Title: Gil Marsh Author: A.C.E. Bauer Genre: Contemporary, Retelling, Mythology, Young Adult Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Publication date: February 28 2012 Hardcover: 192 pages Good looking, athletic, and smart, Gill Marsh is the most popular kid…
Title: The Vanishing Game Author: Kate Kae Myers Genre: Contemporary, Thriller, Young Adult Publisher: Bloomsbury Publication date: February 14 2012 Hardcover: 353 pages Seventeen-year-old Jocelyn follows clues apparently from her dead twin, Jack, in and around Seale House, the…
Title: The Dead of Winter Author: Chris Priestley Genre: Gothic, Horror, Historical, Young Adult Publisher: Bloomsbury (US & UK) Publication Date: January 2012 Hardcover: 218 pages An orphaned boy, a desolate house, and a poltergeist with a terrible itch…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild…
Title: The Girls of No Return Author: Erin Saldin Genre: Contemporary, Thriller, Young Adult Publisher: Scholastic Publication date: February 1st 2012 Hardcover: 348 pages Erin Saldin’s The Girls of No Return is a lacerating young adult debut about girls,…
Title: The Butterfly Clues Author: Kate Ellison Genre: Contemporary, Mystery/Thriller, Young Adult Publisher: EgmontUSA Publication Date: February 2012 Hardcover: 336 pages Penelope (Lo) Marin has always loved to collect beautiful things. Her dad’s consulting job means she’s grown up…
Title: Code Name Verity Author: Elizabeth Wein Genre: Historical, Young Adult Publisher: Egmont (UK) / Disney-Hyperion (US) Publication date: February 6 2012 / May 15 2012 Hardcover/Paperback: 452 pages I have two weeks. You’ll shoot me at the end…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild…
Title: The Thief’s Covenant Author: Ari Marmell Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Publisher: Pyr Publication date: February 14 2012 Hardcover: 240 pages Once she was Adrienne Satti. An orphan of Davillon, she had somehow escaped destitution and climbed to the…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild…
Title: The Knife and the Butterfly Author: Ashley Hope Pérez Genre: Contemporary, Magic Realism, Young Adult Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group Publication date: February 1 2011 Hardcover: 216 pages After a marijuana-addled brawl with a rival gang, 16-year-old Azael wakes…
Title: Incarnate Author: Jodi Meadows Genre: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Dystopian, Paranormal, Romance, Young Adult Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books (HarperCollins) Publication Date: February 2012 Hardcover: 384 pages New soul Ana is new. For thousands of years in Range, a million…
Title: The Mighty Miss Malone Author: Christopher Paul Curtis Genre: Historical, Young Adult, PoC Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books Publication date: January 10 2012 Hardcover: 224 pages We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful” is…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild…
Title: Briar Rose Author: Jane Yolen Genre: Historical, Fairy Tale, Mystery, Young Adult Publisher: Tor Publication Date: August 1992 (original) Paperback: 239 pages (reprint) A powerful retelling of Sleeping Beauty that is “heartbreaking and heartwarming.” An American Library Association…
Title: Someone Else’s Life Author: Katie Dale Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK / Delacorte Books for Young Readers Publication date: February 2 2012 / February 14 2012 Hardcover/Paperback: 478 pages When seventeen-year-old Rosie’s mother, Trudie,…
Title: Daughter of the Centaurs Author: Kate Klimo Genre: Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Fantast, Young Adult Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Publication date: January 24th 2012 Hardcover: 384 pages Malora knows what she was born to be: a…
Title: Hollow Pike Author: James Dawson Genre: Horror, Young Adult Publisher: Orion Children’s Books Publication date: February 2nd 2012 Paperback: 314 pages Something wicked this way comes… She thought she’d be safe in the country, but you can’t escape…
Title: Article 5 Author: Kristen Simmons Genre: Dystopian, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Tor Teen Publication Date: January 2012 Hardcover: 384 pages New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., have been abandoned. The Bill of Rights has been revoked,…
Title: The Way We Fall Author: Megan Crewe Genre: Thriller, Survival/Apocalyptic (sort of), Young Adult Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Publication date: January 2012 Hardcover: 304 Pages It starts with an itch you just can’t shake. Then comes a fever and a…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free reign so they can go wild…
Title: My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan Author: Seth Rudetsky Genre: Contemporary, LGBT, Young Adult Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Publication date: January 24th 2012 Hardcover: 288 pages Justin has two goals for sophomore year: to date Chuck, the…
Title: Fracture Author: Megan Miranda Genre: Speculative Fiction, Thriller, Young Adult Publisher: Walker & Co/Bloomsbury PLC Publication date: January 2012 Hardcover: 264 pages Eleven minutes passed before Delaney Maxwell was pulled from the icy waters of a Maine lake…
Title: Everneath Author: Brodi Ashton Genre: Paranormal, Romance, Greek Mythology, Young Adult Publisher: Harper Collins / Balzer + Bray (US) Simon & Schuster Childrens Books UK Publication date: January 24 2012 / February 2 2012 Hardcover/Paperback: 370 pages Last…
Title: Dearly, Departed Author: Lia Habel Genre: Dystopian, Post-Apocalyptic, Steampunk, Alternate-Victorian, Speculative Fiction, Romance, Young Adult, Zombies (THIS, this genre description! THIS is a large reason why the book was DNF’d) Publisher: Del Rey Publication Date: October 2011 Paperback:…