April 2010
6 posts
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1 tag
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one more time (with feeling!) →
I felt like reviving this tumblr, so I am. Third time’s the charm, right?
January 2010
1 post
Happy New Year from YA News!
December 2009
9 posts
The Dark Divine by Bree Despain was released...
New Lisa McMann books in the works! →
Aaaaand
we’re back. Whoot.
September 2009
4 posts
Wicked Lovely Film News!
Read all about it here!
New Maureen Johnson Books in the Works (Yay!)
The press release:
DISNEY BOOK GROUP ACQUIRES MULTI BOOK SERIES AT AUCTION FROM BEST SELLING AUTHOR MAUREEN JOHNSON
New York, September 10, 2009—Disney-Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group, has acquired a three book series from best selling young adult author Maureen Johnson at a hotly contested auction. The agreement was negotiated by Jennifer Besser, Executive Editor, Disney Book...
Some Girls Are Cover
LOVE IT.
Scott Westerfeld Stuff!
The Leviathan trailer:
The new covers for Peeps, The Last Days, and So Yesterday.
Released Today- Hate List
[description from amazon]
Five months ago, Valerie Leftman’s boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list she helped create. A list of people and things she and Nick hated. The list he used to pick his targets. Now, after a summer of seclusion,...
Released Today- Ash
[description from amazon]
Cinderella retold In the wake of her father’s death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy...
Released Today- Catching Fire
[description from amazon]
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and...
Released Today- How to Steal a Car
[description from amazon]
Some girls act out by drinking or doing drugs. Some girls act out by sleeping with guys. Some girls act out by starving themselves or cutting themselves. Some girls act out by being a bitch to other girls.
Not Kelleigh. Kelleigh steals cars.
In How to Steal a Car, National Book Award winner Pete Hautman takes teen readers on a thrilling, scary ride through one...
Released Today- The Hollow
[description from amazon]
When Abbey’s best friend, Kristen, vanishes at the bridge near Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, everyone else is all too quick to accept that Kristen is dead?and rumors fly that her death was no accident. Abbey goes through the motions of mourning her best friend, but privately, she refuses to believe that Kristen is really gone. Then she meets Caspian, the gorgeous and...
Released Today- Intertwined
[description from amazon]
Most sixteen-year-olds have friends. Aden Stone has four human souls living inside him: One can time-travel. One can raise the dead. One can tell the future. And one can possess another human. With no other family and a life spent in and out of institutions, Aden and the souls have become friends. But now they’re causing him all kinds of trouble. Like,...
Released Today- The Miles Between
[description from amazon]
Destiny Faraday makes a point of keeping her distance from her classmates at Hedgebrook Academy. Her number-one rule: Don’t get attached. But one day, unexpectedly finding a car at their disposal, Destiny and three of her classmates embark on an unauthorized road trip. They’re searching for one fair day—a day where the good guy wins and everything adds up to something...
Released Today- Dreaming Anastasia
[description from amazon]
What really happened to Anastasia Romanov?
Anastasia Romanov thought she would never feel more alone than when the gunfire started and her family began to fall around her. Surely the bullets would come for her next. But they didn’t. Instead, two gnarled old hands reached for her. When she wakes up she discovers that she is in the ancient hut of the witch Baba...
August 2009
21 posts
Be sure to check out the new blog Living Your Five, started by the YA authors Tera Lynn Childs, Alyson Noel, Becca Fitzpatrick, and Kay Cassidy.
A new Mortal Instruments book in the works, and a potential movie. Read all about it here.
Shadowland Cover
Shadowland by Alyson Noel, the third book in the Immortals series.
New release date- November 24, 2009
Also, this installment in the series will be coming out in hardcover, not paperback like the previous novels.
Win a bunch of stuff from Harlequin Teen:
(and yes, I am back! :D)
The new LIAR cover
Released Today- Donut Days
Donut Days by Lara Zielin
description (from amazon):
Emma has a lot going on. Her best friend’s not speaking to her, a boy she’s known all her life is suddenly smokin’ hot and in love with her, and oh yes, her evangelical minister parents may lose their church, especially if her mother keeps giving sermons saying Adam was a hermaphrodite.
But this weekend Emma’s only focused on Crispy Dream,...
Released today- Lipstick Apology
Lipstick Apology by Jennifer Jabaley
description (from amazon):
Sometimes a good-bye is just the beginning…
When Emily Carson’s parents die in a plane crash, she’s left with nothing but her mother’s last words scrawled in lipstick on a tray table: “Emily, please forgive me.”
Now it’s fall and Emily moves to New York City— where she attracts the attention of two very different boys: the cute,...
Read UGLIES for free
Free download of Uglies by Scott Westerfeld here.
Released Today- Troy High
Troy High by Shana Norris
(description from Amazon)
Homer’s Iliad, the classic tale of love and revenge, is shrewdly retold for teens in Troy High. Narrated by Cassie, a shy outsider who fears that an epic high school rivalry is about to go up in flames, the story follows the Trojans and Spartans as they declare war on the football field. After the beautiful Elena—who used to be the captain of...
Released Today- Shiver
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
(description from amazon)
For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—is a chilling presence she can’t seem to live without. Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months...
Released Today- Prophecy of the Sisters
Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink
(description from Amazon)
An ancient prophecy divides two sisters- One good… One evil… Who will prevail? Twin sisters Lia and Alice Milthorpe have just become orphans. They have also become enemies. As they discover their roles in a prophecy that has turned generations of sisters against each other, the girls find themselves entangled...
Free short story about Cabel from the Wake series by Lisa McMann is available here.
July 2009
23 posts
Check out these awesome book websites:
Candor
Vampire Academy
Prophecy of the Sisters
Geektastic
The LIAR Cover Controversy
Read all about it here.
Blood Promise Excerpt
Chapter one of Blood Promise- the 4th book in the Vampire Academy series. (Spoilers, duh.) Read it here.
Sleepless Cover
Sleepess by Cyn Balog (out sometime in 2010)
“SLEEPLESS is a paranormal about a Sandman who falls in love with a mortal whose sleep he controls.” -from this blog post
Released today- Ballads of Suburbia
Ballads of Suburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert
From Amazon:
Kara hasn’t been back to Oak Park since the end of junior year, when a heroin overdose nearly killed her and sirens heralded her exit. Four years later, she returns to face the music. Her life changed forever back in high school: her family disintegrated, she ran around with a whole new crowd of friends, she partied a little too...
Released today- Coffehouse Angel
Coffehouse Angel by Suzanne Selfors
from amazon:
From the author of Saving Juliet comes a romantic comedy that is good to the last drop. When Katrina spots a homeless guy sleeping in the alley behind her grandmother’s coffee shop, she decides to leave him a cup of coffee, a bag of chocolate-covered coffee beans, and some pastries to tide him over. Little does she know that this random act of...
Forget-Her-Nots Cover
Forget-Her-Notes by Amy Brecount White cover(GreenWillow, February 2010)
Darklight Cover
Darklight by Lesley Livingston- sequel to Wondrous Strange.
Book of a Thousand Days Paperback Cover
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale- paperback out 9/15/09. Quite an enjoyable book.
The hardcover, for comparison: