Michelle Falkoff

Playlist for the Dead

Kara Winters is always striving for perfection. But when her anxiety takes over, the price of perfection spirals out of controlâÂe¦ 'Perfect' Kara Winters has always hated her nickname. Especially now that she no longer lives up to it. She used to have normal friends, she used to be normal. Now all she wants is to get into Harvard and leave high school behind. So when the pressure to ace her exams finally gets to her, Kara does one tiny bad thing, just to help out, to ease the stress. If it will help Kara get a perfect exam score and one step closer to a new life, itâÂeÂ(tm)s a price sheâÂeÂ(tm)s willing to pay. But she never expects to get caught out. Or that Alex, Raj and her other not-so-perfect new friends might get embroiled in a horrible mess that could ruin all of their futures. Sometimes perfection isn't what it's cracked up to be.

Pushing Perfect

A mystery about family, secrets, and how to move forward when the past keeps pulling you back, perfect for fans of David Arnold and Jeff Zentner. Patrick “Pack” Walsh may not know where he’s going in life, but he’s happy where he is. Then, on his eighteenth birthday, a letter from his past changes everything. As Pack begins a journey to uncover the truth about the parents he thought he knew, the family he didn’t know he had, and the future he never realized he wanted, he starts to have a whole different understanding of his life—and where he wants to go from here. Praise for Michelle Falkoff: “Twists and turns abound. Will keep readers turning pages.” —School Library Journal on Pushing Perfect “Truly powerful moments.” — Kirkus Reviews on Playlist for the Dead

Questions I Want to Ask You

The Breakfast Club meets We Are the Ants in this timely story for a generation of young activists. If you knew the world was going to end tomorrow, what would you do? This is the question that haunts Amina as she watches new and horrible stories of discord and crisis flash across the news every day. But when she starts at prestigious Gardner Academy, Amina finds a group of like-minded peers to join forces with--fast friends who dedicate their year to learning survival skills from each other, before it's too late. Still, as their prepper knowledge multiplies, so do their regular high school problems, from relationship drama to family issues to friend blow-ups. Juggling the two parts of their lives forces Amina to ask another vital question: Is it worth living in the hypothetical future if it's at the expense of your actual present?

How to Pack for the End of the World

Por meio de letras de música do universo pop, a autora retrata o universo adolescente com todos os seus problemas. Depois da morte de seu amigo, Sam parece um fantasma vagando pelos corredores da escola, o que não é muito diferente de antes. Ele sabe que tem que aceitar o que Hayden fez, mas se culpa pelo que aconteceu e não consegue mudar o que sente. Enquanto ouve música por música da lista deixada por Hayden, Sam tenta descobrir o que exatamente aconteceu naquela noite. E, quanto mais ele ouve e reflete sobre o passado, mais segredos descobre sobre seu amigo e sobre a vida que ele levava. "A playlist de Hayden" é uma história inquietante sobre perda, raiva, superação e bullying. Acima de tudo, sobre encontrar esperança quando essa parte parece ser a mais difícil. "Intriga, dor e desejo. Uma história intensa." - Holly Goldberg Sloan, autora best-seller do The New York Times.

A Playlist de Hayden

Playlist for the dead

Por meio de letras de música do universo pop, a autora retrata o universo adolescente com todos os seus problemas. Depois da morte de seu amigo, Sam parece um fantasma vagando pelos corredores da escola o que não é muito diferente de antes. Ele sabe que tem que aceitar o que Hayden fez, mas se culpa pelo que aconteceu e não consegue mudar o que sente. Enquanto ouve música por música da lista deixada por Hayden, Sam tenta descobrir o que exatamente aconteceu naquela noite. E, quanto mais ele ouve e reflete sobre o passado, mais segredos descobre sobre seu amigo e sobre a vida que ele levava. A PLAYLIST DE HAYDEN é uma história inquietante sobre perda, raiva, superação e bullying. Acima de tudo, sobre encontrar esperança quando essa parte parece ser a mais difícil. "Intriga, dor e desejo. Uma história intensa." - Holly Goldberg Sloan, autora best-seller do The New York Times.

A playlist de Hayden

A girl’s quest for perfection results in dangerous consequences in this smart, suspenseful YA novel by the author of Playlist for the Dead. Fans of We Were Liars and The Secret History will devour this layered, ensemble-cast novel in which “twists and turns abound” (SLJ). How far would you go to be perfect? Kara has the perfect life. At least, that’s what she wants everyone to believe. The truth is, she works hard to maintain that illusion. But when a moment of doubt leads Kara to do something risky—and illegal—someone sees. Before she knows it, she’s drawn into an unlikely group of classmates, all bound together by secrets of their own. Secrets that are being used against them. Soon Kara is forced to confront how far she’s willing to go to be perfect—and if that’s something she really wants to be. “Reminiscent of the novels of Joan Lowery Nixon and Lois Duncan, this mystery set in a modern-day well-to-do suburb in California will keep readers turning the pages.” —School Library Journal “Full of well-developed, diverse supporting characters. For teens who enjoy mysteries in the form of timely, realistic fiction.” —Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) “Readers will be kept guessing.” —Kirkus Reviews

Para entender lo que pasó con su mejor amigo Hayden, Sam tiene que confiar en la lista de canciones y en su memoria. Pero cuanto más escucha se da cuenta de que su memoria no es tan confiable como creía. Especialmente cuando alguien que pretende ser Hayden le manda mensajes enigmáticos, al mismo tiempo que comienza una serie de ataques contra los matones que le hicieron la vida imposible a su amigo. Sam sabe que tiene que enfrentar lo que ocurrió esa noche. La única manera: quitarse los auriculares y abrir los ojos a las personas que lo rodean (incluyendo una chica excéntrica e impredecible, también llena de secretos) para poder desentrañar la historia de su mejor amigo. Y quizás llegar a cambiar la suya propia.

Playlist las canciones de mi muerte

27 Songs und die Wahrheit über mich Diese Dinge weiß Sam: Es gab eine Party. Es gab einen Streit. Am nächsten Morgen ist sein bester Freund tot. Aber was Sam nicht weiß: Warum? Alles, was ihm von Hayden bleibt, ist eine Playlist und eine Notiz: Hör dir das an und du wirst mich verstehen. Und so begibt Sam sich auf die Suche nach Antworten und muss schon bald feststellen, dass er seinen besten Freund nicht so gut kannte, wie er immer gedacht hat ... Ein Blick hinter die Fassaden einer Freundschaft Ein bewegendes Debüt über Verlust und Neuanfang

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