The Unlikelies by Carrie Firestone

ARC, 318 pages Release Date: June 6, 2017 Published by: Henry Holt & Co. Read from: June 17-20, 2017 Stand-alone Source: TxLA 2017 For fans of:  Action, Contemporary, Romance, Stand-alones, YA      One good deed will change everything.     Sadie is not excited for the summer before her senior year. It will be her first without her college-bound best…

Bad Romance by Heather Demetrios

ARC, 354 pages Release Date: June 13, 2017 Published by: Henry Holt & Co. Read from: June 11-17, 2017 Stand-alone Source: TxLA 2017 For fans of: Romance, Realistic Fiction, Contemporary, Dark, New Adult, Sparkly Covers, DEAR      Grace wants out. Out of her house, where her stepfather wields fear like a weapon and her mother makes her scrub imaginary dirt…

Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy

ARC, 3391 pages Release Date: May 9, 2017 Published by: Balzer + Bray Read from: June 1- 4, 2017 Stand-alone Source: TxLA  For fans of: Contemporary, Romance, Realistic Fiction, Coming of Age, LGBTQ- Bisexual, Own Voices, YA      Ramona was only five years old when Hurricane Katrina changed her life forever.     Since then, it’s been Ramona and her family…

One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus

ARC, 358 pages Release Date: May 30, 2017  Published by: Delacorte Press Read from: May 27-May 28, 2017 Stand-alone Source: TxLA  This includes: Contemporary, Romance, Mystery, Debut Authors, Multiple POVs, Realistic Fiction, Mental Illness or Disabilities, Stand-alone, YA      One of Us Is Lying is the story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four…

When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

ARC, 374 pages Release Date: May 30, 2017  Published by: Simon Pulse Read from: May 21-May 26, 2017 Dimple & Rishi, #1 Source: TxLA  For fans of: Contemporary,Romance, DEAR, Realistic Fiction, Stand-alones, YA, LOL, Diversity, Own Voices, Realistic Fiction, Multiple POVs, Sparkly Covers      A laugh-out-loud, heartfelt YA romantic comedy, told in alternating perspectives, about two Indian-American teens whose…

The Names They Gave Us by Emery Lord

ARC, 384 pages Release Date: May 16, 2017 Published by: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Read from: May 17-May 21, 2017 Stand-alone Source: TLA 2017 For fans of: Grief Management, Diversity, Tear-Jerkers, Realistic Fiction, Contemporary, Romance, Coming of Age, Character Growth, Sprakly Covers, YA      When it all falls apart, who can you believe in?     Everything is going right for…

Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer

Hardcover, 388 pages Release Date: April 4, 2017 Published by: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Read from: April 20-April 28, 2017 Stand-alone Source: Library  For fans of: Contemporary,Romance, DEAR, Realistic Fiction, Stand-alones, tear-Jerkers, YA      Juliet Young always writes letters to her mother, a world-traveling photojournalist. Even after her mother’s death, she leaves letters at her grave. It’s the only way…

Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett

e-ARC, 321 pages Release Date: April 4, 2017 Published by: Simon Pulse Read from: April 11-April 20, 2017  Stand-alone Source: Edelweiss  For fans of: Contemporary,Romance, Chick-lit, DEAR< Diversity, Hot Literary Guys, Realistic Fiction, Stand-alones, YA      The one guy Bailey Rydell can’t stand is actually the boy of her dreams—she just doesn’t know it yet.     Classic movie fan…

Geekerella by Ashley Poston

e-ARC, 320 pages Release Date: April 4, 2017 Published by: Quirk Books Read from: March 30-April 2, 2017  Stand-alone Source: Netgalley  (I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a just and honest review. This did nothing to influence my review.)  For fans of: Marginalized Voices, Contemporary, Romance, Nerd Culture, LOL, Retellings, Rrealistic Fiction, Stand-alones, YA…

The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi

e-ARC, 298 pages Release Date: March 28, 2017 Published by: Salaam Reads Read from: March 18-28 , 2017  Stand-alone Source: Netgalley (I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a just and honest review. This did nothing to influence my review.)  For fans of: Marginalized Voices, Fantasy, MG, Steampunk      A trio of friends from…

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