Buzz Books 2018: Young Adult Spring/Summer: Exclusive Excerpts from Forthcoming Titles by Stephanie Garber, Meredith Goldstein, Matt Killeen, Farrah Penn, Mary Weber and more

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Welcome to Buzz Books 2018: Young Adult Spring/Summer. These substantial pre-publication excerpts reflect a broad spectrum of today’s young adult writing, from fantasy and romance to suspense and humor. You will discover debut writers to put on your radar, while enjoying early samples from some of the biggest authors in the field and even a memoir for younger readers.
Readers will be happy to see included Stephanie Garber’s sequel to her New York Times bestselling debut novel Caraval, a previous Buzz Books. Other fantasies are Furyborn by Claire Legrand, Fawkes by Nadine Brandes, and Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young.
Then come back to the present with Boston Globe advice columnist Meredith Goldstein’s YA debut about a teen science whiz who tries to crack the chemical equation for lasting love or Buzzfeed writer Farrah Penn’s Twelve Steps to Normal, about a father’s recovery from alcoholism. Start reading the bestsellers of tomorrow right now to see why reviewers rave with comments like these:
Love Buzz Books! They are so helpful for librarians. This YA sampler is particularly great for any librarian with a sizable teen population. Some very interesting titles highlighted here, in a wide variety of genres.
Then spread the word: your friends and family can download this free edition of Buzz Books at any major ebookstore or at buzz.publishersmarketplace.com. For broader reading, check out Buzz Books 2018: Spring/Summer, also available now, for 40 excerpts from top forthcoming adult fiction and nonfiction titles.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishers Marketplace
• Release date: Jan 16, 2018
• ISBN: 9780999137376

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Buzz Books 2018

Young Adult

Spring/Summer

Contents

The Spring/Summer 2018 Young Adult Publishing Preview

Buzz Books Authors Appearing at Winter Institute

Nadine Brandes, Fawkes (Thomas Nelson/HarperCollins)

Camille DeAngelis, The Boy from Tomorrow (Amberjack)

Alexa Donne, Brightly Burning (HMH Books For Young Readers)

Sara Ella, Unbreakable (Thomas Nelson/HarperCollins)

Stephanie Garber, Legendary (Flatiron)

Meredith Goldstein, Chemistry Lessons (HMH Books for Young Readers)

Matt Killeen, Orphan Monster Spy (Viking Books for Young Readers)

Claire Legrand, Furyborn (Sourcebooks Fire)

Farrah Penn, Twelve Steps to Normal (Jimmy Patterson/Hachette)

Kiley Roache, Frat Girl (Harlequin Teen)

Mary Weber, Reclaiming Shiloh Snow (Thomas Nelson/HarperCollins)

Adrienne Young, Sky in the Deep (St. Martin’s Wednesday Books)

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The Spring/Summer 2018 Young Adult Publishing Preview

To help you sift through the many thousands of planned spring and summer titles, we’ve selected what we think are among the most noteworthy young adult titles, divided into fiction and nonfiction. You’ll be able to sample many of the highlighted titles right now in Buzz Books 2018: Young Adult Spring/Summer; they are noted with an asterisk. Please remember: because we prepare this preview many months in advance, titles, content, and publication dates are all subject to change.

Fiction

The spring and summer features an assortment of young adult fiction, including new books by Angie Thomas, Victoria Aveyard, P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast, Tiffany D. Jackson, Sabaa Tahir, and Gayle Forman, while Marisha Pessl, Philippa Gregory, and Jennifer Gilmore cross over from adult fiction to write for teens.

Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone (Henry Holt BYR, 3/6)

Emily Adrian, The Foreseeable Future (Dial Books, 5/8)

Tara Altebrando, The Opposite of Here (Bloomsbury USA Children’s, 6/5)

Kelley Armstrong, Aftermath (Crown Books for Young Readers, 5/22)

Mindee Arnett, Onyx & Ivory (Balzer + Bray, 5/15)

David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik (Viking Books for Young Readers, 5/22)

Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X (HarperTeen, 3/6)

Victoria Aveyard, War Storm (HarperTeen, 5/15)

Megan Bannen, The Bird and the Blade (Balzer + Bray, 6/5)

Christopher Barzak, The Gone Away Place (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 5/15)

Michael Belanger, The History of Jane Doe (Dial Books, 6/5)

Jenn Bennett, Starry Eyes (Simon Pulse, 4/3)

Kathryn Berla, Going Places (Amberjack, 3/20)

Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars (HMH Books for Young Readers, 5/15)

Elly Blake, Nightblood (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 6/5)

Bryan Bliss, We’ll Fly Away (Greenwillow Books, 5/8)

Matthew Boren, Folded Notes from High School (Razorbill, 4/3)

Erin Bowman, Contagion (HarperTeen, 7/24)

Alexandra Bracken, Untitled Darkest Minds spin-off (Disney-Hyperion, 7/10)

Demetra Brodsky, Dive Smack (Tor Teen, 6/19)

Tiffany Brownlee, Wrong in All the Right Ways (Henry Holt BYR, 7/17)

Amelia Brunskill, The Window (Delacorte, 4/3)

Erin Callahan, The Art of Escaping (Amberjack, 6/19)

Sophie Cameron, Out of the Blue (Roaring Brook Press, 5/15)

P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast, The Dysasters (Wednesday Books, 5/1)

Crystal Chan, All That I Can Fix (Simon Pulse, 6/12)

Kristen Chandler, Thief of Happy Endings (Viking Books for Young Readers, 6/19)

Joelle Charbonneau, Eden Conquered (HarperTeen, 6/12)

Joelle Charbonneau, Time Bomb (HMH Books for Young Readers, 3/13)

Emma Chastain, The Year of Living Awkwardly: Sophomore Year (Simon Pulse, 7/3)

Autumn Chiklis, Smothered (Wednesday Books, 5/1)

Mary H. K. Choi, Emergency Contact (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 3/27)

Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom (Feiwel & Friends, 3/6)

Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, Sam & Ilsa’s Last Hurrah (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 4/10)

Brandy Colbert, Finding Yvonne (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 8/7)

Jay Coles, Tyler Johnson Was Here (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 3/20)

Katie Cotugno, 9 Days and 9 Nights (Balzer + Bray, 5/1)

Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War: An Alex & Eliza Story (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, 4/17)—The follow-up to bestselling Alex & Eliza.

Camille DeAngelis, The Boy From Tomorrow (Amberjack, 5/8)*

Ava Dellaira, In Search of Us (FSG BYR, 3/6)

Anat Deracine, Driving by Starlight (Henry Holt BYR, 5/22)

Amy Fellner Dominy, The Fall of Grace (Delacorte, 4/10)

Keira Drake, The Continent (Harlequin Teen, 3/27)

Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison, Freshmen (Delacorte, 6/12)

Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep (Simon Pulse, 3/6)

Rosalyn Eves, Lost Crow Conspiracy (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 3/27)

Heather Ezell, Nothing Left to Burn (Razorbill, 3/13)

Michelle Falkoff, Questions I Want to Ask You (HarperTeen, 5/29)

Carrie Fountain, I’m Not Missing (Flatiron Books, 7/10)

Gayle Forman, I Have Lost My Way (Viking Books for Young Readers, 3/27)

Gillian French, The Lies They Tell (HarperTeen, 5/1)

Kit Frick, See All the Stars (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 8/14)

Stephanie Garber, Legendary (Flatiron Books, 5/29)*

Whitney Gardner, Chaotic Good (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 3/13)

Kelly Loy Gilbert, Picture Us In The Light (Disney-Hyperion, 4/10)

Jennifer Gilmore, If Only (HarperTeen, 7/31)

Florence Gonsalves, Love & Other Carnivorous Plants (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 5/15)

Maurene Goo, The Way You Make Me Feel (FSG BYR, 5/8)

Claudia Gray, Defy the Worlds (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 4/3)

Sally Green, The Smoke Thieves (Viking Books for Young Readers, 5/1)

Philippa Gregory, Dark Tracks (Simon Pulse, 3/6)

Adele Griffin, Tell Me No Lies (Algonquin Young Readers, 6/12)

Sandra Gulland, The Game of Hope (Viking Books for Young Readers, 6/26)

Margaret Peterson Haddix, The Summer of Broken Things (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 4/10)

Alwyn Hamilton, Hero at the Fall (Viking Books for Young Readers, 3/6)

Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows, My Plain Jane (HarperTeen, 6/26)

Sarah Henning, Sea Witch (Katherine Tegen Books, 7/31)

April Henry, Run, Hide, Fight Back (Henry Holt BYR, 5/8)

Zach Hines, Nine (HarperTeen, 8/7)

Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday’s Not Coming (Katherine Tegen Books, 6/5)

Lauren James, The Loneliest Girl in the Universe (HarperTeen, 7/3)

Cordelia Jensen, The Way The Light Bends (Philomel, 3/27)

Sheba Karim, Mariam Sharma Hits the Road (HarperTeen, 6/5)

Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, Obsidio (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 3/13)—The final book in The Illuminae Files trilogy.

Beth Kephart, Wild Blues (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 6/5)

Brigid Kemmerer, More Than We Can Tell (Bloomsbury USA Children’s, 3/6)

Matt Killeen, Orphan Monster Spy (Viking Books for Young Readers, 3/20)*

Jessi Kirby, The Other Side of Lost (HarperTeen, 8/7)

Adrienne Kisner, Dear Rachel Maddow (Feiwel & Friends, 6/5)

Lindsey Klingele, The Truth Lies Here (HarperTeen, 8/21)

Leah Konen, Like Love (Amulet, 5/15)

Lorie Langdon, Olivia Twist (Blink, 3/6)

Claire Legrand, Furyborn (Sourcebooks Fire, 5/22)*

Maggie Lehrman, The Last Best Story (Balzer + Bray, 8/7)

Lisa Leighton and Laura Stropki, Now You See Her (Katherine Tegen, 6/26)

Katrina Leno, Summer of Salt (HarperTeen, 6/5)

Pittacus Lore, Fugitive Six (HarperCollins, 6/26)

Britta Lundin, Ship It (Freeform, 5/1)

Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight (Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 5/1)

Carolyn Mackler, The Universe Is Expanding and So Am I (Bloomsbury USA Children’s, 5/29)

Tahereh Mafi, Restore Me (HarperCollins, 3/6)—The fourth installment of the Shatter Me series.

Taran Matharu, The Outcast: Prequel to the Summoner Trilogy (Feiwel & Friends, 5/1)

Kimberly McCreight, The Collide (HarperCollins, 5/18)

Janet McNally, The Looking Glass (HarperTeen, 7/25)

Gretchen McNeil, #MurderTrending (Freeform, 8/7)

Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint (Dutton Books for Young Readers, 3/6)

Mindy McGinnis, Given To The Earth (G.P. Putnam Son’s Books for Young Readers, 4/10)

Will McIntosh, The Future Will Be BS-Free (Delacorte, 7/24)

Amy McNamara, A Flicker in the Clarity (HarperTeen, 6/12)

Richelle Mead, The Emerald Sea (Razorbill, 6/26)

Marissa Meyer, Heartless (Square Fish, 5/1)

Linsey Miller, Ruin of Stars (Sourcebooks Fire, 8/1)

Meredith Miller, How We Learned to Lie (HarperCollins, 7/31)

Samuel Miller, A Lite Too Bright (Katherine Tegen, 5/8)

Derek Milman, Scream All Night (Balzer + Bray, 7/24)

Julie Murphy, Puddin’ (Balzer + Bray, 4/18)—The companion to NYT bestseller Dumplin’.

An Na, The Place Between Breaths (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 3/6)

Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman, A Thousand Beginnings and Endings (Greenwillow Books, 6/26)

Mark Oshiro, Anger Is a Gift (Tor Teen, 5/22)

Emily X.R. Pan, The Astonishing Color of After (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 3/20)

Kathy Parks, Notes from My Captivity (Katherine Tegen, 7/10)

Ash Parsons, The Falling Between Us (Philomel, 3/13)

Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves (Henry Holt BYR, 7/7)

Lygia Day Penaflor, All of This Is True (HarperTeen, 5/15)

Farrah Penn, Twelve Steps to Normal (jimmy patterson, 3/13)*

Marisha Pessl, Neverworld Wake (Delacorte, 6/5)—A thriller from the author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics.

L. Philips, Sometime After Midnight (Viking Books for Young Readers, 6/12)

Gae Polisner, In Sight of Stars (Wednesday Books, 3/13)

Tara Wilson Redd, The Museum of Us (Wendy Lamb Books, 6/26)

Riley Redgate, Final Draft (Amulet, 6/12)

Douglas Rees, Elektra’s Adventures in Tragedy (Running Press, 5/8)

Brendan Reichs, Genesis (G.P. Putnam Son’s Books for Young Readers, 3/6)

Randy Ribay, After the Shot Drops (HMH Books for Young Readers, 3/6)

Anica Mrose Rissi, Always Forever Maybe (HarperTeen, 6/5)

Lilliam Rivera, Dealing in Dreams (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 8/21)

Kiley Roache, Frat Girl (Harlequin Teen, 3/27)*

Madeleine Roux, Court of Shadows (HarperTeen, 5/29)—The second book in the House of Furies series.

A.B. Rutledge, Miles Away from You (HMH Books for Young Readers, 3/20)

Sara Saedi, The Lost Kids (Viking Books for Young Readers, 4/10)

Leila Sales, If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say (FSG BYR, 5/1)

Shawn Sarles, Campfire (jimmy patterson, 7/17)

Chloe Seager, Dating Disasters of Emma Nash (Harlequin Teen, 5/1)

Robyn Schneider, Invisible Ghosts (Katherine Tegen Books, 6/5)

Nisha Sharma, My So-Called Bollywood Life (Crown Books for Young Readers, 5/15)

Sarah Nicole Smetana, The Midnights (HarperTeen, 3/6)

Katie Sise, The Academy (Balzer + Bray, 5/22)

Carlie Sorosiak, Wild Blue Wonder (HarperTeen, 6/26)

Tamara Ireland Stone, Little Do We Know (Disney-Hyperion, 6/5)

Jeff Sweat, Mayfly (Feiwel and Friends, 5/8)

Sabaa Tahir, A Reaper at the Gates (Razorbill, 4/24)

Amy Tintera, Allied (HarperTeen, 5/1)

Angie Thomas, On the Come Up (Balzer + Bray, 4/11)—The second novel from the author of The Hate U Give.

Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders (Delacorte, 7/21)

Rob Thomas, Slave Day (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 7/31)

Stephanie Tromly, Trouble Never Sleeps (Kathy Dawson, 4/24)

Danielle Vega, The Merciless IV: Last Rites (Razorbill, 6/12)

Rachel Vincent, 99 Lies (Katherine Tegen Books, 6/26)

Cecilia Vinesse, The Summer of Us (Poppy, 6/5)

Erin Watt, One Small Thing (Harlequin Teen, 6/26)

Patrick Weekes, Feeder (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 3/6)

Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Luck (Simon Pulse, 5/8)

Kerry Winfrey, Things Jolie Needs to Do Before She Bites It (Feiwel & Friends, 7/10)

Sara Wolf, Bring Me Their Hearts (Entangled Teen, 5/15)

Ashley Woodfolk, The Beauty That Remains (Delacorte, 3/6)

Jane Yolen, Mapping the Bones (Philomel, 3/6)

Adrienne Young, Sky in the Deep (Wednesday Books, 6/5)*

Samantha Young, The Fragile Ordinary (Harlequin Teen, 6/26)

Suzanne Young, The Complication (Simon Pulse, 4/24)

NONFICTION

Though not as plentiful, young adult nonfiction includes notable titles by Jason Reynolds, Chessy Prout, and Hamilton star Leslie Odom, Jr. Other nonfiction titles of note:

Jessica Burkhart, Life Inside My Mind: 31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles (Simon Pulse, 4/10)

Jeremy Daldry, The Teenage Guy’s Survival Guide: The Real Deal on Going Out, Growing Up, and Other Guy Stuff (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 4/3)

Elena Delle Donne, My Shot: Balancing It All and Standing Tall (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 3/13)

Johnny Kovatch, 59 Hours (Simon Pulse, 3/20)

Jessica Long, Unsinkable: From Russian Orphan to Paralympic Swimming World Champion (HMH Books for Young Readers, 6/5)

Leslie Odom Jr., Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning (Feiwel & Friends, 3/27)

Elizabeth Partridge, Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam (Viking Books for Young Readers, 4/10)

Anna Crowley Redding, Google It!: A History of Google (Feiwel & Friends, 8/21)

Chessy Prout and Jenn Abelson, I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor’s Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope (Margaret K. Elderrry Books, 3/6)

Amy Reed, Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America (Simon Pulse, 8/14)

Jason Reynolds, For Every One (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy, 4/10)—The National Book Award finalist’s inspirational poem originally performed for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.

Susan Goldman Rubin, Coco Chanel: Pearls, Perfume, and the Little Black Dress (Abrams Books for Young Readers, 3/13)

Polo Tate, Deep Dark Blue: A Memoir of Survival (Feiwel & Friends, 5/1)

Mackenzie Ziegler, Kenzie’s Rules for Life: How to be Happy, Healthy, and Dance to Your Own Beat (Gallery Books, 5/15)

Buzz Books Authors Appearing at Winter Institute

Alexa Donne

Claire Legrand

Farrah Penn

Kiley Roache

Nadine Brandes, Fawkes (Thomas Nelson/HarperCollins)

SUMMARY

Nadine Brandes thrusts readers back to the time of anarchy and Guy Fawkes, with fantastical twists and unlikely love in Fawkes.

EXCERPT

Grey

Chapter One

York, England-1604

I wasn’t ready to turn to stone.

I leaned so close to the small wall mirror that my nose left a grease spot on the glass, but I held still. Or tried to. I couldn’t control the trembling. The grease spot smeared.

My right eye reflected a bright blue iris, but it was the left side of my face that held me a whisper away from the mirror. Cracked stone blossomed from the chiseled marble that should have been an eye. The ball didn’t move, the lid didn’t blink. I lifted shaking fingers to my face. Petrification tickled the hairline of my eyebrow. A single infected hair protruded like a stone needle.

The plague was spreading. I broke off the hair, as though that would help, but I knew better. Come sit, Thomas.

I stumbled backward before facing the apothecary, Benedict Norwood. My one friend. Norwood stood at his dented and stained herb table, the backdrop of his curio cabinet displaying rows of green-hued bottles and jars, most of which held some sort of powder, paste, or plant.

He bent over my leather eyepatch, picking at the seam threads with a small knife. Norwood wore his color mask—deep green with gold laurels on the crown. Though no expression painted its face beyond two eye holes and a carved nose, it emitted a sense of calm. I imagined Norwood’s hidden expression as one of care and kindness…like his voice—a balm I’d come to rely on.

I felt naked without the patch covering my plagued eye. If any of the other students at St. Peter’s Colour School saw me…

Norwood, it’s spreading. My voice was weak and childish—the opposite of what I needed on the day I was to become a man.

Barely. Norwood poked a series of holes in the new edge.

My breath quickened. It’s stayed contained within my eye socket the entire past year since I caught the plague. Why would it spread? And now? Why on the day of my Colour Test?

Thomas Fawkes, come sit. With a single whisper, he sent a thick olive green thread through the holes of the mask. They tied off in a perfect knot. Norwood muttered another color command and mixed a green paste in a wood bowl beside him. Then he removed his mask and leveled me with a stare so commanding, it left no room for panic.

When he took off the mask, we switched from student and professor to friends. I wiped my sweating palms on my doublet, straightened my cuffs, and sat on the three-legged stool before the counter. He lowered himself onto his own stool, across from me.

I glanced over my shoulder at the closed door. Then to the window leading out to the garden. Shall we put the eyepatch back on?

In a moment. The paste needs to set a little longer. He placed a black cowhide bag on the table and withdrew seven wooden spheres, each painted a different color and none larger than a chess pawn. "Focus on the colors, not the plague. Your Colour Test is tonight."

"Norwood, if I don’t bond with Grey then the plague will spread to my brain. If I’m blind, I can’t bond with any color—"

You worry like a woman! He tossed me the Brown sphere. I caught it with one hand—my reflexes sending my palm up for protection