Resultados para "Gray" en Adolescentes

Par la magie d'un vœu, Dorian Gray conserve la grâce et la beauté de la jeunesse. Seul son portrait vieillira. Le jeune dandy s'adonne alors à toutes les expériences, s'enivre de sensations et recherche les plaisirs secrets et raffinés.

Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things—from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen—provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her bestselling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth's oldest teachers: the plants around us.

General Maada leads his fleet to the White Republic universe, where the Xenoakakies rule with an iron fist. There, he’s surprised to meet a few old friends as well as some new foes, including the Death Angel, the legendary enemy pilot who’s killed the general’s doppelganger. While Maada has been through his fair share of hopeless battles, this particular conflict is on another level altogether, even for him. The insects’ hold on this universe seems unshakable, and their fleet dwarfs the general’s in both numbers and power by no small margin.

Bound to wheelchairs and dependent on prosthetic limbs, the physically disabled students living in the House are overlooked by the Outsides. Not that it matters to anyone living in the House, a hulking old structure that its residents know is alive. From the corridors and crawl spaces to the classrooms and dorms, the House is full of tribes, tinctures, scared teachers, and laws - all seen and understood through a prismatic array of teenagers' eyes.

In the final showdown of the Wings trilogy, Claire has to choose between temptation and destiny, and has to learn that there is more to her family history than she could have ever imagined....

Justin Hawthorne's bloodline has protected Four Paths for generations from the Gray - a lifeless dimension that imprisons a brutal monster. After Justin fails to inherit his family's powers, his mother is determined to keep this humiliation a secret. But Justin can't let go of the future he was promised and the town he swore to protect. Ever since Harper Carlisle lost her hand to an accident that left her stranded in the Gray for days, she has vowed revenge on the person who abandoned her: Justin Hawthorne.

"A steamy game of cat and mouse between witch and witch-hunter, played out against a backdrop of opulence, secrets, and bloody history. I couldn't look away." - Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Champion of Fate Enemies-to-lovers doesn't get more high stakes than a witch and...

Als Vanessa Hart von einem Wolfsrudel angegriffen wird, ist ihr Leben nicht mehr dasselbe: Ihre beste Freundin überlebt den Angriff nicht, und Vanessa wird schwer verletzt an einen magischen Hof der Werwölfe gebracht. Um sich mit ihren neu gewonnen Kräften vertraut zu machen, wird ihr der charmante Prinz Sinclair zur Seite gestellt. Und zwischen langen Unterrichtsstunden an der Werwolf-Academy und der Suche nach dem Mörder ihrer Freundin, kommen die beiden sich immer näher.

Peter Stewart grew up on a unique version of the Arthurian legends taught him by his father, a harebrained quantum physicist. But Peter disbelieves anything which cannot be scientifically explained. Lily Portman is an orphan with a secret: she can see creatures that are invisible to everyone else. These creatures control every human being she has ever met to varying degrees...until she meets Peter and his father. When a mysterious stranger stages an accident which nearly costs Peter and Lily their lives, Lily learns that she is not crazy after all, and Peter discovers the truth of his father’s stories....

Peter Stewart is a dead ringer for the legendary King Arthur, and because of that, everyone in Carlion believes that he is the Child of the Prophecy, destined to destroy the Shadow Lord. But Peter doesn't want to be a hero; all he wants to be is left alone. Lily Portman also fits the prophecy. Having spent her entire life as an orphan and a misfit, Lily would love nothing more than to be the Child of the Prophecy, so she envies Peter, but she's also developing a crush on him. And it seems to her that he couldn't care less.

Addie loves Michigan summers, especially those spent at the lake with her best friends. The high school basketball team celebrates another successful year until a perfect summer day turns tragic. A dead body surfaces on the shoreline, and the girls quickly discover that dead isn’t what it used to be. The group of friends complies with the government-issued quarantine until it’s clear that no one’s coming for them. Without food, water, and electricity, they know it’s time to save themselves.

Ada Byron is rich and clever, but she longs to be free. Free to explore all the amazing ideas that come to her imagination, like flying mechanical horses and stories inspired by her travels. Free to find love and passion beyond the watchful gaze of her mother and governesses. And free to learn the full truth about her father, the notorious Lord Byron. Then Ada meets a man whose invention might just change the world - and he needs her visionary brilliance to bring it to life....

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the award-winning author of Salt to the Sea comes a “superb” (The Wall Street Journal), “eye-opening” (Los Angeles Times) novel of survival and hope in the darkest of places—the inspiration for the major motion picture Ashes in the Snow "Few books are...

In 1960s Alabama, a family secret shatters Mark Lawson's world. Blonde-haired and blue-eyed, 14-year-old Mark discovers he is black, a revelation that changes everything. Kicked out of his segregated school and threatened on his baseball team, Mark must navigate a society where prejudice and race define your fate. This revelation also adversely affects his recent friendship with Eddie, the new black pitcher, who he now sees as a threat to his future.

Two years ago, Gwendolyn Gray saved the City. But The Blackstar stole her parents and took them to another world. She lost her powers, her portals, and even her hair. So while the rest of the City is reveling in its newfound freedom, Gwendolyn has spent two years dodging the clutches of the Childkeeper and the Home for Unclaimed Children. Balancing work and school and impersonating her own parents hasn’t been great for her bipolar disorder, either.

The stakes are even higher in this epic, romantic conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Crimson Moth duology A WITCH... Rune Winters is on the run. Ever since the boy she loved, Gideon Sharpe, revealed who she was and delivered her into enemy hands, everyone wants her dead. If Rune hopes...

As winter descends upon a desolate world, Addie and her friends face their most chilling challenges yet. Since they are stranded amid a frozen landscape, the teens’ survival becomes an arduous battle against the relentless cold and the ever-present dangers that lurk in the shadows. Each day, their hope dwindles, and the group must summon every ounce of strength, resilience, and resourcefulness to stay alive.

Das Finale der opulenten Zeitreise-Trilogie Seit Natasha an der Gray Wolf Academy das Zeitreisen erlernte, wurde ihr Leben vollkommen auf den Kopf gestellt. Auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit über ihre Vergangenheit und im verzweifelten Wettlauf gegen Arthur Blackstone, der die Macht über die Zeit selbst erhalten will, hat sie ihre große Liebe Braxton verraten und sich auf eigene Faust auf einen Zeitsprung in die Vergangenheit begeben.

Die Schülerinnen und Schüler der Gray Wolf Academy genießen eine besondere Ausbildung: Sie werden in der Kunst des Zeitreisens unterrichtet und "befreien" für ihren Schulleiter wertvolle Artefakte aus der Vergangenheit. Natasha hat einen ganz besonderen Auftrag erhalten: Sie soll jene Artefakte finden, mit deren Hilfe man die totale Kontrolle über den Lauf der Zeit erhält. Doch das größte Mysterium ist ihre eigene Geschichte und um das zu lösen, wird Natasha die Unterstützung von Braxton, der weiterhin Geheimnisse vor ihr hat, und Killian, den sie aus der Vergangenheit rettete, benötigen.

Die renommierte Gray Wolf Academy sucht nach Schüler:innen, die niemand vermissen wird. Jemandem wie Natasha Clarke. Nachdem sie eine Einladung des geheimnisvollen Milliardärs Arthur Blackstone erhalten hat, erkennt sie schnell, dass die Academy weit mehr ist als nur eine Schule: Hier wird Kunst hochgeschätzt und Geschichte ist nicht in Stein gemeißelt – denn die Schüler:innen können durch die Zeit reisen. Mithilfe des unnahbaren und ziemlich attraktiven Braxton entdeckt Natasha die Wunder der Vergangenheit.