Into White by Randi Pink

ARC,  271 pages Release Date: September 13, 2016 Published by: Feiwel and Friends Read from: September 16-September 19, 2016 Stand-alone Source: TxLA For fans of: Contemporary, Magical Realism, Religion, YA Sixteen-year-old Latoya Williams, who is black, attends a mostly white high school in the Bible Belt. In a moment of desperation, she prays for the power to change her race…

As I Descended by Robin Talley

ARC,  370 pages Release Date: September 6, 2016 Published by: HarperTeen Read from: August 24- August 31, 2016 Stand-alone Source: TxLA For fans of: Retellings, Creepy, LGBTQIA, Diversity, Fantasy, Ghosts, Disability, Stand-alones, YA      Maria Lyon and Lily Boiten are their school’s ultimate power couple—even if no one knows it but them.     Only one thing stands between them…

Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

ARC, 445 pages Release Date: August 9, 2016 Published by: Thomas Dunne Books Read from: DNF THe Nevernight Chronicle, #1 Source: Publisher For fans of: Adult, Fantasy, Sparkly Covers      The first in a new fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author. In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school…

Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes

ARC, 227  pages Release Date: July 12, 2016 Published by: Little, Brown BYFR Read from: July 18-21, 2016 Stand-alone Source: TLA 2016 For fans of: Historical Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Children’s, Diverse Reads, #OwnVoices, Contemporary, DEAR,       From award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes, a powerful novel set fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks.     When her fifth-grade teacher hints…

The Loose Ends List by Carrie Firestone

ARC, 342 pages Release Date: June 7, 2016 Published by: Little Brown Books for Young Readers Stand-alone Source: TLA For fans of: Contemporary, Romance, Grief, Sadness, Chick-lit, Debut Author,       First loves. Last Wishes. Letting go.      Seventeen-year-old Maddie O’Neill Levine lives a charmed life, and is primed to spend the perfect pre-college…

The Long Game by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

ARC, 358 pages Release Date: June 7, 2016 Published by: Bloomsbury USA Childrens The Fixer, #2 Source: TLA For fans of: Mysteries, Thrillers, Contemporary, Romance, Suspense, YA      Tess Kendrick, teen fixer extraordinaire, returns in a pulse-pounding thriller about a deadly conspiracy at the heart of Washington.     For Tess Kendrick, a junior at…

Girl Against the Universe by Paula Stokes

ARC, 377 pages Release Date: May 17, 2016 Published by: HarperTeen Stand-alone Source: TLA For fans of: Sports, Contemporary Romance, Realistic Fiction, Diversity Disability (Illness)      Maguire is bad luck.     No matter how many charms she buys off the internet or good luck rituals she performs each morning, horrible things happen when Maguire…

The Rose & The Dagger by Renee Ahdieh

ARC, 416 pages Release Date: April 26, 2016 Published by: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers The Wrath & the Dawn, #2 Source: Texas Library Association (TLA) For fans of: Magic, Romance, Fantasy, Fairy Tale Retellings, YA The much anticipated sequel to the breathtaking The Wrath and the Dawn, lauded by Publishers Weekly as…

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