Rules for 50/50 Chances
Title: Rules for 50/50 Chances Author: Kate McGovern Publisher: Macmillan Children's Publishing Group Release Date: November 24, 2015 Format: Hardcover Pages: 352 Seventeen-year-old Rose Levenson has a decision to make: Does she want to know how she’s going to die? Because when Rose turns eighteen, she can take the test that tells her if she carries the genetic mutation for Huntington’s disease, the degenerative condition that is slowly killing her mother. With a fifty-fifty shot at inheriting her family’s genetic […]
My Secret to Tell
Title: My Secret to Tell Author: Natalie D. Richards Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Release Date: October 6, 2015 Format: Paperback Pages: 320 His smile is a crime. Emerson May is “the good girl.” She’s the perfect daughter, the caring friend, the animal shelter volunteer. But when her best friend’s brother breaks into her room, his hands covered in blood, she doesn’t scream or call the cops. Because when Deacon smiles at her, Emmie doesn’t want to be good… The whole town […]
Need
Title: Need Author: Joelle Charbonneau Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers Release Date: November 3, 2015 Format: Hardcover Pages: 352 “No one gets something for nothing. We all should know better.” Teenagers at Wisconsin’s Nottawa High School are drawn deeper into a social networking site that promises to grant their every need . . . regardless of the consequences. Soon the site turns sinister, with simple pranks escalating to malicious crimes. The body count rises. In this chilling YA thriller, […]
Meritorium
Title: Meritorium Series: Meritroplois, Book 2 Author: Joel Ohman Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Release Date: September 28, 2015 Format: Paperback Pages: 262 Under the System everyone is assigned a numerical Score that decides their worth to society and whether they live or die. Charley has escaped from Meritropolis… but in his quest to take down the System that has taken his brother from him, he must go through Meritorium, a city where gladiatorial games of life or death combat […]
Tell the Story to Its End
Title: Tell the Story to Its End Author: Simon P. Clark Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Release Date: October 20, 2015 Format: Hardcover Pages: 208 “Tell the story to its end,” says Eren with a grin. His yellow eyes are glowing like embers in the night. “When I reach the end,” I say, “what happens? You’ll have the whole story.” “Hmm,” he says, looking at me and licking his lips with a dry, grey tongue. “What happens then? Why don’t we […]
Wolf By Wolf
Title: Wolf By Wolf Author: Ryan Graudin Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Release Date: October 20, 2015 Format: Hardcover Pages: 400 Her story begins on a train. The year is 1956, and the Axis powers of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan rule. To commemorate their Great Victory, they host the Axis Tour: an annual motorcycle race across their conjoined continents. The prize? An audience with the highly reclusive Adolf Hitler at the Victor’s ball in Tokyo. Yael, […]
Illuminae
Title: Illuminae Series: The Illuminae Files, Book 1 Author: Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff Genre: Juvenile Fiction Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Incorporated Release Date: October 20, 2015 Pages: 608 “The planet Kerenza is attacked, and Kady and Ezra find themselves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship’s artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all”– Review: “Illuminae” is a book like none other I have ever read. It felt like I […]
The Half-Life of Planets
Title: The Half-Life of Planets Author: Emily Franklin, Brendan Halpin, Genre: Juvenile Fiction Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media Release Date: April 7, 2015 Pages: 248 “A smart and unusual romance just about right for fans of John Green.” —Booklist Liana’s decided to boycott kissing this summer, hoping to lose her reputation and focus on planetary science. Hank has near-encyclopedic knowledge of music and Asperger’s syndrome. When they meet by chance in a hospital restroom, neither one realizes that their friendship […]
Spending the Holidays with People I Want to Punch in the Throat
Title: Spending the Holidays with People I Want to Punch in the Throat Author: Jen Mann Publisher: Ballantine Books Release Date: October 13, 2015 Format: Hardcover Pages: 224 For fans of Laurie Notaro and Jenny Lawson comes an uproarious and oddly endearing essay collection for anyone trying to survive the holidays in one piece. When it comes to time-honored holiday traditions, Jen Mann pulls no punches In this hilariously irreverent collection of essays, Jen Mann, nationally bestselling author of People […]
Heartache and Other Natural Shocks
Title: Heartache and Other Natural Shocks Author: Glenda Barbara Leznoff Genre: Juvenile Fiction Release Date: October 13, 2015 Pages: 384 When fifteen-year-old Julia Epstein and her Anglophone family flee Montreal in October 1970, she struggles to adjust to a new life in the suburban wasteland of North York, Toronto. Next door lives Carla Cabrielli, who works her “assets” and knows how to get what she wants. Julia and Carla get on a collision course, not only for the same role […]
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