life change events

After years of overachieving at her elite school, Mara James has a complete meltdown during her calculus exam and, embarrassed by the incident and the viral video evidence, goes to live with her ski bum father in Squaw Valley, where she hopes to find a place to figure out where her life is headed, and maybe even finally understand her father.

Draws on interviews and focus groups with child soldiers to examine how they were initiated into the civil war in Sierra Leone and the challenges they faced after the war.

Landon Lucas Maxfield suffers the violent death of his mother at age thirteen and becomes a tattooed, pierced bad boy who's emotional broken. When he goes to college, he becomes Lucas and tries to be the man his mother always wanted him to be. There he meets Jacqueline and falls in love. Landon/Lucas tells his story of transformation in alternating voices.

"New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder delivers his next breakneck stand-alone thriller, following 2014's bestseller Suspicion. When Rick Hoffman loses his job and apartment, his only option is to move back into--and renovate--the home of his miserable youth, now empty and in decay since his father's stroke. But when he starts to pull it apart, he makes an electrifying discovery that will put his life in peril--and change everything he thought he knew about his father. "--.

A confessional, uplifting memoir from the beloved YouTube personality. It's not where you begin that matters. It's where you end up. Twenty-three year old Joey Graceffa has captured the hearts of millions of teens and young adults through his playful, sweet, and inspirational YouTube presence (not to mention his sparkling eyes and perfect hair). Yet, Joey wasn't always comfortable in his skin, and in this candid memoir, he thoughtfully looks back on his journey from pain to pride, self-doubt to self-acceptance. To his fans, Joey is that best friend who always captures the brighter side of life but also isn't afraid to get real. In the pages of his first book, he opens up about his years of struggling with family hardships and troubles at school, with cruel bullying and the sting of rejection. He tells of first loves and losses, embarrassing moments and surprising discoveries, loneliness, laughter, and life-changing forks in the road, showing us the incalculable value of finally finding and following your true passion in this world. Funny, warm-hearted, and inspiring, Joey Graceffa's story is a welcome reminder that it's not where you begin that matters, but where you end up.

"When the cruel Judge Biggs wrongfully convicts Margaret's dad of a crime he didn't commit, Margaret is determined to do something, even if it means using her family's secret -- and forbidden -- ability to time travel to save her dad. With the help of her best friend, Charlie, and his grandpa Josh, Margaret jumps back in time to stop the chain of events that turned Lucas Biggs into the corrupt and jaded man who sentenced her dad. But the rules of time travel are strict, and the forces of history resist Margaret's attempts to alter the past. Margaret is running out of chances before she will be pushed back to the present, where her father is doomed, and where, without Judge Biggs's help, Margaret will lose her father forever."--from back cover.

Ani FaNelli once endured a terrible public humiliation that made her want to reinvent herself. Now she has a great job, expensive clothes, and a wealthy fiance--but all that is a cover up for a shocking secret, one that is either going to ruin her once it is revealed, or at last set her free.