"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.
Beautiful Dead, Book 1: Jonas by Eden Maguire Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 272
Summary: Something strange is happening in Ellerton High. Phoenix is the fourth teenager to die within a year. His street fight stabbing follows the deaths of Jonas, Summer andArizona in equally strange and sudden circumstances. Rumours of ghosts and strange happenings rip through the small community as it comes to terms with shock and loss. Darina, Phoenix's grief-stricken girlfriend, is on the verge. She can't escape her intense heartache, or the impossible apparitions of those that are meant to be dead. And all the while the sound of beating wings echo inside her head ! And then one day Phoenix appears to Darina. Ecstatic to be reunited, he tells her about the Beautiful Dead. Souls in limbo, they have been chosen to return to the world to set right a wrong linked to their deaths and bring about justice. Beautiful, superhuman and powerful, they are marked by a 'death mark' -- a small tattoo of angel's wings.Phoenix tells her that the sound of invisible wings beating are the millions of souls in limbo, desperate to return to earth.Darina's mission is clear: she must help Jonas, Summer, Arizona, and impossibly, her beloved Phoenix, right the wrong linked to their deaths to set them free from limbo so that they can finally rest in peace. Will love conquer death? And if it does, can Darina set it free?
The Sight: 2 Novels (Premonitions & Disappearance) by Judy Blundell [Writing As Jude Watson]
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 464
Summary: Premonitions: Grace has premonitions. They've haunted her since her parents' death. She doesn't know how to deal with them, and doesn't want to. She never knows whether she's seeing the past, the present, or the future. It just comes to her. Then Grace's best friend disappears. And suddenly the premonitions that have been the bane of her existence become the ony way to solve the mystery of where her friend has gone -- and how she can be saved in time.
Disappearances: Gracie's never known her father -- he disappeared when she was little and was never heard from again. Now, after her mother's death, he's back ... with some dark secrets in tow. Is his reapperance linked in any way with the death of a local tycoon? Or the disappearance years ago of a student? Suddenly Gracie's premonitions are a family matter...
The Exile of Gigi Lane by Adrienne Maria Vrettos
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry
Pages: 352
Summary: Heathers meets Bring It On in The Exile of Gigi Lane, where a high school queen bee's rise to glory is nothing compared to her fall from it. Call it a mantra. Call it an affirmation. Or, quite simply, call it the truth. As incoming Head Hottie of the Hot Spot, it is Gigi Lane’s responsibility to see that the ducklings at Swan’s Lake Country Day School fall into line. But when one classmate exposes her as a “mean girl” in front of everybody at the Founder’s Ball, Gigi slowly and wretchedly falls to the bottom of the high school social ravine. Gigi’s first-person account of her plummet from popularity is insightful yet naïve, set in a humorous, satiric world.
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 272
Summary: Something strange is happening in Ellerton High. Phoenix is the fourth teenager to die within a year. His street fight stabbing follows the deaths of Jonas, Summer andArizona in equally strange and sudden circumstances. Rumours of ghosts and strange happenings rip through the small community as it comes to terms with shock and loss. Darina, Phoenix's grief-stricken girlfriend, is on the verge. She can't escape her intense heartache, or the impossible apparitions of those that are meant to be dead. And all the while the sound of beating wings echo inside her head ! And then one day Phoenix appears to Darina. Ecstatic to be reunited, he tells her about the Beautiful Dead. Souls in limbo, they have been chosen to return to the world to set right a wrong linked to their deaths and bring about justice. Beautiful, superhuman and powerful, they are marked by a 'death mark' -- a small tattoo of angel's wings.Phoenix tells her that the sound of invisible wings beating are the millions of souls in limbo, desperate to return to earth.Darina's mission is clear: she must help Jonas, Summer, Arizona, and impossibly, her beloved Phoenix, right the wrong linked to their deaths to set them free from limbo so that they can finally rest in peace. Will love conquer death? And if it does, can Darina set it free?
The Sight: 2 Novels (Premonitions & Disappearance) by Judy Blundell [Writing As Jude Watson]Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 464
Summary: Premonitions: Grace has premonitions. They've haunted her since her parents' death. She doesn't know how to deal with them, and doesn't want to. She never knows whether she's seeing the past, the present, or the future. It just comes to her. Then Grace's best friend disappears. And suddenly the premonitions that have been the bane of her existence become the ony way to solve the mystery of where her friend has gone -- and how she can be saved in time.
Disappearances: Gracie's never known her father -- he disappeared when she was little and was never heard from again. Now, after her mother's death, he's back ... with some dark secrets in tow. Is his reapperance linked in any way with the death of a local tycoon? Or the disappearance years ago of a student? Suddenly Gracie's premonitions are a family matter...
The Exile of Gigi Lane by Adrienne Maria VrettosGenre: Young Adult Fiction
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry
Pages: 352
Summary: Heathers meets Bring It On in The Exile of Gigi Lane, where a high school queen bee's rise to glory is nothing compared to her fall from it. Call it a mantra. Call it an affirmation. Or, quite simply, call it the truth. As incoming Head Hottie of the Hot Spot, it is Gigi Lane’s responsibility to see that the ducklings at Swan’s Lake Country Day School fall into line. But when one classmate exposes her as a “mean girl” in front of everybody at the Founder’s Ball, Gigi slowly and wretchedly falls to the bottom of the high school social ravine. Gigi’s first-person account of her plummet from popularity is insightful yet naïve, set in a humorous, satiric world.
12 comments:
These are some AWESOME picks Eleni. I added all 3 to my TBR!
Here's my WoW:
http://ireadd.blogspot.com/2009/10/waiting-on-wednesday-4-getting-revenge.html
Well actually the book on my sidebar is the 3rd book in the Privilege series--it's a spin-off series of Private.
..But I have read the first 4 Private books and I really liked them, there was definitely more mystery and substance to them than I was expecting from judging by the covers.
Privilege strikes my interest even more than Private, but you kinda have to read Private 1-4 to fully appreciate Privilege. You should check em out!
The Sight and Beautiful Dead both look great. I'm really excited about the Sourebooks Fire imprint... it looks like there will be a quite a few good books coming from them!
Great picks! Now I'm waiting on these too :)
the Sight! and Beautiful Dead! they look really good :D
so now that I've read the Twilight series a bajillion times, what's a good series to move to next? oh and btw I'm super jealous of all of your followers! lol. how do you do it? you're awesome!
All three of those sound amazing and I really love all the covers. Great WoW picks!
The first two look the best to me...but what's with the names in Beautiful Dead?
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Love the cover for Beautiful Dead, Book 1: Jonas by Eden Maguire!
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