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…

Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum

Audio, 8 hours 30 minutes Release Date: April 5, 2016 Published by: Random House Stand-alone Source: Library (Overdrive) For fans of: Contemporary, Romance, LOL,  Realistic Fiction, Diversity, YA      What if the person you need the most is someone you’ve never met?” Funny and romantic, this tug-at-your-heartstrings contemporary YA debut is perfect for readers…

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 Season of You and Me by Robin Constantine

ARC, 342 pages Release Date: May 10, 2016 Published by: Balzer + Bray Stand-alone Source: Texas Library Association (TLA) For fans of: Contemporary Romance, Summer Loving, Diversity (Disability), Chick-lit, Sparkly Covers, YA      Cassidy Emmerich is determined to make this summer—the last before her boyfriend heads off to college—unforgettable. What she doesn’t count on…

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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