Welcome to our weekly special feature post, Author Of The Week!!
Each week we will be interviewing a different YA author and highlighting their upcoming release!
We will also be hosting a giveaway of the book we are highlighting!!
Introducing Julie Eshbaugh, YABC's Author of the Week!!
Julie Eshbaugh used to...
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Vacation Books!
This month I'm featuring some fantastic books to recommend to your students, colleagues, friends or even complete strangers! All of the books feature romance, summer, and some kind of vacation. These books make great vacation reads - get a copy from your local library (and treat it with...
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Today we're super excited to celebrate the cover reveal for RETURN OF THE CONTINUUMS by Jennifer Brody, releasing November 1, 2016 from Turner Publishing. Before we get to the cover, here's a note from Jennifer:
Hi, YABC! I’m beyond THRILLED to share the brilliant cover for the second...
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Magic is real -- and it runs in the family -- in this charming fantasy adventure about a boy who must balance his magical education with the demands of big-brotherhood, perfect for fans of Jenny Nimmo and Angie Sage. Henry Leach the Eighth doesn't know it yet, but...
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Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale
by David Kudler
Release Date: June 15, 2016
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Can one girl win a war?My name is Kano Murasaki, but most people call me Risuko. Squirrel.I am from Serenity Province, though I was not born there.My nation has been at war for a hundred...
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The Oldest Soul – Animus (Book 1)
by Tiffany FitzHenry
Release Date: November 1st 2015
Publisher: Hierarchy Publishing
ISBN-10: 1944216006
ISBN-13: 78-1944216009
Genre: Fantasy / Distopia / Romance
Age Range: 15 and up
About the Book
The oldest soul on earth - unbeknownst to her - is a seventeen-year-old girl named Evelyn...
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Hello, and welcome to the innagural Story Starters post! Each week we will be bringing you something to get those creative juices flowing!
Here's how our STORY STARTER CHALLENGE will work:
-For the first three weeks of each month, we will be posting a writing prompt, such as the one...
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"Can I ask you one thing...why does it have to be you?" My throat is dry but I manage to say the words clearly enough: "If I don't do it, who else will?" An entire country has been lied to. Silver Blackthorn was supposed to be one of...
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There is a word, hiraeth, which explains "a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past."
I was eight-years-old the first time I...
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Today on the YABC blog we are happy to sit down
with author Leopoldo Goutand talk with him
about his about new release, Genius: The Game, which released May 3rd, 2016!
YABC: What gave you the inspiration to write this book?
Two things. First I left a multiplex after one...
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There are SO MANY amazing books hitting the shelves this summer. Which 30 are we buzzing about? Check out our list and be sure to enter the awesome giveaway that we are hosting!!!
For fans of The Princess Bride comes the comical, fantastical, romantical, (not) entirely true story of Lady...
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Magic can make you invincible, if it doesn't kill you first. Aric and Fadan are half-brothers. Both sons of the Empress, but only one of them the son of the Emperor. A decade earlier, Fadan's powerful father tore the Empire in two by outlawing the use and...
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Today we're excited to chat with Jessica Taylor,
author of Wandering Wild! Below
you'll find our interview, more about Jessica and
her book, plus a giveaway!
YABC: What surprised you most while writing your latest book?
Jessica Taylor: I was surprised the world building wasn’t my biggest struggle. I’m a contemporary‐ leaning writer, and...
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Hi, YABCers!
Today we're super excited to celebrate the new cover reveal for BAD BLOOD by Demitria Lunetta, releasing March 14, 2017 from Delacorte. Before we get to the cover, here's a note from Demitria:
After I attended university in Scotland, I got the writers itch to set a book in that amazing,...
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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Jill at
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and spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.
*Beth's Choice*
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METALTOWN by Kristen Simmons
Author: Kristen Simmons
Book: Hardcover, 384 pages
Expected publication: September 20, 2016
Publisher: Tor Teen
Metaltown, where factories...
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The sequel to the #1 New York Times best seller The Isle of the Lost Mal's an expert at intimidating her enemies, but she's broken the habit since leaving her villainous roots behind. So when she and her friends Evie, Carlos, and Jay all receive threatening messages demanding...
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Today we're super excited to celebrate the new cover reveal for EXO by Fonda Lee, releasing January 31, 2017 from Scholastic. Before we get to the cover, here's a note from Fonda:
Welcome to the cover reveal for EXO, my upcoming science fiction action novel. I’m excited to be...
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Today on the YABC blog we are happy to sit down
with author Jaqueline West and talk with her about her about her new
novel Dreamers Often Lie, which released April 5th, 2016!
YABC: What surprised you most while writing your latest book?
I wrote this book between deadlines for my middle grade series,...
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Welcome to Young Adult Book Central's Top Ten Tuesday post!
Each Tuesday we will be hosting a different theme or topic involving all things bookish!!!
The Top Ten Tuesday post was originally created at
The Broke and The Bookish
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This week's...
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Are you wondering what's new in YA today?
Check out these wonderful new releases!
BEWARE THAT GIRL by Teresa Toten
For fans of We Were Liars, The Girl on the Train, and Gone Girl, this powerful psychological thriller with multiple mysteries is set against the backdrop of the megawealthy elite of New York...
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Today we're spotlighting Alex Shearer's novel, The Ministry of Ghosts! Read on for more about Alex, his novel, an excerpt, plus a giveaway!
Meet Alex Shearer!
Alex Shearer was born in Wick, in the far north of Scotland. His father was a blacksmith and his mother was a secretary. He enjoyed...
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Welcome to our new weekly special feature post, Author Of The Week!!
Each week we will be interviewing a different YA author and highlighting their upcoming release!
We will also be hosting a giveaway of the book we are highlighting!!
Introducing Lindsey Klingele, YABC's Author of the Week!!
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Raised by Wanderers, sixteen-year-old Tal travels the roads of the southern wild in her Chevy by day and camps in her tent trailer at night. Hustling, conning, and grifting her way into just enough cash to save her fifteen-year-old brother, Wen, from bare-knuckle fighting was once enough to...
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Kelsey has lived most of her life in a shadow of fear, raised to see danger everywhere. Her mother hasn’t set foot outside their front door in seventeen years, since she escaped from her kidnappers with nothing but her attacker’s baby growing inside her—Kelsey. Kelsey knows she’s supposed...
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