Summer of Sloane
Title: Summer of Sloane Author: Erin L. Schneider Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Release Date: May 3, 2016 Format: Hardcover Pages: 304 Warm Hawaiian sun. Lazy beach days. Flirty texts with her boyfriend back in Seattle. These are the things seventeen-year-old Sloane McIntyre pictured when she imagined the summer she’d be spending at her mom’s home in Hawaii with her twin brother, Penn. Instead, after learning an unthinkable secret about her boyfriend, Tyler, and best friend, Mick, all she has is a fractured […]
Morning Star (Red Rising Book 3)
Title: Morning Star Series: Red Rising, Book 3 Author: Pierce Brown Genre: Fiction Publisher: Del Rey Books Release Date: January 5, 2016 Pages: 544 “Born a lowly Red in the mines of Mars, Darrow lost his beloved wife to the treacherous Gold overlords. Vowing to fight for the future that his wife believed in, Darrow joins a secret revolutionary group and is remade into a Gold so that he can infiltrate the ruling class and bring them down from the […]
You Had One Job!
Title: You Had One Job! Author: Beverly Jenkins Genre: Humor Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Release Date: July 12, 2016 Format: Paperback Pages: 144 You Had One Job! is a collection of hilarious pictures features job-related disasters and general ineptitudes. If someone hangs a stop sign upside down or paints crooked lines on a highway, count on someone else to snap a photo and post it online. You Had One Job! is a collection of hilarious pictures features job-related disasters and […]
Breaking Cat News
Title: Breaking Cat News Author: Georgia Dunn Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Release Date: May 10, 2016 Format: Paperback Pages: 128 This just in: Three adorable house cats are reporting the most hilarious breaking news! Based on author/illustrator Georgia Dunn’s real life pets, Elvis, Lupin, and Puck strap on neckties and pick up microphones to provide the most up-to-date relevant news stories (at least according to them). Cats reporting on the news that matters to cats with stories such as The […]
The Square Root of Summer
Title: The Square Root of Summer Author: Harriet Reuter Hapgood Publisher: Roaring Brook Press Release Date: May 3, 2016 Format: Hardcover Pages: 304 This is what it means to love someone. This is what it means to grieve someone. It’s a little bit like a black hole. It’s a little bit like infinity. Gottie H. Oppenheimer is losing time. Literally. When the fabric of the universe around her seaside town begins to fray, she’s hurtled through wormholes to her past: […]
True Born
Title: True Born Series: True Born, Book 1 Author: L.E. Sterling Publisher: Entangled: Teen Release Date: May 3, 2016 Format: Hardcover Pages: 304 Welcome to Dominion City. After the great Plague descended, the world population was decimated…and their genetics damaged beyond repair. The Lasters wait hopelessly for their genes to self-destruct. The Splicers pay for expensive treatments that might prolong their life. The plague-resistant True Borns are as mysterious as they are feared… And then there’s Lucy Fox and her […]
Presidential Pets
Title: Presidential Pets Author: Julia Moberg Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction Publisher: Imagine Publishing Release Date: January 1, 2012 Pages: 95 The Wierd, wacky, little, big, scary, strange animals that have lived in the White House. Review: “Presidential Pets” is an excellent introduction to the history of the American presidents for children. The hook is obviously the pet facts, but each president also has brief and easy-to-digest facts about their presidency on their pages. The illustrations are wonderful, as well. Highly […]
Anything You Want
Title: Anything You Want Author: Geoff Herbach Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Release Date: May 3, 2016 Pages: 320 Taco’s mom always said, “Today is the best day of your life, and tomorrow will be even better.” That was hard to believe the day she died of cancer and when Taco’s dad had to move up north for work, but he sure did believe it when Maggie Corrigan agreed to go with him to junior prom. Taco loves Maggie-even more than the […]
The Last Boy and Girl in the World
Title: The Last Boy and Girl in the World Author: Siobhan Vivian Genre: Juvenile Fiction Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Release Date: April 26, 2016 Pages: 320 From the critically acclaimed author of The List comes a stunning new novel about a girl who must say goodbye to everything she knows after a storm wreaks havoc on her hometown. Aberdeen is drowning. Keeley Hewitt always has a joke to crack. Except there is nothing funny about her […]
The Art of Not Breathing
Title: The Art of Not Breathing Author: Sarah Alexander Release Date: April 1, 2016 Pages: 368 Since her twin brother, Eddie, drowned five years ago, sixteen-year-old Elsie Main has tried to remember what really happened that fateful day on the beach. One minute Eddie was there, and the next he was gone. Seventeen-year-old Tay McKenzie is a cute and mysterious boy that Elsie meets in her favorite boathouse hangout. When Tay introduces Elsie to the world of freediving, she vows […]
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