Pack Your 4th of July Getaway!

Pack your 4th of July getaway bag with these fantastic YA books that came out in June! 

1. The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes: the gut-wrenching but ultimately hope-inspiring story about a 17-year-old who lost 12 years of her life – as well as her hands, to a cult.

2. The Glass Sentence by S. E. Grove: the type of fantasy that changes your life at any age about Sophia’s adventures in the New World, in which all the continents have been flung into different time periods.

3. Skyscraping by Cordelia Jensen: a heartrending novel in verse about Mira, who redefines what family means after she discovers her father with his male lover.

4. Wings by Elizabeth Richards: The pulse-pounding conclusion to the Black City trilogy.

5. A Mad, Wicked Folly by Sharon Biggs Waller: A romantic historical drama about how much Victoria Darling will sacrifice for her dream of becoming an artist when society has different ideas for her.

6. Like it Never Happened by Emily Adrian: Rebecca Rivers’ experience landing the lead in her school’s production of The Crucible challenges stereotypes, sexuality, and destructive rumors.

7. Children of the Earth by Anna Schumacher: The sequel to the adrenaline-packed and steamy End Times, set in Carbon City, Wyoming, where the townspeople believe the End Times have arrived.

8. The Merciless by Danielle Vega: Mean Girls meets The Exorcist in this horror story packed with attitude that proves the last people you want to be locked in a basement with are teen girls.

9. Deadly Design by Debra Dockter: A page-turning thriller about genetically engineered Kyle, who finds his life in danger when his twin brother drops dead at 18.

10. Conversion by Katherine Howe: A chilling read about the girls at St. Joan’s, who seem to be suffering the same epidemic that a group of girls had when their town was Salem Village long ago.

11. A Book of Spirits and Thieves by Morgan Rhodes: Fantasy and contemporary readers alike will love this blend of two worlds: one in modern-day Toronto and one in Morgan Rhode’s bestselling Gathering Darkness series!

12. Nearly Found by Elle Cosimano: The suspenseful sequel to Nearly Gone, an urban mystery interlaced with secrets, crime labs and serial killers.

13. The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson: Laurie Halse Anderson’s award-winning look at family, secrets, and PTSD through the lives of nomadic Hayley Kincaid and her veteran father Andy.

14. The Secret Sky by Atia Abawi: An eye-opening tale of love, honor and betrayal following Fatima and Samiullah, who fight their families, cultures, and the Taliban to stay together in Afghanistan.

15. Inland by Kat Rosenfield: An eerie, psychological dive into the mind of Callie Morgan, who hears something beckoning her into the dark waves of the sea, filling her with doubt, and revealing family secrets.

Andrew Smith's Keep YA Weird Twitter Chat + Giveaway!

We are so excited to be part of Andrew Smith's Keep YA WEIRD tour! Today we have great news and an amazing giveaway brought to you by Penguin Teen!

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Join Keep YA WEIRD Twitter chat on March 17th at 7:00pm EST with some of our favorite weird YA writers:

Andrew Smith (The Alex Crow)

Jon Skovron (Man Made Boy)

April Genevieve Tucholke (Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea)

Kat Rosenfield (Inland, Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone)

Brenna Yovanoff (Paper Valentine)

It’s a movement. And it’s totally weird. #KeepYAWeird is all about celebrating literary experimentalism and extreme imagination in YA literature. We’re not going to tell you what’s weird and what’s not—that’s up to you! But we have put together a sampler of some of our favorite weird books, which you can read by entering this amazing pack! Go and enter! 

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Blog Tour: Inland | Kat Rosenfield | Dream Cast

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Inland
Author: Kat Rosenfield
Reading Level: Young Adult
Genre: Contemporary | Fantasy
Released: June 12th 2014
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile

The psychological labyrinth of a young woman’s insidious connection to the sea, from the Edgar Award nominated author of Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone.

Callie Morgan has long lived choked by the failure of her own lungs, the result of an elusive pulmonary illness that has plagued her since childhood. A childhood marked early by the drowning death of her mother—a death to which Callie was the sole witness. Her father has moved them inland, away from the memories of the California coast her mother loved so much and toward promises of recovery—and the escape of denial—in arid, landlocked air.

But after years of running away, the promise of a life-changing job for her father brings Callie and him back to the coast, to Florida, where Callie’s symptoms miraculously disappear. For once, life seems delightfully normal. But the ocean’s edge offers more than healing air … it holds a magnetic pull, drawing Callie closer and closer to the chilly, watery embrace that claimed her mother. Returned to the ocean, Callie comes of age and comes into a family destiny that holds generations of secrets and very few happy endings.

Callie would be tough to cast amongst the current crop of young Hollywood actresses, just because she's a big, tall, and ultimately very physically imposing girl, and there aren't many of those to choose from; you'd basically need a teenage actress with the body of Gwendoline Christie (who plays Brienne of Tarth on "Game of Thrones.") But if she were tall and muscly enough, Nicole Boivin would be great for Callie. She played a sort of Frankenstein's monster on the Netflix series Hemlock Grove, and it had to have been such a tough role — I don't think she even had any lines; she had to act purely via facial expression — but she was fantastic.

For Callie's friend Jana, who's a really big, confident, talented, gorgeous girl, you'd have to get Sharon Rooney, definitely. I'd want Caleb Landry Jones for Ben; he's got the red hair and the nerd charm. I'd love to see Keke Palmer and Coco Jones bantering as Mika and Shanika. Famke Janssen as Callie's Aunt Nessa; she's got a sort of otherworldly sexiness. And Bryan Cranston as Callie's dad, because he's the best in the world at everything.

Check out Leydy's Review on Inland!

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Kat Rosenfield is a writer, illustrator, advice columnist, entertainment journalist, zombie enthusiast, and author of two YA novels: AMELIA ANNE IS DEAD AND GONE (Dutton, July 2012) and INLAND (Dutton in June 2014.) When not writing fiction, she can be found shamelessly gossiping about movies and celebrities as a contributor for MTV News, and offering relationship and life advice as the resident agony aunt on Barnes & Noble's SparkLife.

Teaser Tuesday + Book Review: Inland by Kat Rosenfield

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading

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Inland
Author: Kat Rosenfield
Reading Level: Young Adult
Genre: Contemporary | Fantasy
Released: June 12th 2014
Review Source: First To Read | Dutton Juvenile

The psychological labyrinth of a young woman’s insidious connection to the sea, from the Edgar Award nominated author of Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone.

Callie Morgan has long lived choked by the failure of her own lungs, the result of an elusive pulmonary illness that has plagued her since childhood. A childhood marked early by the drowning death of her mother—a death to which Callie was the sole witness. Her father has moved them inland, away from the memories of the California coast her mother loved so much and toward promises of recovery—and the escape of denial—in arid, landlocked air.

But after years of running away, the promise of a life-changing job for her father brings Callie and him back to the coast, to Florida, where Callie’s symptoms miraculously disappear. For once, life seems delightfully normal. But the ocean’s edge offers more than healing air … it holds a magnetic pull, drawing Callie closer and closer to the chilly, watery embrace that claimed her mother. Returned to the ocean, Callie comes of age and comes into a family destiny that holds generations of secrets and very few happy endings.

Where do I begin to profess my love and admiration for Kat Rosenfield? Where? Her words left me gaga! She is so talented. Her writing is amazingly beautiful. A lullaby to me ears. Inland will not be my only read of hers. I need more!

Given the fact that I was privilege to read this book at FirsttoRead.com, which I’d completely, forgot about, this was a win-win for me. Not only was I allowed to download a copy of Inland but I discover this new must-read-all-her-novels author!

First of all, the cover is stunning and the writing is well, beautiful! Inland is a hunted story of Callie Morgan. A girl that isn’t able to enjoy life due to her failure of her lungs. After the lost of her mother, Callie’s father has always been very protective of her. He doesn’t let her do much. He keeps her away from her true calling, away from the seaside. Until fates decides to her future…

So I am not a fan of anything related to the sea. Terrifying myths about sea monsters and gods, yeah, I’d always kept away from these type of stories. But the fact that Kat’s writing is beautiful, I had to continue reading. Overall, Inland is very different from what I read and I was glad I read it. The story itself is dark but with such a powerful message.  I personally think if you are a fan of Maggie Stiefvater, like myself, you would love Kat Rosenfield!