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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 · 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

SLIDING ON THE EDGE by C. Lee McKenzie

November 9th, 2008 by C. Lee McKenzie · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: WestSide Books
  • Release Date:  April 24, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover):  978-934813-06-5
  • ISBN (paperback):  TBD
Shawna Stone is sixteen going on twenty-five. Already deeply scarred, she has learned to survive with a tough attitude and a thin blade. Her journey is destined to be short. SLIDING ON THE EDGE enters the world of a desperate teen and her disillusioned grandmother, each with secrets that stir mutual distrust. As these two unlikely companions struggle to co-exist we are reminded that the human spirit has the capacity to overcome even the deepest suffering… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · California · Contemporary · Debut · Events · Family · Friendship · Humor · Local · McKenzie, C. Lee · Middle Grade · National · Romance · Stand-alone · Suicide · WestSide Books · Young Adult

THE SECRET YEAR by Jennifer R. Hubbard

October 10th, 2008 by writerjenn · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
  • Publisher: Viking Children's Books
  • Release Date: Jan. 7, 2010
  • ISBN: 978-0670011537
Seventeen-year-old Colt has been sneaking out at night to meet Julia, a girl from an upper-class neighborhood unlike his own. They've never told anyone else about their relationship: not their family or friends, and especially not Julia's boyfriend.When Julia dies suddenly, Colt tries to cope with her death while pretending that he never even knew her. He discovers a journal she left behind. But he is not prepared for the truths he discovers about their intense relationship, nor to pay the price for the secrets he's kept… Continue reading

Categories: 2010 Spring · Contemporary · Death · Debut · Events · Hubbard, Jennifer R. · Local · National · Pennsylvania · Secrecy · Stand-alone · Viking Children's Books · Young Adult