Title: Code Name Verity Author: Elizabeth Wein Genre: Historical, Young Adult Publisher: Egmont (UK) / Disney-Hyperion (US) Publication date: February 6 2012 / May 15 2012 Hardcover/Paperback: 452 pages I have two weeks. You’ll shoot me at the end…
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Title: The Thief’s Covenant Author: Ari Marmell Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Publisher: Pyr Publication date: February 14 2012 Hardcover: 240 pages Once she was Adrienne Satti. An orphan of Davillon, she had somehow escaped destitution and climbed to the…
Title: The Knife and the Butterfly Author: Ashley Hope Pérez Genre: Contemporary, Magic Realism, Young Adult Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group Publication date: February 1 2011 Hardcover: 216 pages After a marijuana-addled brawl with a rival gang, 16-year-old Azael wakes…
Title: Incarnate Author: Jodi Meadows Genre: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Dystopian, Paranormal, Romance, Young Adult Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books (HarperCollins) Publication Date: February 2012 Hardcover: 384 pages New soul Ana is new. For thousands of years in Range, a million…
Title: Pure Author: Julianna Baggott Genre: Dystopian, Post-Apocalyptic, Speculative Fiction, Horror Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: February 2012 Hardcover: 448 pages We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . . Pressia barely remembers the Detonations…
Title: When We Were Executioners Author: J. M. McDermott Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Night Shade Books Publication date: February 7 2012 Paperback: 246 pages J. M. McDermott returns to Dogsland in the stunning novel When We Were Executioners, book two…
Title: The Mighty Miss Malone Author: Christopher Paul Curtis Genre: Historical, Young Adult, PoC Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books Publication date: January 10 2012 Hardcover: 224 pages We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful” is…
Title: Briar Rose Author: Jane Yolen Genre: Historical, Fairy Tale, Mystery, Young Adult Publisher: Tor Publication Date: August 1992 (original) Paperback: 239 pages (reprint) A powerful retelling of Sleeping Beauty that is “heartbreaking and heartwarming.” An American Library Association…
Title: Someone Else’s Life Author: Katie Dale Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK / Delacorte Books for Young Readers Publication date: February 2 2012 / February 14 2012 Hardcover/Paperback: 478 pages When seventeen-year-old Rosie’s mother, Trudie,…
Title: Daughter of the Centaurs Author: Kate Klimo Genre: Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Fantast, Young Adult Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Publication date: January 24th 2012 Hardcover: 384 pages Malora knows what she was born to be: a…
Title: Hollow Pike Author: James Dawson Genre: Horror, Young Adult Publisher: Orion Children’s Books Publication date: February 2nd 2012 Paperback: 314 pages Something wicked this way comes… She thought she’d be safe in the country, but you can’t escape…
Title: Article 5 Author: Kristen Simmons Genre: Dystopian, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Tor Teen Publication Date: January 2012 Hardcover: 384 pages New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., have been abandoned. The Bill of Rights has been revoked,…
Title: The Rook Author: Daniel O’Malley Genre: Speculative Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Thriller Publisher: Little, Brown & Co. Publication Date: January 2012 Hardcover: 496 pages “The body you are wearing used to be mine.” So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas…
Title: The Way We Fall Author: Megan Crewe Genre: Thriller, Survival/Apocalyptic (sort of), Young Adult Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Publication date: January 2012 Hardcover: 304 Pages It starts with an itch you just can’t shake. Then comes a fever and a…
Title: My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan Author: Seth Rudetsky Genre: Contemporary, LGBT, Young Adult Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Publication date: January 24th 2012 Hardcover: 288 pages Justin has two goals for sophomore year: to date Chuck, the…
Title: Fracture Author: Megan Miranda Genre: Speculative Fiction, Thriller, Young Adult Publisher: Walker & Co/Bloomsbury PLC Publication date: January 2012 Hardcover: 264 pages Eleven minutes passed before Delaney Maxwell was pulled from the icy waters of a Maine lake…
Title: Everneath Author: Brodi Ashton Genre: Paranormal, Romance, Greek Mythology, Young Adult Publisher: Harper Collins / Balzer + Bray (US) Simon & Schuster Childrens Books UK Publication date: January 24 2012 / February 2 2012 Hardcover/Paperback: 370 pages Last…
Title: Deep Sky Author: Patrick Lee Genre: Speculative Fiction, Thriller Publisher: HarperCollins Publication Date: January 2012 Paperback: 384 pages The anomaly called the Breach is the government’s most carefully guarded secret. But there is another secret even less known…
Title: Dearly, Departed Author: Lia Habel Genre: Dystopian, Post-Apocalyptic, Steampunk, Alternate-Victorian, Speculative Fiction, Romance, Young Adult, Zombies (THIS, this genre description! THIS is a large reason why the book was DNF’d) Publisher: Del Rey Publication Date: October 2011 Paperback:…
Title: The Fault in Our Stars Author: John Green Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult Publisher: Dutton Juvenile Publication date: January 10 2012 Hardcover: 313 pages Diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at 12, Hazel was prepared to die until, at…
Title: The Man Who Rained Author: Ali Shaw Genre: Officially? Literary Fiction. But this is a Fantasy novel if I’ve ever seen one. Publisher: Atlantic Books Publication date: January 1 2012 Hardcover: 304 pages When Elsa’s father is killed…
Title: The Serpent Sea Author: Martha Wells Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Night Shade Books Publication date: January 3 2012 Paperback: 320 pages Moon, once a solitary wanderer, has become consort to Jade, sister queen of the Indigo Cloud court. Together,…
Title: Ghost Country Author: Patrick Lee Genre: Speculative Fiction, Thriller Publisher: HarperCollins Publication Date: January 2011 Paperback: 352 pages For decades, inexplicable technology has passed into our world through the top secret anomaly called the Breach. The latest device…
Title: Under the Never Sky Author: Veronica Rossi Genre: Dystopian, Science Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: HarperCollins (US) / Atom (UK) Publication Date: January 2012 (US) / February 2012 (UK) Hardcover: 384 pages Aria is a teenager in the enclosed…
Title: Fly Into Fire Author: Susan Jane Bigelow Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopian, Fantasy, Superheroes Publisher: Candlemark & Gleam Publication date: January 17th 2012 Ebook The last Sky Ranger of the now-vanished Extrahuman Union, defeated by his former allies and…