Darra, suburb of Brisbane, 1985. Eli, soon 13 years old, grew up between a toxic mother, a big brother and, as a babysitter, one of Australia's most famous former prisoners: Arthur "Slim" Halliday. But Eli knows nothing else and, in the absence of his biological father, can count on the "good bad men" who surround him: his father-in-law Lyle, who has plunged his mother into drugs but is now trying to get out of it; Slim, that his long experience in...

Le petit Abram dévoile l'histoire d'un adolescent de 14 ans dont l'horizon existentiel est bloqué. La guerre, l'ultra-conservatisme et la misère chronique rendent la vie quasi insupportable au village. Surtout, Abram est amoureux de la jeune et jolie Zaéma. Mais sa pauvreté et la force de la tradition leur interdisent un mariage d'amour. Cette situation le révolte à tel point qu'il se résout à partir pour l'Europe. Rêveur, sans...

Après la mort de Jack, Alex Rider, dévasté, s'est installé à San Francisco où il tente de se remettre.Mais pour l'ancien espion du MI6, la vie loin du feu de l'action n'est pas si facile.De l'autre côté de l'Atlantique, un hélicoptère militaire, le Super Stallion, s'est volatilisé.Au même moment, Alex reçoit un mail qui pourrait avoir été écrit par Jack.Il en est convaincu : son amie est vivante !Sans en avertir le...

From UK bestselling author Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him. Can you stop a murder after it's already happened? Late October. After midnight. You're waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He's late. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn't alone: he's walking...

"Like Francis Blackstone is a fourteen-year-old gunslinger with a heart of gold. He's fallen for the mayor's daughter and resolves to make his mark, and his fortune, to win her favor. And what better way than to rob a Manhattan Company bank? Enter Bob Temple, the volatile outlaw who takes Francis under his wing--though not without a degree of suspicion--and so begins the adventures of the Blackstone Temple Gang as they crisscross the west in search...

Young teen Able, previously transported to a magical world into the body of an adult hero, returns to Mythgarthr in possession of special powers that he has vowed he will not use in his service to the dragon king Anthor.

An immersive and affecting story about a teenager's fascination with an enigmatic new woman in town whose past is catching up with her.

Leading a group of warrior-monks who live in accordance with their beliefs about judgment after death, broken-hearted Thomas Cale engages in a cataclysmic battle while agonizing over what he will decide when the fate of the human race is placed in his hands.

The author recounts the year he spent in a burn unit following his suicide attempt at fourteen, describing the painful treatments, skin-grafting procedures, rehabilitation, and psychotherapy.