Waiting on Wednesday - Scythe

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Scythe - Neal Shusterman

From Goodreads:

In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ("gleaned") by professional reapers ("sythes"). Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythe's apprentices, and -- despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation -- they must learn the art of killing and come to understand the necessity of what they do.

Only one of them will be chosen as the scythe's apprentice. And when it becomes clear that the winning apprentice's first task will be to glean the loser, Citra and Rowan are pitted against one another in a fight for their lives. 

Release Date: November 22, 2016

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers

Waiting on Wednesday - Stalking Jack the Ripper

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Stalking Jack the Ripper - Kerri Maniscalco

From Goodreads:

Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life. 

Against her stern father's wishes and society's expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of savagely killed corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murders, her search for answers brings her close to her own sheltered world. 

The shocking twists and turns, augmented with real sinister period photos, will make this dazzling debut from author Maniscalco impossible to forget. 

Release Date: September 20, 2016

Waiting on Wednesday - P.S. I Like You

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P.S. I Like You - Kasie West

From Goodreads:

While Lily is spacing out in Chemistry one day, she picks up her pencil and scribbles a line from one of her favorite songs on the desk. The next day, someone else has written back to her on the desk! Soon enough Lily and the mystery student are exchanging notes, and lyrics, and even sharing secrets. When Lily finds out that her anonymous pen pal is a guy, she's flustered -- and kind of feels like she is falling for him. She and her best friend set out to unravel the identity of the letter writer -- but when the truth is revealed, the guy is the LAST person Lily could ever imagined it to be. Now Lily knows the truth, can she untangle her feelings and gather the courage to listen to her heart?

Release Date: July 26, 2016

Waiting on Wednesday - The Last Cherry Blossom

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The Last Cherry Blossom - Kathleen Burkinshaw

From Goodreads: 

Following the seventieth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, this is a new very personal story to join Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. 

Yuriko was happy growing up in Hiroshima when it was just her and Papa. But her aunt Kimiko and her cousin Genji are living with them now, and the family is getting bigger with talk of a double marriage! And while things are changing at home, the world beyond their doors is even more unpredictable. World War II is coming to an end, and Japan's fate is not entirely clear, with any battle losses being hidden from its people. Yuriko is used to the sirens and the air-raid drills, but things start to feel more realwhen the neighbors who have left to fight stop coming home. When the bomb hits Hiroshima, it's through Yuriko's twelve -year-old eyes that we witness the devastation and horror. 

Release Date: August 2, 2016 

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Reunited - Hilary Weisman Graham

1 Concert
2,000 Miles
3 Ex-Best Friends


Alice, Summer, and Tiernan are ex-best friends.


Back in middle school, the three girls were inseparable. They were also the number one fans of the rock band Level3.


But when the band broke up, so did their friendship. Summer ran with the popular crowd, Tiernan was a rebellious wild-child, and Alice spent high school with her nose buried in books.


Now, just as the girls are about the graduate, Level3 announces a one-time-only reunion show.


Even though the concert's 2,000 miles away, Alice buys three tickets on an impulse.  And as it turns out, Summer and Tiernan have their own reasons to get out of town. Good thing Alice's graduation gift (a pea-green 1976 VW camper van known as the Pea Pod) is just the vehicle to get them there. 


But on the long drive cross-country, the girls hot more than a few bumps in the road. Will their friendship get an encore or is the show really over?


Release date: June 12, 2012

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The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls - Claire Legrand

Victoria hates nonsense. There is no need for it when your life is perfect. The only smudge on her pristine life is her best friend Lawrence. He is a disaster-- lazy and dreamy, shirt always untucked, obsessed with his silly piano. Victoria often wonders why she ever bothered being his friend.  (Lawrence does, too.)


But then Lawrence goes missing. And he's not the only one. Victoria soon discovers that Mrs. Cavendish's children's home is not what it appears to be. Kids go in but come out...different, or they don't come out at all. 


If anyone can sort this out, it's Victoria, even if it means getting a little messy. - From Goodreads


Release Date: August 28, 2012

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Hallowed -- Cynthia Hand   

"For months part-angel Clara Gardner trained to face the raging forest fire from her visions and rescue the alluring and mysterious Christian Prescott from the blaze. But nothing could prepare her for the fateful decisions she would be forced to make that day, or the startling revelation that her purpose—the task she was put on earth to accomplish—is not as straightforward as she thought. Now, torn between her increasingly complicated feelings for Christian and her love for her boyfriend, Tucker, Clara struggles to make sense of what she was supposed to do the day of the fire. And, as she is drawn further into the world of part angels and the growing conflict between White Wings and Black Wings, Clara learns of the terrifying new reality that she must face: Someone close to her will die in a matter of months. With her future uncertain, the only thing Clara knows for sure is that the fire was just the beginning." -- From Goodreads

Release Date: January 17, 2012

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Eleven minutes passed before Delaney Maxwell was pulled from the icy waters of a Maine lake by her best friend Decker Phillips. By then her heart had stopped beating. Her brain had stopped working. She was dead. And yet she somehow defied medical precedent to come back seemingly fine
-despite the scans that showed significant brain damage.

Everyone wants Delaney to be all right, but she knows she's far from normal. Pulled by strange sensations she can't control or explain, Delaney finds herself drawn to the dying. Is her altered brain now predicting death, or causing it?

Then Delaney meets Troy Varga, who recently emerged from a coma with similar abilities. At first she's reassured to find someone who understands the strangeness of her new existence, but Delaney soon discovers that Troy's motives aren't quite what she thought. Is their gift a miracle, a freak of nature-or something much more frightening?

For fans of best-sellers like Before I Fall and If I Stay, this is a fascinating and heart-rending story about love and friendship and the fine line between life and death. -- From Goodreads

Release Date: January 17, 2012

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Twisted -- Sara Shepard

You thought Wanted was the last book? Well, you were wrong.

Twisted  is #9 in the Pretty Little Liars Series.

"It’s been a year since the torturous notes from A stopped and the mystery of Alison DiLaurentis’s disappearance was finally put to rest. Now seniors in high school, Aria, Spencer, Hanna and Emily are older, but they’re not any wiser. The Pretty Little Liars have more secrets than ever - twisted secrets that could destroy the perfect lives they’ve worked so hard to rebuild.

Aria’s jealous of her boyfriend’s new exchange student. Spencer’s getting a little too cozy with her soon-to-be-stepbrother. Hanna’s one scandalous photo away from ruining her dad’s Senate campaign. And Emily will do anything to get a swim scholarship.

Worst of all: Last spring break in Jamaica, they did something unforgivable. The girls are desperate to forget that fateful night, but they should know better than anyone that all secrets wash ashore … eventually." 

Release Date: July 5, 2011

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Long, Long Sleep -- Anna Sheehan
From Goodreads

"Rosalinda Fitzroy has been asleep for 62 years when she is woken by a kiss. Locked away in the chemically-induced slumber of a stasis tube in a forgotten sub-basement, sixteen-year-old Rose slept straight through the Dark Times that killed millions and utterly changed the world she knew. Now, her parents and her first love are long dead, and Rose - hailed upon her awakening as the long-lost heir to an interplanetary empire - is thrust alone into a future in which she is viewed as either a freak or a threat. Desperate to put the past behind her and adapt to her new world, Rose finds herself drawn to the boy who kissed her awake, hoping that he can help her to start fresh. But when a deadly danger jeopardizes her fragile new existence, Rose must face the ghosts of her past with open eyes - or be left without any future at all."

Release date: August 9, 2011

(It's TAKS week in Texas, I was drawn to this title because we could all use a LONG, LONG SLEEP!)

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Charlotte’s best friend thinks Charlotte might be psychic. Her boyfriend thinks she’s cheating on him. But Charlotte knows what’s really wrong: She is one of the Forgotten, a kind of angel on earth, who feels the Need—a powerful, uncontrollable draw to help someone, usually a stranger.

There have been others before who’ve felt the Need, but they’re gone—erased from the memories of everyone whose lives they had touched. It's as though they never existed. This is the fate that awaits Charlotte. But the last thing Charlotte wants to do is disappear, to be Forgotten. She wants to stay with her best friend, whose life is spiraling out of control. She wants to lie in her boyfriend’s arms forever. She wishes she could just ignore the Need, but she can’t. And as everyone important in her life begins to slowly forget her, she has to decide if she’ll fight the Need in order to remain herself—no matter how dark the consequences.

Release Date: June 21, 2011

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 From Goodreads-
"The story of Lacey Anne Byers, a small town girl who is excited to star in Hell House, her church's annual haunted house of sin, until a childhood friend reappears and makes her question her faith."


Coming July 19, 2011

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My Life Undecided --  Jessica Brody


From Goodreads


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 plenty of crappy ones though. Including that party I threw when my parents were out of town that accidentally burned down a model home. Yeah, not my finest moment, for sure.

But see, that’s why I started a blog. To enlist readers to make my decisions for me. That’s right. I’m gave up. Threw in the towel. I let someone else be the one to decide which book I read for English. Or whether or not I accepted an invitation to join the debate team from that cute-in-a-dorky-sort-of-way guy who gave me the Heimlich Maneuver in the cafeteria. (Note to self: Chew the melon before swallowing it.) I even let them decide who I dated!

Well, it turns out there are some things in life you simply can’t choose or have chosen for you—like who you fall in love with. And now everything’s more screwed up than ever.

But don’t take my word for it, read the book and decide for yourself. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll scream in frustration. Or maybe that’s just me. After all, it’s my life.

I LOVED The Karma Club!   This book will be released on June 7, 2011

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Putting Makeup on Dead People -- Jen Violi

It's been four years since Donna Parisi's father passed away, but it might as well have been four days. Donna makes conversation and goes through the motion, but she hasn't really gotten on with life. She's not close with anyone, she doesn't have a boyfriend and she's going to college at the local university with a major that her mother picked. But one day Donna has an epiphany. She wants to work with dead people. She wants to help people say goodbye and she wants to learn to love a whole person--body and soul. She wants to live her life and be exceptional...at loving, at grieving and at embalming and cremating,too. Even as she makes the decision, things start to change. Donna makes friends with the charismatic new student, Liz. She notices the boy, Charlie, at her table and realizes that maybe he's been noticing her, too. And she begins to forgive the rest of her family for living their lives while she's been busy moping.

It just looks good!
Will be published on May 26, 2011.

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Between Here and Forever -- Elizabeth Scott

(From Goodreads)  Abby accepted that she can’t measure up to her beautiful, magnetic sister Tess a long time ago, and knows exactly what she is: Second best. Invisible.

Until the accident.

Now Tess is in a coma, and Abby’s life is on hold. It may have been hard living with Tess, but it's nothing compared to living without her.

She's got a plan to bring Tess back though, involving the gorgeous and mysterious Eli, but then Abby learns something about Tess, something that was always there, but that she’d never seen.

Abby is about to find out that truth isn't always what you think it is, and that life holds more than she ever thought it could...

 May 24, 2011

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We'll Always Have Summer -- Jenny Han

The third installment will be released on April 26, 2011.

Who will Belly pick? Conrad or Jeremiah? Maybe neither?

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This week, I'm waiting on a particular author...Tera Lynn Childs.

Fins are Forever  is the sequel to Forgive My Fins.It comes out on June 29, 2011.


From Goodreads "On Lily Sanderson's eighteenth birthday she'll become just a girl -- still a mer girl, true, but signing the renunciation paperwork will ink Princess Waterlily of Thalassinia out of existence. That leave plain old Lily living on land, dating the boy she loves, and trying to master this being human thing once and for all."

Sweet Venom comes out October 4, 2011. It doesn't seem to follow the rest of Tera Lynn Child's books.

From Goodreads "New series, in which triplet descendants of Medusa learn they are destined to guard the door between the world of monsters and the world of men - pitched as a mythological Charmed."

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Maybe I've been out of it for a bit...

I just discovered that Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side, by Beth Fantaskey, has a sequel coming out Fall 2011, Jessica Rules the Dark Side.

I LOVED Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side. Just enough steam to be appropriate in my middle school library and still be tame.

Jessica Rules the Dark Side is being added to my list of upcoming books.

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Last summer, I read Once by Morris Gleitzman, and was AMAZED. It was they only book that I read that I passed along to someone else. I'm thrilled that there is a sequel, Then, that will be released on May 10. I can't wait to find out what happens to Felix and Zelda.