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Cuando te miro, del autor Esteban Jácome, fundador de Brave Soul, nos sumerge en una historia de amor real y profundamente humana. Este segundo libro de su saga de romance juvenil es más que una narración romántica: es una reflexión sobre los peligros de perderse en una relación, la importancia del equilibrio entre lo que damos y lo que somos, y el camino hacia el autodescubrimiento.

Juni sta per compiere 15 anni e vive con il padre in una casa in campagna vicino a Potsdam. I suoi genitori sono divorziati e lei, quando ha avuto l'età per poter decidere, ha scelto di stare con lui. Durante un soggiorno estivo dalla madre a Berlino, la ragazza incontra Sahal, un ragazzo somalo clandestino fuggito dal suo paese. Lui sembra impaurito e scosso e si nasconde in un cimitero. Da cosa starà scappando? Juni non conosce la sua storia, ma è chiaro che ha bisogno di aiuto.

Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds up chasing after ghosts, uncovering family secrets, and forging a new relationship with her grandparents.

Henri “Halti” Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone. He is a star debater and popular student at the prestigious FATE academy, the dutiful first-generation Haitian son, and the trusted dog walker for his wealthy New York City neighbors. But his easy smiles mask a burning ambition to attend his dream college, Columbia University. There is only one person who seems immune to Henri’s charms: his “intense” classmate and neighbor Corinne Troy.

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers - especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, whom her family can never know about.

Immediately after high school graduation, eighteen-year-old Maya is kicked out of her wealthy dad's NYC home; he prides himself on forcing his kids to "make their own way in the world." Maya's mom lives in Guatemala, so Maya crashes with friends while working and trying to land freelance writing gigs. Maya struggles to find her footing until she gets access to a "writing room," a shared workspace where she can focus―and get to know the intriguing neighbor, Jake, who's often there.

Set in a world where bees are at risk of extinction, this startling YA dystopia is perfect for fans of Meg Rosoff's How I live Now and Sarah Crossan, described by the author as a love letter to her daughter. Imagine a world where honeybees have died out. It's a patriarchal world where famines are rife. It's a world without art, without books, without plays. Girls are sent away from home, forced to pollinate crops by hand with brushes and to marry as soon as they can. Inhabiting this world is Jess and her friends Cass, Deva, and Ruth.

For seventeen-year-old Maya, trashion is her passion, and her talent for making clothing out of unusual objects landed her a scholarship to Guatemala City’s most prestigious art school and a finalist spot in the school’s fashion show. Mamá is her biggest supporter, taking on extra jobs to pay for what the scholarship doesn’t cover, and she might be even more excited than Maya about what the fashion show could do for her future career. So when Mamá doesn’t come to the show, Maya doesn’t know what to think. But the truth is worse than she could have imagined.

It is hard enough being a teenager in London during the Blitz, finding yourself in love and wondering every night whether you will survive the bombs. But it is even harder for Anna, who is still officially classified as an 'enemy alien'. Those bombs are coming from Germany – the country that was once her own. If Hitler invades, can she and her beloved refugee family possibly survive?

Muchos muros han dividido tierras. Uno divide de pronto la vida de Zinnia. Sin opción, la familia huye, migra para encontrar dónde echar nuevas raíces y vivir en paz. De una a otra casa, de un país a otro, del camino a un campamento para refugiados, y luego un gran incendio y otra huida más, y van tantas... Zinnia se aferra a su hermana Jaz y a su historia. Contar quiénes son le permite recordar de dónde vienen y recuperar la fuerza para cruzar nuevos muros.

Naomi, ein 12-jähriges jüdisches Mädchen, musste während des Zweiten Weltkriegs mit seiner Mutter aus Frankreich nach New York fliehen; den Vater haben die Nazis vor ihren Augen getötet. Dieses Erlebnis hat Naomi zutiefst verstört. Das ehemals fröhliche und kluge Mädchen spricht nicht mehr, zerreißt Papier in kleine Schnipsel und versteckt sich hinter seiner Puppe. Nun wird Alan, ein sportbegeisterter Junge, der im selben Mietshaus lebt, von seinen Eltern gebeten, sich ein wenig um sie zu kümmern. Alan übernimmt anfangs nur widerwillig diese Aufgabe.

In publishing-speak, here's what we at the LQ office sometimes describe as the Queer lovechild of Sholem Aleichem and Philip Roth: Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn't have a name other than Shtetl). The angel and the demon have been studying together for centuries, but pogroms and the search for a new life have drawn all the young people from their village to America. When one of those young emigrants goes missing, Uriel and Little Ash set off to find her.

It’s a classic story: girl meets boy, girl falls for boy, boy finally notices girl when he sees her in a homemade costume. At least, that’s what Sonia Patil is hoping for when she plans to meet her crush at the local comic-con in cosplay.

Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She had a normal teenager’s life. Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who flood through the doors daily. Secretly, though, she is desperate to find a way out of her beloved country before her sister-in-law, Layla, gives birth. So desperate, that she has manifested a physical embodiment of her fear in the form of her imagined companion.

After the fall of South Vietnam, fourteen-year-old Mai, a young Vietnamese girl of Chinese descent, is torn from a life of privilege and forced to flee across the South China Sea in the hold of a fishing trawler. Mai finds tenuous safety in a refugee camp on an island off the coast of Malaysia, where a greedy relative called Small Auntie offers her a place to stay—but her hospitality isn’t free. With her father’s words echoing in her ears, Mai endures the hardships of the camp, which are tempered only by her dreams of being sponsored by her uncle for entry into America.

Growing up in 1860s China, Tam Ling Fan has lived a life of comfort. Her father is wealthy enough to provide for his family but unconventional enough to spare Ling Fan from the debilitating foot-binding required of most well-off girls. But Ling Fan’s life is upended when her brother dies of influenza and their father is imprisoned under false accusations. Hoping to earn the money that will secure her father’s release, Ling Fan disguises herself as a boy and takes her brother’s contract to work for the Central Pacific Railroad Company in America.

Seventeen-year-old Rania is shaken awake in her family's apartment in Brooklyn. ICE is at the door, taking her mother away. But Ammi has This was supposed to be Rania’s greatest summer: hanging out with her best friend, Fatima, and getting ready for college in the fall. But it’s 2019, and nothing is certain. Now, along with her younger brother, Kamal, and a new friend, Carlos, Rania must figure out how to survive. A road trip leads to searching for answers to questions she didn’t even think to ask.

Seventeen-year-old Mariana Rodriguez is devastated when her best friend and longtime crush, Dennis, chooses to date her tormentor over her. So, when the new employee at her uncle’s dive shop, Sam, shows interest in her, Mariana feels like she’s found the perfect springboard to moving on. But after both the shop and her abuela's house are vandalized, Mariana can't help but suspect that the two events are connected. She reluctantly calls on the one person who can help her. To protect her family from financial ruin, Mariana must decide who to trust.

Hilla on 12-vuotias tyttö, joka on adoptoitu kaksivuotiaana Suomeen Kolumbiasta. Hän ei muista synnyinmaastaan juuri mitään, mutta siitä huolimatta hän on monen suomalaisen mielestä ulkomaalainen. Koulussa Hilla saa kuulla olevansa mutakuono. Tyttö kääntyy yhä enemmän sisäänpäin.

15-årige Carsten har en gammel drøm om et lyst og smukt liv sammen med sin veninde Ellen. Han regnes af alle for en stille og god dreng, men da drømmen om Ellen brister, ramler alting sammen - og "de fremmede" bliver ofrene. Snart lægger han planer om at kaste brandbomber mod indvandrerne .