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American Born Chinese
2023 || Paperback || Gene Luen Yang || Roaring Brook Press
A New York Times-bestselling graphic novel, a Michael L. Printz Award winner, a National Book Award finalist,
and now an original series on Disney+!
Bonus Content: Includes an interview with author Gene Luen Yang and series creator Kelvin Yu
A tour-de-force by New York Times bestselling graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discove...
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Een weeffout in onze sterren
2021 || Paperback || John Green || Gottmer || met inkijkexemplaar
Hazel werd drie jaar geleden opgegeven, maar een nieuw medicijn rekt haar leven voor nog onbekende tijd. Genoeg om een studie op te pakken en vooral niet als zieke behandeld te worden. Augustus, Gus, heeft kanker overleefd - ten koste van een been. Vanaf het moment dat Hazel en Gus elkaar ontmoeten, lijkt er geen ontsnappen aan de zinderende wederzijdse aantrekkingskracht. Maar Hazel wil niet iemands tijdbom zijn. Hazel laat Gus kennismaken met haar lievelingsboek: An Imperial Affliction van ...
Slam
2020 || Paperback || Nick Hornby || Penguin
'There was this time when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up.'Sam is sixteen and a skater. Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings: skating = skateboarding.
There's no ice. Life is ticking along nicely for Sam: his mum's got rid of her rubbish boyfriend, he's thinking about college and he's met someone. Alicia.Then a little accident happens.
One with big consequences for someone just finding his way in life. Sam can't run (l...
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The Fault in Our Stars
2024 || Paperback || John Green || Penguin Young Readers Group
#1 bestselling author John Green like you've never read him before. Introducing Penguin Minis!
Featured by The New York Times, The Washington Post, BBC's "The World," Real Simple, Bustle, and more!
With millions of copies sold, The Fault in Our Stars is now available as a Penguin Mini edition. Complete and unabridged, the book's revolutionary landscape design and ultra-thin paper makes it easy to hold in one hand without sacrificing readability. Perfectly-sized to slip into ...
Hate U Give
2017 || Paperback || Angie Thomas || Walker Books
Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police officer. Now what Starr says could destroy her community. It could also get her killed.Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl's struggle for justice.#1...
White Rabbit, Red Wolf
2018 || Paperback || Tom Pollock || Walker Books
"A gripping and gloriously treacherous thriller without guide ropes or safety nets. Leave all certainties by the door." Frances Hardinge A taut thriller about murder, maths and the mind. Peter Blankman is afraid of everything and must confront unimaginable terror when his mother is attacked.
Seventeen-year-old Peter Blankman is a maths prodigy. He also suffers from severe panic attacks. Afraid of everything, he finds solace in the orderly and logical world of mathematics and in the love of hi...
We Were Liars
Soon to be a major TV series on Amazon Prime!
2023 || Paperback || E. Lockhart || Hot Key Books
1. Read this book. 2. On reaching the final page, you may experience an urgent need to read it all over again. 3. Check your friends have read it. 4. NOW YOU ARE FREE TO TALK TO THEM ABOUT IT ENDLESSLYWinner of Goodreads Best Young Adult Fiction Book 2014'E. Lockhart is one of our most important novelists, and she has given us her best book yet. Thrilling, beautiful, and blisteringly smart, We Were Liars is utterly unforgettable.'- John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fault...
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De stilte zegt genoeg
2021 || Hardcover || Jacodine van de Velde || Clavis Uitgeverij || met inkijkexemplaar
Dit emotionele youngadultboek speelt zich net als Jacodine van de Veldes eerste jongerenroman Wat je zegt zie je zelf deels af op de Franse camping Le Tournesol. De hoofdpersonen proberen ieder op hun manier om te gaan met verlies en schuldgevoel.
Sinds het overlijden van haar moeder staat de wereld van de zeventienjarige Tara stil. Ze is erg in zichzelf gekeerd en door haar verdriet en het gemis blijkt het moeilijk haar leven op te pakken. Op een kampeervakantie met haar oom en tante ontmoet...
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The Reader
2024 || Hardcover || Traci Chee || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Instant New York Times Bestseller
A stunning debut set in a world where reading is unheard-of, perfect for fans of Inkheart and Shadow and Bone
Sefia knows what it means to survive. After her father is brutally murdered, she flees into the wilderness with her aunt Nin, who teaches her to hunt, track, and steal. But when Nin is kidnapped, leaving Sefia completely alone, none of her survival skills can help her discover where Nin's been taken, or if she's even alive. The only clue to both her a...
The Scarlet Letter
2023 || Hardcover || Nathaniel Hawthorne || Union Square & Co.
Boston, mid-17th century: Hester Prynne, dignified and silent, is led through prison doors to her public shaming by her censorious Puritan neighbors. Holding her illegitimate child to her breast and bearing a bright scarlet letter "A" embroidered on her bodice, Hester must now struggle to create a new life for herself and her child in this harsh and unforgiving community. When her missing spouse reappears and takes up residence in town under an assumed identity, the stage is set for an explos...