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OF ALL THE STUPID THINGS by Alexandra Diaz

February 8th, 2010 by Alexandra Diaz · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
  • Publisher: Egmont USA
  • Release Date: December 22, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-60684-034-4
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
When a rumor starts circulating that Tara's boyfriend has been with one of the guy cheerleaders, the innuendo doesn't just hurt Tara. It marks the beginning of the end for three lifelong friends. Tara's training for a marathon, but also running from her fear of abandonment from her father. Whitney Blaire seems to have everything, but an empty mansion and absentee parents leave her looking for her own value in the wrong places. And Pinkie has a compulsive need to mother everyone to make up for the mama she's never… Continue reading

Categories: 2010 Winter · Contemporary · Diaz, Alexandra · Egmont USA · First Love/First Crush · Friendship · Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (GLBT) · Humor · National · New Mexico · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Young Adult

FREEFALL by Mindi Scott

October 2nd, 2009 by Mindi Scott · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Fall, 2010
  • Publisher: Pulse
  • Release Date:  TBD
  • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
  • ISBN (paperback):TBD
If Seth McCoy had asked his Magic 8-Ball whether he'd ever get his life on track, the answer would have been: Very doubtful. Or maybe:  Don't count on it. For too long, Seth's focus was on getting wasted with his band—a pastime that contributed to his reputation as a slacker, a jerk, and an all-out loser.  But there's one thing the Magic 8-ball didn't predict: Seth's close friend dying after a night of partying. Scared sober, Seth finally notices a girl who's been there all along: sweet, beautiful, broken Rosetta.  She's… Continue reading

Categories: 2010 Fall · Contemporary · Death · Events · First Love/First Crush · Local · Music · National · Rated R · Scott, Mindi · Simon Pulse · Washington · Young Adult

TELL ME A SECRET by Holly Cupala

August 7th, 2009 by Holly Cupala · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
  • Publisher: HarperTeen
  • Release Date: June 22, 2010
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0061766664
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
It’s tough, living in the shadow of a dead girl… In the five years since her bad-girl sister Xanda’s death, Miranda Mathison has wondered about the secret her sister took to the grave, and what really happened the night she died. Now, just as Miranda is on the cusp of her dreams—a best friend to unlock her sister’s world, a ticket to art school, and a boyfriend to fly her away from it all—Miranda has a secret all her own. Then two lines on a pregnancy test confirm her worst… Continue reading

Categories: 2010 Spring · Connect · Contemporary · Cupala, Holly · Death · Drama · Events · Family · First Love/First Crush · Grief · HarperTeen · Literature · Local · Love · National · Peer Pressure · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Secrecy · Suicide · Washington · Young Adult

THE BODY FINDER by Kimberly Derting

January 26th, 2009 by Kimberly Derting · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Winter 2010
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Release Date: March 16, 2010
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0061779817
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
THE BODY FINDER is about Violet Ambrose, a 16-year-old girl who can locate dead bodies. Or at least, those that have been murdered. She can sense the echoes they leave behind ... and the imprints they leave on their killers.  As if that weren't enough to deal with during her junior year, she also has a sudden, inexplicable, and consuming crush on her best friend since childhood, Jay Heaton. Now a serial killer has begun terrorizing Violet's small town . . . and she realizes she might be… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Fall · Crime · Derting, Kimberly · Events · First Love/First Crush · HarperCollins Children's Books · Local · National · Paranormal · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Thriller · Washington · Young Adult

PRINCESS FOR HIRE by Lindsey Leavitt

January 7th, 2009 by Lindsey Leavitt · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Winter 2010
  • Publisher: Hyperion
  • Release Date: March 16, 2010
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-4231-2192-3
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD

When an flawlessly dressed woman steps out of an iridescent bubble and wants to know, like, now if you’d like to become a substitute princess, do you

a) runb) faintc) say Yes!

For Desi Bascomb, who’s been longing for a bit of glamour in her Idaho life, the choice is a definite C–that is, once she can stop pinching herself… Continue reading

Categories: 2010 Winter · Alabama · Fantasy · First Love/First Crush · Friendship · Humor · Hyperion · Leavitt, Lindsey · Local · Magic · Middle Grade · National · Rated PG · Romance

HUSH HUSH by Becca Fitzpatrick

January 5th, 2009 by Becca Fitzpatrick · Email post Email post · Print Print

    • Publication Season/Year: Fall 2009
    • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
    • Release Date: October 13, 2009
    • ISBN (hardcover): 1416989412
    • ISBN (paperback): 978-1416989417
    A sexy and dangerous love story about a teenage girl who falls for a fallen angel with a dark agenda to get his wings back. The Author: Becca Fitzpatrick Location: Fort Collins, CO Becca Fitzpatrick grew up reading Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden with a flashlight under the covers.  She graduated college with a degree in health, which she promptly abandoned for storytelling.  When not writing, she's most likely prowling sale racks for reject shoes, running, or watching crime dramas on TV.  HUSH, HUSH is her first novel. Contact Information:
    • Official

    Categories: 2009 Fall · Colorado · First Love/First Crush · Fitzpatrick, Becca · Local · National · Paranormal · Romance · Simon & Schuster BFYR · Thriller · Young Adult

    SILVER PHOENIX : Beyond the Kingdom of Xia by Cindy Pon

    November 24th, 2008 by Cindy Pon · Email post Email post · Print Print

    • Publication Season/Year: Summer 2009
    • Publisher: Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins
    • Release Date: TBD
    • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
    • ISBN (paperback): TBD
    No one wanted Ai Ling. And deep down she is relieved-despite the dishonor she has brought upon her family-to be unbetrothed, free, and not some stranger's subservient bride banished to the inner quarters. But now, something is after her. Something terrifying-a force she cannot comprehend. And as the pieces of the puzzle start to fit together, Ai Ling begins to understand that her journey to the Palace of Fragrant Dreams in search of her beloved father-missing these many months-is so much more than that. Bravery, intelligence, the will… Continue reading

    Categories: 2009 Summer · Action/Adventure · California · Events · Fantasy · First Love/First Crush · Greenwillow Books · Local · Monsters · Multicultural · Mythology · National · Pon, Cindy · Quest · Societal Pressure · Young Adult

    HARMONIC FEEDBACK by Tara Kelly

    November 8th, 2008 by Tara Kelly · Email post Email post · Print Print

    • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
    • Publisher: Henry Holt BYR
    • Release Date: TBD
    • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
    • ISBN (paperback): TBD
    Doctors have pinned 16-year-old Drea Horvath with everything from ADHD to Asperger's Syndrome. She has an obsession with sound design, a tendency to blurt out whatever she's thinking, and a problem making friends, but likes to think of this as following her own rhythm in a confusing world. Drea is hesitant to befriend purple-haired Naomi Quinn, her teenage neighbor with a kamikaze personality. But Naomi is the first person to treat her like she isn't a world class dork. Then there's Justin Rocca, the persistent boy in her… Continue reading

    Categories: 2010 Spring · Conformity · Contemporary · Death · Drugs · First Love/First Crush · Friendship · Henry Holt BFYR · Kelly, Tara · Learning Disabilities · Local · Music · National · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Societal Pressure · Washington · Young Adult

    FAERY REBELS: SPELL HUNTER by R.J. Anderson

    November 7th, 2008 by R.J. Anderson · Email post Email post · Print Print

    • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
    • Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
    • Release Date: April 28, 2009
    • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0061554742
    • ISBN (paperback): 978-0061554749
    Youngest and boldest of all the faeries of the Oak, Knife fearlessly battles the savage crows and other predators who threaten her dying people. But when she strikes up a forbidden friendship with a human named Paul, she arouses the wrath of the powerful Faery Queen herself. With the help of some unexpected allies, Knife sets out to solve the mystery of the Oakenfolk's missing magic - but she soon discovers that the truth may cost her everything... Also available in the UK as KNIFE in… Continue reading

    Categories: 2009 Spring · Action/Adventure · Anderson, R.J. · Contemporary · Events · Faeries · Fantasy · First Love/First Crush · Friendship · HarperCollins Children's Books · Local · Middle Grade · National · Rated PG · _CANADA Ontario

    MY BIG NOSE AND OTHER NATURAL DISASTERS by Sydney Salter

    November 2nd, 2008 by Sydney Salter · Email post Email post · Print Print

    • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
    • Publisher: Harcourt
    • Release Date: April 1, 2009
    • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
    • ISBN (paperback): 978-0152066437
    It's the end of junior year, and summer is about to begin. The Summer of Passion, to be exact, when Jory Michaels plans to explore all the possibilities of the future--and, with any luck, score a boyfriend in the process. But Jory has a problem. A big problem. A curvy, honking, bumpy, problem in the form of her Super Schnozz, the one thing standing between Jory and happiness. And now, with the Summer of Passion stretched before her like an open road, she's determined for Super Schnozz to… Continue reading

    Categories: 2009 Spring · Author speaking availability · Body Image · Contemporary · Events · Family · First Love/First Crush · Friendship · Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (GLBT) · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · Humor · Local · National · Nevada · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Salter, Sydney · Self-esteem/Self-image · Utah · Young Adult

    TWENTY BOY SUMMER by Sarah Ockler

    November 1st, 2008 by Sarah Ockler · Email post Email post · Print Print

    • Publication Season/Year: Summer 2009
    • Publisher: Little, Brown
    • Release Date: June 1, 2009
    • ISBN (hardcover):  978-0-316-05159-0
    • ISBN (paperback): TBD
    For Anna Reiley and Frankie Perino, the ingredients for the Absolute Best Summer Ever are simple: Two girls. Two bikinis. And twenty days in Zanzibar Bay, California. The best part? According to Frankie, if they meet one boy every day, there's a good chance Anna will find her first summer romance. Anna lightheartedly agrees to the fun, but there's something she hasn't told Frankie... she's already had her romance, and it was with Frankie's older brother, Matt, just before his tragic death last year. TWENTY BOY SUMMER is… Continue reading

    Categories: 2009 Summer · Contemporary · Events · First Love/First Crush · Friendship · Grief · Little, Brown · Local · National · New York · Ockler, Sarah · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Young Adult