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...

Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood?those with red and those with silver. Mare and her family are lowly Reds, destined to serve the Silver elite whose supernatural abilities make them nearly gods. Mare steals what she can to help her family survive, but when her best friend is conscripted into the army she gambles everything to win his freedom. A twist of fate leads her to the royal palace itself, where, in front of the king and all his nobles, she discovers a power of her own?an ability ...

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...

Heroism or cowardice? A stunning story of the First World War from a master storyteller ‘Full of warmth as well as grief, conveying vividly how precious it is to be alive’ Sunday Times As young Thomas Peaceful looks back over his childhood from the battlefields of the First World War, his memories are full of family life deep in the countryside. But the clock is ticking, and every moment Tommo spends remembering how things used to be, means another moment closer to something that will cha...

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...

The sky is dark with wings . . .And time is running out for Luce and Daniel. In order to stop Lucifer from erasing the past, they must find the place where the Fall began. Only Luce can break the curse, and it is her choice alone that will decide all of their fates.But as Dark Forces gather, great sacrifices will have to be made in this final, epic struggle . . . In the fight for Luce, and for Love, who will win?The astonishing climax to the FALLEN series. Heaven can't wait any longer.