Titoli in Contemporaneo

Alba va a cumplir dieciocho años. Sus padres se han separado y ahora debe enfrentarse a dos nuevas familias. En su búsqueda por la independencia, ha probado mil trabajos diferentes: ha sido canguro, mensajera, repartidora de pizzas... Ahora trabaja como modelo en una academia de dibujo y toca la guitarra en el metro. Rubén ya es independiente y tiene dieciocho años y medio. Comparte piso con un amigo, pero pronto va a quedarse solo y sin dinero.

Zurika Damani is a naturally gifted violinist with a particular love for hip-hop beats. But as she is part of a big Indian family, everyone has expectations, and those certainly don’t include hip-hop violin. After being rejected by the Juilliard School, Zuri’s last hope is a contest judged by a panel of top-tier college scouts. The only problem? This coveted competition happens to take place during Zuri’s sister’s extravagant wedding week. And Zuri has already been warned, repeatedly, that she is not to miss a single moment. 

Tyler has always been known as Nelson High’s goofy clown, the guy with the big mouth. But there’s something people don’t know: he’s tired of being in the shadows of his Raiders’ buddies, and he’s ready to do whatever it takes to get the most popular girl in school to notice him: Roxanne Carmichael. Sammy is just one of the guys, known for her mad boarding skills and her razor-sharp wit. But she has a secret, too—a crush on her best friend. It’s a relationship she’s not willing to risk damaging by getting all romantic about it.

Seventeen-year-old Gemma’s favorite kind of beach is an empty one. Social interactions are too much for her to handle. She always says the wrong thing - if she manages to say anything at all. She can’t even bring herself to speak to her longtime crush, Beau Booker, without losing sleep over her own awkwardness.

Nunca había creído en los ligues de una noche. Ni siquiera estaba muy seguro de lo del amor a primera vista. Pero ninguno de los dos había bebido, así que no cabía atribuir al alcohol lo que estaba pasando. Bibiana era una turbulencia. Exudaba ternura, amor, fuerza. Sin embargo, tenía un secreto que lo iba a cambiar todo.

Everyone eventually leaves Wren Plumley. First it was her mother, then her best friend, and then her sister. Now living with only her cop father and her upended dreams, Wren feels stranded, like a songbird falling in a storm. When Wilder, a sickly housebound teen, moves in next door, Wren finally finds what she’s always wanted - a person who can’t leave. But a chance meeting with Luca, the talkative, crush-worthy boy in her driver’s ed class, has Wren wondering if maybe she’s too quick to push people away.

When seventeen-year-old aspiring designer Tahira Janmohammad’s coveted fashion internship falls through, her parents have a Plan B. Tahira will work in her aunt’s boutique in the small town of Bakewell, the flower capital of Ontario. It’s only for the summer, and she’ll get the experience she needs for her college application. Plus her best friend is coming along. It won’t be that bad. But she just can’t deal with Rowan Johnston, the rude, totally obsessive garden-nerd next door with frayed cutoffs and terrible shoes. Not to mention his sharp jawline and soft lips.

Convention doesn’t carry much weight in Alder Creek. It doesn’t in Amoris Westmore’s family either. Daughter of a massage therapist and a pothead artist, inheritor of her grandmother’s vinyl collection, and blissfully entering her senior year in high school, Amoris never wants to leave her progressive hometown. Everything changes when Jamison Rush moves in next door. Jamison was Amoris’s first crush, and their last goodbye still stings. One of the few Black students in Alder Creek, Jamison sees Amoris’s idyllic town through different eyes.

Winnie is living her best fat girl life and is on her way to the best place on earth. No, not Disneyland - her granny’s diner, Goldeen’s, in the small town of Misty Haven. While there, she works in her fabulous '50s-inspired uniform, twirling around the diner floor and earning an obscene amount of tips. With her family and ungirlfriend at her side, she has everything she needs for one last perfect summer before starting college in the fall...until she becomes Misty Haven’s Summer Queen in a highly anticipated matchmaking tradition that she wants absolutely nothing to do with.

Dani ha sedici anni e sta trascorrendo l'estate più noiosa della sua vita lavorando nell'ufficio del padre quando Marta, il suo primo amore, gli manda un messaggio su WhatsApp: dovremmo prenderci una pausa. Un fulmine che squarcia il velo delle sue certezze e lo spinge a partire per frequentare il quarto anno di liceo a Barcellona, ospite della famiglia Hernández. Una fuga? Esatto: una fuga, documentata passo dopo passo in un blog, il Dani's Corner, che in pochi mesi fa di lui un influencer con decine di migliaia di follower appassionati alle sue imprese nella capitale catalana.