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Violet's TV-director dad has traded a job in Vancouver for one in Los Angeles, their run-down house for a sleek ranch-style home complete with a pool, and, worst of all, Violet's mother for a trophy wife, a blonde actress named Jennica. Violet's younger sister reacts by bed-wetting, and her mother ping-pongs from one loser to another, searching for love. As for Violet, she gets angry in ways that are by turns infuriating, shocking, and hilario...

Darker than her previous novels, Susin peoples this novel about the ultimate cost of bullying with a cast of fabulous characters, dark humour, and a lovable, difficult protagonist struggling to come to terms with the horrible crime his brother has committed.

Iedere week is het raak. Dan moet de zestienjarige Petula volstrekt tegen haar zin naar een therapeutisch kunstklasje met de kneusjes van de school. Niet dat er iets mis met haar is. Petula is gewoon realistisch, vindt ze: overal ligt het ongeluk op de loer, dus ze schudt het liefst geen handen, zal nooit een straat schuin oversteken en loopt liever een blok om dan langs een steiger te wandelen... Toch is ze niet altijd zo geweest: een ongelu...

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Età di lettura: da 9 anni.

De hoogbegaafde Stewart is sociaal gesproken - laten we het voorzichtig zeggen - wat onhandig. Ashley daarentegen is de populaire beauty queen, die, behalve met haar vrienden die daar rondlopen, werkelijk níéts met school en studeren heeft. Zij kan zich dan ook geen grotere ramp voorstellen dan dat Stewart en zijn vader bij haar en haar moeder in huis trekken. En alsof het allemaal al niet moeilijk genoeg is, blijkt Ashleys droomvriendje een h...

Grade nine isn't turning out the way Snake planned. The prettiest girl at Degrassi thinks he's a geek, his marks are falling, and his brother has just announced that he's gay. Can Snake get it together before the year becomes a total disaster?

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Thirteen-year-old Henry's happy, ordinary life comes to an abrupt halt when his older brother, Jesse, picks up their father's hunting rifle and leaves the house one morning. What follows shatters Henry's family, who are forced to resume their lives in a new city, where no one knows their past. When Henry's therapist suggests he keeps a journal, at first he is resistant. But soon he confides in it at all hours of the day and night.

Twelve-year-old Ambrose is a glass-half-full kind of guy. A self-described "friendless nerd, ” he moves from place to place every couple of years with his overprotective mother, Irene. When some bullies at his new school almost kill him by slipping a peanut into his sandwich — even though they know he has a deathly allergy — Ambrose is philosophical. Irene, however, is not and decides that Ambrose will be home-schooled.Alone in the evenings wh...

Violet's TV-director dad has traded a job in Vancouver for one in Los Angeles, their run-down house for a sleek ranch-style home complete with a pool, and, worst of all, Violet's mother for a trophy wife, a blonde actress named Jennica. Violet's younger sister reacts by bed-wetting, and her mother ping-pongs from one loser to another, searching for love. As for Violet, she gets angry in ways that are by turns infuriating, shocking, and hilario...