that’s the thing about ghosts…they always return when you least expect it. My stepsister was an outlet for my pain, but everything has changed. Now I’ve got nothing to lose. If she thought I hated her the first time we met, then she’s about to get a shock. The rage I felt didn’t compare to the fury that now consumes me. I might be empty, but I’m going to show her how it feels by taking away everything she has...one painful piece at a time.

Seventeen-year-old Aisha hasn't seen her sister June for two years. And now that a calamity is about to end the world in nine months' time, she and her mother decide that it's time to track her down and mend the hurts of the past. Along with Aisha's boyfriend, Walter and his parents (and Fleabag the stray cat), the group take a roadtrip through Malaysia in a wildly decorated campervan – to put the past to rest, to come to terms with the present, and to hope for the future.

He broke her best friend's heart, so now Saachi plans to break his. May the best heartbreaker win . . . Saachi would do anything for her best friend. So when school bad boy Fahim breaks Mona's heart, Saachi is hellbent on getting revenge. It's time to put him in his place once and for all. And...

Zara and Adnan are just friends. Always have been, always will be. Even if they have to pretend to be girlfriend and boyfriend... Zara loves love in all forms: 90s romcoms and romance novels and grand sweeping gestures. And she's desperate to have her own great love story. Crucially, a real one...

The most popular boyband in the world just started at my school… and the leader singer wants me.

We're starting over. Mom and Dad think the best way for me to move on from the death of Ben is to move to Oakwood. There, we can spend time with Mom's late best friend's family and open a new bakery. And I'm okay with that. After all, I get to dance and in Oakwood where no one knows me, which means there are no pity stares and silent whispers.

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, this deeply heartfelt love story explores hiding the worst parts of ourselves, and finding the people who love us anyway. “How could I open that door and let him see the messiest part of me?” From the...