Esta autora escribe para adultos jóvenes, esforzándose por la honestidad y la autenticidad en su trabajo. Sus narrativas profundizan en la vida de los adolescentes, capturando sus experiencias con una voz realista. La escritura es directa y resuena profundamente con su público objetivo. Se enfoca en crear historias que son tanto identificables como cautivadoras.
In Kody Keplinger's lyrical middle-grade debut, eleven-year-old Nola Sutton faces a summer of change when her best friends, the Swift boys, are torn apart by their father's departure. As she struggles to hold onto their friendship, Nola must confront the reality of their transformations and her own strength.
Hadley is an angry girl: angry at her mother for embezzling money, angry at her estranged older sister, Beth, whom she has to live with while her mother is in jail, angry at having to move to Kentucky away from her friends, and angry at the world because she has retinitis pigmentosa and is slowly going blind; but then she meets Lila, a rescued pit bull who has not responded to anyone else--so if Hadley can train Lila, maybe the dog can get adopted into her forever home, and just maybe Lila can help Hadley deal with her own problems.
New York Times bestselling author of The DUFF Kody Keplinger and artist Sara Kipin reimagine an iconic DC antihero with a gothic-horror twist.
Whitley Johnson's dream summer with her divorce dad has turned into a nightmare. She's just met his new fiancee and her kids. The fiancee's son? Whitley's one-night stand from graduation night. Just freakin' great. Worse, she totally doesn't fit in with her dad's perfect new country-club family. So Whitley acts out. She parties. Hard. So hard she doesn't even notice the good things right under her nose: a sweet little future stepsister who is just about the only person she's ever liked, a best friend (even though Whitley swears she doesn't "do" friends), and a smoking-hot guy who isn't her stepbrother...at least, not yet. It will take all three of them to help Whitley get through her anger and begin to put the pieces of her family together. Filled with authenticity and raw emotion, Whitley is Kody Keplinger's most compelling character to date: a cynical Holden Caulfield-esque girl you will wholly care about.
Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is smart, cynical, loyal - and well aware that she's not the hot one in her group of friends. But when high-school jock and all round moron Wesley Rush tells her she's a DUFF - a Designated, Ugly Fat Friend - Bianca does not the see funny side. She may not be a beauty but she'd never stoop so low as to go anywhere near the likes of Wesley ... Or would she? Bianca is about to find out that attraction defies looks and that sometimes your sworn enemies can become your best friends ... With a wry and tell-it-like-it-is voice, New York Times Bestselling novel The Duff is a witty and poignant story of a teenager struggling with the rules of high school attraction, along with the breaking down of her relationships with family and friends. It is a novel about what it means to be sexy, in a world where we feel we have to be perfect! A Hamilton High School story from Kody Keplinger. Now a film starring Mae Whitman, Bella Thorne and Alison Janney - out on DVD Summer 2015.
Fed up with the increasingly violent rivalry between the football and soccer teams at Hamilton High, Lissa and other players' girlfriends go on strike, but the girls will succeed only if their libidos can be controlled longer than the boys' can, in a comedic reimagining of the classic Greek play Lysistrata.
Six survived to tell the story, but who knows the truth? An addictive page-turner from bestselling US sensation Kody Keplinger, author of THE DUFF. It's been three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre. Three years since my best friend, Sarah, was killed in a bathroom stall during the mass shooting. Everyone knows Sarah's story - that she died proclaiming her faith. But it's not true. I know because I was with her when she died. I didn't say anything then, and people got hurt because of it. Now Sarah's parents are publishing a book about her, so this might be my last chance to set the record straight . . . but I'm not the only survivor with a story to tell about what did - and didn't - happen that day. Except Sarah's martyrdom is important to a lot of people, people who don't take kindly to what I'm trying to do. And the more I learn, the less certain I am about what's right. I don't know what will be worse: the guilt of staying silent or the consequences of speaking up . . .
Can't get enough of Bianca and Wesley from The DUFF? Kody Keplinger returns to the world of Hamilton High in this companion novel.
Bo Dickinson is a girl with a wild reputation, a deadbeat dad, and a mama who’s not exactly sober most of the time. Everyone in town knows the Dickinsons are a bad lot, but Bo doesn’t care what anyone thinks. Agnes Atwood has never gone on a date, never even stayed out past ten, and never broken any of her parents’ overbearing rules. Rules that are meant to protect their legally blind daughter—protect her from what, Agnes isn’t quite sure. Despite everything, Bo and Agnes become best friends. And it’s the sort of friendship that runs truer and deeper than anything else. So when Bo shows up in the middle of the night, with police sirens wailing in the distance, desperate to get out of town, Agnes doesn’t hesitate to take off with her. But running away and not getting caught will require stealing a car, tracking down Bo’s dad, staying ahead of the authorities, and—worst of all—confronting some ugly secrets.
Eine Rose mit Dornen Pamela Isley ist ein ungewöhnliches Mädchen. Sie verlässt nur selten das abgeschottete alte Haus der Familie, denn sie vertraut niemandem, seit ihre Mutter nicht mehr da ist. Männern schon gar nicht. Diese wollen immer etwas von ihr, das sie nicht zu geben bereit ist. Pflanzen scheinen Pamelas einzige Freude zu sein. Bis Alice Oh in ihr Leben stolpert und vorübergehend bei den Isleys einzieht. Pamela fühlt sich zu dem süßen Goth Girl hingezogen. Es ist, als würde jemand endlich die Vorhänge aufziehen und Sonne in ihr Leben lassen. Nun muss Pamela jedoch mit aller Macht verhindern, dass ihre neue Freundin von den düsteren Machenschaften ihres Vaters in den Katakomben des Hauses erfährt. Sollte dieses dunkle Geheimnis je ans Licht kommen, schwebt nicht nur Alice in Lebensgefahr. Kody Keplinger, die New York Times-Bestsellerautorin des Romans Von wegen Liebe und die Künstlerin Sara Kipin interpretieren die legendäre DC-Antiheldin mit einer Prise Gothic-Horror völlig neu.