Kategoria BISAC: Young Adult Fiction >> School & Education - General

Kiersten Shorter is enjoying the happiest day of her 13 years. She has her three best friends over to help prepare for her birthday party. Her parents just gave her a cute puppy as a present. And her Aunt Viv and Uncle Fred surprised her by flying all the way from California to Atlanta. While her father, uncle, and younger brother and sister go for party supplies, Kiersten and her mom walk to the home of another girlfriend, whose father, Kiersten's soccer coach, is a bully, to make sure she comes to the party. When they arrive back, Kiersten's happiest day turns into her saddest. Her life...

JOHN ?SPUD? MILTON takes his first hilarious steps toward manhood in this delicious, laugh-out-loud boarding school romp, full of midnight swims, raging hormones, and catastrophic holidays that will leave the entire family in hysterics and thirsty for more

-Juliet Capulet would find a worthy BFF in Beatrice Bunson.---Cordelia Frances Biddle, author of the Martha Beale mystery series

-Cohen has made an essential classic cool.---Beth Kephart, author of Going Over

High school begins, and to Beatrice Bunson nothing is the same, not even her best friend, Nan. The -new- Nan doesn't hang out with Bea; she's running for Student Council and going to parties and avoiding Bea at lunchtime. The boys who were gross in middle school have become surprisingly polite, while the -cool- kids are still a mystery. Bea's older sister,...

Isabelle and Annie are two self-professed middle-school drama geeks who have no idea how to flirt with boys--successfully. Their sweet, awkward, and painful attempts at romance are getting them nowhere, so they start Flirt Club, an after-school support group for similarly afflicted friends who decide to take decisive and strategic action. Told entirely through notes passed in school, diary entries, and the occasional e-mail, Flirt Club is a hilarious and touching tween novel about love and lust with a heart, a brain, and a whole lot more.

Seventh grade was supposed to be fun, but Tori is having major drama with her BFF, Sienna. Sienna changed a lot over the summer--on the first day of school she's tan, confident, and full of stories about her new dreamy boyfriend. Tori knows that she's totally making this guy up. So Tori invents her own fake boyfriend, who is better than Sienna's in every way. Things are going great--unless you count the whole lying-to-your-best-friend thing--until everyone insists Tori and Sienna bring their boyfriends to the back-to-school dance.

Audrey Anderson has one chance to escape poverty--excel academically and get into a good school. She'll let nothing stand between her and her goal: not dating and certainly not snotty Scarlett West. The girls can't stand each other, so why is Scarlett hanging around Audrey and getting under Audrey's skin--in more ways than one?

Scarlett needs a tutor, and Audrey doesn't want the job. She still resents Scarlett offering to pay Audrey to do her homework, but her compassionate best friend talks Audrey into giving Scarlett a second chance. The more time they spend together, the harder...