tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108787572009-10-29T19:56:47.978-07:00<i> Go on, read ahead. </i> Welcome, YALSA-BKers and friends!edhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09816086535519392426noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125http://static.flickr.com/24/59161914_e3b6ebb8fe_o.jpgThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878757.post-34679332039837891602008-01-17T08:23:00.000-08:002008-01-17T08:31:47.813-08:00

The YA ARC Blog is going on a brief hiatus due to unforseen complications and time shortages. I will still be monitoring the YALSA-BK listserv so if you need to reach me please email me at yalibrarianwi@yahoo.com. Any books that are currently in circulation may continue to be read and enjoyed. Unfortunately no new books will be added at this time. If you need to return a book to me, you can mail

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As children, Jennifer Harris and Cameron Quick were both social outcasts.They were also one another's only friend.So when Cameron disappears without warning, Jennifer thinks she's lost the only person who will ever understand her.Now in high school, Jennifer has been transformed.Known as Jenna, she's popular, happy, and dating, everything "Jennifer" couldn't be---but she still can't shake the

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She died today. One phone call changes Jason's summer vacation-and life!-forever.When Jason's grandmother dies, he's sent down to her home in Florida to help his father clean out her things. At first he gripes about spending his summer miles away from his best friend, doing chores, and sweating in the Florida heat, but he soon discovers a mystery surrounding his grandmother's murky past.An old,

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Inspired by the painting, Family of Saltimbanques, by Pablo Picasso, this story of adventure is set against the backdrop of Belle Époque Paris as whispers of revolution stir in Russia . Elaine Scott creates a world filled with characters from the art scene such as Picasso and his friends, circus folk, and revolutionaries. And fourteen-year-old Brigitte meets them all. She moves to Paris after her

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Hoop Dreams meets Common Ground in this riveting portrait of a driven basketball coach at an iconic high school, and of his players, each struggling to rise above the many forces pulling them down. Jack O'Brien, the impossibly demanding basketball coach at Charlestown High School in Boston, has led his team to five state championship titles in six years. Less talked about is O'Brien's other

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This is the story of a secret, and also a secret story. This is the story of Cass and Max-Ernest, two friendless 11-year olds who come together to solve the mystery surrounding a dead magician and the clues he left behind. When they find a mysterious case containing vials of liquid labeled The Symphony of Smells with an encoded message asking for help, they decide to investigate. Along the way

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Laurel Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether she's helping her mother make sure the literal family skeleton stays in the closet or turning scraps of fabric into nationally acclaimed art quilts. Her estranged sister Thalia, an impoverished Actress with a capital A, is her polar opposite, priding herself on exposing the lurid truth lurking behind middle class niceties. While Laurel's

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With the Light is one of the first titles from our Yen Press imprint. The manga format novel tells the story of a Japanese family dealing with the birth and growth of an autistic son, Hikaru. This book has received an incredible reaction from everyone who sees it, from librarians to retailers and friends. It seems that so many people have been affected by or knows someone who has been affected by

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Martin lives in a perfect world. Every year a new generation ofchildren arrives on a conveyer belt to meet their parents. Everyspring the residents of this suburb take down the snow they've stuckon their windows and put up the flowers. Every morning the residentsgather around their televisions and vote for whatever matter ofnational importance the president has on the table. Today, it is

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First cousins Laura and Miles grew up like sisters. Miles thought ofLaura as the golden one—smart, beautiful, rich, and popular, whileMiles considered herself the unwanted one—an unattractive,underachieving outcast. Laura's suicide shatters Miles, leaving herfeeling completely alone, and setting Miles on a dangerous downwardspiral. But in the strength Miles finds in herself and in those

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Zen and the Art of Faking It by Jordan SonnenblickWhen eighth-grader San Lee moves to a new town and a new school forthe umpteenth time, he doesn't try to make new friends or be a loneror play cool. Instead he sits back and devises a plan to be totallydifferent. When he accidentally answers too many questions in WorldHistory on Zen (only because he just had Ancient Religions two schoolsago) all

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The perils of dealing with a new stepfamily are illuminated with thesame Blume-like heart and wit that Natasha Friend brought to PERFECTand LUSH.Amazon Link Contact info/reading group leader if you're the first person on the list for this ARC with your mailing address:Sonja Colesonja@bookwink.com

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Book DescriptionIn Alyson Noël's newest teen novel, one sister's secrets save the other's life--in more ways than one. Meet fifteen-year-old Echo, a typical teen trying to survive high school without being totally traumatized by boy trouble, friend drama, and school issues. As if she didn't have enough on her plate, Echo is also still dealing with the murder of her sister Zoë. Although it's

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Book DescriptionTEN-YEAR-OLD TAE KWON DO blue belt and budding rock hound Brendan Buckley keeps a "Confidential" notebook for his top-secretscientific discoveries. And he's found something totally top secret. The grandpa he's never met, who his mom refuses to talk about or see, is an expert mineral collector and lives nearby! Secretly, Brendan visits Ed DeBose, whose skin is pink, not brown like

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Book DescriptionJust when everything is coming together for Sam, his girlfriend Alicia drops a bombshell. Make that ex-girlfriend-- because by the time she tells him she's pregnant, they've already called it quits. Sam does not want to be a teenage dad. His mom had him at sixteen and has made it very clear how having a baby so young interrupted her life. There's only one person Sam can turn to--

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Book DescriptionA Whitbread Award-winning novelist tells a chilling dystopian tale about a heroic girl prepared to risk everything in the pursuit of justice.In the not-too-distant future, the world is safe from terrorists, the streets are clean, and girls labeled "juvies" or "mindcrips" have been hidden away behind the smartly painted exterior of the City Community Faith School. Their birth names

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The book fans have been waiting for! A sequel to the acclaimed animal fantasy novel The Sight.With the same bold storytelling that has made The Sight a cult favorite, David Clement-Davies tells the story of Fell, the black wolf whose betrayal of his family in The Sight almost led to the enslavement of all wolves by the evil Morgra. Wandering alone in the forests of Transylvania, lost in the pain

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It was all meant to be just a game, but now Grace is missing and may not even be alive. During an elaborate game of hide-and-seek on the beach, twelve-year-old sisters Annie and Grace are caught in the rising tide, and Grace seems to have been swept away. In the midst of this, fourteen-year-old Kip is also in the wrong place at the wrong time. Finding Grace's abandoned back-pack sets off a chain

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Kayla Dean, junior feminist and future journalist, is about the break the story of a lifetime. She is auditioning for the Lady Lions dance team to prove they discriminate against the not-so-well endowed. But when she makes the team, her best friend and fellow feminist, Rosalie, is not happy.Now a Lady Lion, Kayla is transformed from bushy-haired fashion victim to glammed-up dance diva. But does

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Most Dungeons & Dragons game players are men, yet storytelling and roleplaying come so naturally to women. So where are all the female gamers? The answer is - everywhere!Confessions of a Part-time Sorceress is a smart, humorous examination of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game from a female gamer's point of view. The book delves into the myths and realities of gamer stereotypes. It explains

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Amazon Link Contact info/reading group leader if you're the first person on the list for this ARC with your mailing address:Kristin Ladeyalibrarianwi@yahoo.com

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Clay Jenkins returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers 13 cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier.On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list.Through

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You already know Beauty... now discover the Beast.I am a Beast.Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog, but a horrible new creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. You think I'm talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now. And I'll stay this way forever - ruined - unless I can break the spell.Acclaimed author Alex Flinn breaks new ground in

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You already know Beauty... now discover the Beast.I am a Beast.Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog, but a horrible new creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. You think I'm talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now. And I'll stay this way forever - ruined - unless I can break the spell.Acclaimed author Alex Flinn breaks new ground in

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Don't call me a demon. I prefer the term Fallen Angel.Everybody deserves a vacation, right? Especially if you have a pointless job like tormenting the damned. So who could blame me for blowing off my duties and taking a small, unauthorized break?Besides, I've always wanted to see what physical existence is like. That's why I "borrowed" the slightly used body of a slacker teen. Believe me, he

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