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Petra Peña gehört zu den wenigen, die es vor dem unausweichlichen Weltuntergang auf eines der rettenden Schiffe schaffen. Eine Reise ins Ungewisse liegt vor ihr. Jahrhunderte später wacht Petra auf. Das Ziel, ein Planet mit erdähnlichen Bedingungen, scheint erreicht. Aber in der Zwischenzeit ist viel geschehen. Auf dem Raumschiff zählen nur noch Gehorchen und Gleichsein. Und plötzlich ist Petra die Letzte, die sich an die Erde und das Leben dort erinnert.

A lyrical and environmentally-focused story about sisterhood, adventure, and activism—perfect for fans of The Last Cuentista and The City of Ember. Twelve-year-old Erie has never lived life fully in the sunlight. After destructive wildfires wreaked havoc on the world around her, the government...

From the bestselling author of The City of Ember comes a post-apocalyptic story set hundreds of years in the future, where life is simple and modern conveniences are a thing of the past until a boy enchanted by technology is forced to choose between doing the right thing for his community and...

Una niña llamada Petra Peña que no quería otra cosa que ser cuentista, como su abuelita. Pero el mundo de Petra está llegando a su fin. La Tierra ha sido destruida por un cometa, y solounos pocos científicos y sus hijos—entre ellos, Petra y su familia—han sido elegidos para viajar a un nuevo planeta.

She must find her conviction or be convicted. Kascia Thorapple Custod has done the unthinkable. She betrayed her Custod duty, her father, her former life for a man she can't even be sure she'll win in the end, a man she is still unsure she can trust: the man she came to kill. But was that the right choice? Kascia still isn’t convinced. The truth is the taxes that are slowly killing her people are still in place and she cannot justify it even to herself why.

Wie fast alle Städte im Reich Lunis wurde Mias Heimat Nubis vom sagenumwobenen König der Finsternis in ewige Nacht gestürzt. Doch mithilfe der Umbras, gestaltwandelnden Fabelwesen, können die Bewohner die Dunkelheit unter Kontrolle halten und ihre Stadt schützen. Aber dann wird Nubis erneut von den Schergen des Königs angegriffen und Mia muss lernen, ihren eigenen Umbra zu zähmen. Nur so hat sie eine Chance, ihr Zuhause nicht für immer an die Dunkelheit zu verlieren.

To make a change in their dreamless world, these siblings have to start breaking the rules. Calista Knight is too curious for her own good, and being an asthmatic in a school training strategists and soldiers is tough as it is. Bracing for a new year of challenging academics and constant bullying at Fortress Military Academy, she only wants to make friends. She never expected to learn about dreams in the process.

Will’s extraordinarily mediocre life is just fine with him. But for his parents who work so hard to give him and his sister more, life couldn’t get better once they win the Purquility Lottery. Winning the coveted prize means a promise of a disease-free and charmed life in a brand-new home inside a perfectly manicured planned city. But it also means leaving everything and everyone from your old life behind. After the cleansing process, his family is whisked away in a luxurious limousine to start their new life. But for Will, none of this sits right with him.

Return to the world of the bestselling Running Out of Time with this middle grade thriller from Margaret Peterson Haddix, where Zola discovers she’s related to Jessie Keyser and her seemingly perfect utopian world is covering up a dark reality. Twelve-year-old Zola thinks she has the perfect...

An Edgar Allan Poe Award Nominee! From Edgar Award nominee and WNDB cofounder Lamar Giles, this middle grade adventure stars the Epic Ellison twins as they race to solve the mystery of Cosmos Camp for young geniuses in a stand-alone companion to the Legendary Alston Boys series. School’s out...

The world of Colony is in ruins. No one knows what caused society to begin tearing itself apart—but the secret may lie with Cora, a girl living on the mountainside far away from others. Cora possesses an extraordinary gift: the power to see back in time, from an event back to its causes. Even more incredibly, sometimes she can change events. But the present is looking for Cora, and she is forced on the run—and must decide who she is, what she can do...and how to fix the future.

Femten år efter "Tjenerindens fortælling" sluttede, eksisterer rædselsregimet Gilead stadig. Dog er der tegn på, at det langsomt er ved at smuldre indefra. Tre kvinder bliver afgørende for Gileads sidste dage. Dette er deres historie. "Har man læst ’Tjenerindens fortælling’ eller set HBO’s serieversion i ’The Handmaid’s Tale’, bliver man ikke skuffet over opfølgeren." - Berlingske "Fremragende." - Ekstra Bladet "Dystopisk sensation ... Pageturner-spændende." - Weekendavisen "’Gileads døtre’ er Atwood, når hun er allerbedst.

This dystopian adventure will thrill tweens with suspense, mystery, and a hero seeking truth and resisting evil. Parents will love this clean fiction series that is packed with action and meaningful ideas of right and wrong without being too graphic or mature for young readers. In a future...

"Einer wird die Worte des Ozeans sprechen und vier danach für immer verbunden sein." Jacob, Tristan, Hali und ihre Freunde sind fest entschlossen, die wertvollen Ozeandiamanten von Sato zurückzuerobern. Doch die Zeit ist knapp: Drei der vier machtvollen Steine befinden sich bereits in seinem Besitz. Und dann gelingt es ihm auch noch, Hali in seine Gewalt zu bringen.

A powerful novel by Carnegie Medal–winning author Beverley Naidoo that is in turns heart-wrenching, infuriating, and inspiring—and at its core, a call to readers to make a better world than they have found. Adam and his sister, Leila, are Nons—second-class citizens, living under the...

The Zombie Chasers meets The Goonies in David Macinnis Gill’s middle grade debut about a group of tweens who ride out the zombie apocalypse on a cobbled-together train. Fans of Ty Drago’s The Undertakers: Rise of the Corpses and Max Brallier’s The Last Kids on Earth will lose themselves in...

Oude bekenden uit Boy 7 in een splinternieuw verhaal: Girl 6 gaat over de onhandige Summer. Ze is de enige kleindochter van het echtpaar Rogers, dat in Boy 7 manier bedacht om het gedrag van Nederlandse jongeren te verbeteren. Wanneer opa Carl ernstig ziek is, vertrekt Summer met haar moeder naar Amerika, waar haar grootouders inmiddels weer wonen. Daar ontmoet ze Dez, een jonge blogger die altijd op zoek is naar een goed verhaal. Samen ontdekken ze het web van leugens en dilemma's waarin Summer zit verstrikt.

One morning Rafe wakes up to discover his bedroom is floating in a vast sea of water. An unforgettable middle-grade novel with elements of James and the Giant Peach meets Waterworld and The Road. One morning Rafe wakes up to discover his bedroom is floating in a vast sea of water. Alone with...

We see a bright blue cloud-filled sky. Then we are zooming down, revealing what appears to be a swirling dust funnel in a clearing, surrounded by forest. Zooming farther down we see a young boy playing near it. Finally, we see him get swallowed up into a cosmic portal. We now zoom out, farther and farther until we see a large man dressed in regal garb, he is a wizard, searching desperately through a forest for his son. As he penetrates the trees he sees an ominous portal in the open field. A shoe lies on the ground near the swirling mass. He charges forward.

A group of undocumented children with letters for names are stuck living in a refugee camp, with stories to tell but no papers to prove them. As they try to forge a new family amongst themselves, they also long to keep memories of their old identities alive. Will they be heard and believed? And what will happen to them if they aren't?