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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Review by Jackie The Loose Ends List by Carrie FirestoneRating: 4.5 StarsPublished by NOVL one June 7, 2016Goodreads | Amazon A refreshing, funny, and moving debut novel about first loves, last wishes, and letting go.Seventeen-year-old Maddie O'Neill Levine lives a charmed life, and is primed to spend the perfect pre-college summer with her best friends and young-at-heart socialite
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By Becca... WHEN WE COLLIDED By Emery Lord Hardcover: 352 Pages Publisher: Bloomsbury (April 5, 2016) Language: English Age Range: 14 and Up Goodreads | Amazon Meet Vivi and Jonah: A girl and a boy whose love has the power save or destroy them.Vivi and Jonah couldn't be more different. Vivi craves anything joyful or beautiful that life can offer. Jonah has been burdened by responsibility
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Blog Tour: Becca TELL ME THREE THINGS By Julie Buxbaum Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Delcorte Press (April 5, 2016) Age Range: 12 and up Grade Level: 7 and up Goodreads | Amazon Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that’s what it feels like during her first week of junior year at her new ultra-intimidating prep school in Los Angeles. Just when she’s thinking about
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Review by Reagan PARIS FOR TWO by Phoebe Stone Age Range: 10 - 13 years Grade Level: 3 - 7 Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books (April 26, 2016) Most people go to Paris to fall in love, but twelve-year-old Petunia Beanly goes to Paris to hide from it. She knows how much love hurts. She'll never forget how painful it was to mess up badly with Windel Watson, the only boy who
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By Becca.. THE DARKEST CORNERS by Kara ThomasHardcover: 336 pagesPublisher: Delacorte Press (April 19, 2016)Language: English Goodreads | Amazon For fans of Gillian Flynn’s Dark Places and Sara Shepard’s Pretty Little Liars, The Darkest Corners is a psychological thriller about the lies little girls tell, and the deadly truths those lies become. There are ghosts around every corner in
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Review by Reagan KEEP ME IN MIND by Jaime Reed Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Point (April 26, 2016) Language: English A girl who doesn't remember. A boy who can't forget her. A wise, witty, and heartbreaking love story for today's YA generation. Ellia Dawson doesn't recognize the handsome boy who sits in tears by her hospital bed. But he's telling her that he's Liam McPherson, her
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The First Time She Drowned By Kerry Kletter Hardcover: 352 pages Published by: Philomel Books (March 15, 2016) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon Cassie O’Malley has been trying to keep her head above water—literally and metaphorically—since birth. It’s been two and a half years since Cassie’s mother dumped her in a mental institution against her will, and now, at eighteen, Cassie
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Review by Jennifer THE SMELL OF OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSESby Bonnie - Sue HitchcockGrade Level: 7 and upLexile Measure: 0960 (What's this?)Hardcover: 240 pagesPublisher: Wendy Lamb Books (February 23, 2016) Goodreads | Amazon In Alaska, 1970, being a teenager here isn’t like being a teenager anywhere else. This deeply moving and authentic debut is for fans of Rainbow Rowell, Louise Erdrich,
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Review by Leydy THE SERPENT KINGby Jeff Zentner Audible Audio EditionListening Length: 9 hours and 7 minutesProgram Type: AudiobookVersion: UnabridgedPublisher: Listening Library March 8, 2016 Goodreads | Audible | Hardcover “The Serpent King is a book you won’t be able to resist or forget. The Southern boy in me savored every syllable and the reader in me fell in love with every page.” —John
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Review by Sara... WHAT YOU ALWAYS WANTED By Kristin Rae Series: If Only #8 Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury (March 29, 2016) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon If Only . . . he was the boy she's been dreaming of. The If Only line continues in this fun high school theater-themed romance!Drama girl Maddie Brooks has always had high standards for guys. But she has
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By Becca... FIRSTS By Laurie Elizabeth Flynn Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (January 5, 2016) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon Seventeen-year-old Mercedes Ayres has an open-door policy when it comes to her bedroom, but only if the guy fulfills a specific criteria: he has to be a virgin. Mercedes lets the boys get their awkward, fumbling first times over
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In this terrific TedX talk, author Linda Sue Park talks about a path to changing the world. Life is not fair, but stories engage the minds of those who can develop empathy and act in heroic ways. Bookmark
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Review by Krista... INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD By Jamie Kain Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (December 8, 2015) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon He prepared their family for every natural disaster known to man—except for the one that struck.When Nicole Reed’s father forces her family to move to a remote area of the Sierra Foothills, one without any modern
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Review by Sara... RULES FOR 50/50 CHANCES By Kate McGovern Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (November 24, 2015) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon A heartrending but ultimately uplifting debut novel about learning to accept life's uncertainties; a perfect fit for the current trend in contemporary realistic novels that confront issues about life, death, and
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Review by Jackie THE WAY I USED TO BE By Amber Smith Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books (March 22, 2016) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon In the tradition of Speak, this extraordinary debut novel shares the unforgettable story of a young woman as she struggles to find strength in the aftermath of an assault.Eden was always good at being good. Starting high
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Review by Sara... SYMPTOMS OF BEING HUMAN By Jeff Garvin Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Balzer + Bray (February 2, 2016) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon The first thing you’re going to want to know about me is: Am I a boy, or am I a girl?Riley Cavanaugh is many things: Punk rock. Snarky. Rebellious. And gender fluid. Some days Riley identifies as a boy, and others as a girl. The thing
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Review by Jackie KILL THE BOY BAND by Goldy Moldavsky Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: POINT (February 23, 2016) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon From debut author Goldy Moldavsky, the story of four superfan friends whose devotion to their favorite boy band has darkly comical and murderous results.Okay, so just know from the start that it wasn't supposed to go like this. All we wanted was
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