Title: Hurricane SummerAuthor: Asha Bromfield Genre: Young AdultPublished On: May 4, 2021Publisher: Wednesday BooksSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 400 Synopsis: CW: classism, racism, sexism, physical and verbal abuse, sexual assault, rape, abortion (mentioned), infidelity, grief, and deathTilla has spent her entire life trying to make her father love her. But every six months, he leaves their family and …
Title: We Are Not FreeAuthor: Traci CheeGenre: YA, Historical FictionPublished On: September 1, 2020Publisher: HMH Books for Young ReadersSource: physical (Book HookUp Subscription Box)Pages: 400 Synopsis: “All around me, my friends are talking, joking, laughing. Outside is the camp, the barbed wire, the guard towers, the city, the country that hates us. We are not …
Title: PreppedAuthor: Bethany Mangle Genre: Young AdultPublished On: February 23, 2021Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry BooksSource: physical (Books Forward)Pages: 320 Synopsis: For fans of Jeff Zentner and Katie Henry comes a thrilling and funny debut about a teen raised in a doomsday community who plots her escape with the boy from the bunker next door. Always be …
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Books for My Younger Self (These could be books you wish you had read as a child, books younger …
Title: Girl, Serpent, ThornAuthor: Melissa Bashardoust Genre: Young Adult, FantasyPublished On: July 7, 2020Publisher: Flatiron BooksSource: physicalPages: 336 Synopsis: A captivating and utterly original fairy tale about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch, and who discovers what power might lie in such a curse… There was and there was not, as all stories …
Title: The Invincible Summer of Juniper JonesAuthor: Daven McQueen Genre: Young Adult, Historical FictionPublished On: June 16, 2020Publisher: Wattpad BooksSource: ebookPages: 312 Synopsis: It’s the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, race has always been a distant conversation. When he’s sent to spend the summer with his …
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is a genre freebie! I decided to focus on isolation-themed books broken down by their genre. Hello Readers! I hope …
Title: A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Cursebreakers #1)Author: Brigid KemmererGenre: Young Adult, FantasyPublished On: January 29, 2019Publisher: Bloomsbury YAPages: 484 Synopsis: Fall in love, break the curse. Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year, Prince Rhen, the heir of Emberfall, thought he could be saved easily if a …
Title: Call Down the HawkAuthor: Maggie StiefvaterGenre: Young Adult, FantasyPublished On: November 5, 2019Publisher: Scholastic PressPages: 472 Synopsis: The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming – they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives – …
