ilość książek w kategorii: 623
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Life Is Funny
ISBN: 9780142300831 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the outside, they're simply a group of urban teenagers. But from the inside, they're some of the most complex people you'll ever meet. There's Eric, fiercely protective of his brother Mickey-but he has a secret that holds together his past and future. Sonia, struggling to live the life of a good Muslim girl in a foreign America. Gingerbread and Keisha, who fall in love despite themselves. Life Is Funny strips away the defenses of one group of teenagers living today, right now-and shows their unbearably real lives. "First novelist Frank breaks new ground with a realistic,...
From the outside, they're simply a group of urban teenagers. But from the inside, they're some of the most complex people you'll ever meet. There's Er...
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55,86 zł |
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The Boy from the Basement
ISBN: 9780142405468 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For Charlie, the cold, dark basement is home. Father has kept him locked in there as punishment. Charlie doesn't intend to leave, but when he is accidentally thrust outside, he awakens to the alien surroundings of a world to which he's never before been exposed. Though haunted by hallucinations, fear of the basement, and his father's rage, Charlie must find a way to survive in his new world. He has escaped his past, but his journey has just begun.
For Charlie, the cold, dark basement is home. Father has kept him locked in there as punishment. Charlie doesn't intend to leave, but when he is accid...
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27,89 zł |
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The Window
ISBN: 9780152049263 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mandy survived the terrible accident that killed her mother, but she was left blind and alone. Now she lives with relatives she doesn't know, attends a new school, and tries to make friends--all the while struggling to function without sight.
Her unpredictable life takes its strangest turn when she begins to hear the oddest things through the window of her attic room. In fact, what she hears--and seems to "see"--are events that happened years ago, before she was even born. . . . Mandy survived the terrible accident that killed her mother, but she was left blind and alone. Now she lives with relatives she doesn't know, attends ...
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55,66 zł |
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Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
ISBN: 9780152052089 / Angielski / Miękka / 133 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Owen is seventeen and smart. He knows what he wants to do with his life. But then he meets Natalie and he realizes he doesn't know anything much at all. A slender, realistic story of a young man's coming of age, Very Far Away from Anywhere Else is one of the most inspiring novels Ursula K. Le Guin has ever published.
Owen is seventeen and smart. He knows what he wants to do with his life. But then he meets Natalie and he realizes he doesn't know anything much at al...
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47,84 zł |
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Dancing on the Edge
ISBN: 9780152058845 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Miracle McCloy comes from an unusual family: Her father, Dane is a prodigy who published his first book at age thirteen; her grandmother, Gigi, is clairvoyant; and her mother was dead when her "miracle" daughter was pulled from her womb. Having been raised according to a set of mystical rules and beliefs, Miracle is unable to cope in the real world. Lost in a desperate dance among lit candles, she sets herself afire and comes to in a hospital. There, a young psychiatrist helps her navigate her painful struggle to take charge of her life. Includes a reader's guide and an interview with the...
Miracle McCloy comes from an unusual family: Her father, Dane is a prodigy who published his first book at age thirteen; her grandmother, Gigi, is cla...
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63,80 zł |
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Space Station Seventh Grade
ISBN: 9780316806053 / Angielski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,81 zł |
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Return
ISBN: 9780449702802 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifteen-year-old Desta belongs to a small, isolated mountain community of Ethiopian Jews. She and her brother and sister leave their aunt and uncle and set out on the long and dangerous trip to freedom -- an airlift from the Sudan to Israel, the Promised Land. They travel barefoot, facing hunger, thirst and bandits. "Vivid and compelling...Levitin's tour de force is sensitively written." BOOKLIST. An ALA 1987 Best Book for Young Adults.
Fifteen-year-old Desta belongs to a small, isolated mountain community of Ethiopian Jews. She and her brother and sister leave their aunt and uncle an...
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27,89 zł |
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So Much to Tell You
ISBN: 9780449703748 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of Australia's Book of the Year Award. Set in Australia and written in the form of a diary, this is the tragic story of the effects of divorce and her parents' anger on a young woman's life. "Remarkable...few readers will come away from the portrait of Marina's ordeal unshaken. "--Publishers Weekly
Winner of Australia's Book of the Year Award. Set in Australia and written in the form of a diary, this is the tragic story of the effects of divorce ...
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27,89 zł |
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Coverup
ISBN: 9780449704097 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Quick and fun with a satisfying resolution."
VOYA All Brad remembers about that party was that his friend Alden Whitlock drove him home. He also has the nagging feeling that while he was sleeping in the passenger seat, Alden hit something--or someone. Alden and his father, a powerful judge, deny that anything took place. Brad isn't so sure--especially when beautiful Ellen Hanson comes searching in town for her lost father. Suddenly Brad is forced to examine his cushioned world of privilege and to choose between the truth and deceit. Either way, Brad could lose.... "Quick and fun with a satisfying resolution."
VOYA All Brad remembers about that party was that his friend Alden Whitlock drove him home. He als... |
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23,90 zł |
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Shizuko's Daughter
ISBN: 9780449704332 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Lyrical...A beautifully written book about a bitterly painful coming of age."
THE KIRKUS REVIEWS Yuki Okuda knows her mother would be proud of her grades and her achievements in sports if she were alive. But she committed suicide. And Yuki has to learn how to live with a father who doesn't seem to love her and a stepmother who treats her badly. Most important, she has to learn how to live with herself: a twelve-year-old Japanese girl growing up alone, trying to make sense of a tragedy that makes no sense at all.... "Lyrical...A beautifully written book about a bitterly painful coming of age."
THE KIRKUS REVIEWS Yuki Okuda knows her mother would be proud of ... |
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31,88 zł |
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American Eyes: New Asian-American Short Stories for Young Adults
ISBN: 9780449704486 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this unique collection of touching and heartfelt short stories, ten young Asian-American writers re-create the conflicts that all young people feel living in two distinct worlds -- one of memories and traditions, and one of today. Whether it includes dreams of gossiping with the prettiest blond girl in class, not wanting to marry the man your parents love, or discovering that your true identity is ultimately your decision, these extraordinary stories by writers of Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Hawaiian, Filipino, and Korean descent explore the confusion and ambivalence of growing up in a...
In this unique collection of touching and heartfelt short stories, ten young Asian-American writers re-create the conflicts that all young people feel...
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31,88 zł |
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I Can't Tell You
ISBN: 9780618494910 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After he opens his big mouth in a fight with his best friend, Jake concludes that talking equals trouble. He decides that communicating through writing is safer. Through notes scribbled on napkins and in notebooks and on upside-down calculators Jake explores new ways to express himself.
After he opens his big mouth in a fight with his best friend, Jake concludes that talking equals trouble. He decides that communicating through writin...
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51,83 zł |
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What Do They See in Me That I Don't See in Myself?
ISBN: 9781606931882 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jesse Hardaway is used to things being his fault. It s just him and his mom at home, and she s always yelling at him. School is like home, only about ten times worse He s in fifth grade special education and has to battle ADHD and an anger/behavior disorder every day. If he isn t in trouble, he s getting into it. The only thing Jesse is sure of is that the world is against him, and he is ready to give up. One good thing Jesse has in his life is his best friend Davess, who never stops trying to look out for him. At school, Mrs. Abogar and Ms. Dubose try to look out for him too, though Jesse...
Jesse Hardaway is used to things being his fault. It s just him and his mom at home, and she s always yelling at him. School is like home, only about ...
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39,70 zł |
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The Lucy Variations
ISBN: 9780316205009 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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106,80 zł |
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The Dead and the Gone
ISBN: 9780547258553 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life as We Knew It enthralled and devastated readers with its brutal but hopeful look at an apocalyptic event--an asteroid hitting the moon, setting off a tailspin of horrific climate changes. Now this harrowing companion novel examines the same events as they unfold in New York City, revealed through the eyes of seventeen-year-old Puerto Rican Alex Morales. When Alex's parents disappear in the aftermath of tidal waves, he must care for his two younger sisters, even as Manhattan becomes a deadly wasteland, and food and aid dwindle. Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life as We Knew It enthralled and devastated readers with its brutal but hopeful look at an apocalyptic event--an aster... |
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63,80 zł |
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Vibes
ISBN: 9780547248899 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nothing is beyond Kristi Carmichael's disdain. Yet for all her attitude and her mind-reading abilities, Kristi has a vulnerable side. She's hot for popular Gusty Peterson, but of course she's sure he thinks she is disgusting. And she's still mad at her father, who walked out on the family two years ago.
Nothing is beyond Kristi Carmichael's disdain. Yet for all her attitude and her mind-reading abilities, Kristi has a vulnerable side. She's hot for po...
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59,65 zł |
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All the Things We Never Knew
ISBN: 9780062656926 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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55,82 zł |
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Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
ISBN: 9781416990666 / Angielski / Miękka / 343 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amy Curry thinks her life sucks. Her mom decides to move from California to Connecticut to start anew--just in time for Amy's senior year. Her dad recently died in a car accident. So Amy embarks on a road trip to escape from it all, driving cross-country from the home she's always known toward her new life. Joining Amy on the road trip is Roger, the son of Amy's mother's old friend. Amy hasn't seen him in years, and she is less than thrilled to be driving across the country with a guy she barely knows. So she's surprised to find that she is developing a crush on him. At the same time, she's...
Amy Curry thinks her life sucks. Her mom decides to move from California to Connecticut to start anew--just in time for Amy's senior year. Her dad rec...
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43,85 zł |
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Dark Water
ISBN: 9780375843303 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A National Book Award Finalist
A Kirkus Reviews Best Books for Teens Fifteen-year-old Pearl DeWitt lives in Fallbrook, California, where it's sunny 340 days of the year, and where her uncle owns a grove of 900 avocado trees. Uncle Hoyt hires migrant workers regularly, but Pearl doesn't pay much attention to them...until Amiel. From the moment she sees him, Pearl is drawn to this boy who keeps to himself, fears being caught by la migra, and is mysteriously unable to talk. Then the wildfires strike. From the Hardcover edition.
A National Book Award Finalist
A Kirkus Reviews Best Books for Teens Fifteen-year-old Pearl DeWitt lives in Fallbrook, California, where... |
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55,86 zł |
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The Sacred Path of Tears
ISBN: 9781449721688 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Sacred Path of Tears" is a journal written by a young Cheyenne Indian woman, nicknamed Mokee, during the Indian Wars in Kansas in the late 1860s. After Mokee and her companion observe the Sand Creek Massacre, they warn the other Indian camps along the Smoky Hill River. They take cover in a barn near Salina, Kansas, where they are discovered by a widow and her two sons. Mokee's companion leaves to join the fight against the white soldiers but hating war, Mokee, with her lighter coloring, gains a safe haven with the widow's family. She finds a mentor in the well-educated widow and... "The Sacred Path of Tears" is a journal written by a young Cheyenne Indian woman, nicknamed Mokee, during the Indian Wars in Kansas in the late 186... |
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66,23 zł |