Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

Hardcover,  536 pages Release Date: September 27, 2016 Published by: HMH Books for Young Readers Read from: October 7, 2016 Stand-alone Source: Bought For fans of: Fantasy, Diversity, Romance, Action, Adventure, Sparkly Covers, YA      Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn’t think they’d survive. But instead of divvying up…

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…

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…

738 Days by Stacey Kade

Paperback, 431 pages Release Date: June 7, 2016 Published by: Forge Books Stand-alone Source: BEA 2016 For fans of: Contemporary, Romance, Thrillers, NA, Realistic Fiction      At fifteen, Amanda Grace was abducted on her way home from school. 738 days later, she escaped. Her 20/20 interview is what everyone remembers—Amanda describing the room where…

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…

Stars Above by Marissa Meyer

Hardcover, 256 pages Release Date: January 26, 2016 Published by: Delacorte Press Stand-alone Source: Own For fans of: DEAR, Diversity, Girl Power, Sci-Fi, Series Enders, YA      The enchantment continues….     The universe of the Lunar Chronicles holds stories—and secrets—that are wondrous, vicious, and romantic. How did Cinder first arrive in New Beijing? How…

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