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This blog is for teens, parents of teens, and people who just love YA books, to find reviews, check the content, and discuss the books that are in the Teen/YA section of the Libraries and Bookstores.
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1. LAST SEEN LEAVING by Caleb Roehrig \\ The YA Version of Gone Girl?

Review by Sara... LAST SEEN LEAVING By Caleb Roehrig Series: No Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Feiwel & Friends (October 4, 2016) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon Flynn's girlfriend has disappeared. How can he uncover her secrets without revealing his own?Flynn's girlfriend, January, is missing. The cops are asking questions he can't answer, and her friends are telling stories

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2. AND I DARKEN by Kiersten White \\ A Book That Will Blow You Away...

Review by Sara... AND I DARKEN  By Kiersten White Series: The Conquerors Saga #1 Hardcover: pages Publisher: Delacorte (June 28, 2016) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon No one expects a princess to be brutal. And Lada Dragwlya likes it that way. Ever since she and her gentle younger brother, Radu, were wrenched from their homeland of Wallachia and abandoned by their father to be

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3. THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES by Mindy McGinnis \\ Is More Deadly Than The Male...

Review by Jackie... THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES By Mindy McGinnis Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books (September 20, 2016) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon Alex Craft knows how to kill someone. And she doesn’t feel bad about it. When her older sister, Anna, was murdered three years ago and the killer walked free, Alex uncaged the language she knows best. The

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4. THE CROWN'S GAME by Evelyn Skye \\ Worth The Hype Or No?

Review by Sara... THE CROWN'S GAME By Evelyn Skye Series: The Crown's Game #1 Hardcover: 399 pages Publisher: Balzer + Bray  Language: English Goodreads | Amazon Vika Andreyeva can summon the snow and turn ash into gold. Nikolai Karimov can see through walls and conjure bridges out of thin air. They are enchanters—the only two in Russia—and with the Ottoman Empire and the Kazakhs

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5. UNITED Release Day Blitz..

Hey there, booklovers! I’m author Melissa Landers, and I’m thrilled to announce the release of UNITED, the final book in the Alienated trilogy. Our star-crossed lovers Aelyx and Cara have overcome some heavy obstacles to be together—riotous mobs, alien hybrids, and worst of all, high school on two planets. Now to stay together they’ll have to unite their people against a common enemy, a

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6. P.S. I Like You Blog Tour \\ Guest Post from Kasie West & Giveaway..

P.S. I LIKE YOU By Kasie West Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Point (July 26, 2016)  Language: English Age Range: 12 and up Grade Range: 7 and up What if the person you were falling for was a total mystery? While Lily is spacing out in Chemistry one day, she picks up her pencil and scribbles a line from one of her favorite songs on the desk. The next day, someone else has

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7. THREE TRUTHS AND A LIE by Brent Hartinger \\ Maybe Mildly Inappropriate For Average YA Reader?

Review by Sara... THREE TRUTHS AND A LIE By Brent Hartinger Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Simon Pulse (August 2, 2016) Grade Level: 9 and up Language: English Goodreads | Amazon A weekend retreat in the woods and an innocent game of three truths and a lie go horribly wrong in this high-octane psychological thriller filled with romantic suspense by a Lambda Award–winning author.Deep in the

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8. POISONED BLADE by Kate Elliott \\ Further Expands The Court of Fives Universe..

Review by Kaitlin... POISONED BLADE By Kate Elliott Series: Court of Fives #2 Hardcover: 418 pages Publisher: Little, Brown (August 16, 2016) Age Range: 12-17 years Grade Level: 7 up Language: English Goodreads | Amazon In this thrilling sequel to World Fantasy Award finalist Kate Elliott's captivating young adult debut, a girl immersed in high-stakes competition holds the fate of

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9. SISTERS OF SALT AND IRON by Kady Cross \\ Looking For A Good Scare?

Review by Krista... SISTERS OF SALT AND IRON By Kady Cross Series: The Sisters of Blood and Spirit #2 Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Harlequin Teen Language: English Goodreads | Amazon Lark Noble is finally happy. She’s trying to move on and put the events of the past behind her: the people who avoided her because she talked to the ghost of her dead twin sister, the parents who

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10. OUR CHEMICAL HEARTS by Krystal Sutherland \\ A Book With A Kick Of Realism

Review by Jackie... OUR CHEMICAL HEARTS By Krystal Sutherland Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: G.P. Putnam (September 6, 2016) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon John Green meets Rainbow Rowell in this irresistible story of first love, broken hearts, and the golden seams that put them back together again. Henry Page has never been in love. He fancies himself a hopeless romantic, but

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11. LEARNING TO SWEAR IN AMERICA by Katie Kennedy \\ One Of The Best Male Protags I've Read In A While...

Review by Sara... LEARNING TO SWEAR IN AMERICA By Katie Kennedy Hardcover: 346 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury (July 5, 2016) Grade Range: 9 up Language: English Goodreads | Amazon Brimming with humor and one-of-a-kind characters, this end-of-the world novel will grab hold of Andrew Smith and Rainbow Rowell fans.An asteroid is hurtling toward Earth. A big, bad one. Yuri, a physicist

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12. JULIA VANISHES by Catherine Egan \\ Maybe I'm The Black Sheep?

Review by Sara... JULIA VANISHES By Catherine Egan Series: Witch's Child #1 Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers (June 7, 2016) Language: English Grade Range: 8 up Goodreads | Amazon Julia has the unusual ability to be . . . unseen. Not invisible, exactly. Just beyond most people's senses. It's a dangerous trait in a city that has banned all forms of magic

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13. THE GIRL I USED TO BE by April Henry \\ Short, But Not So Sweet...

Review by Sara... THE GIRL I USED TO BE By April Henry Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Christy Ottaviano Books (May 3, 2016) Language: English Grade Range: 7 and up Age Range: 12 and up Goodreads | Amazon When Olivia's mother was killed, everyone suspected her father of murder. But his whereabouts remained a mystery. Fast forward fourteen years. New evidence now proves Olivia's

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14. How To Hang A Witch by Adriana Mather \\ I Had No Choice But To Stop Reading & Cut My Losses...

Review by Sara... HOW TO HANG A WITCH By Adriana Mather Series: How To Hang A Witch #1 Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Knopf books for Young Readers (July 26, 2016) Age Range: 12 up Grade Range: 7 up Language: English Goodreads | Amazon For fans of Conversion and Mean Girls, comes a debut novel where the trials of high school start to feel like a modern day witch hunt for a teen

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15. THE GILDED CAGE by Lucinda Gray \\ Compelling Story With Great Imagery & A Dark, Creepy Plot...

Review by Krista... THE GILDED CAGE By Lucinda Gray Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Henry Holt & Co. (August 2, 2016) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon After growing up on a farm in Virginia, Walthingham Hall in England seems like another world to sixteen-year-old Katherine Randolph. Her new life, filled with the splendor of upper-class England in the 1820s, is shattered when her

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16. RUINED by Amy Tintera \\ Fans of DEFY Will LOVE It.....

Review by Krista... RUINED  by Amy Tintera Series: Ruined #1 Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: HarperTeen (May 3, 2016) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon A revenge that will consume her. A love that will ruin her.Emelina Flores has nothing. Her home in Ruina has been ravaged by war. She lacks the powers of her fellow Ruined. Worst of all, she witnessed her parents’ brutal murders and

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17. THE SHADOW HOUR Blog Tour and Giveaway

THE GIRL AT MIDNIGHT was one of my absolute favorite reads last year. I listened to the audiobook and highly recommend it.  One of the things I loved most about the story, was the main character, Echo. Echo was a FANTASTIC character to read. I loved her cleverness and her snark. She was loyal and quick-thinking, while still dealing with insecurities that often made her second-guess

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18. Thank God It's Monday! Blog Tour \\ #TGIM #AWeekOfMondays

By Becca... I'm super duper excited about today's blog tour post, because I get to write about which Monday I would love to relive for seven days straight and which Monday I would LEAST like to relive over and over for 7 days. I'm not saying that some of these things happened in real life and I'm not saying that they didn't. Maybe I made it all up! I'll never tell!  My FAVORITE Monday

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19. Blog Tour & #Giveaway: Break Me Like A Promise by Tiffany Schmidt..

Review by Becca... Break Me Like a PromiseOnce Upon a Crime Family #2By Tiffany Schmidt Release Date: June 7, 2016Publisher: Bloomsbury USA ChildrensPages: 416 All Magnolia Vickers ever wanted was to follow in her father's path and head up the Family business. And, once upon a time, she and Carter Landlow were going to do it together. But new legislation is about to destroy the

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20. AND I DARKEN by Kiersten White || Historical Gender Bending Awesomeness!

Review by Andye AND I DARKEN The Conquerors Saga #1 by Kiersten WhiteAge Range: 12 and up Grade Level: 7 and upHardcover: 496 pagesPublisher: Delacorte Press (June 28, 2016) Goodreads | Amazon No one expects a princess to be brutal. And Lada Dragwlya likes it that way. Ever since she and her gentle younger brother, Radu, were wrenched from their homeland of Wallachia and abandoned by their

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21. FRANNIE & TRU by Karen Hattrup \\ Disappointing Debut...

Review by Sara... FRANNIE AND TRU By Karen Hattrup Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: HarperTeen (May 31, 2016) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon When Frannie Little eavesdrops on her parents fighting she discovers that her cousin Truman is gay, and his parents are so upset they are sending him to live with her family for the summer. At least, that’s what she thinks the story is. . .

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22. THE FALL OF BUTTERFLIES by Andrea Portes \\ NOT A Fan...

Review by Sara... THE FALL OF BUTTERFLIES By Andrea Portes Hardcover: 386 pages Publisher: Harper Teen (May 10, 2016) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon Willa Parker, 646th and least popular resident of What Cheer, Iowa, is headed east to start a new life.Did she choose this new life? No, because that would be too easy—and nothing in Willa’s life is easy. It’s her famous genius

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23. THE LONG GAME (The Fixer 2) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes | A Thrilling Adventure

 Review by Natalie THE LONG GAMEThe Fixer #2by Jennifer Lynn BarnesSeries: FixerHardcover: 368 pagesPublisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens (June 7, 2016)Language: EnglishGoodreads | Amazon For Tess Kendrick, a junior at the elite Hardwicke School in Washington D.C., fixing runs in the family. But Tess has another legacy, too, one that involves power and the making of political dynasties. When

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24. THE SQUARE ROOT OF SUMMER by Harriet Reuter Hapgood \\ I Miscalculated How Much I'd Like This

Review by Jackie The Square Root of Summer by Harriet Reuter HapgoodAge Range: 12 - 18 yearsGrade Level: 8 - 12Hardcover: 304 pagesPublisher: Roaring Brook Press (May 3, 2016)Goodreads | Amazon This is what it means to love someone. This is what it means to grieve someone. It's a little bit like a black hole. It's a little bit like infinity. Gottie H. Oppenheimer is losing time. Literally.

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25. PEARL by Deirdre Riordan Hall | Something to Think About

Review by Krista PEARL by Deirdre Riordan HallPaperback: 352 pagesPublisher: Skyscape (March 1, 2016)Language: EnglishGoodreads | Amazon Run fast and run far, unless you’re fearless. Unless you’re courageous. I’m not, but I’d like to be. Pearl Jaeger is seventeen and homeless after drugs, poverty, and addiction unraveled the life she shared with JJ, her formerly glamorous rock star mother.

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