By Lesley Livingston
Harper Teen, $16.99, 312 pages
In Wondrous Strange, Kelley Winslow found out that, rather than being an orphaned mortal, she really is a Faerie princess, daughter of the powerful winter king Auberon and the dangerous autumn queen Mabh. After saving New York City’s human population from the terrifying Wild Hunt by making a deal [...]
By Megan Whalen Turner
Greenwillow Books, $16.99, 316 pages
A Conspiracy of Kings is the fourth book in Megan Whalen Turner’s series centering on the inhabitants of the fictional kingdoms of Eddis, Attolia, and Sounis. Eddis and Attolia have made a treaty but the king of Sounis continues to wage war on the other two. In this [...]
By Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, $16.00, 192 pages
Will and Bet have been friends since they were little even though Will is the son of a wealthy family and Bet the daughter of one of the house maids. After Will is sent down from yet another school Bet comes up with a plan that [...]
By Mike Lupica
Philomel, $17.99, 246 pages
Brian Dudley grew up around baseball. His dad, Cole, was a major league pitcher and they had season tickets for the Detroit Tigers games. Even though Cole walked out on Brian and his mom, Brian’s love for the game isn’t deterred. He lands a job as a batboy for the [...]
By Ted Michael
Delacorte Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 335 pages
High school senior Henry Arlington follows a set of rules, the Crasher Code, he created with pals Duke and Nigel. The trio crashes social events on Long Island; the code defines their goal: casual hookups. The list includes never tell a girl your real name, never [...]
By Cath Crowley
Knopf Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 265 pages
A Little Wanting Song is exactly what it sounds like, a soft, melodic story about aching for more than we have and loving what we don’t expect ourselves to. Set in dusty Australia this unique young adult novel revels in the timeless angst of youth, tugging [...]
By Margi Preus
Amulet Books, $15.95, 282 pages
This captivating novel is based on the true story of John Manjiro, a poor Japanese fisherman’s son, who one day (impossibly) becomes a samurai. Caught in a storm and stranded on an island, Manjiro is rescued by an American ship. But in 1841, Japan is isolated from the world, [...]
By Alyson Noel
Griffin, $17.99, 336 pages
In this fourth book in Alyson Noel’s The Immortals series, 17-year-old Ever is pretty much in the same predicament as always: She and Damen would like to consummate their love of many lifetimes. However, “rogue immortals” keep getting in their way.
In the case of Dark Flame, villain Roman, having coerced [...]
By John Green, David Levithan
Dutton Juvenile, $17.99, 310 pages
Will Grayson, Will Grayson is a resplendent novel — on the inside as well as its flashy exterior. It concerns two bona-fide Will Graysons who live in separate areas of the suburbs outside of Chicago, and who meet one night through freak incidents. Will Grayson #1 has [...]
By Michael Scott
Delacorte Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 385 pages
The newest installment in The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series follows Josh and Sophie through new lands and territories as they try to defeat the Dark Elders. John Dee, one of their enemies, is now on the run from his masters, the Dark Elders, [...]
By M.T. Anderson
Scholastic Books, $6.99, 260 pages
In the spirit of Jumanji, The Game of Sunken Places takes you on an adventurous ride into a dark forest of other worlds. Gregory Buchanan and his friend Brian Thatz, go to visit his strange Uncle Max. They discover a game board with a timer and unintentionally set the [...]
By Lisi Harrison
Poppy, $9.99, 228 pages
The newest installment of The Alpha Series (a rebound series off The Clique) is Movers and Fakers. The story is set on a lush “@” shaped island filled with cameras and ruled by the communistic Shira Brazille. On this island lies an academy filled with one hundred of the most [...]
By Selene Castrovilla
Westside Books, $16.95, 240 pages
When seventeen-year-old Sam lost her dad a few short years ago, she thought she was done with death. But grief just won’t leave her be. Her best friend Jesse, the boy next door, is diagnosed with cancer and Sam’s whole world stops. As she watches her friend and the [...]
By Lila Castle
Sourcebooks Fire, $9.99, 224 pages
Pete and Annabelle have been inseparable since middle school, not just as boyfriend and girlfriend but best friends. In between summers at the ever-rainy Gingerbread Beach, they talk for hours and hours on the phone. Now in their junior year, something threatens to tear them apart. In the spring, [...]
By Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill
Tor Teen, $18.99, 308 pages
After her entire family is killed in a freak car accident, Spirit White finds herself alone in the world. With no living relatives, she’s sent to the mysterious Oakhurst Academy, a private boarding school/orphanage in the middle of nowhere. Spirit tries her best to adjust, but [...]
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