Every single girl in the school has a crush on Herr Schäfer the P.E. teacher. Including Tanja. Not that she would ever confess to Anne, her best friend, or to Anne's friend...

Florian is a mad-keen footballer and has been looking forward to his sports club's annual North Sea summer camp for ages. But then his sister Sarah is diagnosed with...

On the very first day of his family holiday on Lake Como, Jan runs into his worst nightmare - Hendrik Lehmann, the model pupil from his class. If Hendrik dishes the dirt...

Marie is a big manga fan, so staying on a ranch  is not exactly her idea of a fun holiday. But, as it's her best friend who's asking her, she's willing to give it a go....

Maxi is in love. Totally crazy about the guy. And Patrick, of all people! Who thinks he's Casanova and has just stood her up for the third time in a row! But, this time, he's...

Pauline is dreaming. Of a great career as a singer and about Emanuel, the guitarist in the school band. If she's honest with herself, she's not had much success in either case....

The new cult of the body beautiful. We are living in a hitherto unprecedented era where the body as nature created it is no longer accepted unquestioningly. Beauty...

The Chen and von Steinitz families met during the Boxer War in 1900, when German troops occupied Peking. At that time, a friend­ship developed between a German...

Where do we come from - where are we going ? A fascinating voyage of discovery into the infinity of the universe

The stars are so incredibly far away , and...

The caretaker of the building where Christoph's girlfriend Isabel lives has been murdered. One thing is immediately clear: Isabel and her mother must go into hiding. ...

This is absolutely the very last thing that Charlotte needs! A family holiday on Lake Garda with Mama's totally appalling new boyfriend Klaus, who is so embarrassing that ...

Hot new group 'Room 16' are casting for a promotional video, and Leonie and Isabel don't need to think twice: GET OUTTA THE WAY, HERE WE COME! After all, they are devoted...

»Where has Dine got to?« Marlene wonders.

»Dine didn't turn up.« I whisper in a spooky voice .

»So who's that then?« asks Marlene, pointing at...

Siblings Phil and Feli have mixed feelings about going to stay with their grandparents for the summer holidays. There's not a TV or a computer anywhere to be seen - the only...

Egypt, in the year 2 BC: Hekab, the father of twins Tamut and Nefret, is murdered during a business trip. The orphaned sisters are forced from their home - Heriset, ...

If she was completely honest, Frieda had imagined it would all be plain sailing: packing her bags, boarding the train, arriving in Berlin and looking for her father. That was...

Poor Marleen! Things are going from bad to worse for her: instead of going to Italy, she and her sister have to spend the school holidays in England, attending a language school....

Rome, March 44 BC: when slave girl Myrina shows up in the bakery, the baker's slave Leander instantly falls head over heels in love with her. Myrina's mistress is...

Mira, who's just moved to the deadly dull backwater of Hellenburg, keeps picturing her own funeral, at times in gory detail.  She just misses her old life so much,...

»It's just not fair: even mathematical equations have a relationship with one another, yet I'm still the only without a boyfriend.«

Actually everything's just...

Johann, Nick, Florian and Mark are best friends. They have been inseparable for nearly ten years. But somewhere along the line, something has subtly changed. They have all...