New Releases for August 1st
Hardcover
FADE TO BLUE by Sean Beaudoin (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Sophie Blue started wearing a black skirt and Midnight Noir lipstick on her last birthday. It was also the day her father disappeared. Or spontaneously combusted. Which is sort of bad timing, since a Popsicle truck with tinted windows has started circling the house.
Kenny Fade is a basketball god. His sneakers cost more than his Jeep. He's the guy all the ladies (and their mommas) want. Bad.
Sophie Blue and Kenny Fade don't have a thing in common. Aside from being reasonably sure they're losing their minds.
Acclaimed author Sean Beaudoin's wildly innovative novel combines uproarious humor with enough plot twists to fill a tube sock. Part thriller, part darkly comic philosophical discussion, and accompanied by a comic book interstitial, FADE TO BLUE is a whip-smart romp that keeps readers guessing until the last paragraph.
PROPHECY OF THE SISTERS by Michelle Link (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
An ancient prophecy divides two sisters ---
One good... One evil.... Who will prevail?
Twin sisters Lia and Alice Milthorpe have just become orphans. They have also become enemies. As they discover their roles in a prophecy that has turned generations of sisters against each other, the girls find themselves entangled in a mystery that involves a tattoo-like mark, their parents' deaths, a boy, a book, and a lifetime of secrets.
Lia and Alice don't know whom they can trust. They just know they can't trust each other.
RUINED: A Ghost Story, by Paula Morris (Point/Scholastic)
Rebecca couldn't feel more out of place in New Orleans, where she comes to spend the year while her dad is traveling. She's staying in a creepy old house with her aunt. And at the snooty prep school, the filthy-rich girls treat Rebecca like she's invisible. Only gorgeous, unavailable Anton Grey seems to give Rebecca the time of day, but she wonders if he's got a hidden agenda. Then one night, in Lafayette Cemetery, Rebecca makes a friend. Sweet, mysterious Lisette is eager to talk to Rebecca, and to show her the nooks and crannies of the city. There's just one catch: Lisette is a ghost. A ghost with a deep, dark secret, and a serious score to settle. As Rebecca learns more from her ghost friend --- and as she slowly learns to trust Anton Grey --- she also uncovers startling truths about her own history. Will Rebecca be able to right the wrongs of the past, or has everything been ruined beyond repair?
PETTY IN PINK: Poseur #3 by Rachel Maude (Poppy/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Poseur's hot new handbag captures Hollywood tastemaker Ted Pelligan's eye, and now everyone's atwitter. Will those delicate straps hold his attention? Or snap under the strain...
To prove their worth, fashion foursome Melissa, Charlotte, Petra, and Janie must a) dangle their bag on celebrity armage b) sneak into the most anticipated event of the year, and c) convince the paparazzi to point their Canons. And all without couture-competitor Vivien Ho noticing.
Yeah, right.
Get ready to rumble, baybees! A party's not a party until something --- or someone --- breaks.
New Releases for August 3rd
Original Paperback
CHELSEY by Chelsey Shannon (HCI Teens)
Having already lost her mother to cancer as a young girl, Chelsey Shannon's life was turned upside when her father was tragically murdered when she was only thirteen years old. Through a mixture of captivating prose and poetry, Chelsey tells the story of how one girl experienced the unthinkable and found a way to grow and flourish despite the odds.
EMILY by Emily Smucker (HCI Teens)
Prone to illness throughout her life because of a weak immune system, Emily Smucker was used to having to sit things out. But when she got sick the summer before her senior year in high school, she was hit with a year of tests, wrong diagnoses, fading hopes, and a senior year sitting on the sidelines. Ultimately diagnosed with West Nile virus, EMILY is one girl's inside glimpse of living with chronic illness.
MARNI by Marni Bates (HCI Teens)
Marni Bates has battled a stress-related disorder known as trichotillomania for roughly six years. The impulse to pull out all her hair (including her eyelashes and eyebrows), has been a source of much pain, frustration, and in rare moments, humor. It wasn't until Marni searched 'hair-pulling' on Google that she discovered what she was doing had a name and an explanation. Hiding her condition took a lot of work, but being confronted with it was far more difficult. Unfortunately, the majority of high school students don't know how to react when faced with trich. Health courses tend to focus on already highly publicized conditions such as anorexia and bulimia, ignoring other stress-related disorders. In MARNI, author Marni Bates powerfully shares her journey, from the roots of her anxiety which was caused by her parents' messy divorce when she was eight, a dysfunctional relationship with her sister and father, and feeling like such a misfit that she convinced her mom to let her drop out of middle school to be homeschooled, to having her emotional turmoil give birth to trichotillomania.
New Releases for August 4th
Hardcover
Wyldcliffe Abbey School for Young Ladies, housed in a Gothic mansion on the bleak northern moors, is elite, expensive, and unwelcoming. When Evie Johnson is torn away from her home by the sea to become the newest scholarship student, she is more isolated than she could have dreamed. Strict teachers, snobbish students, and the oppressive atmosphere of Wyldcliffe leave Evie drowning in loneliness.
Evie's only lifeline is Sebastian, a rebellious, mocking, dangerously attractive young man she meets by chance. As Evie's feelings for Sebastian grow with each secret meeting, she starts to fear that he is hiding something about his past. And she is haunted by glimpses of a strange, ghostly girl --- a girl who is so eerily like Evie, she could be a sister. Evie is slowly drawn into a tangled web of past and present that she cannot control. And as the extraordinary, elemental forces of Wyldcliffe rise up like the mighty sea, Evie is faced with an astounding truth about Sebastian, and her own incredible fate.
Gillian Shields's electrifying tale will dazzle readers with suspense, mysticism, and romance.
SHIVER by Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic Press)
For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf --- her wolf --- is a chilling presence she can't seem to live without. Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human . . . until the cold makes him shift back again.
Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It's her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human --- or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever.
SUNSET BOULEVARD: The A-List: Hollywood Royalty #2 by Zoey Dean (Poppy/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Starlet Amelie Adams's new movie is being shot on location-at Beverly Hills High. But the drama on-screen is nothing compared to what's happening off-screen.
Lights, camera, deception!
Paperback
THE DEATH OF JAYSON PORTER by Jaime Adoff (Hyperion Books for Children)
Sixteen-year-old Jayson Porter wants to believe things will get better. But the harsh realities of his life never seem to change. Living in the inland-Florida projects with his abusive mother, he tries unsuccessfully to fit in at his predominately white school, while struggling to maintain even a thread of a relationship with his drug-addicted father. As the pressure mounts, there's only one thing Jayson feels he has control over-the choice of whether to live or die. In this powerful, gripping novel, Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Jaime Adoff explores the harsh reality of a teenager's life, giving hope even in the bleakest of hours.
DARKSIDE Book 1 by Tom Becker (Orchard Books)
Jonathan Starling's home has been attacked, his dad is in an asylum, he's running for his life, and there's nowhere to hide. Jonathan has stumbled upon London's greatest secret: Darkside. Incredibly dangerous and unimaginably exciting, Darkside is the creepiest place Jonathan has ever seen. It's a world of nightmares and secrets, where vampires and werewolves stalk the streets, where fear and evil rule, and Jonathan has to find a way out. . . .
Join Jonathan on the Darkside for a nail-biting, nonstop adventure!
Will Jonathan learn the truth behind his father's mysterious illness and his mother's disappearance? And will he ever make it back to the Lightside of London again?
New Releases for August 6th
Hardcover
LIPSTICK APOLOGY by Jennifer Jabaley (Razorbill/Penguin Young Readers Group)
When Emily Carson’s parents die in a plane crash, she’s left with nothing but her mother’s last words scrawled in lipstick on a tray table: “Emily, please forgive me.”
Now it’s fall and Emily moves to New York City --- where she attracts the attention of two very different boys: the cute, popular Owen, and her quirky chemistry partner, Anthony. With the help of some surprising new friends, Emily must choose between the boy who helps her forget and the one who encourages her to remember, and ultimately heal.
Debut author Jennifer Jabaley has written a wonderful, feel-good romantic comedy with real emotional depth. Full of lovably wacky characters, LIPSTICK APOLOGY is a heartwarming story about the true meaning of forgiveness.
