Viebke is fed up - with her mother, with the community service she's forced to do in an old people's home after stealing a car, and with her boyfriend,...

16-year-old Agnes is a member of the German minority living in Kronstadt, Romania, at the time of Ceausescu. Overnight, she is left completely on her own after both parents,...

Josi is meant to be looking after her beloved half-brother Lou. But when her back is turned for a moment, Lou is kidnapped. Josi, her father, and her stepmother Marian are...

Lilly and Paul, 15 and 16, have been best friends since they were little, though they could hardly be more different. While Lilly's rebellious behaviour rubs people up...

Ida and Nele decide to go on a camping holiday together. The 15-year-olds are hoping to have a peaceful, relaxing time and leave the past behind them.  But the apparently...

A novel for young readers as gripping as a Hitchcock-movie - unadulterated psychological suspense! 

Eva is 16 and in love for the first time! She's...

Two young men, friends since early child-hood, speed away on their trip into life. Until the accident. Uli believes fiercely that Hannes will awake from his coma, soon. He...

Greenland in 2020: the eternal ice has loosened its grip and the island is beginning to live up to its name. Budding young sculptor Jonathan Querido has left Germany to return...

16-year-old Flora is found by the lakeside, bleeding from multiple cuts. She claims to have no memory of what's happened to her. What's more, the different witness...

Philosophy is generally considered an exclusively male domain. The great minds portrayed in this book prove that this is by no means the case. The stories of these women take...

Simone de Beauvoir is regarded as one of the founders of feminism, her book  The Second Sex became a cornerstone of the women's liberation movement. As a committed...

In the wake of the Night of Broken Glass in November 1938, the Finkelsteins, a Jewish couple, decide to flee Germany and manage to get hold of first-class tickets onboard a...

The two girls are like chalk and cheese. You'd expect Yamina's shy and retiring nature to clash with Zip's maladjusted eccentricity - yet they become...

Lara's brother Simon has disappeared. Just vanished, seemingly into thin air. Overnight, Lara's safe and secure world is unravelling . While at first her...

One minute Becca was Fabian's girlfriend, the next she's dumped him. In his frustration Fabian gets blind drunk at a party, and takes his revenge on Becca, who's also...

Tim is in borstal - a twenty month sentence. Instead of the thrills of parties, mates and girls, his life consists of suspicion, loneliness, and monotony. On top of it all, he...

Ben is 16 years old and mad about fantasy role-play. The boundaries can get a bit blurred, and sometimes Ben daydreams that he has merged with his role-play alter-ego, the...

Samuel had suspected it from the start: a school trip with Stefan could only be a total nightmare. And he is proven right - Stefan tyrannises both teachers and the other...

The drab Munich suburb where Alex, Sam, Leo and Johannes live doesn't have much going for it, but that changes overnight when the four of them break into an derelict...

Marcel Hornball, aka Hannibal, longs to escape from his dreary humdrum existence. He is desperate to be cool, to have a wild time - and impress girls like Daniela, who...

This wasn't how Clara imagined her summer holiday! She's on her aunt's houseboat with best friend Melanie, Melanie's boyfriend Alex and his friend Dave...

Lena and Leander have been a couple for several months… until the beautiful Vanessa appears on the scene. Although Lena guards her boyfriend like a jealous hawk,...

Nina has a funny feeling from the very start when she moves into her new shared apartment in an old villa. She organises a party so she can get to know her new housemates...

After her mother dies, 15-year-old Samantha moves from California with her father to make a fresh start in Trier. But the pupils at her new school take against her right from...

While on a school trip, Kira is out alone in Berlin at night - and she gets completely lost. Luckily someone comes to her rescue. Gunnar seems to be her soulmate. She...

David is Sofie's first real love. But then her friend Julia pinches him during a table tennis weekend that Sofie can't take part in. The first photos of the new...

No matter how hard she tries - Jenny just can't remember what happened last night. All she wanted was to have some fun with her friends at the rock festival on the lake....

Some see the creature as a miracle, others as the new messiah. Still more view him as a thug, a lethal weapon. Either way, they all want a piece of him. Mingus the Lion Man:...

What's the matter with Ela? Her 16 ^th birthday is just around the corner, but she feels absolutely miserable: she and her friend Kati were going to conquer the...