Diplomatic Immunity by Brodi Ashton

ARC,  352 pages Release Date: September 6, 2016 Published by: Balzer + Bray Read from: August 31- September 2, 2016 Stand-alone Source: TxLA For fans of: Contemporary Romance, Realistic Fiction, YA      Aspiring reporter Piper Baird decides to write a scathing exposé on the overprivileged students at an elite Washington, DC, school, only for her life to change when…

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…

100 Days by Nicole McInnes

ARC,  387 pages Release Date: August 23, 2016 Published by: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux(BYR) Read from: August 17- August 20, 2016 Stand-alone Source: TxLA For fans of: Contemporary, Romance, Realistic Fiction, Diversity (physical disorder), YA      Agnes doesn’t know it, but she only has one hundred days left to live. When she was just a baby, she was diagnosed…

Kill the Boy Band by Goldy Moldavsky

Audio,  6 parts Release Date: February 23, 2016 Published by: Scholastic Point Read from: July 24-28, 2016 Stand-alone Source: Library (Overdrive)  For fans of: Dark Humor, Contemporary,       Just know from the start that it wasn’t supposed to go like this. All we wanted was to get near them. That’s why we got a room in the hotel where they…

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 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 Leaving by Tara Altebrando

ARC, 416 pages Release Date: June 7, 2016 Published by: Bloomsbury USA Childrens Stand-alone Source: TLA For fans of: Mysteries, Fiction, Contemporary, Romance, Suspense, Sparkly Covers, YA      Six were taken. Eleven years later, five come back–with no idea of where they’ve been.     Eleven years ago, six kindergartners went missing without a trace….

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