tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16321823083691854632024-03-13T06:12:43.192-04:00Michelle's BookshelfA Book Blog Dedicated to Young Adult Literature Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153337308217595596noreply@blogger.comBlogger488125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-15005969339179896662014-11-05T13:39:00.001-05:002014-11-05T13:39:24.250-05:00Saving June
Saving June
Hannah Harrington
Harper Scott's older sister has always been the perfect one- so when June takes her own life a week before high school graduation, sixteen-year-old Harper is devastated. Everyone's sorry, but no one can explain why.
When her divorcing parents decided to split her sister's ashes into his-and her urns, Harper taken matters into her own hands. She'll steal the ashesMichellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05153337308217595596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-60217357737208217782013-09-04T22:16:00.001-04:002014-11-05T12:02:12.328-05:00Burn For Burn (Burn For Burn, #1)
Burn For Burn (Burn For Burn, #1)
Jenny Han & Siobhan Vivian
Big girls don't cry...they get even.
Postcard-perfect Jar Island is the kind of place where nobody locks their doors at night, where parents can sleep easy, knowing their daughters are tucked away safe and sound in their beds.
But bad things can happen, even to good girls, and sometimes the only way to make things right is toAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-63374259691553762092013-08-14T12:30:00.005-04:002014-11-04T22:09:53.918-05:00Hide and Seek
Hide and Seek (The Lying Game, #4)
By: Sara Shepard
When I was alive, my family seemed picture perfect. My adoptive parents adored me, and my little sister, Laurel, copied my every move. But now that my long-lost twin, Emma, has taken my place to solve my murder, we're both learning just how flawed my family really is.
Laurel is shooting Emma nasty looks and sneaking around with my Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-82794029464842319402013-08-14T12:04:00.003-04:002014-11-04T22:10:13.046-05:00Bittersweet
Bittersweet
By: Sarah Ockler
Once upon a time, Hudson knew exactly what her future looked like. Then a betrayal changed her life, and knocked her dreams to the ground. Now she’s a girl who doesn’t believe in second chances... a girl who stays under the radar by baking cupcakes at her mom’s diner and obsessing over what might have been.So when things start looking up and she has another Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-30797161017526853232012-06-25T19:06:00.000-04:002014-11-04T22:10:41.594-05:00The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer, #1)
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer, #1)
By: Michelle Hodkin
Mara Dyer doesn’t think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there.It can.She believes there must be more to the accident she can’t remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed.There is.She doesn’t believe that after everything she’s been through, she Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-79484243476718022742012-06-18T17:51:00.000-04:002014-11-04T22:11:01.408-05:00Two Truths and a Lie (The Lying Game, #3)
Two Truths and a Lie (The Lying Game, #3)
By: Sara Shepard
Sutton Mercer watches
from the afterlife as her long-lost twin, Emma Paxton, takes over her
identity to solve her murder. But after ruling out her early leads, Emma
still hasn’t found Sutton’s killer. A lot of people wanted her dead—but
one name keeps popping up: Thayer Vega. When the gorgeous and
mysterious Thayer returns to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-55634710426588404272012-02-07T12:06:00.001-05:002014-11-04T22:11:23.977-05:00Upcoming Release: If I Lie
If I Lie
By: Corrine Jackson
Pub Date: August 28th, 2012
A powerful debut novel about the gray space between truth and perception.
Quinn’s done the unthinkable: she kissed a guy who is not Carey, her boyfriend. And she got caught. Being branded a cheater would be bad enough, but Quinn is deemed a traitor, and shunned by all of her friends. Because Carey’s not just any guy—he’s Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-82393283302198332252012-02-01T21:58:00.002-05:002014-11-04T22:13:26.445-05:00Cover Reveal
Live Through This
By: Mindi Scott
Pub date: October 2nd, 2012
Sometimes hiding the truth requires more than a lie . . .
From the outside, Coley Sterling’s life seems pretty normal . . . whatever that means. It’s not perfect—her best friend is seriously mad at her and her dance team captains keep giving her a hard time—but Coley’s adorable, sweet crush Reece helps distract Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-92070025778805264992012-02-01T21:22:00.001-05:002014-11-04T22:14:30.654-05:00Contemporary Wednesday
Dead to You
By: Lisa McMann
Pub date: February 7th, 2012
Ethan was abducted from his front yard when he was just seven years old. Now, at sixteen, he has returned to his family. It's a miracle... at first.
Then the tensions start to build. His reintroduction to his old life isn't going smoothly, and his family is tearing apart all over again. If only Ethan could Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-60853155322711334222012-01-28T15:19:00.003-05:002014-11-04T22:15:25.845-05:00Sometimes it Happens
Sometimes it Happens
By: Lauren Barnholdt
On the last day of her junior year, Hannah's boyfriend Ryan dumped her. Facing a summer of loneliness, Hannah turns to her best friend Ava for comfort. Ava does what BFFs do: she stays by Hannah's side...until it's time for Ava to head up to Maine for the summer. Also left behind is Ava's boyfriend, Noah, who's such a great guy he gets Hannah Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-2567922828979473962012-01-28T15:18:00.000-05:002014-11-04T22:15:57.983-05:00Sneak Peek Saturday: Something Like Normal
Something Like Normal
By: Trish Doller
Pub date: June 19th, 2012
A powerful debut novel about a young Marine's return home from Afghanistan and the new life and love he finds while fending off the ghosts of war.
When Travis Stephenson returns home from Afghanistan, his parents are on the brink of divorce, his brother has stolen his girlfriend and his car, and nightmares of hisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-81565744419424880062012-01-25T19:54:00.001-05:002014-11-04T22:17:42.647-05:00Contemporary Wednesday
I thought I would introduce and incorporate a new meme on my blog that pertains to contemporary fiction seeing as I love and adore it. There has been a real increase in YA catering to paranormal/fantasy/dystopia etc and while I love and appreciate- not to mention read- all forms of literature regardless of genre and sub-genre, I did want to pay homage in a sense to the wonderful Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-66233242333524222042012-01-24T11:53:00.000-05:002014-11-04T22:19:35.123-05:00Upcoming Release: Never Enough
Never Enough
By: Denise Jaden
Pub date: July 10th, 2012
Loann’s always wanted to be popular and pretty like her sister, Claire. So when Claire’s ex-boyfriend starts flirting with her, Loann is willing to do whatever it takes to feel special…even if that means betraying her sister.
But as Loann slips inside Claire’s world, she discovers that everything is not as it seems. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-36909471483029259522012-01-17T11:07:00.023-05:002014-11-04T22:20:12.238-05:00Upcoming Release: Waiting
Waiting
By: Carol Lynch Williams
Pub date: May 1st, 2012
After her brother’s death, a teen struggles to rediscover love and find redemption in this gripping novel.
Growing up in Africa and Latin America as the children of missionaries, London and Zach were as close as could be. And then Zach dies, and the family is gutted. London’s father is distant. Her mother won’t speak. The Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-26201600561807217232012-01-14T14:11:00.001-05:002014-11-04T22:21:29.339-05:00Sneak Peek Saturday: My Life Next Door
My Life Next Door
By: Huntley Fitzpatrick
Pub date: June 14th, 2012
"One thing my mother never knew, and would disapprove of most of all, was that I watched the Garretts. All the time."
The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. Loud, numerous, messy. And every day from her balcony perch, seventeen year old Samantha wishes she was one of them… until the day Jase Garrett climbsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-6149935910401306962011-12-13T11:11:00.005-05:002014-11-04T22:21:52.397-05:00Never Have I Ever (The Lying Game, #2)
Never Have I Ever (The Lying Game, #2)
By: Sara Shepard
My perfect life was a lie.
Now I’d do anything to uncover the truth.
Not long ago, I had everything a girl could wish for: amazing friends, an adorable boyfriend, a loving family. But none of them know that I’m gone—that I’m dead. To solve my murder, my long-lost twin sister, Emma, has taken my place. She sleeps in my room, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-77058263167096320302011-12-06T15:19:00.004-05:002014-11-04T22:22:16.398-05:00The Lying Game
The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1)
By: Sara Shepard
I had a life anyone would kill for.
Then Someone did.
The worst part of being dead is that there’s nothing left to live for. No more kisses. No more secrets. No more gossip. It’s enough to kill a girl all over again. But I’m about to get something no one else does—an encore performance, thanks to Emma, the long-lost twin Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-5881773930618556502011-05-24T17:57:00.004-04:002014-11-04T22:23:17.599-05:00Upcoming Release: How to Save a Life
How to Save a Life
by: Sara Zarr
Pub date: October 18th, 2011
Jill MacSweeney just wants everything to go back to normal. But ever since her dad died, she's been isolating herself from her boyfriend, her best friends--everyone who wants to support her. You can't lose one family member and simply replace him with a new one, and when her mom decides to adopt a baby, that's Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-16868356069635558142011-05-14T14:37:00.005-04:002014-11-04T22:23:51.162-05:00Sneak Peek Saturday: My Beating Teenage Heart
My Beating Teenage Heart
By: C.K. Kelly Martin
Pub date: September 27th, 2011
Ashlyn Baptiste is falling. One moment she was nothing—no memories, no self—and then suddenly, she's plummeting through a sea of stars. Is she in a coma? She doesn't remember dying, and she has no memories of the life she left behind. All she knows is that she's trapped in a consciousness without a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-14379661110012483432011-05-10T13:58:00.002-04:002014-11-04T22:24:16.686-05:00Upcoming Release: Lie
Lie
By: Caroline Bock
Pub date:August 30th, 2011
A gripping and incredibly important story about a tight-knit town torn apart by a vicious hate crime.
Everybody knows, nobody’s talking…
Seventeen year-old Skylar Thompson is being questioned by the police. Her boyfriend Jimmy stands accused of brutally assaulting two young El Salvadoran immigrants from a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-77699914672179507102011-05-06T16:32:00.001-04:002014-11-04T22:25:21.964-05:00Friday's Finest
Friday's Finest is a new meme hosted by Steff & Justine from A Bookful of Thoughts.
"There are moments in every girl's life that are bigger than we know at the time. When you look back, you say, that was one of those life-changing, fork-in-the-road moments and I didn't even see it coming. It had no idea. And then there are the moments that you know are big. That whatever you doAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-36930648273737032972011-05-03T10:07:00.003-04:002014-11-04T22:26:07.276-05:00Upcoming Release: Burnout/Possess
Burnout
By: Adrienne Maria Vrettos
Pub date: September 13th, 2011
On the day after Halloween, Nan wakes up in a subway car. She is not dreaming. She doesn’t know where she’s been or what she’s done. She’s missing a whole day from her life. And she’s wearing skeleton makeup and a too-small Halloween costume that she doesn't remember putting on.
Nan is not supposed to wake upAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-29339549692691036492011-05-01T15:04:00.001-04:002011-09-09T11:42:18.590-04:00New Releases: May 2011Above are four of the novels being released in May 2011 IndieBound | Amazon [.ca] [.uk] | Barnes & Noble | Chapters | Book Depository
1. What Happened to Goodbye/Sarah Dessen/10th2. Moonglass/Jessi Kirby/3rd3. Between Here and Forever/Elizabeth Scott/24th4. Awaken/Katie Kacvinsky/23rd5. Notes from the Blender/Tricia Cook, Brendan Halpin/24th6. I'm Not Her/Janet Gurtler/1st7. Divergent Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-34531542899526595162011-04-30T14:59:00.001-04:002014-11-04T22:28:53.868-05:00Sneak Peek Saturday: My Life Undecided
My Life Undecided
By: Jessica Brody
Pub date: June 7th, 2011
PLEASE READ THIS! MY LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!
Okay, maybe that was a bit melodramatic, but I’m sorry, I’m feeling a bit melodramatic at the moment.
Here’s the deal. My name is Brooklyn Pierce, I’m fifteen years old, and I am decisionally challenged. Seriously, I can’t remember the last good decision I made. I can remember Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632182308369185463.post-91853264249550636062011-04-29T19:51:00.002-04:002014-11-04T22:29:49.665-05:00Friday's Finest
Friday's Finest is a new meme hosted by Steff & Justine from A Bookful of Thoughts.
"Conrad was first, and I loved him in a way that you can only really do the first time around. It's the kind of love that doesn't know better and doesn't want to- it's dizzy and foolish and fierce. That kind of love is really a one-time- only thing."
We'll Always Have Summer (Summer, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0