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15-year-old actress and singer Bella Thorne has inked a book deal for a teen book series called Autumn Falls. If you want to see her writing, explore Thorne’s Twitter page with 2.9 million followers.

Delacorte Press will publish series, and the first book comes out the summer of 2014. DeFiore & Company agent Matthew Elblonk negotiated the deal with executive editor Wendy Loggia. Loggia will also edit the books. Here’s more from the release:

AUTUMN FALLS is the story of a 14-year-old girl whose high school life unexpectedly changes after an encounter with magic. AUTUMN FALLS is Thorne’s publishing debut, and she will co-write with Elise Allen. A multitalented teen star, Bella is best known for her lead role playing aspiring dancer “Cece Jones” on the hit Disney Channel original series Shake It Up, which is in its third season.

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Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books (August 1, 2011)
ARC: 400 Pages
Genre: YA Contemporary
Book from Publisher
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From Goodreads. Cara has never been one of those girls: confident, self-possessed, and always ready with the perfect thing to say. A girl at the very top of the popularity tower. One of the Populazzi.

Now, junior year could change everything. Cara’s moving to a new school, and her best friend urges her to seize the moment—with the help of the Ladder. Its rungs are relationships, and if Cara transforms into the perfect girlfriend for guys ever-higher on the tower, she’ll reach the ultimate goal: Supreme Populazzi.

The Ladder seems like a lighthearted social experiment, a straight climb up, but it quickly becomes gnarled and twisted. And when everything goes wrong, only the most audacious act Cara can think of has a chance of setting things even a little bit right.

Review by Kate
POPULAZZI, by Elise Allen, is a fantastic contemporary novel about the psychology behind the 'popular' group in high school. Cara and her best friend Claudia have figured out how to turn from new-girl into the Supreme Populazzi. By dating boys on certain rungs of The Ladder a girl can turn from invisible to the top of the high school food chain . These two girls plot and plan to get Cara to the top at her new school.

This book really surprised me! Even though Cara and Claudia's plan was extremely shallow and there were so many ways it could have failed, these girls really learned a lot by pursuing it. The first day of school Cara met a boy she absolutely fell for, Archer. But with their relationship not going anywhere Cara turned back to The Ladder and her life turned upside down. Cara and Claudia went all out to create the persona for Cara at each stop on The Ladder.

Allen brought up a lot of teen issues such as peer pressure, drugs, drinking, and sex. But along with the hard issues, Allen brought a lot of humor along. Just as a warning I wouldn't recommend this book to teens in the lower end of the YA bracket.

I loved Cara and Claudia together. At times Claudia was a bit pushy with The Ladder thing but I think these two best friends learned a lot in the process. Allen did a great job with turning points. Just when I thought Cara was in the worst situation, there was another one right on her tail. And when they weren't mad at each other, I adored the chemistry and friendship between Cara and Archer. They were perfect for each other and I cheered for them the whole time!

Overall, this was really a fantastic book. Allen created some great characters and a fantastic plot that kept me hooked!

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Tierras de Esmeralda: La Esfera Mágica, by Pilar Alberdi.
(Printed. From Publisher.)

Summary from Goodreads (translated by me):

A land of leyend, where numerous characters face the darkness released by Ténebrus and his minions. While on the Lands of Esmerald, their inhabitants have understood that a book is worth as much as a library, and a person as much as all people, on the dark world beside them, evil lurks in shadows.

Can a group of teenagers and an elder restore hope to the villages? And what about those flying young people from Tilsmans?
To know that, just open this book, where it reads...
"Lands of  Esmerald or the lineage of the Smáragdos. Also known as the Land of the Three Kingdoms (Mytos, Circe and Artemisa), the three lineages and the three libraries." Submerge in a classical and medieval world, where the wondrous becomes real. A war between good and evil. This is just the beginning.

The Near Witch, by Victoria Schwab.
(eARC from NetGalley.)


Summary from Goodreads:
The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children.

If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company.

And there are no strangers in the town of Near.These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life.
But when an actual stranger—a boy who seems to fade like smoke—appears outside her home on the moor at night, she knows that at least one of these sayings is no longer true.
The next night, the children of Near start disappearing from their beds, and the mysterious boy falls under suspicion. Still, he insists on helping Lexi search for them. Something tells her she can trust him.
As the hunt for the children intensifies, so does Lexi’s need to know—about the witch that just might be more than a bedtime story, about the wind that seems to speak through the walls at night, and about the history of this nameless boy.
Part fairy tale, part love story, Victoria Schwab’s debut novel is entirely original yet achingly familiar: a song you heard long ago, a whisper carried by the wind, and a dream you won’t soon forget.