Tantalizing Future YA Releases!

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• The Vespertine by Saundra Mitchell (Harcourt Children's Books, 3/7/11)
• Those That Wake by Jesse Karp (Harcourt Children's Books, 3/21/11)

• The Betrayal of Maggie Blair by Elizabeth Laird (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 4/18/11)
• Dead Is Not An Option (Dead Is, Book #5) by Marlene Perez (Graphia, 5/2/11)

• The Cellar by A.J. Whitten (Graphia, 5/2/11)
  
• Ultraviolet by R.J. Anderson (Orchard Books, 5/5/11)

• The Lucky Kind by Alyssa B. Sheinmel (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 5/10/11)
• You Don't Know About Me by Brian Meehl (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 5/10/11)

• My Not-So-Still Life by Liz Gallagher (Wendy Lamb Books, 5/10/11)
• Flying Blind (The Dragon Diaries, Book #1) by Deborah Cooke (?, June 2011)

• Lost Voices (Book #1) by Sarah Porter (Harcourt Children's Books, 7/4/11)
• My Favorite Band Does Not Exist by Robert T. Jeschonek (Clarion Books, 7/11/11)
  
  

Note: Covers might not be final. If changes occur I will notify my readers of the new versions.

*Blast From The Past*
(I'll be including a book from the past with this post. I want to feature books that are no longer heard of that still deserve a voice.)

Sandpiper by Ellen Wittlinger
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Pages: 260

Summary: "You shouldn't expect much of him. He's...he's damaged." Damaged. What a horrible word. Like a car after a wreck...It was how I'd been feeling myself. Slightly ruined, a big mess. Lately there have been a lot of guys in Sandpiper's life. In the past year, she's gone through eight or nine different boyfriends -- if you can call them that. She knows the boys are only using her for one thing, but she is using them, too. The Walker is different from the others. He is kind and gentle. Mysterious. And most of all, he is the first guy who doesn't want Sandy for all the usual reasons. In fact, she's not sure if he wants her for any reason. But she knows she wants to be around him. He makes her feel safe, when all the other parts of her life -- like her family and friends -- just make her feel awful. And when one of Sandy's exes starts harassing her, the Walker may be the only person who can help Sandy confront her uneasy past -- and steady herself for a different future.

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