検索キーワード： 成長

Die 17-Jährige New Yorkerin Ellis hat genaue Vorstellungen davon, wie ihre Zukunft aussehen soll: an der Columbia aufgenommen und Journalistin werden wie ihr erfolgreicher Vater. Als ihre Eltern sich vorübergehend trennen und ihre Mutter sie in die Kleinstadt Bramble Falls mitschleppt, um bei ihrer Tante und Cousine zu leben, bricht für die strebsame Ellis die Welt zusammen. Wie soll sie hier ihre Ziele verfolgen? Stattdessen findet im idyllischen Kleinstädtchen das alljährliche Herbstfestival statt, und Ellis muss aushelfen.

It’s the beginning of the school year—and Briar’s newest resident, D.J. Rosenblum, is not here for it. Ever since her cousin Rachel died, D.J.’s family has been a mess: Her aunt and uncle are catatonic. Her mom is even more scatterbrained than usual. She had to postpone her bat mitzvah a whole year. Worst of all, she and her mom had to move—leaving her best friend, Eva, behind.

Sixteen-year-old Will has been raised to distrust technology. After a cataclysm known as the Devastation, his isolated community rejected the old world—shunning electricity, machines, and the progress they once promised. But Will yearns for more. When he's cast out for questioning the rules, he sets off alone on a perilous journey to Coal City, the last place his estranged father was seen—and a place rumored to hold the key to a better life. Armed with only his survival skills and relentless determination, Will navigates treacherous terrain and encounters unlikely allies.

Most twenty-somethings travel to Berlin in search of the weird, wild, and wunderbar. For Brooke Neville, it’s the perfect place to stage a fantasy; one where she’s just another college student backpacking through hostels on a shoe-string budget. No billionaire family. No pro-tennis career. No gut-wrenching tragedy. But remaining anonymous and aloof becomes increasingly difficult upon meeting Patrick, a charismatic Aussie traveler. With his easy grace and killer smile, Brooke isn’t the only woman distracted by his charms.

Marrow is a fourteen-year-old prodigy at FIST (Fantom Institute for Superheroes-in-Training). With a perfect score on his finals, the ability to smash through walls, and leaps that can launch him over a city block, the Sidekick Internship Program is bound to place him with a top-notch superhero mentor for the summer. But when a series of disastrous events lands Marrow on academic probation, he is forced to team up with Flex—a drunk, hippie bum with the power of elasticity.

Graduation is just over a year away, but all Tarni can think about is her Year 12 formal. The shoes, the makeup, the car, the photos and most importantly, the dress! But Tarni’s perfect dress is a whopping $950, and she will have to save every cent to get it. Tarni checks each item off her list, one by one, but by the time she’s saved enough money, the dress has disappeared! Can she find her perfect dress—and in the right size? And what will she do when she graduates?

London in the year 1976, a place and a time desperate for change. Chris, a 17 year old expat American Air Force brat is shoved into the alien world of a British private (public) school. A gifted classical cellist, Chris struggles to reconcile the focus on form, control and technique with being increasingly drawn into the vortex of raw, rebellious energy that is the punk movement. It allows him to let out pain that has been held in too long. He meets Johnny Rotten and is inspired to start his own band.

When Cerys’ best friend and secret crush Jake moves to a new college, she realises she’s running out of time to take their relationship from platonic to romantic. She’ll do anything to get out of Jake’s friendzone, even if that means diving into the huge fantasy fandom he loves so much. But when Jake introduces Cerys to his shiny new friend Max, who goes to all the conventions and loves a costume, she realises she’ll need to do a lot more to grab Jake’s attention than just read a few fanfics.

After Blossom gets taken into her thirty-one-year-old brother's custody, Captain James marigold, she finds herself facing her past experiences.

Jens Markwart war eigentlich ein ganz durchschnittlicher Student, der keine großen Ansprüche an die Zukunft hatte. Frau und Kind, ein Häuschen im Grünen und einen guten Job – das war sein Plan. Vielleicht wäre es so gekommen, wenn er nicht dieses verflixte Experiment durchgeführt hätte. Damit fing alles an.

Shapeshifter Ferly was cursed to live in a lamppost and on her first night witnessed an orb stealing a man’s soul and taking over his body, glasses, and his briefcase. She eventually escapes and begins her quest by soldiering up with ancient heroes. Ferly has to use everything she has experienced to save the last surviving village from the evilized ants controlled by that same orbed human, Dr. Mikros, in the world of Amagi. On Ferly’s odyssey she searches for her soulmate, discovers an entire covey of souls, and unveils the mystery of her longtime missing uncle.

Se hai voglia di dire qualcosa a qualcuno, fallo. Ora. «È che ogni giorno che passa mi rendo conto che praticamente tutti avrebbero bisogno di coraggio. Glielo vedi negli occhi che hanno un progetto che non hanno ancora trovato il coraggio di realizzare, un ragazzo con cui non hanno trovato la forza di provarci o, come me, qualcosa da andare a dire a qualcuno, e che non ci sono mai riusciti.» È importante dire quello che si prova, sempre. È importante dirlo nel momento giusto. Perché, una volta passato potremmo non trovare più il coraggio di farlo.

Sabrina Marshall is an ambitious senior in high school was just after she just became a cheerleader and made honor roll for the first time. She's so excited for her life to begin until it all comes crashing down with a tragedy that changes the course of her life forever. When her responsibilities shift and her home is taken away from her, she now has to navigate how she's going to take care of herself and her two little siblings. She leaves that a physical house is not a home.

On the historic campus of the fictional Parthenon University lies Potential Street, a non-descript alley lined by the University's twelve clubs. Each club bears a sign of the Zodiac. The most notorious of the clubs is Pithon which has housed the ancient Greek deities in order to seize absolute political power in North America. All it needs to complete its devious plan is to have one qualifying student from each of the twelve Zodiac Signs participate on their birthdays in Virtues Constellation, a mega-spell that will consolidate all the power of the other clubs under Pithon.

Sixteen-year-old Robyn Gale, along with her younger sister Anne, is sent away for the summer holidays of 1997 to stay with her grandmother at a caravan park in Devon. Robyn’s had a tough few months: trying to cope with the fallout of their mother’s attempted suicide, messing up her GCSEs, and finding herself attracted to girls. Perhaps getting away from her real life is just what she needs…she can focus on finding a boyfriend, watching Neighbours, and swimming. A solid plan, until she meets charismatic Australian lifeguard, Autumn, and her life is turned even more down under.

Told with sharp dialogue, aching tenderness, and unflinching emotional depth, Ethan & Janet is a powerful story of two teens learning what it means to fight for love, to choose family, and to believe, against all odds, that broken things can still become whole.

After a chance encounter with an Abolitionist, Rebekah is obsessed by a desire to end slavery. But as a young Amish Girl living on a farm near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, she feels hopeless to do anything about it. Although she feels loved by her Amish family, she believes she has a higher purpose. But her protective father commands that she not interact with the non-Amish world. In his view, what happens outside their tight-knit farming community is none of her concern. But her life, and the outcome of the battle of Gettysburg, changes when the Confederate Army suddenly descends on her farm.

Woody groeit op als jongste van drie in een liefdevol gezin in een dorp aan de IJssel. Naarmate Woody ouder wordt, maakt zijn onbeschroomdheid plaats voor een knellend zelfbewustzijn. Als zijn zus erg ziek wordt, kiest Woody noodgedwongen voor een positie op de achtergrond. Hij moet zich in één klap volwassen gedragen, maar blijft zitten met onbeantwoorde vragen en puberale hartstocht.

Пятеро друзей из калифорнийской глубинки проводят вместе последнее лето, ведь осенью им предстоит разъехаться по колледжам. «Чудовища» — так их компанию прозвали в школе — дружат с детства и даже придумали собственный кодекс чести. Пусть они очень разные — богатая красавица Вайолет, обаятельный балагур Драммер, искренняя Мо, неукротимый Люк и рационалистка Ханна, — но за школьные годы почти сроднились.

Джульетта мечтала танцевать на сцене, но по настоянию мачехи скучала на секретарских курсах. А теперь она вольна жить как хочет и, смутно угадывая начало нового сюжета, отправляется на поиски — себя, своих корней и правды о смерти матери. Театральный округ — дым и зеркала, и Джульетте предстоит узнать, до каких пределов способны дойти люди, чтобы некоторые истории не были рассказаны никогда, — и кто расплачивается за это жизнью.