Robin Benway

Which is more dangerous: being an international spy... or surviving high school? Maggie Silver has never minded her unusual life. Cracking safes for the world's premier spy organization and traveling the world with her insanely cool parents definitely beat high school and the accompanying cliques, bad lunches, and frustratingly simple locker combinations. (If it's three digits, why bother locking it at all?) But when Maggie and her parents are sent to New York City for her first solo assignment, her world is transformed. Suddenly, she's attending a private school with hundreds of "mean girl" wannabes, trying to avoid the temptation to hack the school's elementary security system, and working to befriend the aggravatingly cute son of a potential national security threat... all while trying not to blow her cover.

EVERYBODY'S SINGING, "AUDREY, WAIT!"Audrey Cuttler's life hasn't been the same since that song, "Audrey, Wait!" hit the airwaves. All she wants to do is go to concerts, hang out with her friends, and maybe score a date with the cute boy who works with her at the Scooper Dooper.But now, her ex-boyfriend's song about their breakup is at the top of the charts and she's suddenly famous! The paparazzi won't leave her alone, the tabloids are trying to make her into some kind of rock goddess, and the Internet is documenting her every move!Will Audrey ever be able to have a normal life again? Get ready to find out, because it's time for Audrey to tell her side of the story.

It’s been a year—a year of missing Nina. A year of milestones—holidays, birthdays, everything without her. Leo feels like she should remember what happened that night. But all she knows is that she left the party and got into a car with Nina and Nina’s boyfriend, East. East, who once promised Nina he’d watch out for her younger sister. East, who has been trying to keep that promise every day since. But East won’t give Leo the one thing she wants—the one thing she needs. He won’t tell her anything about the accident. He won’t talk about that night at all. As the days tumble one into the next, Leo’s story comes together while her world falls apart. The only constant is the one person who can help her bear the enormous weight of her love for Nina—and East might be carrying too heavy a load of his own.

Audrey is zestien en leidt het leven van een gewone tiener. Totdat ze het uitmaakt met Evan, haar vriendje en zanger in een onbeduidend bandje. Nog diezelfde middag schrijft hij een popsong over hun verbroken relatie. Tijdens het schoolfeest zingt Evan het nummer. Het heet Audrey, wait! en wordt een doorslaand succes. Het liedje wordt opgepikt door de media en staat in korte tijd op nummer een in de hitparade. Niet alleen Evan, ook Audrey wordt in een klap beroemd: journalisten willen een interview met haar, ze wordt achtervolgd door fans en paparazzi en op Internet verschijnt een compromitterend filmpje. Audrey wordt tegen haar wil meegezogen in de mediahype. In al deze hysterie is haar beste vriendin Victoria een rots in de branding. Ook James, met wie ze in een ijszaak werkt, trek zich niets aan van haar plotselinge populariteit. Ondertussen maakt ze door verkeerde inschattingen de situatie alleen maar erger.

Grace fue adoptada al nacer y creía ser hija única. A los dieciséis, luego de quedar embarazada y dar en adopción a su bebé, busca a su familia biológica para descubrir que en realidad es la hermana de en medio: Joaquin es el mayor y Maya la menor. Mientras Grace se enfrenta al vacío que dejó su bebé, la vida le revela a ella y a sus hermanos el camino hacia sus orígenes para encontrar su lugar en el mundo. Ganador del National Book Award y bestseller de The New York Times, El esplendor de las raíces ha cautivado a la crítica y a los lectores por igual«Grace, Maya y Joaquin salen de las páginas para convertirse en adolescentes de carne y hueso, personalidades con huellas digitales.» -The New York Times «La verdad que los adolescentes necesitan escuchar es que cada vida humana tiene significado, dignidad y relevancia; que los lazos naturales importan; que ningún hijo es una isla y que la existencia de cualquier persona es una consecuencia.» -The Wall Street Journal«Amo a Robin Benway... tiene una forma de escribir que simplemente te remueve el corazón y lo exprime hasta sacar todos tus sentimientos y emociones.» «¡ESTE ES UN LIBRO BUENÍSIMO! Lloré, amigos ¡LLORÉ! Ningún libro me había hecho llorar en mucho tiempo. No sabía que aún podía pasarme.» 

April té premonicions. May pot fer-se invisible. June llegeix els pensaments. Són tres germanes que han d'ajustar-se tant al seus poders acabats d'adquirir com a la vida de l'institut. Per si això no fos prou, April té una premonició: ve al seu xicot amb June en un accident de cotxe. Què fan ells dos junts? I, sobretot, pot fer-se alguna cosa per evitar-ho?

Emmy’s best friend, Oliver, reappears after being kidnapped by his father ten years ago. Emmy hopes to pick up their relationship right where it left off. Are they destined to be together? Or has fate irreparably driven them apart? Emmy just wants to be in charge of her own life. She wants to stay out late, surf her favorite beach—go anywhere without her parents’ relentless worrying. But Emmy’s parents can’t seem to let her grow up—not since the day Oliver disappeared. Oliver needs a moment to figure out his heart. He’d thought, all these years, that his dad was the good guy. He never knew that it was his father who kidnapped him and kept him on the run. Discovering it, and finding himself returned to his old hometown, all at once, has his heart racing and his thoughts swirling. Emmy and Oliver were going to be best friends forever, or maybe even more, before their futures were ripped apart. In Emmy’s soul, despite the space and time between them, their connection has never been severed. But is their story still written in the stars? Or are their hearts like the pieces of two different puzzles—impossible to fit together? Readers who love Sarah Dessen will tear through these pages with hearts in throats as Emmy and Oliver struggle to face the messy, confusing consequences of Oliver’s father’s crime. Full of romance, coming-of-age emotion, and heartache, these two equally compelling characters create an unforgettable story.

Being the middle child has its ups and downs. But for Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovering that she is a middle child is a different ride altogether. After putting her own baby up for adoption, she goes looking for her biological family, including— Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio sister, who has a lot to say about their newfound family ties. Having grown up the snarky brunette in a house full of chipper redheads, she’s quick to search for traces of herself among these not-quite-strangers. And when her adopted family’s long-buried problems begin to explode to the surface, Maya can’t help but wonder where exactly it is that she belongs. And Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother. After seventeen years in the foster care system, he’s learned that there are no heroes, and secrets and fears are best kept close to the vest, where they can’t hurt anyone but him.

Being permanently based in a local New York City high school as an undercover operative has its moments, good and bad, for 16-year-old safecracker Maggie Silver. Pros: More quality time with her former mark-turned-boyfriend Jesse Oliver and insanely cool best friend, Roux. Getting to spend quality time with her semi-retired and international spy honorary uncle, Angelo. Cons: High school and the accompanying cliques, bad lunches, and frustratingly simple locker combinations. But when Maggie's parents are falsely accused of stealing priceless gold coins, Maggie uses her safecracking skills to try and clear their names. Too bad it only serves to put her and everyone she loves in danger. Maggie and her "new team" flee to Paris where they must come up with a plan to defeat their former allies.

April tiene premoniciones. May puede hacerse invisible. June lee los pensamientos. Son tres hermanas que han de ajustarse tanto a sus recién adquiridos poderes como a su vida en el instituto. Por si eso fuera poco, April tiene una premonición: ve a su novio con June en un accidente de coche. ¿Qué hacen ellos dos juntos? Y, sobre todo, ¿puede hacerse algo para evitarlo?

Being permanently based in a local New York City high school as an undercover operative has its moments, good and bad, for 16-year-old safecracker Maggie Silver. Pros: More quality time with her former mark-turned-boyfriend Jesse Oliver and insanely cool best friend, Roux. Getting to spend quality time with her semi-retired and international spy honorary uncle, Angelo. Cons: High school and the accompanying cliques, bad lunches, and frustratingly simple locker combinations. But when Maggie's parents are falsely accused of stealing priceless gold coins, Maggie uses her safecracking skills to try and clear their names. Too bad it only serves to put her and everyone she loves in danger. Maggie and her "new team" flee to Paris where they must come up with a plan to defeat their former allies.

Liefdesperikelen en spionage in een ongelofelijk grappig boek! Voor de 16-jarige Maggie Silver is brandkasten kraken een makkie. Ze heeft twaalf paspoorten en reist met haar ouders de wereld over om geheime missies uit te voeren. Maggie denkt dat ze haar leven als spion helemaal onder controle heeft, maar dan krijgt ze haar eerste solo-opdracht: ze moet infiltreren op een school in New York. Dat blijkt moeilijker dan gedacht. Niet alleen raakt Maggie bevriend met partygirl Roux, ook wordt ze verliefd op de aantrekkelijke Jesse Oliver. Maar juist zíjn vader moet ze bespioneren. Misverstanden en hilarische situaties zijn het gevolg.

"Blood is blood...and one way or another, we all bleed." Drizella and Anastasia only know one thing for certain: they will never end up like their mother, Lady Tremaine. When their father left them as young girls, he took what was left of their family’s fortune and their mother’s dignity with him. A few years and one deceased stepfather later, the only version of Lady Tremaine that Drizella and Anastasia know is a bitter and cruel head of house. Anastasia and Drizella have promised themselves—and each other—that they'll be different. They'll find love, see the world, and never let their hearts go cold.But both sisters are all too aware of what it can mean when cast into disfavor with their mother, and fueled by Lady Tremaine’s tendencies to pit the daughters against one another, Drizella and Anastasia are locked into a complicated waltz of tenuous sisterhood. On the cusp of the royal debut party—their one chance to impress the Prince and live up to their mother’s expectations—the sisters at last get a glimpse of what life could be like outside of Lady Tremaine’s intentions: Drizella discovering a love of science and Anastasia sparking a secret romance. But never underestimate the power a mother whose greatest talents lie in manipulation, and the sisters may learn that even the cruelest of hearts can spill blood.This first book in the new Disney Villains Dark Ascension series by National Book Award-winning author Robin Benway explores the complex sibling rivalry between the two wicked stepsisters from Cinderella that turned them into the characters we know today.

I hugged my sisters and they fit against my sides like two jigsaw pieces that would never fit anywhere else. I couldn't imagine ever letting them go again, like releasing them would be to surrender the best parts of myself.Three sisters share a magical, unshakeable bond in this witty high-concept novel from the critically acclaimed author of Audrey, Wait! Around the time of their parents' divorce, sisters April, May, and June recover special powers from childhood--powers that come in handy navigating the hell that is high school. Powers that help them cope with the hardest year of their lives. But could they have a greater purpose? April, the oldest and a bit of a worrier, can see the future. Middle-child May can literally disappear. And baby June reads minds--everyone's but her own. When April gets a vision of disaster, the girls come together to save the day and reconcile their strained family. They realize that no matter what happens, powers or no powers, they'll always have each other. Because there's one thing stronger than magic: sisterhood.

National Book Award Winner Robin Benway's debut middle grade novel is Babysitters Club meets Sandlot when twin sisters join a ragtag neighborhood girls softball team at a time when growing up could mean growing apart. Aggie and Jac might be twin sisters, but lately they haven’t felt the same about anything. While Jac is excited about their move to Los Angeles and a chance to seem cool and mysterious, Aggie is worried her new locker won’t open, Jac could make new friends without her, and her friends from home will move on, leaving her all alone. When the first day at school ends with an invite to join the neighborhood softball team, Aggie jumps at the chance to meet the other girls, even if she has to drag Jac along. Aggie is relieved to learn that each girl is dealing with their own problems and discovers that by being vulnerable, she's able to create strong friendships. Jac’s interest in the softball team might have more to do with the captain’s older brother. But as Jac’s crush grows she worries that it’s just one more way she and Aggie have become different. And is it wrong if Jac wants to feel different from Aggie sometimes, even if there’s no one else she'd rather have for her twin sister? Jac and Aggie try to hold on to their sisterhood even as life throws the biggest curveball of all: growing up. From award-winning author Robin Benway comes a fun and heartwarming middle grade novel about friendships, family, and discovering the person that you’re meant to be.

"Blood is blood...and one way or another, we all bleed." Drizella and Anastasia only know one thing for certain: they will never end up like their mother, Lady Tremaine. When their father left them as young girls, he took what was left of their family’s fortune and their mother’s dignity with him. A few years and one deceased stepfather later, the only version of Lady Tremaine that Drizella and Anastasia know is a bitter and cruel head of house. Anastasia and Drizella have promised themselves―and each other―that they'll be different. They'll find love, see the world, and never let their hearts go cold. But both sisters are all too aware of what it can mean when cast into disfavor with their mother, and fueled by Lady Tremaine’s tendencies to pit the daughters against one another, Drizella and Anastasia are locked into a complicated waltz of tenuous sisterhood. On the cusp of the royal debut party―their one chance to impress the Prince and live up to their mother’s expectations―the sisters at last get a glimpse of what life could be like outside of Lady Tremaine’s intentions: Drizella discovering a love of science and Anastasia sparking a secret romance. But never underestimate the power a mother whose greatest talents lie in manipulation, and the sisters may learn that even the cruelest of hearts can spill blood. This first book in the new Disney Villains Dark Ascension series by National Book Award-winning author Robin Benway explores the complex sibling rivalry between the two wicked stepsisters from Cinderella that turned them into the characters we know today.

Ver van de boom is een YA-roman over familie van Robin Benway. Winnaar van de National Book Award 2017 voor jeugdliteratuur. Wanneer de geadopteerde Grace op zoek gaat naar haar biologische moeder, ontdekt ze dat ze nog een zus en een broer heeft. Haar zus Maya lijkt het prima voor elkaar te hebben in haar adoptiegezin, maar broer Joaquin is nog altijd op zoek naar een familie die hem wil hebben. Alle drie worstelen ze met de vraag: wat bepaalt wie je bent?