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Flavor of the week:
Up to This Pointe
Jennifer Longo
Publication date: January 19th 2016
by Random House Books for Young Readers
A refreshingly original contemporary YA, unlike anything readers have seen before. Perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson, John Corey Whaley, and Libba Bray.
She had a plan. It went south.Harper is a dancer. She and her best friend, Kate, have one goal: becoming professional ballerinas. And Harper won’t let anything—or anyone—get in the way of The Plan, not even the boy she and Kate are both drawn to.
Harper is a Scott. She’s related to Robert Falcon Scott, the explorer who died racing to the South Pole. So when Harper’s life takes an unexpected turn, she finagles (read: lies) her way to the icy dark of McMurdo Station . . . in Antarctica. Extreme, but somehow fitting—apparently she has always been in the dark, dancing on ice this whole time. And no one warned her. Not her family, not her best friend, not even the boy who has somehow found a way into her heart.
Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *
– The Isle (The Ward #2) by Jordana Frankel[Purchase]
– Sword and Verse (Sword and Verse #1) by Kathy MacMillan[Purchase]
– Appealed (The Legal Briefs #3) by Emma Chase[Purchase]
– Happily Ever Ninja (Knitting in the City #5) by Penny Reid[Purchase]
– Defenseless by Corinne Michaels[Purchase]
– The Things We Keep by Sally Hepworth[Purchase]
– Shade Me (Nikki Kill #1) by Jennifer Brown[Purchase]
– Will to Survive (The Rule of Three #3) by Eric Walters[Purchase]
– We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson[Purchase]
– Burn (Four Sisters #2) by Elissa Sussman[Purchase]
– Sanctuary Bay by Laura J. Burns and Melinda Metz[Purchase]
– The Winter Girl by Matt Marinovich[Purchase]
– Proposal (The Mediator #6.5) by Meg Cabot[Purchase]
– My Second Life by Faye Bird[Purchase]
– Feverborn (Fever #8) by Karen Marie Moning[Purchase]
– All the Way to Heaven (Fallout #1) by Becky Doughty[Purchase]
– #Junkie (GearShark #1) by Cambria Hebert[Purchase]
– The Capture (The Prey #2) by Tom Isbell[Purchase]
– On the Meldon Plain (The Fourline Trilogy #2) by Pam Brondos [Purchase]
– The Radiant Road by Katherine Catmull[Purchase]
– Under the Dusty Moon by Suzanne Sutherland[Purchase]
– The Year of Lightning (The Time Shift Trilogy #1) by Ryan Dalton[Purchase]
– White Lies by Zoe Markham[Purchase]
What are you most excited for this week?
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I have Sword & Verse preordered and I’m thinking of also getting Burn.
I should have been all over the place excited for Feverborn, but I still haven’t got myself to read the previous book so… *shrugs*
Greg
There’s a lot of good stuff (hopefully!) on this list. I’m kinda curious about The Isle. Haven’t heard of it but I like the premise.
Rachana @ Addicted to YA
I am most excited for We Are The Ants and Up To This Pointe. I really like the premise for We Are the Ants and I love contemporary books so Up To This Pointe seems like a must-read.
Genni
Though I haven’t heard of her until now, but Cambria Herbert’s book #Junkie seems so good! All of her books have such high ratings on goodreads. Hopefully my library has some selection of her novels. Thanks for highlighting these books. 😀