By: Yamile Saied Mendez A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK Recipient of the 2021 Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Medal Synopsis: A powerful contemporary YA for fans of The Poet X and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter set in Argentina, about a rising soccer star who must put everything on the line—even her blooming love story—to follow her dreams. In Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan lives a double life.  At home, she is a careful daughter, living within her mother’s narrow expectations, in her rising-soccer-star brother’s shadow, and under ..read more

By: Lauren McLaughlin At Jonesville High, casual misogyny runs rampant, slut-shaming is a given, and school athletes are glorified above all else. Best friends Suze, Nikki, Ani, and Lydia swear they’ll always have each other’s backs against predatory guys—so when Suze suddenly starts dating wrestling star and toxic douchebag Tarkin Shaw, it’s a big betrayal. Turns out, it’s not a relationship―it’s blackmail. At first, Suze feels like she has no choice but to go along with it, but when Tarkin starts demanding more, she enlists the help of intelligent misfits DeShawn and Marcus to ..read more

By: Amber Lough A dramatic page-turner that captures the devastating toll of war and the impact of women’s struggles and solidarity, through the lens of a little-known slice of history. In 1917, Russia is losing the war with Germany, soldiers are deserting in droves, and food shortages on the home front are pushing people to the brink of revolution. Seventeen-year-old Katya is politically conflicted, but she wants Russia to win the war. Working at a munitions factory seems like the most she can do to serve her country―until the government begins recruiting an all-female army battalion. Inspire ..read more

By: Melissa Marr Nearly thirteen years after the publication of the first book in her Wicked Lovely series, Melissa Marr has returned to the alluring world of the fey for a prequel set X years before the events of Wicked Lovely. Buy On Amazon In 1890s New Orleans, resourceful Thelma ‘Tam’ Foy struggles to survive, crafting and selling exquisite jewelry and taking on odd jobs to barely get by. Though she would prefer the country, she’s safer in the city, where there are fewer fey to discover that she has the Second Sight, allowing her to perceive their humanizing glamours to see their true form ..read more

By: Lisa Brown Roberts Romance enthusiast Amy McIntyre is a quiet introvert, in the background while her best friend and co-book blogger Vivian Galdi stars in their videos and social media. With Vivian distracted by her new boyfriend Dallas, Amy is forced to enter the limelight if she hopes to win a publisher sponsored contest for a chance to interview her favorite romance novelist. Worried about her ability to win the contest on her own, Amy enlists the help of Toff Nichols, surf champion, incorrigible flirt, and Vivian’s soon-to-be stepbrother. If anyone knows how to win, she thinks, it’s To ..read more

By Leander Watts “It was like she’d lost everything. Her name, her voice, any idea of who she was or what she looked like, who the people were around her. The only thing that mattered was right there in front of her on the stage,” observes Davi, the main character of Leander Watt’s Meet Me in the Strange, awestruck by Anna Z, the captivating girl whose passion and charisma will lead the fast friends on a magical, glam rock-fueled journey of self-discovery. https://www.amazon.com/Meet-Me-Strange-Leander-Watts/dp/1946154156/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Meet+me+in+the+Strange&qid=16117956 ..read more

OTHEREARTH by Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller (PSST: If you read to the end there is a special GIVEAWAY for you) I love that this picks RIGHT back up where the last book left off. No jumping forward or any unrealistic changes from one book to the next. Plus, it’s now getting a little too real. I think secretly it’s all something we crave. We get a little taste of it today with the VR, with the AR – which leave us wanting more. Que OtherEarth. Jason and Kirsten did an amazing job of creating a world that captures that feeling – taking us one step closer to where we might actually be headed. They ..read more

“You’ll be surprised to see how quickly the world can change…” SYNOPSIS Buy: Indiebound | Amazon Fifty years after an epic event called The Singularity, the entire world is divided into just two categories: The powerful, age-defying Syns (“synthetic citizens,” human-computer hybrids with extraordinary enhancements) and the dying, oppressed Originals (those who did not merge their bodies with machines). A decades-long war between Original and Syn is almost at an end, because after an attack on their reproductive systems, the Originals are on the verge of extinction. But then Ere, one of the wor ..read more

RENEGADE (Black Dawn 0.5) by Mallory McCartney Find it: Goodreads, Amazon An amazing prequel of how a villain became a villain. The character development and world building is on point. Mix that with a sassy little Brokk and we get an excellent story. “The time for Kiero’s reign in prosperity is over.” Six years before the Black Dawn Rebellion, Adair Stratton and Emory Fae are following in their parent’s footsteps and living at The Academy, a home for those who are gifted.  The pressure to uphold the future of their parent’s dream falls on them. An outcast and feared by mos ..read more

The Uglies Series is Back, with four new novels. Everyone stop what you are doing. The Uglies series is back and it comes out TOMORROW!!!!  And we aren’t only getting one… we are getting FOUR. GET IT HERE “I am returning to the world of Uglies with four new novels.” Scot Westerfeld, author of The Uglies Series.  “They take place in the Uglies future, after Tally’s revolution has changed everything. As she once said, “Freedom has a way of destroying things.” The Imposters series is about dealing with the consequences of ending the Pretty Regime. The story starts in a city where things ..read more