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FREAKSVILLE by Kitty Keswick

February 18th, 2011 by Kitty Keswick · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Winter 2010
  • Publisher: Leap Books
  • Release Date: January 8, 2010
  • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
  • ISBN (paperback): ISBN-13:978-1-61603-001-8
FREAKSVILLE A group of teenagers, trapped in a haunted theater on the night of a full moon, discover that ghosts are the least of their worries… Every woman in the Maxwell family has the gift of sight. A talent sixteen-year-old Kasey would gladly give up. All she wants is a normal life. Shopping and talking about boys with her best friend and long-time sidekick, Gillie Godshall, consume her days. Until Kasey has a vision about Josh Johnstone, the foreign exchange student from England. The vision leads her into new… Continue reading

Categories: 2010 Winter · California · Contemporary · Debut · Events · Fantasy · First Love/First Crush · Friendship · Humor · Keswick, Kitty · Leap Books · Local · Love · Mystery · National · Paranormal · Rated PG-13 · Series · Young Adult

BANISH by Gretchen McNeil

October 28th, 2010 by Gretchen McNeil · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Winter 2012
  • Publisher: Balzer + Bray
  • Release Date: TBD
  • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
Fifteen-year-old Bridget Liu just wants to be left alone: by her overprotective mom, by the hunky son of the police officer who got her father killed, and by the eerie voices which she can suddenly and inexplicably hear.  Turns out the voices are demons - the Biblical kind, not the Buffy kind - and Bridget possesses the rare ability to banish them. San Francisco's senior exorcist and his newly assigned partner from the Vatican enlist Bridget's help with increasingly bizarre and dangerous cases of demonic possession.  But just… Continue reading

Categories: 2012 Winter · Balzer & Bray · California · Death · Debut · Fantasy · First Love/First Crush · Horror · Local · McNeil, Gretchen · Mythology · National · Paranormal · Rated PG-13 · Stand-alone · Young Adult

OTHER WORDS FOR LOVE by Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

October 21st, 2010 by Lorraine Zago Rosenthal · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring, 2011
  • Publisher: Delacorte Press
  • Release Date: January 11, 2011
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0-385-73901-6
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
Ari Mitchell feels invisible at her Brooklyn high school. Her hair is too flat, her style too preppy, and her personality too quiet. And outside school, Ari feels outshined by her beautiful, confident best friend, Summer. Their friendship is as complex and confusing as Ari’s relationship with her troubled older sister, Evelyn, a former teenage mom whose handsome firefighter husband fills Ari’s head with guilty fantasies. When an unexpected inheritance enables Ari to transfer to an elite Manhattan prep school, she makes a wealthy new friend, Leigh. Leigh… Continue reading

Categories: 2011 Spring · Delacorte · Drama · Events · Family · First Love/First Crush · Friendship · Ohio · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Rosenthal, Lorraine Zago · Young Adult

THE PULL OF GRAVITY by Gae Polisner

July 16th, 2010 by Gae Polisner · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2011
  • Publisher: Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
  • Release Date: Spring 2011
  • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD                         
Nick Gardner is having a rough year. His brother’s a jerk, his big fat dad has hit the road, and his sort-of best friend is dying. When a feverish hallucination puts Nick on a collision course with a water tower, a television news crew, and one Jaycee Amato, a girl with Siberian Husky eyes, his whole life begins to change. Together, they  set out on a secret journey to keep a promise to their dying friend. Will they accomplish what they set out… Continue reading

Categories: 2011 Spring · Contemporary · Death · Debut · Family · Farrar, Straus, and Giroux · First Love/First Crush · Friendship · Literature · Local · Love · National · New York · Polisner, Gae · Rated PG · Stand-alone · Young Adult

Island Sting by Bonnie J. Doerr

June 7th, 2010 by Bonnie J. Doerr · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
  • Publisher: Leap Books
  • Release Date: January 6, 2010
  • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
  • ISBN (paperback): 978-1-61603-002-5
Island Sting is a contemporary eco-mystery set in the Florida Keys. Though it is fiction, details about the natural environment and endangered species are authentic. It’s a tale of intrepid teens who change the effects of disappointment and heartache by taking positive action. Kenzie Ryan has been forced to move from New York City to Nana’s cottage on an island in the Florida Keys. Talk about culture shock! She’s been torn away from her circle of lifetime friends at St. Joseph’s Academy for girls, her swim and softball… Continue reading

Categories: 2010 Spring · Action/Adventure · Animal · Community · Contemporary · Crime · Death · Debut · Divorce · Doerr, Bonnie J. · Ecology/The Environment · Events · Family · First Love/First Crush · Friendship · Grief · Leap Books · Local · Middle Grade · Mystery · National · Nature · North Carolina · Rated G · Religion · Science · Stand-alone · Travel · Young Adult

CLARITY by Kim Harrington

April 26th, 2010 by Kim Harrington · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2011
  • Publisher: Scholastic Point
  • Release Date: March 1, 2011
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0-545-23050-6
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
Clarity “Clare” Fern sees things. Things no one else can see. Things like stolen kisses and long-buried secrets. All she has to do is touch an object and the visions come to her. It’s a gift. And a curse. When a teenage girl is murdered, Clare’s ex-boyfriend wants her to help solve the case – but Clare is still furious at the cheating jerk. Then Clare’s brother – who has supernatural gifts of his own – becomes the prime suspect, and Clare can no longer look away. Teaming up… Continue reading

Categories: 2011 Spring · Crime · Debut · Family · First Love/First Crush · Harrington, Kim · Massachusetts · Mystery · Paranormal · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Scholastic Press · Stand-alone · Young Adult

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 · Debut · Diaz, Alexandra · Egmont USA · Events · First Love/First Crush · Friendship · Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (GLBT) · Humor · National · New Mexico · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Stand-alone · Young Adult

FREEFALL by Mindi Scott

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

  • Publication Season/Year: Fall 2010
  • Publisher: Simon Pulse
  • Release Date:  October 5, 2010
  • ISBN (hardcover): N/A
  • ISBN (paperback): 1442402784 / (isbn13: 9781442402782)
How do you come back from the point of no return? Seth McCoy was the last person to see his best friend Isaac alive, and the first to find him dead. It was just another night, just another party, just another time where Isaac drank too much and passed out on the lawn. Only this time, Isaac didn’t wake up. Convinced that his own actions led to his friend’s death, Seth is torn between turning his life around .… Continue reading

Categories: 2010 Fall · Contemporary · Death · Debut · Events · First Love/First Crush · Local · Music · National · Scott, Mindi · Simon Pulse · Stand-alone · 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 · Debut · Drama · Events · Family · First Love/First Crush · Grief · HarperTeen · Literature · Local · Love · National · Peer Pressure · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Secrecy · Stand-alone · 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 the… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Fall · Crime · Debut · Derting, Kimberly · Events · First Love/First Crush · HarperCollins Children's Books · Local · National · Paranormal · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Stand-alone · 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) run b) faint c) 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. As her new agent Meredith explains, Desi has a rare magical ability… Continue reading

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

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… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Fall · Colorado · Debut · Events · First Love/First Crush · Fitzpatrick, Becca · Local · National · Paranormal · Romance · Simon & Schuster BFYR · Stand-alone · 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: April 28, 2009
  • 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… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Summer · Action/Adventure · California · Debut · Events · Fantasy · First Love/First Crush · Greenwillow Books · Local · Monsters · Multicultural · Mythology · National · Pon, Cindy · Quest · Societal Pressure · Stand-alone · 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: March 25, 2010
  • 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… Continue reading

Categories: 2010 Spring · Conformity · Contemporary · Death · Debut · Drugs · Events · First Love/First Crush · Friendship · Henry Holt BFYR · Kelly, Tara · Learning Disabilities · Local · Music · National · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Societal Pressure · Stand-alone · 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 · Debut · Events · Faeries · Fantasy · First Love/First Crush · Friendship · HarperCollins Children's Books · Local · Middle Grade · National · Rated PG · Stand-alone · _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 · Debut · 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 · Stand-alone · 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 · Debut · Events · First Love/First Crush · Friendship · Grief · Little, Brown · Local · National · New York · Ockler, Sarah · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Stand-alone · Young Adult