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Jules lives with her family above their restaurant, which means she smells like pizza most of the time and drives their double-meatball-shaped food truck to school. It’s not a recipe for popularity, but she can handle that. What she can’t handle is the recurring vision that haunts her. Over and over, Jules sees a careening truck hit a building and explode...and nine body bags in the snow. The vision is everywhere - on billboards, television screens, windows - and she’s the only one who sees it. And the more she sees it, the more she sees.

Als ihr Vater bei einem Unfall ums Leben kommt, bricht für die 17-jährige Alice eine Welt zusammen. Monatelang zieht sie sich in ihr Schneckenhaus zurück. Bis sie einen Stapel alter Briefe ihrer Mutter findet, welche die Familie vor Jahren verlassen hat. Alice beschließt, ihre Mutter zu suchen. Mit dem alten Auto ihres Vaters macht sie sich auf den langen Weg durch den Westen der USA. Und dort, auf einsamen Highways, in wunderschönen Nationalparks und aufregenden Städten, findet Alice schließlich nicht nur zu sich selbst, sondern auch ihre erste große Liebe.

Wie weit würdest du für die Wahrheit gehen? Als Juul das Grab ihres großen Bruders Milan besucht, kann sie nicht fassen, was sie dort sieht: Jemand hat in die frische Erde "Truth + Dare = Wahrheit" geschrieben. Milan liebte dieses Spiel und war bei YouTube für seine waghalsigen Videos bekannt. Dann erhält Juul auch noch eine Trauerkarte mit einer erschütternden Botschaft: Wenn sie wissen möchte, wie ihr Bruder wirklich gestorben ist, muss auch sie sich auf eine Mutprobe einlassen.

Before: One year ago, best friends Nora and Julia were starting their senior year of high school, with plans to apply to the same university so they wouldn't be separated. When Dillan Fletcher comes back to town, life as Nora knows it begins to unravel. And then, the unthinkable happens. After: Months after surviving the accident that killed her best friend, Nora Radford is stagnating. Dillan has remained by her side, but he and other friends are starting university, while Nora is still trying to unravel the lies that Julia told, lies disguised as friendship.

Franks bedste ven, Martin, bliver dræbt ved en bilulykke. Martin var meget optaget af reinkarnation, og efter døden opsøger han Frank og forbereder ham på et gensyn.

Lupita, a budding actor and poet in a close-knit Mexican American immigrant family, comes of age as she struggles with adult responsibilities during her mother's long illness. As the oldest of eight siblings, Lupita is used to taking the lead—and staying busy behind the scenes to help keep everyone together. But when she discovers Mami has been diagnosed with cancer, Lupita is terrified by the possibility of losing her mother, the anchor of her close-knit Mexican American family.

It's been six months since Sarah's mom died. Three months since her dad fell apart. Sarah has left her fine arts boarding school to take care of her dad and her little brother, and now she's trying to hold everything together at home while adjusting to the local public high school. With her dad's drinking and spending getting out of control, Sarah struggles to make sure that the bills are paid, that her brother is fed and safe, that her dad's grief won't crush them all. She has no time for art, unless she's cranking out a piece to sell online for some grocery money.

Todo comienza con un trabajo para la clase de Literatura: escribir una carta a una persona muerta. Laurel decide Todo comienza con un trabajo para la clase de Literatura: escribir una carta a una persona muerta. Laurel decide escribirle a Kurt Cobain, quien murió joven como May, su hermana. Luego de la primera carta, ya no puede detenerse, y escribirá otras a Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Jim Morrison y Heath Ledger, entre otros personajes famosos. Sin embargo, no le entrega ninguna a su profesora.La tarea permanece oculta… como tantas cosas de su vida.

Best friends Carly, Daniella, Lainie, and Penny–aka the self-proclaimed #SummerSisters–have been coming to the New Jersey shore town of Ocean Park Heights ever since they could remember. And every year, the girls make a bucket list and dedicate their entire summer to completing every item on it, documenting their wacky escapades on FotoSlam for everyone to see. It's their tradition, and as long as the Summer Sisters had each other, the rocky jetty on the shore, and their bucket list, that would never change. Right? But then, tragedy strikes.

Life has never been easy in the small desert town of Harmony, but even on the day Calli Christopher buries her father, she knows she is surrounded by people who care about her. But after the funeral, when everyone has finally gone home, Calli discovers a girl on her property. A girl who’s dirty and bruised and unable to speak. And petrified. Calli keeps the girl secret—well, almost secret. She calls her Ash and begins to nurture her back to health. But word spreads in a small town, and soon a detective comes around asking questions about a missing girl from another town.

Louna ha pasado sus años de escuela secundaria trabajando en el exitoso negocio de planificación de bodas de su madre. Ha visto todo tipo de bodas: grandes y lujosas, pequeñas e íntimas, en el campo o en la playa. Ella se ha enfrentado a todas las crisis que pueden afectar a una boda, así como a las damas de honor que le roban el protagonismo a las novias, los novios controladores, madres de novias mandonas e incluso la ocasional novia que se escapa sin casarse.

Hazel é uma paciente terminal. Ainda que, por um milagre da medicina, seu tumor tenha diminuído bastante—o que lhe dá a promessa de viver mais alguns anos—, o último capítulo de sua história foi escrito no momento do diagnóstico. Mas em todo bom enredo há uma reviravolta, e a de Hazel se chama Augustus Waters, um garoto que certo dia aparece no Grupo de Apoio a Crianças com Câncer. Juntos, os dois vão preencher o pequeno infinito das páginas em branco de suas vidas.

Twyla enters high school sure of three things: Her best friends will always be there for her, the next four years will be amazing, and her mom was right when she said there’s a reason behind everything. Then she gets extremely nauseous and has trouble concentrating during a field hockey game. The doctors say it’s only a mild digestive issue, but Twyla is convinced they’re wrong. Making things worse, her friends start ghosting her outside of school, even though they tell her everything is fine, and her dad is becoming more distant each time she asks about her mom’s life before she died.

After his twin sister's death, a teenage filmmaker tries to track down the recipients of her organs in hopes that it will help his parents move on from the loss of their daughter.

Guilt-ridden and struggling to cope with her new normal, August shuts out the people who love her most, and nearly ruins her most important friendship. If August wants a chance at adjusting to life after tragedy, she'll have to process her pain, let go of the past, and leave the darkness behind.

After years of physical and verbal abuse from her mother, fourteen-year-old Coi moved in with her father, and together they created a peaceful life. But now, four years later, that peace is shattered when her mother dies. While Coi struggles to find kindness in her heart for the woman who did nothing but hurt her, her mother’s passing does help reopen the door to her mother’s side of the family. It’s only through reconnecting with her estranged family members, especially her younger half-sister Kayla, that Coi’s long-held views about her mother are challenged.

Most 17-year-old boys dream about having fun and living life to the fullest. But Andre only has one thing on his mind. Ashley. She is gone, but his only desire is to be back with her…to be in her arms once again.

When their father went to prison last year for embezzlement, twins Alex and Olly Brucke lost everything: their house, their college funds, most of their friends, and even their mother, who’s so focused on making ends meet that she’s never around anymore. The only thing they can count on lately is each other. But after their father dies unexpectedly in prison, the twins start to fracture. Alex is spiraling, skipping classes to spend all of her time drunk or high. And Olly is struggling with a secret his dad ordered him to keep: they have a secret half-brother named Tyler.

Hattie Larken doesn't know if she's ever been real in her life. A compulsive liar with a quick-witted response to everything, she's willing to skate through high school until she can graduate and escape it all: the monotony of this town, the guilt of everything that happened with her dad, and the debt that her mom's dealing with that she feels responsible for. But then Hattie finds out she's dying. Apparently, she was exposed to a parasite because of a mistake her mom's company made. And she's not the only one.

High schooler Skyler Davidson spends most of her time with her pet rat, Five. The daughter of scientists, she’s determined to finish her late mother's research on neutron stars. So she teams up with aspiring videographer, Cooper, to film a submission for a NASA internship—all while keeping it a secret from her dad, who doesn’t expect any trouble from his obviously college-bound daughter. As Skyler and Cooper grow closer, it turns out that Skyler’s dad has a new love interest as well: a hot makeup influencer who likes to put her nose where it doesn’t belong.