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Could summer in your neighborhood turn out to be better than an exotic holiday overseas? Ina and her new neighbor Vilmer are about to find out…  Ina has no plans for the summer. Suddenly, she finds herself lying in front of the entire class, telling them she is going to the Mediterranean for three weeks. And then the lie keeps growing and growing via social media. The only problem is that the new boy in class has moved to Ina’s neighborhood and he will easily find out that she is not in the Mediterranean. Perhaps the best summer holiday is the one you thought would be the worst? A warm, believable story about friendship, first love, and social media from Norwegian author Marianne Kaurin.

Two messengers, six allies, one fight for survival! A gateway to a world of the past, of vanished names, hopes and dreams has opened in the depths of the Black Forest. Two messengers from the immense sunken realms of time, Tristan and Martha, used to be lovers, now sworn enemies. They have come together to fight one final, decisive battle, but they must search the Black Forest to find six comrades-in-arms. Ultimately, five fighters for doom and three fighters for preservation will face each other. And the battle of the eight will continue until only one of them is left and the fate of humanity is sealed.

Scandinavian noir meets YA in a jam-packed novel that’s part whodunit, part romance, part end-of-the-world narrative. - Publishers Weekly When will the world end? With a massive comet hurtling toward Earth, humanity now knows the exact date.A Kirkus Best Young Adult Book of 2020 Kirkus Reviews Best YA Books of 2020 About Chasing Dreams Kirkus Reviews "...utterly brilliant in its humanity." Kirkus Reviews  Weekly STARRED REVIEW! "A stellar work of fiction that will cling to readers' minds and take hold of their hearts."  School Library Journal "This intense novel will grip readers..."  -- Laura Simeon International Stories for Teens, Kirkus Reviews  It’s the end of the world and seventeen-year-old Simon wants to spend his last weeks with the people he cares about most, especially his goal-oriented swimmer ex-girlfriend, Tilda, who dumped him shortly after the news broke. Tilda’s former best friend Lucinda was diagnosed with cancer, and  she has retreated into herself, preparing for the inevitable. Suddenly facing down a death that makes her the same as everyone else, she longs to connect again but doesn’t quite know where to start. Reaching out to her former best friend Tilda seems like a good first step. Then Tilda is found dead and accusations start circling that Simon is the killer. As the days tick down, Simon and Lucinda want to know the truth, but the more they uncover about the final days of the girl they both cared for deeply, the clearer the things that really matter become.  Probing the question How would you spend your last days if you knew exactly when they’d run out?, The End is a taut and riveting pre-apocalyptic thriller underpinned with sharp social commentary, that blends the urgency of Neal and Jarrod Shusterman’s Dry with the dark tension of Courtney Summer’s Sadie

This book contains Count Dracula''s rather true memoirs. And there are tons of hideous creatures in it. Giant yetis, insidious werewolves, slimy fish monsters... You might learn things you didn''t know about monsters before. Hair-raising things that make these monsters appear friendly, even downright human. So, take my advice, you only have one chance: put the book down quickly and move on before you get caught in its clutches! But if you do read this book, you will be enchanted by the incredibly imaginative full-colour illustrations throughout, the fabulously appealing cover, and the original wit captured within.

When peasant John Little witnesses the Sheriff of Nottingham''s men destroying his village for John''s crime of poaching deer to feed his people, he flees into the tangle of Sherwood Forest with the only other survivor, his young foster daughter Marian. But dangers lurk there, too: the outlaw Robin Hood soon catches them and takes them prisoner. As the newly dubbed Little John gets an education in how to fit into Robin''s dangerous band, Marian, too, grows into a force to be reckoned with.