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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

Connect with Jennifer R. Hubbard: Keeping It Real

July 10th, 2009 by writerjenn · Email post Email post · Print Print

Paranormal tales are hot in YA literature right now.  The bookshelves are filled with zombies, vampires, faeries, werewolves, ghosts, and other creatures you're not likely to meet on the streets of your own hometown. I read and enjoyed paranormal stories while I was growing up, and I still enjoy them.  But my favorite books were those about kids dealing not with supervillains, flying, or shape-shifting, but with the troubles my friends and I were more likely to face in our own lives.  I wanted characters who, like me, had no special powers or magic to rely on. Fortunately, the tradition of contemporary… Continue reading

Categories: Book Recommendations · Connect

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

EIGHTH GRADE SUPERZERO by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

October 10th, 2008 by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
  • Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
  • Release Date: January 2010
  • ISBN: 0-545-09676-6
Reginald Garvey McKnight created a superhero character in kindergarten; now he dreams of being a real-life leading man: The Guy who's got game and gets The Girl. Instead, he threw up on the first day of school. In front of everyone. Eighth grade has gone downhill ever since. In EIGHTH GRADE SUPERZERO, Reggie wonders why things are so bad if God is so good; his faith at all levels is challenged by his friendships, his work at a homeless shelter, and a pair of "Dora The Explorer" shoes. Reggie's involvement… Continue reading

Categories: 2010 Spring · Arthur A. Levine Books · Contemporary · Family · Friendship · Local · Middle Grade · Multicultural · National · New York · Perkovich, Olugbemisola Rhuday · Rated PG · Self-esteem/Self-image · Young Adult

MY INVENTED LIFE by Lauren Bjorkman

October 8th, 2008 by Lauren Bjorkman · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season, Fall 2009
  • Publisher: Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
  • Release Date: September 29, 2009
  • ISBN 13: 978-0-8050-8950-9
Roz and Eva are sisters, friends, and rivals. Roz fantasizes about snagging the lead in the school play and landing sexy skate god Bryan as her boyfriend. Sadly, a few obstacles stand between her and her dream. For one, Eva is the more talented actress. And Bryan happens to be Eva's boyfriend. But does Eva have a secret life with her cheerleading partner? Inquiring minds need to know. Roz, who prides herself on random acts of insanity, hatches a scheme to get Eva to open up. The… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Fall · Bjorkman, Lauren · Contemporary · Events · Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (GLBT) · Henry Holt BFYR · Humor · Local · Multicultural · National · New Mexico · Rated PG-13 · Self-esteem/Self-image · Siblings · Topic · Young Adult