Sara Barnard

When I was wild, you were steady . . . Now you are wild - what am I? Eden McKinley knows she can't count on much in this world, but she can depend on Bonnie, her solid, steady, straight-A best friend. So it's a bit of a surprise when Bonnie runs away with the boyfriend Eden knows nothing about five days before the start of their GCSEs. Especially when the police arrive on her doorstep and Eden finds out that the boyfriend is actually their music teacher, Mr Cohn. Sworn to secrecy and bound by loyalty, only Eden knows Bonnie's location, and that's the way it has to stay. There's no way she's betraying her best friend. Not even when she's faced with police questioning, suspicious parents and her own growing doubts. As the days pass and things begin to unravel, Eden is forced to question everything she thought she knew about the world, her best friend and herself.

Goodbye, Perfect

Fierce Fragile Hearts is the stunning companion novel to Sara Barnard's YA bestseller Beautiful Broken Things. It is about leaving the past behind, the friends who form your future, and learning to find love, in all its forms.Two years after a downward spiral took her as low as you can possibly go, Suzanne is starting again. Again. She's back in Brighton, the only place she felt she belonged, back with her best friends Caddy and Rosie. But they're about to leave for university. When your friends have been your light in the darkness, what happens when you're the one left behind?

Fierce Fragile Hearts

Lisa Williamson

Non Pratt

Melinda Salisbury

Holly Bourne

Tanya Byrne

Eleanor Wood

The Breakfast Club meets One Day in Floored, a unique collaborative novel by seven bestselling and award-winning YA authors: Sara Barnard, Holly Bourne, Tanya Byrne, Non Pratt, Melinda Salisbury, Lisa Williamson and Eleanor Wood. When they got in the lift that morning, they were strangers. Sasha, who is at the UK's biggest TV centre desperately trying to deliver a parcel; Hugo, who knows he's by far the richest – and best-looking – guy in the lift; Velvet, who regrets wearing the world's least comfortable shoes to work experience; Dawson, who isn't the good-looking teen star he was and desperate not to be recognized; Kaitlyn, who's slowly losing her sight but won't admit it, and Joe, who shouldn't be there at all, but who wants to be there the most. And one more person, who will bring them together again on the same day every year . . .

Floored

A breathtaking novel about finding yourself and finding a friend by the award-winning author of Beautiful Broken Things Sometimes you have to leave your life behind to find your place in the world After five years at secondary school spent without any friends, Peyton King starts sixth form college determined that things will be different. Whatever happens, she will make friends at any cost. When she finds the friends she's always dreamed of, including an actual boyfriend, she's happier than she's ever been. But when they let her down in the worst way, Peyton is left no better off than when she started. Now Peyton knows the only chance she has of finding happiness is to look for it somewhere else. Her life may feel small, but it doesn't have to be. With nothing but her sketchpad and a backpack, she buys a one-way ticket and gets on a plane. . . In Destination Anywhere, Sara Barnard explores love, life and friendship in this exquisite tale of the lengths one girl will go to to change her story.

Destination Anywhere

A heart-stoppingly beautiful debut novel about what it means to be a friend when your whole world is falling apart. I was brave. She was reckless. We were trouble. Best friends Caddy and Rosie are inseparable. Their differences have brought them closer, but as she turns sixteen Caddy begins to wish she could be a bit more like Rosie - confident, funny and interesting. Then Suzanne comes into their lives: beautiful, damaged, exciting and mysterious, and things get a whole lot more complicated. As Suzanne's past is revealed and her present begins to unravel, Caddy begins to see how much fun a little trouble can be. But the course of both friendship and recovery is rougher than either girl realises, and Caddy is about to learn that downward spirals have a momentum of their own.

Beautiful Broken Things

Perfect for fans of Morgan Matson and Jandy Nelson. A girl who can’t speak and a boy who can’t hear go on a journey of self-discovery and find support with each other in this gripping, emotionally resonant novel for “readers who enjoyed John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down” (Booklist) from bestselling author Sara Barnard. Steffi doesn’t talk, but she has so much to say. Rhys can’t hear, but he can listen. Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life. The condition’s name has always felt ironic to her, because she certainly does not “select” not to speak. In fact, she would give anything to be able to speak as easily and often as everyone around her can. She suffers from crippling anxiety, and uncontrollably, in most situations simply can’t open her mouth to get out the words. Steffi’s been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He’s deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she’s assigned to help him acclimate. To Rhys, it doesn’t matter that Steffi doesn’t talk. As they find ways to communicate, Steffi discovers that she does have a voice, and that she’s falling in love with the one person who makes her feel brave enough to use it. But as she starts to overcome a lifelong challenge, she’ll soon confront questions about the nature of her own identity and the very essence of what it is to know another person.

A Quiet Kind of Thunder

Vielleicht passiert ein Wunder

A pitch perfect novel about friendship and what it takes to break the bonds between friends, “for fans of Morgan Matson and Sarah Dessen” (VOYA). Caddy and Rosie have always been inseparable. But that was before Suzanne. Now the twosome has become a triangle with constantly shifting alliances. Caddy’s ready to be more than just the quiet one. She wants something to happen. Suzanne is trying to escape her past and be someone different, someone free. But sometimes downward spirals have a momentum of their own. And no one can break your heart like a best friend.

Fragile Like Us

Die beste Zeit ist am Ende der Welt

Frágil como nosotras. Fuerte como la amistad

Wunder, die wir teilen

A sedici anni il tuo mondo non è un ragazzo, ma la tua migliore amica.

Fragile come noi, forte come l'amicizia

Steffi tiene dieciséis años y desde los cinco le resulta casi imposible hablar en público. ¿Neurosis, trastorno de ansiedad y comunicación? Y es que no quiera sino que, a veces, no puede. Miles de palabras se agolpan en su mente, pero sus labios se niegan a compartirlas. Tem, su única amiga de la infancia, ha cambiado de escuela, dejándola sola. Sin embargo, Steffi ha estado haciendo terapia cognitiva y ha comenzado con su medicación: está decidida a superar sus limitaciones, y más ahora que debe ponerse a prueba para entrar a la Universidad. Rhys es nuevo en la escuela. Es sordo, y Steffi sabe algo del lenguaje de señas. Algo, por no decir bastante poco: a medida que su amistad crece, a la lectura de los labios se le suman signos, gestos, textos. Un idioma íntimo y amoroso que los envuelve y que solamente ellos conocen. Sobre este entramado se teje una maravillosa historia de amor, de superación y de aprendizaje, que nos enseña que en el silencio suelen alzarse las voces más potentes, aquellas que retumban sin hacer ruido, como un trueno sigiloso y secreto.

Un trueno silencioso

Fierce Fragile Hearts is the stunning companion novel to Sara Barnard's YA bestseller Beautiful Broken Things. It is about leaving the past behind, the friends who form your future, and learning to find love, in all its forms. Two years after a downward spiral took her as low as you can possibly go, Suzanne is starting again. Again. She's back in Brighton, the only place she felt she belonged, back with her best friends Caddy and Rosie. But they're about to leave for university. When your friends have been your light in the darkness, what happens when you're the one left behind?

Den pæneste overflade kan skjule de mørkeste hemmeligheder ... Caddy er træt af at være den pæne og stille pige. Der skal ske noget nyt. Smukke Suzanne er vild og oprørsk, men i det skjulte kæmper hun for at slippe fri af sin fortid. Selvom alle siger, at Suzanne er en dårlig indflydelse, nægter Caddy at lytte. Da det endelig går op for Caddy, hvor svært Suzanne har det, er det måske for sent ... Caddy vil gå til verdens ende for Suzanne, men langsomt går det op for hende, at hun måske ikke er den rette til at hjælpe, og at Suzannes problemer nok er noget større, end hun lader andre se. Caddy er i gang med at finde ud af, at ingen kan knus dit hjerte som din bedste veninde. En smuk, hjerteskærende og troværdig fortælling om en relation, som tit overses, men som for mange teenagepiger har betydet mere end samtlige kærester: forholdet til ens bedste veninde.

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An Amish Settlement. An English stranger. The Blizzard of 1888. Rebekah's mother, Elnora Stoll, is the finest quilter in all of Gasthof Village but it seems Rebekah has inherited none of her skill. It's not until the arrival of a mysterious English stranger that a lifetime of questions are answered and Rebekah, her special friend Joseph Graber, and the entire settlement of Gasthof Village learn the true meaning of what it truly means to be Amish.

Rebekah's Quilt

Sanderson Redding is set to go west to a waiting job as an Indian Agent-if Charlotte agrees. Leaving their home in Arkansas isn't easy, but there's not much left of Altrose-and no jobs for men with families. War veteran Jerry Thomas has secured positions for himself and Sanderson in California, but they must leave immediately. With a heavy heart, Charlotte bids goodbye to her father, Minerva, and Cotton. There's no time to spare, and they set out early the following day for California. Travel is hard on Charlotte, who is pregnant, but she finds a new measure of determination to face what comes their way-including a prairie fire, hostile Indians, and a hard childbirth she is afraid she might not survive. But the demons of Sanderson's military life refuse to be left behind, as he finds himself embroiled with the Earp brothers and a lady of the night who carries a grudge against Charlotte. Will Charlotte and Sanderson's marriage withstand the turmoil they must overcome? And should they survive the journey through a hostile, wild country, will they find happiness in an unfamiliar place that drove them west and took them from their beloved Arkansas home?

A Heart at Home

Charlotte Adamsland is separated from her husband, Sanderson Redding, the day after their marriage. A captain in the Confederate Army, Sanderson must return to his unit, leaving Charlotte alone on their Arkansas homestead to fend for herself. Yankees camp around the town of Altrose, bringing their own kind of lawless danger. And then, one dark day, a Southern soldier arrives with terrible news...Sanderson has been killed trying to escape a Yankee prison. Sanderson has found salvation and hell in a single turn of events he could never have imagined-his much-younger brother, Jackson, is his Yankee guard. When Jackson's cruel commanding officer learns of the brothers' family ties, he devises a wicked plan to see them both dead. Jackson is determined to get his brother to safety-but a last-minute betrayal by another prisoner could be the death of both brothers. Charlotte can't accept the news of Sanderson's death-he promised to come back to her. She heads north armed with only her faith in God and her beloved horse to bring her love home-one way or the other. Will she be able to rescue him? Or will her love remained locked forever in A HEART ON HOLD...

A Heart on Hold

Poți merge înainte când trecutul te urmărește la fiecare pas? Deși merg la școli diferite, Caddy și Rosie sunt, de când se știu, cele mai bune prietene. Spre deosebire de Rosie, care a trecut prin multe, Caddy pare a avea o viață perfectă: o casă frumoasă, părinți grijulii și un viitor luminos. Însă acum, la șaisprezece ani, Caddy începe să-și dorească să fie și ea ca Rosie: specială, sigură pe sine, amuzantă și interesantă. Când în viața amândurora apare Suzanne – superbă, plină de viață, rebelă și misterioasă –, lucrurile încep să se complice. Pe măsură ce trecutul dureros al lui Suzanne iese la iveală, iar relația dintre ele devine tot mai apropiată, Caddy începe să descopere că sub masca siguranței de sine se ascund uneori drame tulburătoare și că iubirea te poate împinge uneori să faci lucruri la care nu te-ai fi gândit niciodată. O poveste emoționantă despre dragoste, familie, dezastre și puterea salvatoare a prieteniei când totul se destramă

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