National Book Award Winner, PEN America Award Winner, and New York Times Bestseller! Perfect for fans of This Is Us, Robin Benway’s beautiful interweaving story of three very different teenagers connected by blood explores the meaning of family in all its forms—how to find it, how to keep it, and how to love it. Being the middle child has its ups and downs. But for Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovering that she is a middle child is a different ride altogether. After putting her own baby up for adoption, she goes looking for her biological family, including— Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio sister, who has a lot to say about their newfound family ties. Having grown up the snarky brunette in a house full of chipper redheads, she’s quick to search for traces of herself among these not-quite-strangers. And when her adopted family’s long-buried problems begin to explode to the surface, Maya can’t help but wonder where exactly it is that she belongs. And Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother. After seventeen years in the foster care system, he’s learned that there are no heroes, and secrets and fears are best kept close to the vest, where they can’t hurt anyone but him. Don't miss this moving novel that addresses such important topics as adoption, teen pregnancy, and foster care.
Believe it or not, there are some drawbacks to being a 16-year old safecracker, daughter of spies, and member of an organization that fights corruption and wrongdoing around the world. For example: never getting to stay in one place long enough to have friends or a boyfriend, being the only spy ever to have a 10 p.m. curfew, and being sent on assignment to Russia. In the winter. For Maggie Silver, the compensation for the vast inconvenience of being a teenage spy has been avoiding high school and its accompanying cliques, bad lunches, and frustratingly simple security on the lockers. (If it's three digits or less, why even bother?) But when Maggie and her parents are sent to New York on a major assignment, all of that changes. She'll need to attend a private school, avoid the temptation to hack the school's security system, and befriend the aggravatingly cute Jesse Oliver to gain the information she needs to crack the case, all while trying not to blow her cover. The first in a new series from Robin Benway, Also Known As, is the perfect read for fans of The Gallagher Girls.
Former safe-cracking spy, Maggie Silver, likes her new life as a regular high-school girl. Mostly. Okay, so there's the usual cliques, bad lunches and frustratingly simple locker combinations, but there's also her new boyfriend, Jessie, and insanely cool best friend, Roux. So when her parents are falsely accused of a crime, Maggie and her new team flee to Paris where she will have to use all her skills as a spy in order to clear their names. Too bad it only puts her and everyone she loves in danger.
National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Robin Benway returns with a story of love, loss, and sisterhood reminiscent of I’ll Give You the Sun and Every Day. Told in reverse chronological order, A Year to the Day will claim a permanent home in your heart. IT’S BEEN A YEAR—A YEAR OF MISSING NINA Leo can’t remember what happened the night of the accident. All she knows is that she left the party with her older sister, Nina, and Nina’s boyfriend, East. And now Nina is dead, killed by a drunk driver and leaving Leo with a hole inside her that’s impossible to fill. East, who loved Nina almost as much as Leo did, is the person who seems to most understand how she feels, and the two form a friendship based on their shared grief. But as she struggles to remember what happened, Leo discovers that East remembers every detail of the accident—and he won’t tell her anything about it. In fact, he refuses to talk about that night at all. As the days tumble one into the next, Leo’s story comes together while her world falls apart. How can she move on if she never knows what really happened that night? And is happiness even possible in a world without Nina?
Emmy and Oliver were going to be best friends forever, or maybe even more, before their futures were ripped apart. In Emmy's soul, despite the space and time between them, their connection has never been severed. But is their story still written in the stars? Or are their hearts like the pieces of two different puzzles—impossible to fit together? Emmy just wants to be in charge of her own life. . . . She wants to stay out late, surf her favorite beach—go anywhere without her parents' relentless worrying. But Emmy's parents can't seem to let her grow up—not since the day Oliver disappeared. Oliver needs a moment to figure out his heart. . . . He'd thought, all these years, that his dad was the good guy. He never knew that it was his father who had kidnapped him and kept him on the run. Discovering it, and finding himself returned to his old hometown, all at once, has his heart racing, and his thoughts swirling. Readers who love Sarah Dessen will devour these pages with hearts in throats as Emmy and Oliver struggle to face the messy, confusing consequences of Oliver's father's crime. Full of romance, coming-of-age emotion, and heartache, these two equally compelling characters create an unforgettable story.
While trying to score a date with her cute co-worker at the Scooper Dooper, sixteen-year-old Audrey gains unwanted fame and celebrity status when her ex-boyfriend, a rock musician, records a breakup song about her that soars to the top of the Billboard charts.
After their parents' divorce, teenaged sisters April, May, and June recover special powers from childhood and use them to cope with moving to a new home and high school, but wonder if the gifts have a greater purpose.
Blood is blood...and one way or another, we all bleed." Drizella and Anastasia only know one thing for certain: they will never end up like their mother, Lady Tremaine. When their father left them as young girls, he took what was left of their family's fortune and their mother's dignity with him. A few years and one deceased stepfather later, the only version of Lady Tremaine that Drizella and Anastasia know is a bitter and cruel head of house. Anastasia and Drizella have promised themselves—and each other—that they'll be different. They'll find love, see the world, and never let their hearts go cold. But both sisters are all too aware of what it can mean when cast into disfavor with their mother, and fueled by Lady Tremaine's tendencies to pit the daughters against one another, Drizella and Anastasia are locked into a complicated waltz of tenuous sisterhood. On the cusp of the royal debut party—their one chance to impress the Prince and live up to their mother's expectations—the sisters at last get a glimpse of what life could be like outside of Lady Tremaine's intentions: Drizella discovering a love of science and Anastasia sparking a secret romance. But never underestimate the power a mother whose greatest talents lie in manipulation, and the sisters may learn that even the cruelest of hearts can spill blood. This first book in the new Disney Villains Dark Ascension series by National Book Award-winning author Robin Benway explores the complex sibling rivalry between the two wicked stepsisters from Cinderella that turned them into the characters we know today.
Liefdesperikelen en spionage in een ongelofelijk grappig boek! Voor de 16-jarige Maggie Silver is brandkasten kraken een makkie. Ze heeft twaalf paspoorten en reist met haar ouders de wereld over om geheime missies uit te voeren. Maggie denkt dat ze haar leven als spion helemaal onder controle heeft, maar dan krijgt ze haar eerste solo-opdracht: ze moet infiltreren op een school in New York. Dat blijkt moeilijker dan gedacht. Niet alleen raakt Maggie bevriend met partygirl Roux, ook wordt ze verliefd op de aantrekkelijke Jesse Oliver. Maar juist zíjn vader moet ze bespioneren. Misverstanden en hilarische situaties zijn het gevolg Robin Benway brak wereldwijd door met haar debuut Bonustrack. In Nederland werd het verkozen tot kerntitel van de Jonge Jury. Ook haar tweede boek Girlpower was een succes. Robin Benway woont in Los Angeles en is verslaafd aan muziek en koffie. `Benway s hoofpersonen zijn springlevend. Dit boek is echt een aanrader **** Romantic Times
A long dirt road, flanked by an orchard of blooming almond trees, is the pathway to a mysterious and magical land. The wondrous place lies somewhere deep inside the trunk of a giant almond tree. Its a land full of danger and adventure, but more importantly, a land full of wisdom and knowledge. A battalion of celestial honeybees chases an eight-year-old boy to the entrance of this place. Joshie Levitt is mourning the loss of his parents and asking the question every human being asks about death and loss: why? A menagerie of strange creatures and unusual beings are waiting for his arrival and preparing their answers to his question. Joshie is given the keys to the city, but must first open all its gates and find all its treasures before he can return home to his grandparents farm. Joshies quest for the ultimate answer will be both exciting and dangerous, but worth the risk. The experience will change his life forever.
Na de scheiding van hun ouders, verhuizen de zussen April (16), May (15) en June (14) met hun moeder naar een andere stad. Dat is het begin van een nieuw leven op een nieuwe school. Niet iets waar ze naar uitkijken! Op hun eerste schooldag overkomt hun iets bizars: April blijkt in de toekomst te kunnen kijken, May kan uit haar lichaam treden en June kan gedachten lezen. Deze bijzondere gaven zetten de zussen in om op school te overleven en er persoonlijk voordeel uit te slepen. Dat levert hilarische situaties op: wanneer April op school de boomlange Julian ontmoet, ziet ze dat ze in de toekomst zullen gaan zoenen! June gebruikt het gedachten lezen om het populairste meisje van de school voor zich te winnen. En May, die een hekel heeft aan school, verdwijnt uit de klas, terwijl niemand dat ziet. Wanneer April een visioen heeft waarin June een ernstig ongeluk krijgt, doet ze er alles aan om dit te voorkomen. Maar dan ook echt álles De pers over Bonustrack: `Meidenboek van de betere soort. Kidsweek `Een ontzettend goed geschreven jeugdboek. redactie ChickLit.nl
3 soeurs, 3 secrets, 3 pouvoirs... C'est arrivé le lendemain de la rentrée. Alors que la journée s'annonce tout à fait ordinaire, April découvre qu'elle peut prédire l'avenir. Le même jour, sa soeur May connaît un soudain accès d'invisibilité, qui semble se déclencher à la moindre émotion. Et enfin, June, leur benjamine, parvient à lire dans les pensées de tous ceux qui l'entourent ! Génial, non ? Et bien non. Prévoir les catastrophes sans pouvoir les éviter, draguer un mec avec un corps qui disparaît à moitié et connaître les pensées pas toujours reluisantes de ses copines, voilà qui vous décourage d'avoir des superpouvoirs ! Et si le véritable pouvoir de ces trois soeurs-là était le lien qui les unit ?
Having a permanent base in Manhattan has its pros and cons for seventeen-year-old safecracker Maggie Silver. On hiatus from her usual international spy missions, Maggie gets to spend more quality time with her insanely cool best friend, Roux, and former mark turned boyfriend, Jesse Oliver ... even if she does have to meet his mm. But when Maggie's parents are falsely accused of stealing precious gold coins, she flees to Paris with her friends to form a spy team ... one that will clear her family's name once and for all.
I hugged my sisters and they fit against my sides like two jigsaw pieces that would never fit anywhere else. I couldn?t imagine ever letting them go again, like releasing them would be to surrender the best parts of myself. Three sisters share a magical, unshakeable bond in this witty high-concept novel from the critically acclaimed author of Audrey, Wait! Around the time of their parents? divorce, sisters April, May, and June recover special powers from childhood?powers that come in handy navigating the hell that is high school. Powers that help them cope with the hardest year of their lives. But could they have a greater purpose? April, the oldest and a bit of a worrier, can see the future. Middle-child May can literally disappear. And baby June reads minds?everyone?s but her own. When April gets a vision of disaster, the girls come together to save the day and reconcile their strained family. They realize that no matter what happens, powers or no powers, they?ll always have each other. Because there?s one thing stronger than magic: sisterhood.
Former safe-cracking spy, Maggie Silver, likes her new life as a regular high-school girl. Mostly. Okay, so there's the usual cliques, bad lunches and frustratingly simple locker combinations, but there's also her new boyfriend, Jessie, and insanely cool best friend, Roux. So when her parents are falsely accused of a crime, Maggie and her new team flee to Paris where she will have to use all her skills as a spy in order to clear their names. Too bad it only puts her and everyone she loves in danger.
Newbery Award-winning author and fantasy icon Robin McKinley writes stories that enchant readers. Bringing together three of her most popular novels--Spindle's End, The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword--this boxed set is the perfect gift for her fans.
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