Category: Young Adult Contemporary


Things I Can’t Forget by Miranda Kenneally

Things I Can’t ForgetAuthor: Miranda KenneallyCategory: Young Adult Format: ARC (borrowed)Publisher: SourcebooksRelease Date: 3-1-13 Kate has always been the good girl. Too good, according to some people at school—although they have no idea the guilty secret she carries. But this summer, everything is different… This summer she’s a counselor at Cumberland Creek summer camp, and […]

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Hooked by Liz Fichera

HookedAuthor: Liz FicheraCategory: Young AdultFormat: eGalleyPublisher: Harlequin TeenRelease Date: 1-29-13When Native American Fredricka ‘Fred’ Oday is invited to become the only girl on the school’s golf team, she can’t say no. This is an opportunity to shine, win a scholarship and go to university, something no one in her family has done. But Fred’s presence […]

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Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor and Park Author: Rainbow Rowell Category: Young Adult Format: eGalley Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Release Date: 2-26-13 Set over the course of one school year in 1986, ELEANOR AND PARK is the story of two star-crossed misfits – smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to […]

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Uses For Boys by Erica Lorraine Scheidt

Uses for Boys Author: Erica Lorraine Scheidt Category: Young Adult Format: eGalley Publisher: St. Martin’s Release Date: 1-15-13 Anna remembers a time before boys, when she was little and everything made sense. When she and her mom were a family, just the two of them against the world. But now her mom is gone most […]

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Nobody But Us by Kristin Halbrook

Nobody But UsAuthor: Kristin HalbrookCategory: Young AdultFormat: eGalleyPublisher: Harper TeenRelease Date: 1-29-13Bonnie and Clyde meets IF I STAY in this addictively heart-wrenching story of two desperate teenagers on the run from their pasts. They’re young. They’re in love. They’re on the run. Zoe wants to save Will as much as Will wants to save Zoe. […]

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Winter White by Jen Calonita

Winter WhiteAuthor: Jen CalonitaCategory: Young AdultFormat: ARCPublisher: PoppyRelease Date: 10-9-12Isabelle Scott and Mirabelle Monroe are still reeling from the revelation that they share more than just the roof over their heads. The media has pounced on their story and the girls are caught up in a flurry of talk-show appearances and newspaper interviews. They’ve put […]

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Emily’s Dress and Other Missing Things by Kathryn Burak

Emily’s Dress and Other Missing ThingsAuthor: Kathryn BurakGenre: Young AdultFormat: ebookPublisher: Roaring Brook PressRelease Date: 10-2-12When Claire’s best friend Richy went missing, he disappeared without a trace. But when Emily Dickinson’s dress goes missing from the Amherst museum, she knows exactly where it is: in her closet. As Claire and her student teacher, Tate, attempt to […]

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Speechless by Hannah Harrington

Speechless Author: Hannah Harrington Genre: Young Adult Format: ebook Publisher: Harlequin Teen Release Date: 8-28-12 Everyone knows that Chelsea Knot can’t keep a secret  Until now. Because the last secret she shared turned her into a social outcast—and nearly got someone killed. Now Chelsea has taken a vow of silence—to learn to keep her mouth […]

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My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick

My Life Next Door Author: Huntley Fitzpatrick Genre: Young Adult Format: ebook Publisher: Dial Release Date: 6-14-12 The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. Loud, numerous, messy, affectionate. And every day from her balcony perch, seventeen-year-old Samantha Reed wishes she was one of them . . . until one summer evening, Jase Garrett climbs […]

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Belles by Jen Calonita

Belles Author: Jen Calonita Genre: Young Adult Format: ARC Publisher: Poppy Release Date: 4-10-12 Fifteen-year-old Isabelle Scott loves her life by the boardwalk on the supposed wrong side of the tracks in North Carolina. But when tragedy strikes, a social worker sends her to live with a long-lost uncle and his preppy privileged family. Isabelle […]

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