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...

"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...

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...

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...

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Een hard, flitsend en ook grappig boek over een onverwachte vriendschap. Voor young adults die wel wat zien in gangsters, foute vriendjes en weggelopen meisjes.

Crimineel op leeftijd Leo Meijer stuit tijdens zijn ontsnapping uit de gevangenis op Roos. Die was eerst met haar vriendje weggelopen van haar pleegouders en is onlangs ook voor die rotzak gevlucht. En nu wordt ze met een ontsnapte gangste...

The first novel in this award-winning sequence about racism set in an alternate reality. Upcoming BBC1 production of "Noughts & Crosses" in a series produced by Mammoth Screen, of Poldark fame, coming in 2017.

How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?She stumbled backwards, her eyes wide, as the figure started coming out of the canvas... She tried to be brave. Well, she said, her hands only a little shaky, at least tell me what I should call you.

... Well, little girl, it replied, I suppose you can call me Pet. There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught.

With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown...