Remy is an eleven-year-old, intelligent, but unhappy boy who lives in a beautiful coastal South African town. Self-conscious about his appearance, he is quite shorter than other children his age and has very small eyes, Remy lacks self-confidence and struggles with insecurities and anger issues.

Remy is often mocked by other children at school, particularly about his height, which exacerbates his sensitivity about his appearance. Unable to manage his feelings, he starts picking fights with anyone who makes fun of him making things worse. Not only are children starting to enjoy Remy’s frustration and anger, but his performance at school becomes affected as he loses interest in studies and his grades begin to drop. Things worsen for Remy when he starts middle school and Jayden, the cool, tall, athletic, popular kid, teases and bullies Remy making his life more difficult than ever.

In this tale of growth and self-discovery, the reader follows Remy’s journey and emotional struggle to self-acceptance. With the help of a wise owl that provides Remy with a new perspective, and his mother’s advice, reassurances, and knowledge and practice of yoga, which Remy incorporates into his own life, Remy comes to a new understanding of himself. Reflecting on her own life, author Mayuri Naidoo hopes that Remy: A Book About Believing in Yourself will impart basic principles and philosophies of yoga and other tools she cultivated as an adult but wishes she had been taught at Remy’s age.

For fans of Thirteen Reasons Why, This Is How It Ends, and All the Bright Places, comes a new novel about life after. How do you put yourself back together when it seems like you've lost it all?

May is a survivor. But she doesn't feel like one. She feels angry. And lost. And alone. Eleven months after the school shooting that killed her twin brother, May still doesn't know why she was the only one to walk out of the band room that day. No one gets what she went through--no one saw and heard what she did. No one can possibly understand how it feels to be her.

Zach lost his old life when his mother decided to defend the shooter. His girlfriend dumped him, his friends bailed, and now he spends his time hanging out with his little sister...and the one faithful friend who stuck around. His best friend is needy and demanding, but he won't let Zach disappear into himself. Which is how Zach ends up at band practice that night. The same night May goes with her best friend to audition for a new band.

Which is how May meets Zach. And how Zach meets May. And how both might figure out that surviving could be an option after all.

Told from three diverse points of view, this story of life and love after loss is one Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give, believes "will stay with you long after you put it down."

We've lost everything...and found ourselves.

Loss pulled Autumn, Shay, and Logan apart. Will music bring them back together?

Autumn always knew exactly who she was: a talented artist and a loyal friend. Shay was defined by two things: her bond with her twin sister, Sasha, and her love of music. And Logan has always turned to writing love songs when his real love life was a little less than perfect.

But when tragedy strikes each of them, somehow music is no longer enough. Now Logan is a guy who can't stop watching vlogs of his dead ex-boyfriend. Shay is a music blogger who's struggling to keep it together. And Autumn sends messages that she knows can never be answered.

Despite the odds, one band's music will reunite them and prove that after grief, beauty thrives in the people left behind.

"Woodfolk's debut cuts deeply and then wipes your tears away. Wrenching, heartfelt, and vividly human." --Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

"Haunting, heart-wrenching, and powerful...a tearjerker must-read for teens!" --Dhonielle Clayton, author of the Belles series and coauthor of the Tiny Pretty Things series

"This books hurts so good. With three distinct narrators and lyrical prose, Ashley Woodfolk stakes her claim as a fresh new voice to follow in the world of young adult literature."--Julie Murphy, author of Ramona Blue and Dumplin'

The Unfamous Five is, a parody of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five series. It works to undermine Blyton’s depiction of childhood, and the seeming neutralities of class and race that the series perpetuates. This novel captures the lives of five main characters of Indian origin and is set, mainly, in and around Lenasia.

The five central characters are seen from their adolescent years with a growing desire to leave Lenasia. When they finally achieve this goal, the baggage of history and identity lingers, ultimately forcing them return to Lenasia but on new terms.

Hardloop. Dis al wat Spoekie ken. Van die aand dat Spoekie se pa hom en sy ma met 'n geweer in die straat afgejaag het, hardloop hy vir al die verkeerde redes. Vasgevang in 'n omgewing vol geweld en misdaad, sien Spoekie geen uitkomkans nie. Al wat hy doen is moeilikheid maak - en daarvan weghardloop. Tot die dag wat hy vir Coach ontmoet - Coach wat al Olimpiese medaljes gewen het en die natuurlike talent in Spoekie dadelik raaksien. Spoekie kan die beste atleet in die stad word. Maar gaan sy verlede hom inhaal, of gaan hy uiteindelik leer jy kan nie vir jouself weghardloop nie?

Hierdie boek deur die veelbekroonde Jason Reynolds is meesterlik deur André Trantraal in Kaapse Afrikaans vertaal vir 'n voorheen onontginde mark. Lesers sal hulself met hierdie karakters en konteks kan vereenselwig soos nog nooit tevore nie. Maar dis uiteindelik Spoekie self wat inderdaad by die leser bly spook - 'n karakter met so 'n komplekse en outentieke reis dat die leser vasgebind bly aan die verhaal lank nadat die boek klaar is.

Reality, it turns out, is often not what you perceive it to be—sometimes, there really is someone out to get you. For fans of Silver Linings Playbook and Liar, this thought-provoking debut tells the story of Alex, a high school senior—and the ultimate unreliable narrator—unable to tell the difference between real life and delusion.

Alex fights a daily battle to figure out what is real and what is not. Armed with a take-no-prisoners attitude, her camera, a Magic 8 Ball, and her only ally (her little sister), Alex wages a war against her schizophrenia, determined to stay sane long enough to get into college. She's pretty optimistic about her chances until she runs into Miles. Didn't she imagine him? Before she knows it, Alex is making friends, going to parties, falling in love, and experiencing all the usual rites of passage for teenagers. But Alex is used to being crazy. She's not prepared for normal. Can she trust herself? Can we trust her?

Die boek takel die kwessie van kindermolestering en dien om kinders in te lig en te bemagtig. Die gevaartekens van molestering word uitgewys en riglyne gebied oor hoe om in so ’n situasie op te tree. Kevin is gek oor stories van die dapper prins van Arabia wat teen drake veg. Maar sy ouer sussie, Abby, glo nie meer in sprokies nie. Abby sê daar is ’n draak in hulle huis – een wat vir niks en niemand skrik nie. Maar wie kan dit wees? Gelukkig leer Kevin net wat om te doen om homself te beskerm. 

Sebastian of Basjan beskou homself as ’n ‘verloorder’ en die boelies in sy nuwe skool dink ook dat hy een is. Hy sukkel om by die stadslewe aan te pas nadat sy pa gesterf het. Hillbrow lyk skrikwekkend en vol misdaad ná ’n sorgvrye grootword op ’n plaas.

Sy voorkoms is ongewoon – blonde hare, blou oë, blas vel – en die boelies by sy nuwe skool gee hom die bynaam Blasjan. Hy pas nie by sy swart, wit of selfs bruin klasmaats in nie. Sy jong lewensverhaal volg ’n pad van verdrukking en beproewing en ’n stryd teen boelies en dwelmafhanklikes. Hy vind vertroosting in musiek deur kitaar te speel, ’n band te begin, en aan ’n talentkompetisie deel te neem. Hy ontdek selfs sy eerste liefde.

Uiteindelik styg Blasjan bo alles uit en hy word sterker, voel gelukkiger en kry heelwat meer selfvertroue.

Being yourself should never come at this price. Joseph is the son anyone would wish to have—anyone except his pastor father, that is. Joseph is gay, and where he comes from, his sexual orientation makes him a pariah. Tormented by the incorrigible denizens of his unprogressive Southern town, Joseph finds himself desperate for support from other members of the LGBT community. He turns to the internet with the hope of finding it, and, unexpectedly, Joseph finds more. Bruce. An unlikely virtual friendship between Joseph and Bruce grows into something more, leading to a seemingly fated meeting. Joseph’s future suddenly looks brighter than ever, but no one could’ve ever predicted what would transpire after the two finally meet.

From New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Young comes a “tremendously moving” (Booklist) novel about a girl struggling to deal with anger issues while taking care of her younger brother with special needs.

“Anger-management issues.”

That’s how they classified Savannah Sutton after she drove a pencil into her ex-boyfriend’s hand because he mocked her little brother, Evan, for being disabled. That’s why they sent her to Brooks Academy—an alternative high school that’s used as a temporary detention center.

The days at Brooks are miserable, but at home, life is far more bleak. Savvy’s struggling to take care of her brother since her mom left years ago, and her alcoholic dad can’t be bothered. Life with Evan is a constant challenge, but he’s also the most important person in the world to Savvy.

Then there’s Cameron, a new student at Brooks with issues of his own; a guy from a perfect family that Savvy thought only existed on TV. Cameron seems determined to break through every one of the walls Savvy’s built around herself, except if she lets herself trust him, it could make everything she’s worked so hard for fall apart in an instant.

And with her aunt seeking custody of her brother and her ex-boyfriend seeking revenge, Savvy’s fighting to hold all the pieces together. But she’s not sure how much tighter she can be pulled before she breaks completely.

Lucy, a 16-year-old girl from New York, is recovering from a recent traumatic experience. She joins her father at the fictional Barclay Bay, on South Africa's west coast, where she slowly makes sense of her ordeal. But Lucy cannot help but also be affected by the characters around her, including that of Hap, an early ancestor who lived in the area, and whose experiences Lucy, in a state of heightened emotion and perception, seems to sense.

Charlotte van Katwijk guards herself like a secret. Kids are cruel, and she knows if they find out she's adopted, she'll be a bully's easy target.

When they are fourteen, Charlotte's best friend's mom commits suicide. It triggers in Charlotte a sense of urgency to find her birth mother before it's too late, and the answers to her burning questions are taken to the grave. Seven years later, a tormented Charlotte comes face to face with her past. Will discovering more about her biological parents, and the circumstances surrounding her relinquishment, be enough to lay her demons to rest?

Umbilicus is a coming-of-age story set in Durban during the dying days of apartheid. The tumultuous zeitgeist of the era mirrors the inner turmoil of an angst-ridden adolescent as she grapples to form an identity and find her place in the world.

You do magic once, and it sticks to you like glitter glue...

Gay angsty teen Johnny and his goth best friend, trans girl Alison, spend their summer dabbling in magic.

When they use spells to defend themselves from bullies, they suddenly find themselves whisked away to the Marduk Institute, a school for wayward wizards.

Johnny and Alison must now adapt to a new world of spells, fraternities, and cute boys like Hunter and Blake...

But Marduk isn't as safe as it seems. Johnny and Alison are pulled into a supernatural fight for their lives and must find the strength to battle the monsters lurking in the shadows of the school - and the demons that only exist inside their head.

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Charlie Plummer, AnnaSophia Robb, and Taylor Russell!

Fans of More Happy Than Not, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and It's Kind of a Funny Story will cheer for Adam in this uplifting and surprisingly funny story of a boy living with schizophrenia.

When you can't trust your mind, trust your heart.

Adam is a pretty regular teen--he's just navigating high school life while living with paranoid schizophrenia. His hallucinations include a cast of characters that range from the good (beautiful Rebecca) to the bad (angry Mob Boss) to the just plain weird (polite naked guy).

An experimental drug promises to help him hide his illness from the world. When Adam meets Maya, a fiercely intelligent girl, he desperately wants to be the normal, great guy that she thinks he is. But as the miracle drug begins to fail, how long can he keep this secret from the girl of his dreams?

An ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book * A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year * A CBC's 2018 Teen Choice Book Awards Nominee * 2018 Kansas National Education Association Reading Circle Catalog Selection * 2019 Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee

Nico het 'n volwasse vriend Max wat verf en sy slaapkamer versier. Hy pluk ook vir hom appels van sy boom af. Maar een dag sien hy glad nie vir Max by sy huis nie. Die volgende oomblik kom 'n groot swart motor sy liggaam haal en word hy begrawe. Wat het gebeur? Waar is sy vriend nou? Die storie, vanuit 'n kind se perspektief, vertel van die pyn en die lee gevoel wat verlies veroorsaak asook die hartseer oor en en aanvaarding van die dood. Dit verduidelik nie net wat met die liggaam van die oorledene gebeur nie, maar vertel ook van die veilige plekkie wat op elkeen wag wat op God vertrou.

When Sophie receives a parcel from her best friend, Freya, she expects it to contain the reason why Freya left town so suddenly, without goodbyes and without explanation. Instead, she finds a letter addressed to Win, a girl Freya barely knew – or did she? As more letters arrive for more people on the periphery of Freya’s life, Sophie and Win begin to piece together who Freya was and why she left. Sometimes it’s not about who’s gone, but about who they leave behind…

Perfect for fans of Beautiful Broken Things and The Sun Is Also a Star.

Ukuphuzwa kwakhe okokuqala yinto angasoze ayilibale uWhitney. Ukungazi kobuntwana kudedele isilongolongo somlilo wobutsha – ukuthandana, imihlali nokuthi ncithi. Yonke le nto ikhangeleka iyinto efanelekileyo kuye, kodwa ke utitshalakazi wakhe amthanda kakhulu, uNkskz Pillay, umlumkisa ngelithi ubumnandi bobutsha buye buthi kanti bugqume incind' ekhala. Kuthi kungekudala uWhitney oseneminyaka elishumi elinesithathu nje ayingcamle le ncindi yekhala – intlungu yokuswelekelwa, inxeba lokungcatshwa nobukrakra bokubukulwa. Ububona ngawakhe amehlo ubukho be-HIV nobe-AIDS, aze ke azifumane ekwimeko apho kufuneka ukuba athathe izigqibo ezinzima nezibujikayo ubomi bomntu. Eli bali likaWhitney lichukumisa kunene lisekelwe kwilokishi yaseThembalethu eNtshona Koloni lisizobela umfanekiso othe gca weemeko elujongene nazo ulutsha lweAfrika eseZantsi umhla nezolo. Uhambo lwakhe luhambo ekufuneka ukuba sonke siluthathe – uhambo lokuzibhenca ngaphakathi emphefumlweni, ekuthi kulo kufuneke sithathe izigqibo malunga nezo zinto zibalulekileyo kuthi nezo mpawu zentsulungeko sinqwenela ukuphila ngazo. Ootitshala bangayisebenzisa le ncwadi, Uphuziwe uWhitney, njengenxenye yephulo lokufunda nge-HIV/AIDS nokuyithintela. Umyalezo wale noveli wethemba, ukuqonda nokuthintela, ugqithiswa ngokucacileyo nangokuchukumisayo kwabo bangabona basemngciphekweni wokuba ngamaxhoba kabhubhani we-AIDS – ulutsha lwethu. Ikhona incwadi esiSikhokelo sikaTitshala efumaneka ngesiNgesi kubashicileli nenemibuzo ekunokusekelwa kuyo ingxoxo, ekwanawo namaphepha emisebenzi yabafundi abanokuwafotokopa.

Tori Burns and her family left D.C. for claustrophobic Chaptico, Maryland, after suddenly inheriting a house under mysterious circumstances. That inheritance puts her at odds with the entire town, especially Jesse Slaughter and his family. As the suspicious looks and muttered accusations of her neighbours build, so does the pressure inside her, and Tori returns to the pattern of self-harm that landed her in a hospital back in D.C. It all comes to a head one night when, to Tori's shock, she witnesses a young man claw his way out of a grave under the gnarled oak in her new backyard.

Inspired by the work of Thuli Madonsela.

The story is about a girl named Thuli who becomes a legend in her community. She lives with her brothers and one day they encourage her to steal. When she refuses, she is forced to walk home through the dark forest alone.

She finds a magical tree, the Tree of Truth, from which she takes a seed. The seed helps light her way out of the forest and Thuli is forced to confront her brothers and tell the truth.

This deeply emotional read-aloud about a lost wolf pup who is raised by a loving polar bear is sure to resonate with families – particularly non-traditional ones.

You are not my mother, said the wolf pup.

I am not your mother, said the polar bear, but I can cuddle you and keep you safe.

Here is a picture book that celebrates differences and promotes kindness , sure to resonate with the many fans of the beloved classic, Mama Do You Love Me? During the ice melt that follows an Arctic winter, a wolf cub finds himself spinning out to sea on a sheet of ice. He awakes lost and alone to an unfamiliar smell: a polar bear. And while the polar bear is not the wolf's mother, she takes him on her back to her den, where she feeds him, keeps him warm, and does everything a mother would do. Time passes, the cub grows into a wolf, and soon it's time for him to venture out into the wide world alone. Years later, the now grown wolf comes upon a tiny lost polar bear cub--and the cycle begins again. With poetic prose this beautiful picture book about the love and kindness of a stranger is sure to touch a deep chord, particularly with parents and children who have found each other in unexpected ways.

I'd been warned - in French, no less. By a tram-riding, mermaid-swaying, wolf-eaten, peace-sign flipping friend. I knew she wouldn't be happy if I stayed out here by the pool, with Jed's nail tracing the length of my neck. But I didn't want to go inside. I didn't want another drink. I wanted to stay out here and see what would happen. What's a girl to do when her parents have split up; her mum's trawling Tinder; and one of her best friends has decided not to invite her to the biggest party of the year, which she then has to watch unfold on everyone else's social media? If you're a girl called MC, you get mad as hell, that's what you do. But what begins as one girl's private, no-holds-barred rant soon snowballs in the most public way possible. A funny, heartfelt novel for anyone who's ever wished they hadn't pressed send.

Discover a summer love story like no other: now a major motion picture starring Bella Thorne and Patrick Schwarzenegger, and perfect for fans of The Fault in our Stars and Everything, Everything.

Katie can't leave her house during the day: she has a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly.

But everything changes when one evening, singing her heart out on a deserted station platform, she meets Charlie.

Before the night is out, Katie is smitten. But she hasn't told Charlie her secret. She just wants to have her normal love story, before reality kicks in.

Lost in her night-time summer romance, Katie knows that love will light the way.

A heartbreaking tale of love, loss and one nearly perfect summer.

Uthi ubuwazi ukuthi izinkinga eziningi ezikhungethe izwe zibangelwa wukungalaleli nokungabi nantshisekelo ngenqubekela phambili empilweni yakho? Uthi ubuwazi ukuthi ukungabi nambono nezifiso ezinkulu ngempilo yakho kungaholela ekucekeleni phansi kwekusasa lakho unomphela? Ungahlakanipha, uphile kahle, kodwa uma ungalaleli futhi kungekho nemigomo ekulawulayo, ungangena nenhlakanipho yakho ejele noma ethuneni kungafanele. UMugqa uhlakaniphile, uphila kahle, kodwa indlela aziphatha ngayo imfaka ezinkingeni ezinkulu. Uzithola esehlala emigwaqeni yedolobha nasemahlathini ngezizathu ezithile. Ake uphenqe la makhasi ale ncwadi uzifundele ukuthi lo mfana uhlangabezana naziphi izinkinga futhi uphuma kanjani kuzona.

UNtando ude wayibeka inqawa, kodwa ke zifundele mfundi uzivele. Kuluncuthu mazangwa!

The author of The Big F is back with another snappy, utterly relatable contemporary novel about loving yourself and forging your own path.

Savannah is dreading being home alone with her overbearing mother after her big sister―and best friend―goes off to college. But if she can just get through senior year, she'll be able to escape to college, too. What she doesn't count on is that her mother's obsession with weight has only grown deeper since her appearance on an extreme weight-loss show, and now Savvy's mom is pressuring her even harder to be constantly mindful of what she eats.

Between her mom's diet-helicoptering, missing her sister, and worrying about her collegiate future, Savvy has enough to worry about. And then she meets George, the cute new kid at school who has insecurities of his own. As Savvy and George grow closer, they help each other discover how to live in the moment and enjoy the here and now before it disappears.

To Be Honest is another sharp, witty novel from Maggie Ann Martin, about a spunky heroine who is dealing with very real issues―body image, parental pressure, loneliness, first love, and finding your way―with heart and humor.

Eli bali livulwa nje kubonakala ubuhlungu nonxunguphalo kuThandaza ogulelwa ngumyeni wakhe uNtando. Banonyana uMava osentolongweni, nentombi uSinomtha ohamba isikolo. USinomtha lo ukrelekrele kakhulu kwaye unesiphiwo sokucula nokudlala ikatala. Unomhlobokazi wakhe uGqiyazana ophuma kwikhaya elifumileyo njengokuba yena ehlala ematyotyombeni. UGqiyazana unekatala angakwaziyo ukuyisebenzisa. USinomtha uhlala eboleka le katala kaGqiyazana ze yena amenzele umsebenzi wesikolo njengokuba uGqiyazana ebengemhlanga kakhulu apha esikolweni