E. R. Frank

An awareness-raising tale about the realities of teen prostitution follows the experiences of a foster child whose host family requires her to earn her keep in dark and dangerous ways. By the award-winning author of Life Is Funny. Simultaneous eBook.

Dime

Eleven diverse characters tell their tales as they see and experience it as seven years go by in one Brooklyn community. Reprint.

A Novel

Life is Funny

True or False: Simon is one of the coolest teachers at Forest Alternative: True Simon and Alex are friends: True Tim is jealous of Alex and Simon: False... ...until Stacy walks into class, flashing her tongue ring, swishing her hair, and spreading rumors -- dirty rumors, the kind that make you second guess who your real friends are, and their intentions. Rumors like Stacy's test and sometimes ruin friendships as strong as those among Tim, Alex, and Simon. Rumors are dangerous, but not always as dangerous or ugly as the truths from which they spring....

Friction

After a car accident seriously injures her best friend and kills her brother's girlfriend, sixteen-year-old Anna tries to cope with her guilt and grief, while learning some truths about her family and herself.

Wrecked

Wrecked (Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Hardcover))

Kenneth Oppel

Wieland Freund

Beate Dölling

Boris Koch

Peter Härtling

Maike Hallmann

Sergej Lukianenko

Christiane Thiel

Nikolaus Piper

"Bei aller Härte ist dies ein wunderschön erzählter Roman." Der Stern "Amerika ist ein Junge, der leicht verloren geht, und es lohnt sich nicht, ihn zu suchen". So resigniert beschreibt sich der 15-jährige US-Amerikaner selbst. Er hat schon zu viel hinter sich: Vernachlässigung, Missbrauch, Verlust, Gewalt. Jetzt, nach seinem Selbstmordversuch, findet er in Dr. B einen geduldigen Therapeuten. Zum ersten Mal wird Amerika nicht enttäuscht. Er beginnt zu verstehen, dass ihn keine Schuld trifft - und dass das Leben lebenswert sein kann: "Verdammt, ich bin hier, ich lebe. Wie geht's weiter?" E.R.Frank, lebte lange Zeit in Brooklyn, New York. Heute lebt sie als Schriftstellerin und Sozialarbeiterin in Montclair, New Jersey. Das Leben ist komisch ist ihr erster Roman.

Roman vom Reichwerden und anderen wichtigen Dingen

Felix und das liebe Geld

When a new girl at the private school Alex attends starts rumors about Alex's favorite teacher, Alex and her eighth grade classmates are not sure how to act around him or one another.

"I'm in America, and America is in me" America is a boy, a boy who gets lost easy and is not worth the trouble of finding. By the age of fifteen, America has already spent his life nowhere and wound up a nobody. Abandoned by his natural mother and seperated from his foster mother, America is a runaway living for months on the streets and in Central Park, a patient at the Applegate Residential treatment Facility to the north of New York City, and finally now at Ridgeway Hospital where he meets psychiatrist Dr. B. But Dr. B takes the trouble to find him. With abiding care and gentle coaxing he gradually draws America's story from him, caring more than America does himself about whether he lives or dies. Slowly America learns to deal with and come to terms with his past, until ultimately he begins to feel that America is found.

America Is Me

"Where would you like to be five years from now?" Dr. B. asks. "Nowhere," America answers. By age fifteen, America has already been nowhere. Been nobody. Separated from his foster mother, Mrs. Harper. A runaway living for weeks in a mall, then for months in Central Park. A patient at Applegate, the residential treatment facility north of New York City. And now at Ridgeway, a hospital. America is a boy, he thinks to himself, who gets lost easy and is not worth the trouble of finding. But Dr. B. takes the trouble. With abiding care, he nudges America's story from him. An against-the-odds story about America's shattered past with his mother and brothers. About Browning, a man in Mrs. Harper's house who saves America, then betrays him. About a bighearted, hardheaded girl named Liza, and Ty and Fish and Wick and Marshall and Ernie and Tom and Dr. B. himself who care more than America does about whether he lives or dies.

America

E. R. Frank’s seminal first novel weaves together the stories of eleven teenagers in one city over seven years in this groundbreaking and “impressive debut” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Why does Gingerbread always have a smile on his face? “Because life is funny,” he tells Keisha. But for her—and almost everyone else in her Brooklyn neighborhood—there doesn’t seem to be much to laugh about. China, Ebony, and Grace are best friends, but Grace’s mother isn’t crazy about her being friends with two girls who aren’t white, and each cut Ebony makes on her wrist seems to drive them even further apart. Just across the schoolyard there’s Eric who has to raise his younger brother Mickey, even though no one expects him to amount to anything. Meanwhile, Sonia’s Muslim parents expect everything of her, and it may be more than she is able to give after she suffers a shattering loss. When Drew brings his father’s Jaguar into Sam’s family’s auto body shop across town they seem to be from opposite sides of the tracks, but Drew’s the one hiding a dark family secret. And he’s not the only one.

Life Is Funny

Teenage America, a not-black, not-white, not-anything boy who has spent many years in institutions for disturbed, antisocial behavior, tries to piece his life together.

E. R. Frank

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