Weekly Wrap-Up: October 18-24, 2020

It has been A WHILE since I've posted one of these. I found my first "best of 2020" booklist this week and I got really excited, so I figured what better time to jump back in to sharing the news & such I've found lately. 

Here's my weekly collection of news, announcements, and booklists I've found while browsing around the internet. Hope you enjoy! :)



Awards

• 2020 Little Rebels Award winner announced - the award "recognizes children’s fiction (for readers aged 0-12) which promotes social justice or social equality, challenges stereotypes or is informed by anti-discriminatory concerns" (source).

Booklists

• The Booklist Reader's Spotlight on the Arts., featuring the Top 10 Arts Books for Youth: 2020.
  
• Book Riot's 16 Gorgeous and Fun Fall Books for Toddlers, 9 Great Eerie Reads for Middle Graders, and 12 Christmas YA Books That Give Hallmark Movie Vibes (time for holiday booklists already??)
  
• Publishers Weekly's Best Books 2020, featuring lists for Picture Books, Middle Grade, and Young Adult.
  
• YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association)'s 2020 Teens' Top Ten.

Articles

• Book Riot's The Baby-Sitters Club, From Novels to Graphic Novels and Tiffany D. Jackson and the "Stress" of It All.
  
• A Mighty Girl's 152 Years of "Little Women" in Books, Films, and More.
  
• We Need Diverse Books's The Rise of Gender-Inclusive Pronouns and Language in Literature.
  

New & Upcoming Books

• 100 Scope Notes's The 2020 Poop Report.
  
• Brightly's 10 New Swoon-Worthy Teen Romance Books.
• Good Comics for Kids's This Week’s Comics: Welcome to History and The Sprite and the Gardener - News and Preview.
  
• Publishers Weekly's New Kids' and YA Books: Week of October 26, 2020 and Noteworthy Novel and Picture Book Sequels: October 2020, plus 'Red School' Brings Two YA Novel Worlds Together.
• We Need Diverse Books's Cover Reveal and Excerpt of Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar.
  

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Weekly Wrap-Up: January 26-February 15, 2020

Here's a recap of my posts from this week, along with my weekly collection of news, announcements, and booklists I've found while browsing around the internet. Hope you enjoy! :)
** (I missed a few recap posts, so here's 3 weeks worth of goodies! I'm sure I've missed a bunch - if you know of anything, please leave me a comment and I'll add it in!) **



Here @ PPBN

• #ReadYourWorld: Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2020! - My post for MCBD 2020!
  
• MCBD 2020 Book Review: Spirit of the Indian Warrior - My book review for MCBD 2020!
• Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge 2020 - My join-up post for this year's Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge, hosted by Alyson Beecher at Kid Lit Frenzy!
• Review: The Bat Book by Charlotte Milner - My first review for the Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge 2020!

Awards

• 2020 American Library Association (ALA) Youth Media Awards winners announced - the awards announced include (in the order provided in the press release) the Newbery Medal, Caldecott Medal, Coretta Scott King Book Awards, Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, Schneider Family Book Award, Alex Awards, Mildred L. Batchelder Award, Odyssey Award, Pura Belpré Award, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, Stonewall Book Awards (including the Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award), Theodor Seuss Geisel Award, William C. Morris YA Debut Award, YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults, Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, Sydney Taylor Book Award, and American Indian Youth Literature Award.
  
• 2020 Audie Awards finalists announced - the awards "honors the best titles in audio publishing" (source) and include categories for Middle Grade, Young Adult, and Young Listeners (Up to Age 8).
• 2020 Bookbug Picture Book Prize winner announced - the award recognizes the "best new Scottish childrens' books, and children across Scotland can vote for their favourite" (source).
• 2020 Cook Prize finalists announced - the award recognizes the "best Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) picture book for 8–10 year olds" and is the "only national children’s choice award honoring a STEM title" (source).
• 2019 Cybils Awards winners announced - the awards recognize "children’s and young adult authors and illustrators whose books combine the highest literary merit and popular appeal" (source) and are judged by bloggers who focus on children's or young adult lit.
• 2020 Gryphon Award winners announced - the award recognizes an "English language work of fiction or non-fiction for which the primary audience is children in Kindergarten through Grade 4" which "best exemplifies those qualities that successfully bridge the gap in difficulty between books for reading aloud to children and books for practiced readers" (source).
• 2020 In the Margins Book Award winners and Top Ten list announced - the awards are intended to "seek out and highlight fiction and non-fiction titles of high-interest appeal for male or female readers, ages 9-21" featuring "BIPOC youth, youth from a street culture, youth in restrictive custody, youth who are reluctant readers" (source).
• 2020 INSPY Awards longlist announced - the awards are intended to "discover and highlight the very best in literature that grapples with expressions of the Christian faith" (source). The award is "judged by book bloggers" (source) and includes a Literature for Young Adults category.
• 2020 Irma S. and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature finalists announced - the award recognizes an "outstanding book for young children — a book in which text and illustrations are inseparable, each enhancing and enlarging on the other to produce a singular whole" (source). For this award, "children are the final judges of the winning book" (source).
• 2020-2021 Triple Crown Awards nominees announced - the awards are intended for "encouraging elementary and junior high students to read wholesome and uplifting books" (source).

Booklists

• American Library Association (ALA)'s 2020 Rainbow Book List.
  
• Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)'s 2020 Notable Children's Books.
  
• Children's Book Council (CBC)/National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)'s 2020 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People.
  
• The Children's Book Review's The Best Kids Chapter Books and Novels of 2019 and The Best Young Adult Books of 2019.
  
• Children's Literature & Reading Special Interest Group (CL/R SIG)'s 2020 Notable Books for a Global Society.
  
• Rise: A Feminist Book Project's 2020 Book List and 2020 Top Ten List (formerly known as the Amelia Bloomer Project).
  

Articles

• School Library Journal's Schools, Libraries Celebrate World Read Aloud Day 2020.
  

New & Upcoming Books

• Booklist's Spring Youth Preview 2020 and Spring Audiobook Preview 2020, featuring Youth Fiction and Nonfiction selections.
  
• Brightly's The Best Children’s and YA Books of February 2020.
  
• Goodreads's The Best Young Adult Books of February.
  
• Good Comics for Kids's This Week’s Comics: Snapping Suns, This Week’s Comics: I Survived Fatcat, and This Week’s Comics: Noisemaking Leaders.
  
• Publishers Weekly's New Kids' and YA Books: Week of February 3, 2020, Week of February 10, 2020, and Week of February 17, 2020. Also, Noteworthy Picture Book Sequels: February 2020 and Noteworthy Novel Sequels: February 2020, plus The Most Anticipated Children's and YA Books of Spring 2020.

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Weekly Wrap-Up: January 19-25, 2020

Here's a recap of my posts from this week, along with my weekly collection of news, announcements, and booklists I've found while browsing around the internet. Hope you enjoy! :)


Here @ PPBN

• nothing this week :(  It's been an unexpectedly busy start to the year for me!

Awards

• 2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books winners announced - the awards recognize "outstanding science writing and illustration for children and young adults" (source) and is intended to "encourage the writing and publishing of high-quality science books for all age groups" (source). The award includes Children's Science Picture Book, Middle Grades Science Book, Young Adult Science Book, and Hands-On Science Book categories.
• 2020 Bank Street Center for Children’s Literature Best Spanish Language Picture Book Award winners announced - the award is intended to "help parents, teachers and librarians choose books that children will find captivating and transforming" (source) and to "encourage more publishers to create high quality materials in Spanish for children" (source).
• 2020 Charlotte Zolotow Award winner announced - the award recognizes the "best picture book text published in the United States in the preceding year" (source).
• 2020 Dolly Gray Children’s Literature Award winner announced - the award recognizes "high quality fictional and biographical children, intermediate, and young adult books that authentically portray individuals with developmental disabilities, such as autism spectrum disorders, intellectual disabilities, and Down syndrome" (source).
• 2020 Edgar Awards nominees announced - the awards recognize books in the "mystery, crime, suspense, and intrigue fields" (source). The award includes Best Juvenile Mystery and Best Young Adult Mystery categories.
• 2020 Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite Award and Sid Fleischman Award winners announced - the Golden Kite Award recognizes "excellence in children’s literatures" (source) and the Sid Fleischman Award recognizes "excellence of writing in the genre of humor" (source).
• I missed this one last week but the 2019 Lee & Low New Voices Award winner was announced - the award recognizes "a children’s picture book manuscript by a writer of color or Native/Indigenous writer" (source).
• 2020 Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature winners announced - the awards are intended to "honor and celebrate diverse books written by diverse authors" (source) and recognize books which "feature diverse main characters and address diversity in a meaningful way" (source). The award includes a Teen Category and a Younger Readers Category.

Booklists

• 100 Scope Notes's That’s So Meta! Recent Metafictional Books.
• Book Riot's Lunar New Year Children’s Books for Every Family and 5 YA Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novels That Tackle Climate Change.
  
• Brightly's 9 Picture Books to Celebrate Lunar New Year.
  
• The Children's Book Review's The Best Picture Books of 2019 and The Best Board Books of 2019.
  
• Epic Read's 29 Completed Book Series to Binge Guaranteed to Keep You Reading.
  
• A Mighty Girl's Making an Impact: 35 Mighty Girl Books About Charity and Community Service and She Can Build It! Books, Building Toys, and Tool Sets to Encourage DIY-Loving Mighty Girls.
  
• We Need Diverse Books's 5 YA Titles Featuring Characters With Physical Disabilities.
  
• YALSA's 2020 Best Fiction for Young Adults.
  

New & Upcoming Books

• BookPage's 2020 Previews: Most anticipated YA, Most anticipated YA debuts, Most anticipated YA sequels and series titles, and Most anticipated children’s books.
  
• Entertainment Weekly's excerpts of Nancy Drew The Curse by Micol Ostow and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins.
  
• Epic Read's The 21 Most Anticipated YA Books to Read in February and excerpt from Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland.
  
• A Fuse #8 Production's cover reveal and excerpt for Everything Sad Is Untrue (a true story) by Daniel Nayeri.
  
• Good Comics for Kids's This Week’s Comics: Girls on the Run.
  
• Goodreads's excerpt from This Is My America by Kim Johnson.
  
• Paste Magazine's cover reveals and excerpts for The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and The Silvered Serpents by Roshani Chokshi.
  
• Publishers Weekly's New Kids' and YA Books: Week of January 27, 2020.
  
• Teen Librarian Toolbox's New Books Alert: A Mars mission, art school, a portal fantasy, and more!.
  

Weekly Wrap-Up: January 12-18, 2020

Here's a recap of my posts from this week, along with my weekly collection of news, announcements, and booklists I've found while browsing around the internet. Hope you enjoy! :)


Here @ PPBN

• { 52WRR }: Review of What Is Given from the Heart by Patricia C. McKissack - A review for my weekly feature, { 52 Weeks of Recommended Reading }, where I'm reading one book every week that is an award winner/honor book or has been included on a list of great books.

Awards

• ok clearly I've been under a rock because somehow last week I missed the 2020 NAACP Image Awards nominees announcement - the award is "recognized as the nation’s preeminent multicultural awards show from an African American point of view" (source) and "celebrates the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts" (source). The award includes Outstanding Literary Work categories for Children and for Youth/Teens.
• 2019 National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) Freeman Book Awards winners announced - the award recognizes "quality books for children and young adults that contribute meaningfully to an understanding of East and Southeast Asia" (source).
• 2019 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards winners announced - the awards are "intend­ed to rec­og­nize authors, and encour­age read­ing, of out­stand­ing Eng­lish-lan­guage books of Jew­ish interest" (source). The award includes Children's Literature and Young Adult Literature categories.
• 2020 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction winner announced - the award recognizes a "meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults" (source) and is intended to "increase the interest of young readers in the historical background that has helped to shape their country and their world" (source).

Booklists

• Book Riot's 16 of the Best Picture Books About Historical Figures and 33 of the Top Middle Grade Books on Goodreads.
• Brightly's 18 Picture Books That Help Keep Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream Alive.
  
• The Hub's YA Nonfiction for New Year’s Resolutions!
  

New & Upcoming Books

• Book Riot's YA Retellings to TBR in 2020.
  
• BookBub's The Young Adult Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2020.
  
• Epic Read's preview of Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles.
  
• Good Comics for Kids's This Week’s Comics: Deep Adventures.
  
• Paste Magazine's cover reveals and previews for Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco, Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth, The Summer of Everything by Julian Winters, and When We Were Infinite by Kelly Loy Gilbert.
  
• Publishers Weekly's New Kids' and YA Books: Week of January 20, 2020, plus Noteworthy Novel Sequels: January 2020.
  

Weekly Wrap-Up: January 5-11, 2020

Here's my weekly collection of news, announcements, and booklists I have found around the interwebs, along with a recap of my own posts from this week. Hope you enjoy! :)


Here @ PPBN

• { 52WRR }: Review of Ojiichan's Gift by Chieri Uegaki - My first review for my new weekly feature, { 52 Weeks of Recommended Reading }, where I'm reading one book every week that has won an award (or is an honor book) or has been included on a list of great books.

Awards

• 2019 Costa Book Awards winners announced - the award includes a Children's category and is "one of the UK's most prestigious and popular book prizes and celebrates the most enjoyable books of the year by writers resident in the UK and Ireland" (source).
• 2019 Epic Reads Book Shimmy Awards winners announced - the awards recognize the "best and most feels-inducing YA books the year" (source) and include 20 categories such as Cover Lust, We Need Diverse Books, and Squad Goals.

Booklists

• Book Riot's 10 Powerful Graphic Memoirs for Young Readers.
• The Children's Book Review's 5 Yoga and Mindfulness Books for Starting the Year With a Clear Mind.
  
• Epic Read's 25 Breathtaking Books That Prove Poetry is For Everyone, and 14 YA Books Guaranteed to Make You Ugly Cry.
  
• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)'s 2020 Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels list announced.
  
• School Library Journal's Read the Signs: Middle Grade Fiction Centering the Deaf Experience.
  
• YALSA's 2020 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults and Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers lists announced.
  

New & Upcoming Books

• Baby Librarians's 2020 Children’s Board Books From The First Half Of The Year.
  
• Book Riot's Winter 2020 YA previews: 175+ January–March New Releases To TBR and YA Graphic Novels, Memoirs, and Comics. Plus, 50+ YA Books Starring Queer Girls Hitting Shelves in 2020
  
• Entertainment Weekly's preview of The Ravens by Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige.
  
• Epic Read's book trailer for Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen.
  
• Good Comics for Kids's This Week’s Comics: Using Your Noodle.
  
• Paste Magazine's The Best Young Adult Novels of January 2020.
  
• Publishers Weekly's New Kids' and YA Books: Week of January 13, 2020, plus Noteworthy Picture Book Sequels: January 2020 .
  
• She Reads's 18 Must-read YA books of 2020.
  

Weekly Wrap-Up: December 29, 2019-January 4, 2020

Here's my weekly collection of news, announcements, and booklists I have found around the interwebs, along with a recap of my own posts from this week. Hope you enjoy! :)


Here @ PPBN

• My 2019 Reading Recap - my stats and favorites from 2019
• Welcome to 2020! - some goals and plans for my reading and blogging this year

Awards

• 2019 Cybils Awards finalists announced - the awards recognize "children’s and young adult authors and illustrators whose books combine the highest literary merit and popular appeal" (source) and are judged by bloggers who focus on children's or young adult lit.

Booklists

• Brightly's The Best Children’s and YA Books of January 2020.
  
• Epic Read's 14 Books That Take Place in the 1920s to Read in 2020.
  
• Goodreads's The Best Young Adult Books of January.
  
• A Mighty Girl's Big Dreams for a New Year: 30 Books to Inspire Your Mighty Girl in 2020.
  
• School Library Journal's 31 Days, 31 Lists of Great Books for Kids.
  
• YALSA's 2020 Great Graphic Novels for Teens list announced.
  

Articles

• Epic Read's Look to the Stars for Your Bookish January Horoscope.
  

New & Upcoming Books

• Book Riot's 5 UK YA Books to Read in 2020.
  
• Epic Read's preview of Seven Deadly Shadows by Courtney Alameda & Valynne E. Maetan, plus How Many of These 2020 YA Books Are Already on Your TBR?.
  
• Goodreads's The 38 Most Anticipated YA Novels of 2020.
  
• Publishers Weekly's New Kids' and YA Books: Weeks of December 30, 2019 and January 6, 2020.
  
• Teen Librarian Toolbox's New Books Alert: Mind-readers, hackers, influencers, a middle school drag queen, and more!.
  

Weekly Wrap-Up: December 22-28, 2019

Here's my weekly collection of news, announcements, and booklists I have found around the interwebs, along with a recap of my own posts from this week. Hope you enjoy! :)


Here @ PPBN

• Nothing this week - on a holiday hiatus!

Awards

• None that I could find... leave me a note in the comments if you know of one!

Booklists

• Book Riot's Books for Young People Inspired by the Words of the Year.
  
• Epic Read's 20 Books Featuring A Non-European Influenced Fantasy Worl.
  
• Fatherly's The Best Children’s Books of 2019 That Are Really, Truly for Kids.
  
• POPSUGAR's 20 Must-Have Classic Children's Books — and When to Introduce Them.
  

New & Upcoming Books

• Epic Read's preview of Just Breathe by Cammie McGovern, plus The 23 Most Anticipated YA Books to Read in January.
  
• Paste's The Most Anticipated Young Adult Novels of 2020.
  
• POPSUGAR's 34 Promising New YA Books to Look Out For in 2020.
  
• Teen Librarian Toolbox's Read Wild in 2020: Books to Have on Your Radar that Feature Nature.
  

Weekly Wrap-Up: December 15-21, 2019

Here's my weekly collection of news, announcements, and booklists I have found around the interwebs, along with a recap of my own posts from this week. Hope you enjoy! :)


Here @ PPBN

• nothing this week - on a holiday hiatus!

Awards

• Voting for the final round of the 2019 Epic Reads Book Shimmy Awards is open until December 30! The awards recognize the "best and most feels-inducing YA books the year" (source) and it's down to the final 4 books in each category.

Booklists

• The Booklist Reader's 2019 Top of the List Picks - featuring Youth Nonfiction, Youth Fiction, Youth Picture Book, and Youth Audiobook selections. Also available are the 2019 Booklist Editors' Choice lists for Adult Books for Young Adults and Books for Youth.
  
• Brain Pickings's Favorite Children’s Books of 2019.
  
• Brightly's Editors’ Favorite Books of 2019 and Our Favorite Books of the Decade.
  
• BuzzFeed's 31 Young Adult Books That We Deemed The Best Of 2019.
  
• Entertainment Weekly's The 10 best YA books of the year (and the decade).
  
• Epic Read's Our Favorite Books of the Decade & What to Look Forward to in 2020.
  
• Publishers Weekly's A Roundup of 2019’s Best Book Lists for Kids and Teens.
  
• School Library Journal's Best YA Books of the Decade, According to the Best YA Authors of the Year.
  

Articles

• Goodreads's Celebrate Your 2019 Year in Books!
  
• The Hub's What Would a Jedi Read? Reader’s Advisory for Star Wars Characters.
  

New & Upcoming Books

• Brightly's Most-Anticipated Young Adult, Middle Grade & Chapter Books, and Picture Books of 2020.
  
• Book Riot's 20 Queer YA Books For Your 2020 TBR
  
• Epic Read's You’ll Want to Save Your Gift Cards for These 27 YA Books coming in 2020.
  

Weekly Wrap-Up: December 8-14, 2019

Here's my weekly collection of news, announcements, and booklists I have found around the interwebs, along with a recap of my own posts from this week. Hope you enjoy! :)


Here @ PPBN

• nothing this week boooo :(   The pre-holiday craziness is in full swing at my house!

Awards

• 2019 CODE Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Young Adult Literature shortlist announced - the Canadian award recognizes "excellence in Indigenous-authored literature for young adults" (source). This year the award will have 2 winners: one book written in English and one book written in an Indigenous language, making this the "first ever Canadian Indigenous-language Young Adult Literature award" (source).

Booklists

• 100 Scope Notes's Top 20 Books of 2019.
  
• Book Riot's 20 Must-Read Picture Books from 2019.
  
• Curbed's 101 Kids’ Books About Where and How We Live - a list for "the budding urbanists among us" (source) featuring picture books, middle grade, and young adult books..
  
• Epic Reads's New Year, New Activist You! Books to Help You Find Your Voice in 2020 - featuring "11 books to help you rise up" (source).
  
• School Library Journal's 2019 Translated Picture Books.
  
• Tablet's Best Jewish Children’s Books of 2019 - featuring picture books, middle grade, and young adult books.
  
• The Wall Street Journal's Best Children’s Books of 2019.
  

Articles

• Bookish's How to Plan for Your 2020 Reading Challenge is super helpful right about now.
  
• Brightly's How to Create Your Own Book Advent Calendar is also very helpful no matter which holiday(s) you celebrate.
  

New & Upcoming Books

• Publishers Weekly's New Kids' and YA Books: Weeks of December 16 and December 23, 2019.
  

New Release Round-Up: April 20-26, 2015

Young Adult


99 Days
by Katie Cotugno

Release date: April 21, 2015
Available as: hardcover, Kindle edition, ebook
Pages: 384
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Suggested tags: young adult, romance, contemporary



From Goodreads:

"Day 1: Julia Donnelly eggs my house my first night back in Star Lake, and that’s how I know everyone still remembers everything—how I destroyed my relationship with Patrick the night everything happened with his brother, Gabe. How I wrecked their whole family. Now I’m serving out my summer like a jail sentence: Just ninety-nine days till I can leave for college, and be done.

Day 4: A nasty note on my windshield makes it clear Julia isn’t finished. I’m expecting a fight when someone taps me on the shoulder, but it’s just Gabe, home from college and actually happy to see me. “For what it’s worth, Molly Barlow,” he says, “I’m really glad you’re back.”

Day 12: Gabe got me to come to this party, and I’m actually having fun. I think he’s about to kiss me—and that’s when I see Patrick. My Patrick, who’s supposed to be clear across the country. My Patrick, who’s never going to forgive me."

Things We Know by Heart
by Jessi Kirby

Release date: April 21, 2015
Available as: hardcover, Kindle edition, ebook, audiobook
Pages: 304
Publisher: HarperTeen
Suggested tags: young adult, romance, contemporary



From Goodreads:

"When Quinn Sullivan meets the recipient of her boyfriend’s donated heart, the two form an unexpected connection.

After Quinn loses her boyfriend, Trent, in an accident their junior year, she reaches out to the recipients of his donated organs in hopes of picking up the pieces of her now-unrecognizable life. She hears back from some of them, but the person who received Trent’s heart has remained silent. The essence of a person, she has always believed, is in the heart. If she finds Trent’s, then maybe she can have peace once and for all.

Risking everything in order to finally lay her memories to rest, Quinn goes outside the system to track down nineteen-year-old Colton Thomas—a guy whose life has been forever changed by this priceless gift. But what starts as an accidental run-in quickly develops into more, sparking an undeniable attraction. She doesn't want to give in to it—especially since he has no idea how they're connected—but their time together has made Quinn feel alive again. No matter how hard she’s falling for Colton, each beat of his heart reminds her of all she’s lost…and all that remains at stake."

Other YA new releases for this week:

Middle Grade


Castle Hangnail
by Ursula Vernon

Release date: April 21, 2015
Available as: hardcover, Kindle edition, ebook
Pages: 384
Publisher: Dial
Suggested tags: middle grade, fantasy



From Goodreads:

"From the creator of Dragonbreath comes a tale of witches, minions, and one fantastic castle, just right for fans of Roald Dahl and Tom Angleberger.

When Molly shows up on Castle Hangnail's doorstep to fill the vacancy for a wicked witch, the castle's minions are understandably dubious. After all, she is twelve years old, barely five feet tall, and quite polite. (The minions are used to tall, demanding evil sorceresses with razor-sharp cheekbones.) But the castle desperately needs a master or else the Board of Magic will decommission it, leaving all the minions without the home they love. So when Molly assures them she is quite wicked indeed (So wicked! REALLY wicked!) and begins completing the tasks required by the Board of Magic for approval, everyone feels hopeful. Unfortunately, it turns out that Molly has quite a few secrets, including the biggest one of all: that she isn't who she says she is.

This quirky, richly illustrated novel is filled with humor, magic, and an unforgettable all-star cast of castle characters."

Other Middle Grade new releases for this week:

New Release Round-Up: March 30-April 5, 2015

Young Adult


Solitaire
by Alice Oseman

Release date: March 31, 2015
Available as: hardcover, Kindle edition, ebook, audiobook
Pages: 368
Publisher: HarperTeen
Suggested tags: young adult, realistic fiction, contemporary



From Goodreads:

"In case you're wondering, this is not a love story.

My name is Tori Spring. I like to sleep and I like to blog. Last year – before all that stuff with Charlie and before I had to face the harsh realities of A-Levels and university applications and the fact that one day I really will have to start talking to people – I had friends. Things were very different, I guess, but that's all over now.

Now there's Solitaire. And Michael Holden.

I don't know what Solitaire are trying to do, and I don't care about Michael Holden.

I really don't.

This incredible debut novel by outstanding young author Alice Oseman is perfect for fans of John Green, Rainbow Rowell and all unflinchingly honest writers."

The Start of Me and You
by Emery Lord

Release date: March 31, 2015
Available as: hardcover, Kindle edition, ebook
Pages: 384
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Suggested tags: young adult, romance, contemporary



From Goodreads:

"Following her pitch-perfect debut Open Road Summer, Emery Lord pens another gorgeous story of best friends, new love, & second chances.

Brimming with heartfelt relationships and authentic high-school dynamics The Start of Me and You proves that it’s never too late for second chances.

It’s been a year since it happened—when Paige Hancock’s first boyfriend died in an accident. After shutting out the world for two years, Paige is finally ready for a second chance at high school . . . and she has a plan. First: Get her old crush, Ryan Chase, to date her—the perfect way to convince everyone she’s back to normal. Next: Join a club—simple, it’s high school after all. But when Ryan’s sweet, nerdy cousin, Max, moves to town and recruits Paige for the Quiz Bowl team (of all things!) her perfect plan is thrown for a serious loop. Will Paige be able to face her fears and finally open herself up to the life she was meant to live?"

Other YA new releases for this week:

Middle Grade


Anywhere but Paradise
by Anne Bustard

Release date: March 31, 2015
Available as: hardcover, Kindle edition, ebook
Pages: 288
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Suggested tags: middle grade, historical fiction



From Goodreads:

"Moving from Texas to Hawaii in 1960,12-year-old Peggy Sue faces a difficult transition when she is bulled as one of the few haole (white) students in her school. This lyrical debut novel is perfect for Common Core classroom connections.

It's 1960 and Peggy Sue has just been transplanted from Texas to Hawaii for her father's new job. Her cat, Howdy, is stuck in animal quarantine, and she's baffled by Hawaiian customs and words. Worst of all, eighth grader Kiki Kahana targets Peggy Sue because she is haole--white--warning her that unless she does what Kiki wants, she will be a victim on "kill haole day," the last day of school. Peggy Sue's home ec teacher insists that she help Kiki with her sewing project or risk failing. Life looks bleak until Peggy Sue meets Malina, whose mother gives hula lessons. But when her parents take a trip to Hilo, leaving Peggy Sue at Malina's, life takes an unexpected twist in the form of a tsunami. Peggy Sue is knocked unconscious and wakes to learn that her parents safety and whereabouts are unknown. Peggy Sue has to summon all her courage to have hope that they will return safely."

Rutabaga the Adventure Chef
by Eric Colossal

Release date: March 31, 2015
Available as: hardcover, paperback
Pages: 128
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Suggested tags: middle grade, graphic novel, fantasy



First in the Adventure Chef series. From Amazon:

"In a world where there are dragons, wyverns, and haunted squash, you’d figure someone would have recipes for them, right?

Rutabaga and his magic cooking pot, Pot, join young adventurers Winnifred, Manny, and Beef on a quest to defeat a dragon, discover new ingredients, find monsters to have for and/or to dinner, and to save the day through cooking. Rutabaga will dare any danger to uncover new tastes, and there’s a whole world full of food to try—from roasted mud leech to spider soup to peanut butter on crackers. His heroic recipes combine real ingredients, fantasy ingredients, and real ingredients that sound fantastical. Rutabaga the Adventure Chef is the perfect adventure for any kid grossed out when something weird shows up on the dinner table."

Other Middle Grade new releases for this week: