Ergebnis für "Memoiren" in Jugendliche & Heranwachsende

Seventeen-year-old Elena is vanishing. Every day means renewed determination, so every day means fewer calories. This is the story of a girl whose armor against anxiety becomes artillery against herself as she battles on both sides of a lose-lose war in a struggle with anorexia.

If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn’t have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn’t have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn’t have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might...

2020 ALA Alex Award Winner 2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book The ground-breaking, bestselling graphic novel is now available on audio. In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical...

A haunted young girl (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar) runs away from an oppressive city, where the sky is always grey, in search of love and sisterhood - and finds herself in a magical place known only as the Street of Miracles. There, she is quickly adopted into a vigilante gang of glamorous warrior femmes called the Lipstick Lacerators, whose mission is to scour the Street of violent men and avenge murdered trans women everywhere. Can our intrepid heroine find the truth within herself in order to protect her new family and heal her broken heart?

Junior Library Guild Selection * New York Public Library's Best Books for Teens * Goodreads Choice Awards Nonfiction Finalist * Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best Books for Teens: Nonfiction * 2018 Texas Topaz Nonfiction List * YALSA's 2018 Quick Picks List * Bank Street's 2018 Best...

In Courage to Soar, the official autobiography from four-time Olympic gold-winning and record-setting American gymnast Simone Biles, Simone shares how her faith, family, passion, and perseverance has made her one of the top athletes and gymnasts in the world—and how you too can overcome...

The incredible true story of a teen who became an activist for the Tibetan independence movement, for readers of Red Scarf Girl and Farewell to Manzanar. Tsultrim Dolma, born in a tiny village in the stunning mountains of eastern Tibet, always knew there had to be more than the life expected of...

A YALSA 2020 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Selection “[P]rofound…a triumph—a full-throated howl to the moon to remind us why we choose to survive and thrive.” —Brendan Kiely, New York Times bestselling author of Tradition “Razor-sharp, deeply revealing, and brutally...

Jonell Joshua spent her childhood shuttling back and forth between Savannah and New Jersey—living in grandparents’ homes during the times her mother, struggling with mental illness, needed support to raise her and her brothers. Together the family found a way to keep going even in the darkest of times. How Do I Draw These Memories? is a memoir about nostalgia, faith, the preciousness of life, and unconditional love.

A poignant young adult graphic memoir that follows one teen's year abroad in Japan, as she seeks to reconcile both sides of her biracial identity. Christine has always felt she is just half: Half American, half Japanese. As a biracial Japanese American who was born in Tokyo but raised in the US...

WITH A FOREWORD WRITTEN AND READ BY ARIANA DEBOSE! An instant New York Times bestseller! “A perfect juxtaposition of ordinary and extraordinary, told with humor, compassion, and unshakeable hope.” —Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda The...

An astonishing memoir for the untold number of children whose lives have been touched by bullying. Positive is a must-read for teens, their parents, educators, and administrators—a brave, visceral work that will save lives and resonate deeply. Paige Rawl has been HIV positive since birth, but...

When teen martial artist Angela Farr took on the role of Solace's resident hero, she expected it to be dangerous but also doable. Drug dealers, gangsters, and a triad of Mafia families, she can handle, but when her friend-turned-enemy Trevor Pratt returns to Solace as ARSON, everything changes. Last year, Angela lost Trevor's game, and he murdered her stepfather; now, ARSON has a new game with new rules and even higher stakes. With the help of her friend Victoria and billionaire sponsor Ben, Angela must uncover Trevor's deadly game before the whole city goes up in flames.

This program is read by the author. Maggie Nichols’s official memoir is an inspirational tell-all about the abuse she suffered under the US national gymnastics team and how she managed to redefine herself in the face of adversity. With an introduction from Simone Biles. In 2015, Maggie...

The Lucem are dangerously isolated, now that the Agency and the Tetrahedron Marauders have joined forces. To make matters worse, they have plans to develop a deadly weapon designed for one purpose.... To eliminate the Heliographi. The Lucem are soon faced with a difficult decision, one they never thought possible. In order to survive, they must join with their sworn enemy, the Atrum.

Caitlin Paine, 18 ans, se retrouve soudain hors de sa banlieue confortable et est forcée d’aller à une école secondaire dangereuse dans la ville de New York lorsque sa mère déménage une fois de plus. Le seul rayon de soleil de son nouvel environnement est Jonah, un nouveau camarade de classe qui l’apprécie immédiatement. Mais avant que leur romance puisse s’épanouir, Caitlin commence soudainement une transformation. Elle est envahie par une force surhumaine, une sensibilité à la lumière, un désir de se nourrir.

En 2105, deux classes sociales existent : les privilégiés - qui à l'adolescence reçoivent un sérum leur permettant de vivre 400 ans - et les ordinaires. Une fois par an, un grand concours est organisé pour permettre à des ados ordinaires de recevoir le précieux sérum. Les épreuves portent sur leurs capacités cérébrales. La jeune So décide de participer, mais des événements incroyables vont lui faire comprendre qu'une bactérie révélatrice de souvenirs de 2015 est nichée dans son cerveau. Et certains sont prêts à tout pour connaître ses souvenirs.

Bendy fans will delight in poring over the memoir of his ingenious creator, Joey Drew. From humble beginnings to his meteoric rise as the force behind his eponymous studio, Mr. Drew offers a behind the scenes peek at his many animation innovations, such as Sillivision, his "Rules to Animate By", and of course his unique approach to franchising - among the first of its time.

How to Be Happy tackles depression, friendship, sexual identity, suicide, academic pressure, love, and adolescent confusion. It’s a brave and honest account of one young man’s search for a happy, true, and meaningful life that will resonate with listeners young and old.

From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys. Both a primer for teens eager to be allies as well as a reassuring testimony for young queer men of color, All Boys Aren't Blue covers topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, structural marginalization, consent, and Black joy.