I think that we were all expecting this! So this is why we are gonna celebrate with HarperTeen the HarperTeen Releases Day and recommend this books to our Sant Jordi's Wish List. We are gonna leave you a short description of each book and hope that we are gonna be able to do a review about all of them really soon.
We want also to announce that in a couple of days we are gonna open The Unofficial Addiction Book Fan Club Spanish Version. Yes, because we have not forget our main purpose: to encourage young people like us to enjoy english literature, in this case, young adult literature. We will talk about it in another post when we have our new blog set, but we are gonna help you guys with your reading. Do not panic!!
Keep calm and read the new
HarperTeen books! See you all book addicts!
Darius & Twig by Walter Dean Myers: Darius and Twig are an unlikely pair: Darius is a writer
whose only escape is his alter ego, a peregrine falcon named Fury, and Twig is
a middle-distance runner striving for athletic success. But they are drawn
together in the struggle to overcome the obstacles that Harlem life throws at
them.
The two friends must face
down bullies, an abusive uncle, and the idea that they’ll be stuck in the same
place forever in this touching and raw new teen novel from Walter Dean Myers,
award-winning author of Monster, Kick, We Are
America, Bad Boy, and many other celebrated literary works for
children and teens.
Crush by Nicole Williams: A football fantasy. A giant diamond. The modern-day Romeo
and Juliet are taking their relationship to the next level. . . .
Jude and Lucy are happily
engaged, but that doesn't mean life's a bed of roses. Once again, the
hottest couple around is torn apart, this time by football training and a
summer job. Now it's Jude with the trust issues. Will Lucy's life-changing
news bring them back together or end their relationship for good? Can love
triumph forever? Find out in the best installment yet in Nicole Williams's
racy and romantic Crash trilogy!
How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) Come True by SarahStrohmeyer: Zoe, our main character,
learns there is a dark core under the glittering façade of the fairy-tale
themed amusement park (cough, Disneyland, cough) where she’s a summer intern.
For starters, her boss has a blacker heart than Snow White’s stepmother, and
the other interns are worse backstabbers than Cinderella’s
step-sisters. On the upside, she has the chance of romance with a
real-life Prince Charming, and a shot at winning a big heap of cash. If she can
just live through a summer in the Fairyland Kingdom.
A Silver Dream (An InterWorldNovel) By Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves and Mallory Reaves: New York Times bestselling authors
Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves deliver a thrilling sequel to the science
fiction novel InterWorld, full of riveting interdimensional battles
and alternate realities. After mastering the ability to walk between
dimensions, Joey Harker and his fellow InterWorld freedom fighters are now on a
mission to maintain peace between the rival powers of magic and science who
seek to control all worlds.
When a stranger named Acacia
somehow follows Joey back to InterWorld's base, things get complicated. No one
knows who she is or where she's from—or how she knows so much about
InterWorld. Dangerous times lie ahead for Joey and the mission. There's a
traitor hidden among them, and if Joey has any hope of saving InterWorld, the
multiverse, and the mission, he's going to have to rely on his wits—and, just
possibly, on the mysterious Acacia Jones.
With a story conceived by
Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves and written by Michael and Mallory Reaves, this
mind-bending follow-up to the exciting science fiction novel InterWorld is
a compelling fantasy adventure through time and space, in which the future
depends on a young man who is more powerful than he realizes.
Unnatural Creatures: Stories Selected by Neil Gaiman: Unnatural
Creatures is a collection of short stories about the fantastical
things that exist only in our minds—collected and introduced by belovedNew
York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman.The sixteen stories gathered
by Gaiman, winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, range from the whimsical to
the terrifying. The magical creatures range from werewolves to sunbirds to
beings never before classified. E. Nesbit, Diana Wynne Jones, Gahan Wilson, and
other literary luminaries contribute to the anthology.
Sales of Unnatural
Creatures benefit 826DC, a nonprofit organization dedicated to
supporting students in their creative and expository writing, and to helping
teachers inspire their students to write.
The Elite (Selection #2) by Kiera Cass: Kiera Cass’s The Elite is a must-read
for fans of dystopian fiction, fairy tales, and reality TV. This sequel
to The Selection will enchant teens who love Divergent and The
Bachelor. In America Singer’s world, a bride is chosen for the prince
through an elaborate televised competition. In the second book of the Selection
series, America is one of only six girls left in the running. But is it Prince
Maxon—and life as the queen—she wants? Or is it Aspen, her first love? The
Elite delivers the adventure, glamour, political intrigue, and romance
readers of The Selection expect, and continues the love
triangle that captivated them.
Arclight by Josin L. McQuein: A harrowing sci-fi thriller about a teen who's survived
horrors but lost her memory, for fans of Veronica Roth, Stephen King, and
Justin Cronin. Arclight is a bold and astonishing debut about
identity, unnerving connections, tortured romance, and the courage we find when
we face our worst nightmares. The Arclight is the last refuge in a
post-apocalyptic world consumed by terrifying monsters called the Fade. No one
crosses the wall of light that keeps the last human survivors safe. There's
nothing else left and nowhere to go. Or so they thought, until Marina, a lone
teenage girl, stumbles out of the Dark. Marina doesn't remember who she
is, where she came from, or how she survived. And the Fade want her back. When
one of them infiltrates the compound and recognizes Marina, she begins to
unlock secrets she didn't even know she had. Marina knows she's an outsider in
the Arclight, but she'll do anything to protect those who saved her. Whether
they want her help or not.
Unbreakable by Elizabeth Norris: Unbreakable,
the sequel to Elizabeth Norris’s Unraveling, blends science
fiction, mystery, and romance into a thrilling story YA readers won’t be able
to put down. It’s been four months since Janelle Tenner stopped the
earth’s destruction with the help of Ben, the boy who resurrected her after she
died. Ben is gone now—disappeared through a portal to his home world. Even
though Ben broke her heart, Janelle refuses to believe it when Interverse Agent
Taylor Barclay tells her Ben is suspected of running a human-trafficking ring
across several universes. She vows to uncover the true culprit and rescue the
people who have been sold into slavery on alternate earths—not to mention find
Ben and prove his innocence.
In addition to Ben, Barclay,
and Janelle, Unbreakable brings back fan favorite characters Elijah
and Cecily in this action-packed thriller.
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