Tantalizing Future YA Releases!

Tantalizing Future YA Releases is a weekly feature where I showcase up andcoming YA covers. In addition, 'The Blast from the Past' section focuses on previously released books that still deserve a voice after a few years of silence. If you are inspired by this meme, giving credit will be greatly appreciated.

All titles are linked to GoodReads, if summaries cannot be found I will use Amazon or the publisher's website. Also, please note that covers may not be final. If changes occur I will replace the covers with the new versions.

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• Leap by Jodi Lundgren (Second Story Press, 3/1/11)
• She Said/She Saw by Norah McClintock (Orca Book Publishers, 3/1/11)

• Purple Haze by Sherry Shahan (Running Press Kids, 3/22/11)
• Favorite by Karen McQuestion (AmazonEncore, 4/1/11)

• The Eternal Sea (Everlasting, #2) by Angie Frazier (Scholastic Press, 6/1/11)
• Forgiven (Faithful, #2) by Janet Fox (Speak, 6/2/11)

• From Willa, With Love by Coleen Murtagh Paratore (Scholastic Press, 7/1/11)
• Pretty Bad Things by C.J. Skuse (The Chicken House, 7/1/11)

• The Rites & Wrongs of Janice Wills by Joanna Pearson (Arthur A. Levine Books, 7/1/11)
• 20 Years Later by Emma Newman (Dystopia Press, 7/5/11)

• Cleopatra's Moon by Vicky Alvear Shecter (Arthur A. Levine Books, 8/1/11)
• Stir It Up: A Novel by Ramin Ganeshram (Scholastic Press, 8/1/11)

• Want To Go Private? by Sarah Darer Littman (Scholastic Press, 8/1/11)
• Mice by Gordon Reece (Viking Adult, 8/18/11)

• Bloodborn (Other, #2) by Karen Kincy (Flux, 9/2011)
• Out of the Depths by Cathy MacPhail (Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 11/7/11)

*Blast From The Past*

The Orange Houses by Paul Griffin

Reading Level: Young Adult

Release Date: June 11, 2009

Publisher: Dial

Pages: 160

Summary: Meet Tamika Sykes—Mik to her friends (if she had any). She’s hearing impaired and way too smart for her West Bronx high school. She copes by reading lips and selling homework answers, and looks forward to the time each day when she can be alone in her room drawing. She’s a tough girl who never gets close to anyone, until she meets Fatima, a teenage refugee who sells newspapers on Mik’s block. Both Mik and Fatima unite in their efforts to befriend Jimmi, a homeless vet who is shunned by the rest of the community. The events that follow when these three outcasts converge will break open their close-knit community and change the lives of those living in the Orange Houses in explosive and unexpected ways.

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