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Survival Camp! (FASTBACK Romance)
by Eve BuntingMimi's parents had sent her to a survival camp in the middle of the scrubby Utah desert.She meets Brad and life is not going to be the same any-more.
The Survival Game
by Nicky Singer'A wonderful, surprisingly delicate story about a teenager making her way home to Scotland in a world remade by climate change (aimed at YA readers but, like all good children's books, good for adults too)' Lucy Mangan, i WeekendIn a world full of checkpoints and controls, can love and hope defy the borders? A searing, timely story, as arresting as it is beautiful. Imagine a world ... Where there are too many people on a too-hot earth and your only chance of salvation is to journey north.Where you must prove yourself worthy of existence at every turn, at every checkpoint.Where your instincts become your most powerful weapon - even more than the gun in your pocket.Where you find out what it takes to survive.An extraordinary story about survival and what it costs, about the power of small kindnesses to change everything.
The Survival Guide To Bullying (Revised Edition): Written By A Teen
by Aija MayrockNEW, updated edition! Written by a teenager, this kid-friendly, inspiring book is filled with advice, tips, and strategies for how to deal with bullying.NEW, updated edition! Written by a teenager who was bullied throughout middle school and high school, this kid-friendly book offers a fresh and relatable perspective on bullying. Along the way, the author offers guidance as well as different strategies that helped her get through even the toughest of days. The Survival Guide to Bullying covers everything from cyber bullying to how to deal with fear and how to create the life you dream of having. From inspiring "roems" (rap poems), survival tips, personal stories, and quick quizzes, this book will light the way to a brighter future. This updated edition also features new, never-before-seen content including a chapter about how to talk to parents, an epilogue, and an exclusive Q&A with the author.
The Survival List
by Courtney Sheinmel“Nobody writes about family secrets with the grace, compassion, and intrigue of Courtney Sheinmel.” —Leila Sales, author of This Song Will Save Your LifeFans of I Was Here by Gayle Forman and Far from the Tree by Robin Benway will be floored by this heartbreaking yet uplifting teen novel about a grieving girl who follows a mysterious list across the country after her older sister’s death. Sloane Weber is devastated when her older sister dies by suicide. Talley was a bright light who made everyone want to step closer. Why had she made that unthinkable choice? The only clue Talley left behind for Sloane is a puzzle—a list of random places and names, along with the phone number of a boy named Adam, who lives in California and claims he didn’t know Talley. Sloane heads west, enlists Adam’s help, and together they search for answers. But while Sloane is drawn to Adam, she can’t shake the feeling that he’s hiding something. Is Sloane ready to learn the truth—about Adam, her sister, or the secrets her family has been hiding for years?
Survive the Dome
by Kosoko JacksonThe Hate U Give meets Internment in this pulse-pounding thriller about an impenetrable dome around Baltimore that is keeping the residents in and information from going out during a city-wide protest.Jamal Lawson just wanted to be a part of something. As an aspiring journalist, he packs up his camera and heads to Baltimore to document a rally protesting police brutality after another Black man is murdered.But before it even really begins, the city implements a new safety protocol...the Dome. The Dome surrounds the city, forcing those within to subscribe to a total militarized shutdown. No one can get in, and no one can get out.Alone in a strange place, Jamal doesn't know where to turn...until he meets hacker Marco, who knows more than he lets on, and Catherine, an AWOL basic-training-graduate, whose parents helped build the initial plans for the Dome.As unrest inside of Baltimore grows throughout the days-long lockdown, Marco, Catherine, and Jamal take the fight directly to the chief of police. But the city is corrupt from the inside out, and it's going to take everything they have to survive.
Surviving Adam Meade
by Shannon KlareSeventeen-year-old Claire Collins has a plan: get into college and leave North Carolina behind. What she doesn’t have is an idea for how to get rid of the local football star and womanizer extraordinaire—Adam Meade, who she can’t even avoid (despite many efforts), because Claire’s dad is the high school football coach.Seventeen-year-old Adam Meade never fails. He always gets what he wants . . . until he meets Claire, the new girl who leaves him unnerved, pissed off, and confused. But there’s something about her that he just can’t resist . . . With the bite of lemon meringue pie and the sugar of sweet tea, Surviving Adam Meade is a sexy and compelling young adult novel about two strong-willed people who think they know what they want but have no idea what they need.Praise for Surviving Adam Meade:“I loved the sarcasm and the humor. I can relate to this story... so it was a lovely read.” —Catherine Cadwell, reader on SwoonReads.com“This is an amazing story where you don't realize you've fallen for the characters until it's too late.” —DemoGod_ShadowHunter, reader on SwoonReads.com“The humor and wit is clever, the relationships ring true, and the emotions are deep.” —4thPowerMama, reader on SwoonReads.com
Surviving High School
by Melissa de la CruzLele sits alone at lunch until, overnight, her digital fame catapults her into popularity in high school. Suddenly, she goes from the bullied loser to the most popular kid in school. She now has to deal with the trials of the cliques, the drama, the boys, the girls -- all while keeping her grades up and making her parents proud. Can she graduate without making a mess of things? Speaking to the new generation of teens - digitally savvy and connected, yet still facing the same universal teenage issues - rejection, loyalty, popularity, and um, why is it that our iPhones can survive a car crash but break when we place them on the coffee table? Lele shows us with zest, enthusiasm and self-deprecating silliness that the kids are all right. Vine superstar Lele Pons's debut novel, co-written with established bestselling YA author Melissa de la Cruz, is the hilarious, heartfelt story of a girl with the looks of a cheerleader and the personality and humour of a lovable dork, who navigates the wilds and wonders of high school in sunny Florida.
Surviving Hurricanes
by Elizabeth RaumSurviving Hurricanes will look at children who experienced hurricanes around the world, through history and up to the present day.
Surviving Teenage Motherhood: Myths and Realities
by Helen StapletonThis book explores the experiences of pregnant teenagers, their partners, and midwives, from pregnancy realisation through the early years of motherhood. It examines changing attitudes to female sexuality and moral discourses on adolescent subjectivity especially as these pertain to teenage motherhood.
Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz
by Eva Mozes Kor Lisa Rojany BuccieriEva Mozes Kor was just ten years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. Subjected to sadistic medical experiments, she was forced to fight daily for her and her twin's survival. In this incredible true story written for young adults, readers learn of a child's endurance and survival in the face of truly extraordinary evil and Eva's recovery and her controversial but often misunderstood decision to publicly forgive the Nazis. Readers will learn of how she triumphed over unfathomable pain and suffering into a life-long work for peace, human rights, and Holocaust education. The new edition provides interesting details and important context to the events related in the original story. A new Afterword by publisher Peggy Porter Tierney offers a richer portrayal of Eva as a person, the truth behind the controversies, and the eventful last ten years of her life.
Surviving Your Out-of-Control Teen: A Mom's Guide to Loving Your Child Through the Difficult Times While Keeping Your Sanity Intact
by Lisa Gay NicholsLisa Gay Nichols is the mom of a former difficult teen and learned the biggest lessons of her life, which she shares in Surviving Your Out-of-Control Teen. Lisa Gay Nichols is the mom of a former difficult teen. She went through hell and back with her son and learned the biggest lessons of her life, which she shares with moms of teenagers in Surviving Your Out-of-Control Teen. Within Surviving Your Out-of-Control Teen, moms learn:An easy technique that can disrupt the patterns in their relationship with their childThree beliefs that may stop them from turning things around Why it’s not just their teen that’s causing them misery and what they can do about it The steps they can take to reduce their stress and feel calmer no matter what What to do if they’re stuck trying to decide how to help their teen
The Survivor: A Pioneer Novel
by Bridget TylerThis sequel to The Pioneer is perfect for fans of the Illuminae Series and Skyward!Earth is uninhabitable. Tau is our home now. With that terrifying message, Jo and her family learned the truth: They are trapped forever on Tau Ceti e. But the planet’s current occupants—the Sorrow—are not interested in sharing. The fragile peace Jo negotiated abruptly shatters, and soon a bloody battle is raging between the Sorrow and the Pioneers. As tensions rise, the survival of everyone Jo cares for seems less likely by the second.When a betrayal that shocks Jo to her core threatens to wipe out both Sorrow and human life, Jo must find the strength to speak up once more—and bridge the gaps between all the warring factions—or lose forever the only home left to her.
The Survivor Wants to Die at the End (They Both Die at the End series #3)
by Adam SilveraThe third book in the No. 1 global bestselling They Both Die at the End series. What if you could find out your death date from a single phone call? Death-Cast is calling . . . will you answer? &‘If They Both Die at the End broke your heart and put it back together again, be prepared for this novel to do the same. A tender, sad, hopeful and youthful story that deserves as much love as its predecessor.&’ Culturefly &‘[A] heart-pounding story [full] of emotion and suspense.&’ Kirkus &‘An extraordinary book with a riveting plot.&’ Booklist Two strangers, each with their own complicated relationship to Death-Cast, help each other learn to live. Paz Dario stays up every night, waiting for the Death-Cast call that would mean he doesn&’t have to keep faking his way through this lonely life. After a devastating day, Paz decides he&’s done waiting around for Death-Cast. If they say he&’s not dying, he&’ll just have to prove them wrong. But right before Paz can die, a boy saves his life. Alano Rosa is heir to the Death-Cast empire that encourages everyone to live their best lives, but he doesn&’t feel in control of his own existence thanks to his father. And with a violent organisation called the Death Guard threatening Alano, his End Day might be closer than he thinks. It&’s time to live. Fate brings Paz and Alano together. But they must survive the tragic trials ahead so no one dies at the end. This book contains themes that some readers may find difficult. PRAISE FOR ADAM SILVERA: &‘There isn&’t a teenager alive who won't find their heart described perfectly on these pages.&’ Patrick Ness, author of The Knife of Never Letting Go &‘Adam Silvera is a master at capturing the infinite small heartbreaks of love and loss and grief.&’ Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything &‘A phenomenal talent.&’ Juno Dawson, author of Clean and Wonderland &‘Bold and haunting.&’ Lauren Oliver, author of Delirium
The Survivor Wants to Die at the End (They Both Die at the End Series #3)
by Adam SilveraIn this third book of the USA Today and #1 New York Times mega-bestselling They Both Die at the End series, two strangers—each with their own complicated relationship to Death-Cast—help each other learn to live.Paz Dario stays up every night, waiting for the Death-Cast call that would mean he doesn’t have to keep faking his way through this lonely life. After a devastating day, Paz decides he’s done waiting around for Death-Cast. If they say he’s not dying, he’ll just have to prove them wrong. But right before Paz can die, a boy saves his life.Alano Rosa is heir to the Death-Cast empire that encourages everyone to live their best lives, but he doesn’t feel in control of his own existence thanks to his father. And with a violent organization called the Death Guard threatening Alano, his End Day might be closer than he thinks. It’s time to live.Fate brings Paz and Alano together, but it’s now up to the boys to survive the tragic trials ahead so no one dies at the end.This book contains themes that some readers may find difficult.
Survivors Club: The True Story Of A Very Young Prisoner Of Auschwitz
by Michael Bornstein Debbie Bornstein HolinstatIn 1945, in a now-famous piece of World War II archival footage, four-year-old Michael Bornstein was filmed by Soviet soldiers as he was carried out of Auschwitz in his grandmother’s arms. Survivors Club tells the unforgettable story of how a father’s courageous wit, a mother’s fierce love, and one perfectly timed illness saved his life, and how others in his family from Zarki, Poland, dodged death at the hands of the Nazis time and again with incredible deftness. Working from his own recollections as well as extensive interviews with relatives and survivors who knew the family, Michael relates his inspirational Holocaust survival story with the help of his daughter, Debbie Bornstein Holinstat. Shocking, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting, this narrative nonfiction offers an indelible depiction of what happened to one Polish village in the wake of the German invasion in 1939. <P><P> This thoroughly-researched and documented book can be worked into multiple aspects of the common core curriculum.
Suryia And Roscoe: The True Story Of An Unlikely Friendship
by Bhagavan AntleWho can imagine an orangutan being friends with a dog? Is it even possible? With Suryia and Roscoe it is! Dogs and orangutans rarely meet, and when they do, they are naturally shy around each other. But when Suryia the orangutan first meets Roscoe, a stray dog, they become best friends from the start. Set on a preserve for rare animals, The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (T. I. G. E. R. S. ) in South Carolina, here is a true story of a remarkable friendship between two unforgettable animals.
Susan Cornish
by Rebecca CaudillSusan Cornish by Rebecca Caudill is a multileveled story. At 18, Susan is discouraged in her college studdies, feeling that her particular school isn't meeting her academic mental or emotional needs. In a fit of discouraged exasperation she tells her father that she's quitting college, and goes to the school board and gets a teaching job in a one-room school in a depressed comunity. She soon learns that many of the parents are sharecroppers on worn out land, and just making it from crop to crop is almost too great an effort. The education of their children comes merely as an afterthought. The span of the book is 3 years. In this length of time, Susan and her comunity confront and solve many of their own problems. In the End, though it's a bit fairy tale like, Susan has begun to considderthe the needs and feelings of other people, and is finding a peacefulness within herself.
Susanna's Christmas Wish
by Jerry S. EicherFans will be delighted by this peek at an Amish Christmas, complete with the romantic wish of Susanna Byler to spend the holidays with the man of her dreams. But who is the man of her dreams? Is it the competent but plain Amish man she married after having her heart broken ... . or is it her first love -- a ma who left their community to live with the Englisha with whom she has recently had an unexpected encounter -- and who wants her back in his life?
Suspect
by Kristin Wolden NitzSpending her summer helping Grandma Kay run the Schoenhaus, a Victorian bed and breakfast, seventeen-year-old Jen soon finds that her Grandma's plans also include solving an old mystery: the disappearance of Jen's mother.Jen's mother Ellen disappeared without a trace when her daughter was still young. Even so, Jen received holiday gifts in the mail and letters signed by her mother for years. But then the communication abruptly stopped. Now, Grandma Kay is convinced the letters were forged and that her daughter-in-law was murdered.The stage is set for an elaborate Mystery Weekend at the inn. Family members and friends—including Jen's very recent ex-boyfriend, her old childhood crush and his insufferable girlfriend—assemble and are assigned roles to play. But as the drama unfolds, Jen makes an important off-stage discovery in the Schoenhaus library. Soon her worst suspicions are aroused: Could a member of her own close-knit community be responsible for her mother's disappearance?Kristin Wolden Nitz has penned a story that artfully combines all the necessary elements of a great mystery, sweeping readers along Jen's path to discovery.
The Suspect Next Door (Nancy Drew Files #39)
by Carolyn KeeneWhen Nancy Drew’s new neighbor, Nikki Masters, is questioned about her boyfriend’s murder, Nancy—convinced of her friend’s innocence—investigates the crime.
Suspect Red
by L. M. ElliottIt's 1953, and the United States has just executed an American couple convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. Everyone is on edge as the Cold War standoff between communism and democracy leads to the rise of Senator Joe McCarthy and his zealous hunt for people he calls subversives or communist sympathizers. Suspicion, loyalty oaths, blacklists, political profiling, hostility to foreigners, and the assumption of guilt by association divide the nation. Richard and his family believe deeply in American values and love of country, especially since Richard's father works for the FBI. Yet when a family from Czechoslovakia moves in down the street with a son Richard's age named Vlad, their bold ideas about art and politics bring everything into question. <P><P>Richard is quickly drawn to Vlad's confidence, musical sensibilities, and passion for literature, which Richard shares. But as the nation's paranoia spirals out of control, Richard longs to prove himself a patriot, and blurred lines between friend and foe could lead to a betrayal that destroys lives. <P><P>Punctuated with photos, news headlines, ads, and quotes from the era, this suspenseful and relatable novel by award-winning New York Times best-selling author L.M. Elliott breathes new life into a troubling chapter of our history.
Suspicion: A Private Novel
by Kate BrianForbidden fruit... Reed, Noelle, and former Billings Girls Kiran and Taylor have been living it up on St. Barths over winter break. The tropical sun has melted away all the tensions of last semester, and for the first time in months, Reed is happy. She's got her best friends by her side, she has a palatial suite with an ocean view, and she's landed Upton, the most sought-after guy on the island. Reed is falling in love. But dating Upton makes Reed St. Barths' highest-profile guest -- and not in a good way. Upton has a dark past, and he's broken a lot of hearts. One of his exes still wants him. And she'll do whatever it takes to get Reed out of the picture.
Suspiros robados
by Ann RoddTodos tenemos una prueba que cumplir. El primer paso es descubrirla. Serena creyó que había perdido todo, pero recibió una segunda oportunidad. Aunque a veces, un obsequio puede ser también una maldición Serena sabe que murió. Recuerda el frío del cuchillo en su pecho, la sensación de estar atrapada dentro de su cuerpo, el silencio. Y sobre todo recuerda que la Muerte se presentó frente a ella y le dio otra oportunidad. Podrá vivir, pero solo a costa de los demás, tomando la energía que el resto de las personas conservan en sus cuerpos. Dividida entre su deseo de llevar una vida normal y la culpa por dañar a quienes más quiere, Serena intenta encontrar la clave de su destino. Luca, el chico de sus sueños, está dispuesto a ayudarla. Con la energía de sus besos y sus caricias, ella logra mantenerse fuerte. Lo bastante fuerte como para descubrir quién fue su asesino. Y vengarse. Los lectores en Wattpad dijeron:«La historia es increíble. La intensidad, la empatía y esa conexión con cada uno de los personajes fue wow!». «Gracias por robarme chillidos y suspiros de felicidad y tensión». «Épico, genial, increíble, esperanzador, misterioso, con un final que abre a más aventuras y retos, ¡me encanta!».«La amé, me encantó completamente, desde cómo está escrita hasta el desarrollo de cada personaje. Una obra de arte por seguro».
Swagger
by Carl DeukerLevi was simple, like a child. It was the best thing about him, and it was the worst, too. When high school senior Jonas moves to Seattle, he is glad to meet Levi, a nice, soft-spoken guy and fellow basketball player. Suspense builds like a slow drumbeat as readers start to smell a rat in Ryan Hartwell, a charismatic basketball coach and sexual predator. When Levi reluctantly tells Jonas that Hartwell abused him, Jonas has to decide whether he should risk his future career to report the coach. Pitch-perfect basketball plays, well-developed characters, and fine storytelling make this psychological sports novel a slam dunk.
Swallow
by Sam SchillRevenge is a dish best served cold.The students at Roanoke High School have created a soundtrack that runs constantly in Mildred Waco’s mind . . .Change your hair, Mildred.Change your face, Mildred.Change your body, Mildred.Everyone hates you, Mildred.Are you really going to wear that, Mildred?The stares, the snickers, the constant teasing—combined with Mildred’s own self-doubt and absentee parents—takes its toll. Stumbling upon the Crossroads Magicks shop, Mildred decides she will no longer simply endure the bullying and skeptically buys a revenge curse.But when she begins to lose control and Roanoke students are found brutally murdered, Mildred realizes that she may have bought more than she bargained for. With time running out, Mildred will have to stop the terrible forces she’s unleashed or lose her soul forever.