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After being stung by a bee, sixteen-year-old Hannah discovers she has the power to heal.

Sent to live with her sister in New York while her parents travel for the summer, Hope starts a new friendship with a local girl that turns into something she didn't quite expect, in a tale about love, acceptance, and self-awareness.

Since his girlfriend dumped him, Jayden has been avoiding school-and life in general. When his eccentric uncle Mel invites him to help with his biology research at an Australian university, he figures he has nothing to lose. Once he arrives, he discovers Mel is obsessed with finding a new species of lizard and is determined to be the first to discover it. Unfortunately, this means an expedition into the scorching desert heat of the Australian outback...with...

Bex is into "urban exploration"—going where he's not supposed to go.

Bex has always done it just for fun and bragging rights, taking nothing but pictures and leaving nothing but footprints. He has explored almost every abandoned building and tunnel in the city. But that changes when a new kid arrives at school. Kieran is edgy, dangerous and into urban exploration as well. Together, they start pushing each other to

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"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, amateur filmmaker Rainey has to deal with the aftermath of a prank gone wrong."-- Sixteen-year-old Rainey is surprised when a video he made of a schoolyard fight goes viral. Two schoolmates, Jordan and Rowan, convince him to make another one, this time about a mysterious figure in the woods. Soon rumors are circulating that someone is out there kidnapping kids. Or maybe it's a ghost. The teens...

Zane thinks it's just another boring day at his lame gas station job until he gets carjacked by a masked gunman. Zane has no idea where they're going, or what will happen when they get there. He tries to reason with the guy, and when that fails, he tries a couple of daring stunts to get free, but they backfire. Zane starts to wonder who this guy is and what he really wants.

When Emily sees a photograph in which her now-deceased Aunt Donna is pregnant, but in which her mother is not, she begins to suspect that her aunt is actually her mother.

Concerned about the effects of eating fast-foods, Ian begins a campaign to make everyone stop eating at the local hang-out, Frankie's, but when legal action is taken against him and his protesting friends, Ian must stand steadfast in his beliefs while convincing his nervous classmates to do the same.

"In this high-interest novel for teen readers, a young teen is thrilled when she gets into art school but shocked to learn that some students feel she doesn't belong there." --

Pete has to pull the most important prank of his life to bring about justice.