Title: What Momma Left Me Author: Renee Watson Genre: Contemporary, PoC, Young Adult Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books Publication date: July 6th 2010 Hardcover: 240 pages How is it that unsavory raw ingredients come together to form a delicious…
Title: Ready Player One Author: Ernest Cline Genre: Science Fiction, Gaming Publisher: Crown (US)/Century (UK) Publication date: August 16 2011 Hardcover/Paperback: 384 pages It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place. Like most of humanity,…
Title: The Shattering Author: Karen Healey Genre: Speculative Fiction, Horror, Contemporary, Young Adult Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Publication date: September 5 2011 Hardcover: 320 pages Seventeen-year-old Keri likes to plan for every possibility. She knows what…
Title: The Berlin Boxing Club Author: Robert Sharenow Genre: Historical Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Harper Teen Publication date: April 2011 Hardcover: 416 pages Fourteen-year-old Karl Stern has never thought of himself as a Jew. But to the bullies at…
Title: The Night Circus Author: Erin Morgenstern Genre: Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction Publisher: Doubleday (Random House US)/ Harvill Secker (UK) Publication date: September 2011 Hardcover: 387 pages The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is…
Title: Okay For Now Author: Gary D. Schmidt Genre: Historical Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication date: April 5th 2011 Hardcover: 368 pages Midwesterner Gary D. Schmidt won Newbery Honor awards for Lizzie Bright and…
Title: The Boyfriend List Author: E. Lockhart Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult Publisher: Delacorte (US)/ Corgi (UK) Publication date: September 2011 Paperback: 229 pages Ruby Oliver is 15 and has a shrink. She knows it’s unusual, but give her a…
Title: Juliet Immortal Author: Stacey Jay Genre: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Retelling, Young Adult Publisher: Delacorte Publication date: August 2011 Hardcover: 304 pages “These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as…
Title: Gemini Bites Author: Patrick Ryan Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult Publisher: Scholastic Press Publication date: March 2011 Hardcover: 240 pages Judy and Kyle Renneker are sixteen-year-old fraternal twins in a rambling family of nine. They have a prickly history…
Title: Working Stiff Author: Rachel Caine Genre: Urban Fantasy Publisher: Roc Publication date: August 2011 Paperback: 306 pages Bryn Davis was killed on the job after discovering her bosses were selling a drug designed to resurrect the dead. Now,…
