These are just a few YA books that I’ve found out are coming
out during the month. I tried to pick new books that were not in the middle of
series. Every once in a while I might throw in another type of book if it looks really good. What books are you excited are coming out this month?
Wake (Watersong #1)
by Amanda Hocking
Hardcover, 309 pages
St. Martin’s Press
August 7, 2012
Gemma seems to have it all—she’s carefree, pretty, and falling in love with
Alex, the boy next door. He’s always been just a friend, but this summer
they’ve taken their relationship to the next level, and now there’s no going
back. Then one night, Gemma’s ordinary life changes forever. She’s taking a
late night swim under the stars when she finds Penn, Lexi and Thea partying on
the cove. They invite her to join them, and the next morning she wakes up on
the beach feeling groggy and sick, knowing something is different.
Suddenly Gemma is stronger, faster, and more beautiful than ever. But her new
powers come with a terrifying price. And as she uncovers the truth, she’s is
forced to choose between staying with those she loves—or entering a new world
brimming with dark hungers and unimaginable secrets.
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
Hardcover, 416 pages
Bloomsbury USA Children’s
August 7, 2012
After serving out a
year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old
assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian
offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a
competition to find a new royal assassin.
Her opponents are men—thieves and assassins and warriors from across the
empire, each sponsored by a member of the kings council. If she beats her
opponents in a series of eliminations, she’ll serve the kingdom for three years
and then be granted her freedom.
Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall,
challenging and exhilirating. But she’s bored stiff by court life. Things get a
little more interesting when the prince starts to show interest in her... but
it’s the gruff Captain Westfall who seems to understand her best.
Then one of the other contestants turns up dead... quickly followed by another.
Can Celaena figure out who the killer is before she becomes a victim? As the
young assassin investigates, her search leads her to discover a greater destiny
than she could possibly have imagined.
A darkly compelling
mix of romance, fairy tale, and suspense from a new voice in teen fiction
The trees swallowed her brother whole, and Jenny was there to see it. Now
seventeen, she revisits the woods where Tom was taken, resolving to say
good-bye at last. Instead, she's lured into the trees, where she finds strange
and dangerous creatures who seem to consider her the threat. Among them is Jack, mercurial
and magnetic, with secrets of his own. Determined to find her brother, with or
without Jack's help, Jenny struggles to navigate a faerie world where stunning
beauty masks some of the most treacherous evils, and she's faced with a choice
between salvation or sacrifice--and not just her own.
Counting Backwards by Laura Lascarso
Hardcover, 279 pages
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
August 14, 2012
Three weeks ago I tried to run away from home. Now all I want is to go
back.
When troubled Taylor Truwell is caught with a stolen car and lands in court for
resisting arrest, her father convinces the judge of an alternative to
punishment: treatment in a juvenile psychiatric correctional facility. Sunny
Meadows is anything but the easy way out, and Taylor has to fight hard just to
hold on to her sanity as she battles her parents, her therapist, and vicious
fellow patients. But even as Taylor struggles to hold on to her stubborn former
self, she finds herself relenting as she lets in two unlikely friends-Margo, a
former child star and arsonist, and AJ, a mysterious boy who doesn’t speak. In
this striking debut, Laura Lascarso weaves together a powerful story of anger
and self-destruction, hope and love.
