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Waiting on Wednesday: Exit, Pursued by A Bear by E.K. Johnson

Waiting on Wednesday: Exit, Pursued by A Bear by E.K. Johnson

I found out about this book last week and I was completely floored by the title, the cover, and the synopsis. I was a cheerleader in high school, but I wasn’t popular, so this book kind of speaks to me in that way…but I also think it’s going to deal with the body and image issues that I had so much trouble with as a teen. I haven’t read anything by E.K. Johnston yet, but I have heard outstanding things about The Story of Owen and A Thousand Nights, and I’m excited to dig into my first work by this rising […]

Waiting on Wednesday: When We Collided by Emery Lord

Waiting on Wednesday: When We Collided by Emery Lord

When We Collided Author: Emery Lord Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens Expected publication: April 5th 2016 Meet Vivi and Jonah: A girl and a boy whose love has the power save or destroy them. Vivi and Jonah couldn’t be more different. Vivi craves anything joyful or beautiful that life can offer. Jonah has been burdened by responsibility for his family ever since his father died. As summer begins, Jonah resigns himself to another season of getting by. Then Vivi arrives, and suddenly life seems brighter and better. Jonah is the perfect project for Vivi, and things finally feel right for Jonah. […]

Waiting on Wednesday: First & Then by Emma Mills

Waiting on Wednesday: First & Then by Emma Mills

First & Then Author: Emma Mills Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) Expected publication: October 13th 2015 Devon Tennyson wouldn’t change a thing. She’s happy watching Friday night games from the bleachers, silently crushing on best friend Cas, and blissfully ignoring the future after high school. But the universe has other plans. It delivers Devon’s cousin Foster, an unrepentant social outlier with a surprising talent for football, and the obnoxiously superior and maddeningly attractive star running back, Ezra, right where she doesn’t want them first into her P.E. class and then into every other aspect of her life. Pride and Prejudice […]

Waiting on Wednesday: Because You’ll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas

Waiting on Wednesday: Because You’ll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas

Because You’ll Never Meet Me Author: Leah Thomas  Publisher: Bloomsbury Children’s Books Expected publication: July 2nd 2015 In a stunning literary debut, two boys on opposite ends of the world begin an unlikely friendship that will change their lives forever. Ollie and Moritz are best friends, but they can never meet. Ollie is allergic to electricity. Contact with it causes debilitating seizures. Moritz’s weak heart is kept pumping by an electronic pacemaker. If they ever did meet, Ollie would seize. But Moritz would die without his pacemaker. Both hermits from society, the boys develop a fierce bond through letters that become […]

Waiting on Wednesday: The Many Lives of John Stone by Linda Buckley-Archer

Waiting on Wednesday: The Many Lives of John Stone by Linda Buckley-Archer

The Many Lives of John Stone Author: Linda Buckley-Archer Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Expected publication: October 20th 2015 An English teen questions all she knows about aging when she encounters a set of journals that date from the present back to the reign of King Louis XIV in this blend of contemporary and historical fiction from the author of the acclaimed Gideon trilogy. Stella Park (Spark for short) has found summer work cataloging historical archives in John Stone’s remote and beautiful house in Suffolk, England. She wasn’t quite sure what to expect, and her uncertainty about living at […]

Waiting on Wednesday: The Boy Most Likely To by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Waiting on Wednesday: The Boy Most Likely To by Huntley Fitzpatrick

The Boy Most Likely To Author: Huntley Fitzpatrick  Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers Expected publication: August 18, 2015 Surprises abound and sparks ignite in the highly anticipated, utterly romantic companion to My Life Next Door Tim Mason was The Boy Most Likely To: – find the liquor cabinet blindfolded – need a liver transplant – drive his car into a house Alice Garrett was The Girl Most Likely To: – well, not date her little brother’s baggage-burdened best friend, for starters. For Tim, it wouldn’t be smart to fall for Alice. For Alice, nothing could be scarier than falling for […]

Waiting on Wednesday: Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone

Waiting on Wednesday: Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone

Every Last Word Author: Tamara Ireland Stone Publisher: Disney-Hyperion (HBG Canada) Expected publication date: June 16th 2015 If you could read my mind, you wouldn’t be smiling. Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can’t turn off. Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn’t help that her lifelong friends will […]

Waiting on Wednesday: 5 to 1 by Holly Bodger

Waiting on Wednesday: 5 to 1 by Holly Bodger

5 to 1 Author: Holly Bodger  Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Expected publication: May 12th 2015  In the year 2054, after decades of gender selection, India now has a ratio of five boys for every girl, making women an incredibly valuable commodity. Tired of marrying off their daughters to the highest bidder and determined to finally make marriage fair, the women who form the country of Koyanagar have instituted a series of tests so that every boy has the chance to win a wife. Sudasa, though, doesn’t want to be a wife, and Kiran, a boy forced to compete in […]

Waiting on Wednesday: Ten Thousand Skies Above You by Claudia Gray

Waiting on Wednesday: Ten Thousand Skies Above You by Claudia Gray

Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird #2)Author:  Claudia Gray  Publisher: Harper Teen Expected publication date: November 3, 2015 Marguerite Caine has done the impossible, traveling to alternate dimensions with the Firebird—the brilliant invention of her parents, her boyfriend, Paul, and their friend Theo. But she has also caught the attention of enemies willing to kidnap, blackmail, and even kill to use the Firebird for themselves. When Paul’s soul is splintered into four pieces—pieces that are trapped within Pauls in other dimensions—Marguerite will do anything, and travel anywhere, to save him. But the price of his safe return is steep. If […]

Waiting on Wednesday: The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

Waiting on Wednesday: The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

The Rest of Us Just Live Here Author: Patrick Ness Publisher: Walker Books / Harper Teen Expected publication date: August 27, 2015 / October 6, 2015 What if you weren’t the Chosen One? What if you’re not the one who’s so often the hero in YA fiction; who’s supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you were like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows […]