Category: Young Adult (Age 12+)

Title: Applespell  (The Fairy Godmother Dilemma, Book 3)

Author: Danyelle Leafty

Publisher: Danyelle Leafty

Release Date: November 26, 2011

Size: eBook

Genre: YA Fantasy

Series: Catspell (bk 1), Firespell (bk2)

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When the faerie queen is unable to revive Mara, Nerissa decides that she’s done with fairy godmothering, finished with being a winged problem solver, and no longer willing to deal with the heartbreak that comes from wishes, wings, and wands.

She is not, however, going to give up dealing with DIDs. (Damsels in Distress)

But now, rather than mopping up messes and helping them achieve their perfect Happily Every After, she must stand in the way of the DIDs and their Prince Charmings. A good wicked faerie never rests until she uncovers an Unhappily Ever After, and Nerissa is nothing, if not dedicated.

She has already chosen her new DIDs–a girl named Snow White, and her sister Rose Red.

As the tale unfolds, Nerissa soon learns that being a wicked faerie isn’t all that different from being a fairy godmother. It’s all in the application–and where the heart lies.

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Title: Cloak

Author: James Gough

Publisher: WiDo

Release Date: November 15, 2011

ISBN: 978-1937178000

Size: 312 pages, hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

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You know the neighbor down the street who looks a little like a rodent? What if he’s part gerbil? Or that beaky store clerk? She could be one-fifth cockatoo. Just suppose that half-humans/half-animals have lived incognito for centuries, blending in seamlessly. And suppose you are the only person on earth able to see through their ruse.

Thirteen-year-old Will Tuttle lives a boring, friendless life trapped in a sterile bubble, suffering from mysterious allergies no doctor can explain. But everything’s about to change as he learns his countless allergies have a single, bizarre source—enchants, a society of half-humans that have lived among mankind for generations. Their existence is history’s best-kept secret. Enchants have become far too clever at keeping their tails, scales, claws and feathers hidden from everyone, everyone but Will.

The ability to see enchants makes Will a target. Soon a misfit team of half-human bodyguards is sent in to keep him alive. Their assignment: to help Will overcome his fears and blend into a society that isn’t supposed to exist. But when Will stumbles upon a sinister plot that threatens to destroy enchants everywhere, blending in becomes the least of his worries.

Faced with wolf-man attacks, deadly stampedes and carnivorous enchants with a taste for thirteen-year-olds, Will scrambles to discover who’s forcing enchants to lose their humanity. Can Will find the culprit in time? Or will he have to sacrifice himself to save his new found friends from becoming slaves to their own instincts?

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Title: On the Fringe

Author: Courtney King Walker

Publisher: Lands Atlantic Publishing

Release Date: October 19, 2011

ISBN: 978-0982500552

Size: 272 pages, 5.5×8.5, paperback

Genre: YA Paranormal

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Claire is struggling to overcome the murder of her childhood friend and secret crush, Daniel. Everyone else seems to be moving on with their lives, but she’s still trying to cope. The fact that she finds herself alone and drowning on her 16th birthday isn’t helping.

Neither is thinking she sees Daniel’s face in murky water as she mysteriously resurfaces. But something happened during those four and a half minutes that will make her realize it was not just her imagination.

As Claire and Daniel try to grasp a possible reconnection, other grudge-holding beings have plans of their own. Now, the two of them have to decide if their fleeting relationship is worth the possibility of Claire being trapped on the fringe forever.

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Title: Become

Author: Ali Cross

Publisher: CreateSpace

Release Date: October 28, 2011

ISBN: 978-1466384965

Size: 344 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: YA Fantasy

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Sixteen-year old Desolation Black wants nothing more than to stay in Hell where it’s cold and lonely and totally predictable. Instead, she’s sent back to Earth where she must face the evil she despises and the good she always feared.

When Desi is forced to embrace her inner demon, she assumes her choice has been made—that she has no hope of being anything other than what her father, Lucifer, has created her to be. What she doesn’t count on, is finding a reason to change—something she’s never had before—a friend.

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Title: Firespell  (The Fairy Godmother Dilemma, Book 2)

Author: Danyelle Leafty

Publisher: Danyelle Leafty

Release Date: November 12, 2011

Size: eBook

Genre: YA Fantasy

Series: Catspell (bk 1)

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When Alora’s Prince Charming is chosen due to political expediency,she tries to put her best foot forward. But thanks to a magicalmishap, her feet are webbed and her body resembles that of anovergrown goose.

Her brother creates a charm that enables her to look human frommoonrise until moonset, so she sets out hoping she can convincethe prince she is a girl, rather than the main course. Alora soonlearns that she isn’t the only one with secrets after she stumblesupon an ancient plot that would warp the threads of magic holdingthe land together. When her plan to foil the plot ends up with herPrince-Charming-to-be walking into a trap, Alora finds herselfcaught between an age old grudge and the most powerful creaturein the world: the Firebird.

What she needs is a fairy godmother. What she gets is a frog.

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Title: Exiled

Author: RaShelle Workman

Publisher: Polished Pen Press

Release Date: November 11, 2011

ISBN: 978-1465805652

Size: 340 pages, 5.5×8.5, paperback

Genre: YA sci-fi romance

Caution: This book may contain objectionable language. Author says PG-13.

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Stubborn, sixteen-year-old Princess Venus of Kelari wants one thing, to become a kelvieri, that is, until someone exiles her to Earth, kills her irrihunter and takes her family.

Now she wants revenge.

First she’s got to get home. But before she can return to Kelari, the Gods have commanded her to help an arrogant boy named Michael find his soul mate.

Only she doesn’t know the first thing about love.

Rather quickly, her inexperience with human emotion is obscured by other matters—alien-controlled psychotic teens that are out to kill her, and a government group that is set on capturing and dissecting her.

Worst of all, Venus will suffer a painful death-by-poisoning, thanks to Earth’s atmosphere, if she remains on the planet longer than one week.

Still, Venus is a Princess and she’s got a plan. Surely, with her help, Michael will fall in love with a human.

But time is running out and Michael is falling for the wrong girl—her.

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Title: Bound

Author: C.K. Bryant

Publisher: Dragonfly Press

Release Date: November 2011

ISBN: 978-0615550169

Size: 346 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

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When a photo shoot ends in tragedy, Kira discovers her best friend, Lydia, has been keeping a secret. Knowing the truth, and accepting it, will change Kira’s life forever and thrust her into a world of ancient curses, magical objects, and savage enemies. What happens next will challenge everything Kira knows about her world, herself and the shape-shifting warrior she’s falling in love with. No longer the timid mouse her mother accused her of being, but a woman who finds the mental and physical strength to endure and survive.

BOUND is a heroic tale of true friendship, infinite sacrifice and untamed love.

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Title: When Kyle Came Back

Author: Melanie Marks

Publisher: Teen Love Publishing

Release Date: November 10, 2011

ISBN: 978-0983931539

Size: 78,000 words, ebook

Genre: YA paranormal

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Seventeen-year-old Rain Tolley’s childhood friend, Kyle Ryan, was abducted 10 years ago. Now, mysteriously, he is back—only where has he been?

Though Kyle is still kind and sweet—and yeah, smokin’ hot—Rain is drawn to him, but afraid of him as well. Kyle seems haunted by the demons from his past—literal demons. Kyle keeps warning Rain to stay away from him—to not get too close. But Rain can’t keep her distance from Kyle. She feels connected to him in a way she can’t explain. But soon Rain discovers she has gotten too involved with Kyle. The dark forces haunting Kyle are now after Rain as well.

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Title: Cinder and Ella

Author: Melissa Lemon

Publisher: Cedar Fort

Release Date: November 8, 2011

ISBN: 978-1599559063

Size: 280 pages, 5.5×8, hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

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After her father’s disappearance, Cinder leaves home for a servant job at the castle. But it isn’t long before her sister Ella is brought to the castle herself. What Ella finds there starts a quest that will change her life and the entire kingdom. Cinder and Ella is a Cinderella story like no other, and one you’ll never forget.

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Title: Nightingale

Author: David Farland

Publisher: East India Press

Release Date: October 31, 2011

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Size: ebook (print available in December)

Genre: YA Speculative

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“We all become lost children at one time or another. When no one else can find us, we must find ourselves.”
– Olivia

Bron Jones was abandoned as a newborn. Thrown into foster care, he is rejected by one family after another, until he meets Olivia, a gifted and devoted high-school teacher who recognizes him for what he really is—what her people call a “nightingale.”

But Bron isn’t ready to learn the truth. There are secrets that have been hidden from mankind for hundreds of thousands of years, secrets that should remain hidden. Some things are too dangerous to know.

Bron’s secret may be the most dangerous of all.

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Title: Tiger’s Voyage (Book 3)

Author: Colleen Houck

Publisher: Splinter

Release Date: November 1, 2011

ISBN: 978-1402784040

Size: 560 pages, hardcover

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

Series: Tiger’s Curse (bk 1), Tiger’s Quest (bk 2)

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*The first two books in this series were re-releases, but I cannot find any references to this title being published before. It may or may not be eligible for a Whitney award. ??

With the head-to-head battle against the villainous Lokesh behind her, Kelsey confronts a new heartbreak: in the wake of his traumatic experience, her beloved Ren no longer remembers who she is. As the trio continues their quest by challenging five cunning and duplicitous dragons, Ren and Kishan once more vie for her affections–leaving Kelsey more confused than ever.

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Title: Crossed

Author: Ally Condie

Publisher: Dutton Juvenile

Release Date: November 1, 2011

ISBN: 978-0525423652

Size: 367 pages, hardcover

Genre: YA Dystopian

Series: Matched

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In search of a future that may not exist and faced with the decision of who to share it with, Cassia journeys to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky—taken by the Society to his certain death—only to find that he has escaped, leaving a series of clues in his wake.

Cassia’s quest leads her to question much of what she holds dear, even as she finds glimmers of a different life across the border. But as Cassia nears resolve and certainty about her future with Ky, an invitation for rebellion, an unexpected betrayal, and a surprise visit from Xander—who may hold the key to the uprising and, still, to Cassia’s heart—change the game once again. Nothing is as expected on the edge of Society, where crosses and double crosses make the path more twisted than ever.

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Title: Darkspell

Author: Elizabeth Mueller

Publisher: TreasureLine Publishing

Release Date: October 31, 2011

ISBN: 978-1617520808

Size: 360 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

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Winter Sky believes she is everything ordinary . . . until she is kissed by Alex Stormhold.

As seer of Stormhold Coven, Alex is sworn to be Winter’s protector against the darkness that hunts her. Violently thrust into the magickal realm she always thought impossible, she stumbles upon a disturbing secret of her own.

Will love prove thicker than magick?

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Title: The Princess and the Horse

Author: Mette Ivie Harrison

Publisher: Self

Release Date: October 2011

Size: ebook

Genre: YA Speculative Romance

Series: Princess and the Hound (bk 1) The Princess and the Bear (bk 2), The Princess and the Snowbird (bk 3),

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Fierce’s mother has left her pack to become a human. Left behind, Fierce is determined to have nothing to do with humans. But one day she finds a woman who reminds her of her mother in the forest. She hesitates for a moment, just long enough for the woman–Princess Jaleel–to turn her into a human with the wild magic. Soon Fierce is dragged into human concerns about the effects of the misuse of wild magic by Princess Jaleel. Will Fierce choose to be human and save the world or to be a hound again and save herself?

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Title: Catspell  (The Fairy Godmother Dilemma, Book 1)

Author: Danyelle Leafty

Publisher: Danyelle Leafty

Release Date: October 22, 2011

Size: eBook

Genre: YA Fantasy

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Sixteen-year-old Breena never thought anything could be worse than being forced to leave the faerie realm. Then she got stuck with a fairy godmother. But if she has to choose between the two, she’d leave the Faerie Realm over getting bossed about by a faerie with a pointed stick any day. Unfortunately, her attempt to evade her fairy godmother gives her growing pains in the form of fur, whiskers, and a tail.

Turning into a cat is the least of her worries, though. The potion wasn’t meant to bring out her inner feline, it was meant to put her to sleep. Forever. If Breena wants to make it to her Happily Ever After, she’ll have to accept that sometimes a fairy godmother really does come in handy, after all.

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Title: Seers

Author: Heather Frost

Publisher: Sweetwater/CFI

Release Date: October 8, 2011

ISBN: 978-1599557922

Size: 352 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: Young Adult Paranormal

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When Kate Bennett survived the car accident that claimed her parents’ lives, she knew her world would be forever changed. But her life is more dramatically altered than she first realized. Not only is she able to see “mood auras” on the people around her, she’s even started seeing invisible people with no colors at all. And no matter how attractive the new addition to her American Lit class is, Kate sees what no one else can—the dangerous truths this mysterious man threatens to pour into her life.

Patrick O’Donnell was killed in the Irish Revolution in 1798. He’s here now to try and keep Kate alive, and stop her life from spinning out of control. The one thing he’s not going to do is fall in love with her. But plans change, especially when Demons are involved . . .

Kate is about to enter the world of Seers; where immortals are at war with each other, and unfortunate mortals like Kate are in over their heads.

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Title: Tris & Izzie

Author: Mette Ivie Harrison

Publisher: EgmontUSA

Release Date: October 11, 2011

ISBN: 978-1606841730

Size: 272 pages, hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

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“I don’t want him to love me because of a potion,” she said.

Izzie loves Mark, and why shouldn’t she? As the captain of the basketball team, he is kind and loving and he’s everything she’s ever wanted in a boyfriend. Her BFF loves . . . somebody, but she won’t say who. So when a hot new guy, Tristan, shows up at school, who better for Izzie to fix up her friend[LL1] with? And what better way to do it than with a love philtre?

But even the best of magic has a way of going awry—and Izzie finds she’s accidentally fallen in love with Tristan herself. And that’s a problem. First of all, there’s Mark. Second, Tristan comes with baggage—like the supernatural creatures that keep attacking whenever he’s with Izzie, and the fact that he comes from the place where Izzie’s father was killed, years ago, by an enormous, evil serpent that’s still around—and it knows Izzie is out there.

Like Mettie Ivie Harrison’s The Princess and the Hound, praised by Orson Scott Card as “powerful, surprising, moving, and deep—a classic,” Tris and Izzie rings the changes on a timeless legend, this time in a contemporary high school setting.

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Title: The Death Cure (The Maze Runner, book 3)

Author: James Dashner

Publisher: Delacorte

Release Date: October 11, 2011

ISBN: 978-0385738774

Size: 336 pages, hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

Maze Runner Series: The Maze Runner (bk 1), The Scorch Trials (bk 2)

Thomas knows that Wicked can’t be trusted, but they say the time for lies is over, that they’ve collected all they can from the Trials and now must rely on the Gladers, with full memories restored, to help them with their ultimate mission. It’s up to the Gladers to complete the blueprint for the cure to the Flare with a final voluntary test.

What Wicked doesn’t know is that something’s happened that no Trial or Variable could have foreseen. Thomas has remembered far more than they think. And he knows that he can’t believe a word of what Wicked says.

The time for lies is over. But the truth is more dangerous than Thomas could ever imagine.

Will anyone survive the Death Cure?

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Title: Variant

Author: Robison Wells

Publisher: HarperTeen

Release Date: October 4, 2011

ISBN: 978-0062026088

Size: 384 pages, hardcover

Genre: YA Speculative

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Benson Fisher thought that a scholarship to Maxfield Academy would be the ticket out of his dead-end life.

He was wrong.

Now he’s trapped in a school that’s surrounded by a razor-wire fence. A school where video cameras monitor his every move. Where there are no adults. Where the kids have split into groups in order to survive.

Where breaking the rules equals death.

But when Benson stumbles upon the school’s real secret, he realizes that playing by the rules could spell a fate worse than death, and that escape—his only real hope for survival—may be impossible.

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