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Win new reads! Check out GL's Teen Read Week 2013

 
Welcome to GL's annual Teen Read Week! There are a million reasons to read. But the best one? For the fun of it! Join GL and teens across the country as we celebrate YALSA’s annual Teen Read Week™ Oct. 13 through Oct. 19.
 
Enter to win! Seven literary ladies will score a super stash featuring all the Teen Read Week titles below. CLICK HERE to enter as many times as you want from now until October 19, 2013 at 11:59pm EST. We'll announce a new winner every day during Teen Read Week!
 
Learn more! Visit ala.org/teenread to read up on Teen Read Week.
Congrats, winners! 
Day 1: Mary B. ~ Plantsville, CT
Day 2: Paris M. ~ Tonawanda, NY
Day 3: Kelsey H. ~ Warren, OH 
Day 4: Bekah B. ~ Cedar Falls, IA
Day 5: Dannay M. ~ Richmond, VA
Day 6: Zoe S. ~ Fort Smith, AR    
Day 7: Ziayre H. ~ Dayton, OH 
Find your fave new reads for fall! Click on a cover for more deets or scroll down to view them all.
 

 


 

How to Love
by Katie Cotugno • Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins


In this breathtaking contemporary fiction debut, Katie Cotugno weaves together the story of one couple falling in love…twice. Says bestselling author Carolyn Mackler: “There are those novels, once in a spectacular blue moon, that just feel perfect. How to Love is that book. Perfect.”

 


 

Once We Were
by Kat Zhang • HarperTeen


In this riveting sequel to What's Left of Me, Eva and Addie struggle to share their body as they clash over romance and join the fight for hybrid freedom.

 


 

The Chaos of Stars
by Kiersten White • HarperTeen


Isadora's family is seriously screwed up—which comes with the territory when you're the human daughter of the ancient Egyptian gods. So when she gets the chance to move to California, she jumps at it. But Isadora quickly learns there's no such thing as a clean break from family.

 


 

The Brokenhearted
by Amelia Kahaney • HarperTeen


Anthem Fleet, ballerina and heir to the Fleet fortune, is closely guarded by her parents. But she goes to a dangerous party one night and falls to her death. She awakens with a bionic heart in her chest and begins to uncover the sinister truth behind those she trusted the most.

 


 

Ink
by Amanda Sun • Harlequin TEEN


American Katie is transplanted to Japan where she meets Tomo, whose drawings come to life—a power he loses control of when Katie is near. As their connection grows, Tomo’s abilities spark the interest of both the Japanese mafia and
a dangerous group  connected to the ancient Japanese gods, the Kami.

 


 

Through the Zombie Glass
by Gena Showalter • Harlequin TEEN


The sequel to Alice in Zombieland sees a terrible darkness blooming inside heroine Alice Bell. After a new zombie attack, strange things begin to happen to Alice. Mirrors come to life, and the whispers of the dead assault her ears. Alice thought she’d lost everything. She was wrong.

 


 

The Iron Traitor
by Julie Kagawa • Harlequin TEEN


In the 6th book in The New York Times and internationally bestselling Iron Fey series, Ethan Chase must find his missing nephew, faery prince Keirran, before he does something catastrophic that will change the faery and human worlds forever. Forbidden love, dangerous fey and an unforgettable adventure.

 


 

Dare You To
by Katie McGarry • Harlequin TEEN


What begins as a dare becomes an intense relationship neither Ryan nor Beth expected. Suddenly, the boy with the flawless image will risk his dreams—and his life—for the girl he loves, and the girl who won’t let anyone get too close is daring herself to want it all…

 


 

Doon
by Carey Corp & Lorie Langdon • Blink


The first book of a new series, Veronica and her best friend, Mackenna, travel to Scotland for the summer. Yet, the Scottish countryside holds a host of secrets—including a passageway to a mysterious land that appears to be a fairy tale.

 


 

Aquifer
by Jonathan Friesen • Blink


In 2250, a ruling class dominates the entire world by controlling the only source of hydration and the flow of knowledge. But there’s one boy they can’t watch, and he has the knowledge to find a crucial prophecy and change the world.

 


 

Merlin’s Shadow
by Robert Treskillard • Blink


In book two of the Merlin Spiral series, Merlin, pursued and hunted, takes young Arthur north to find refuge from the soldiers misled into thinking the young king was kidnapped. Betrayed and enslaved, Merlin must fight for his freedom and sail to the lands of eternal darkness to save Arthur’s life.

 


 

Running Lean
by Diana Sharples • Blink


Still grieving the loss of his brother in Afghanistan, Calvin Greenlee pours himself into fixing his motorcycle and spending the rest of his time with his girlfriend, Stacy. But when Stacy starts losing a lot of weight, it’s clear she has problems of her own.

 


 

Dead Is Just a Dream
by Marlene Perez • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt


The newest book in the Dead Is series! Jessica Walsh is a Virago—a woman warrior who must protect her neighbors from danger. She and the other Viragos must find who’s responsible for the deadly nightmares terrorizing her hometown. Can they keep Nightshade from turning into a nightmare?

 


 

The Shade of the Moon
by Susan Beth Pfeffer • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt


Can a family survive when a meteor knocks the moon off its orbit and changes the world forever? Read the newest, most intense installment in the unputdownable Life As We Knew It series.

 


 

Entangled
by Amy Rose Capetta • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt


Seventeen-year-old Cade is a fierce survivor, solo in the universe with her cherry-red guitar. Or so she thought. Her world shakes apart when a hologram tells her she was created in a lab, and then entangled at a subatomic level with a boy named Xan. Star Wars meets Graceling in this galaxy-spanning adventure.

 


 

Rogue
by Gina Damico • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt


In the final installment of this creepy and super funny trilogy about a teenage Grim Reaper that began with Croak and Scorch, Lex and her friends learn that the Afterlife needs a reboot…and that will require one of the Grims to sacrifice their own life. You won’t be able to put it down.

 


 

Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer
by Katie Alender • Scholastic


The city of light just got a little darker….A series of murders are taking place across Paris, and Colette Iselin realizes she may hold the key to the mystery. Acclaimed author Katie Alender brings heart-stopping suspense to this story of revenge, betrayal, intrigue—and one killer queen.

 


 

Inhuman
by Kat Falls • Scholastic


Lane crossed the line when she entered the forbidden Feral Zone, where humans have gone…wild. And now, to survive, she’ll have to put her trust in two very different boys: One is a guard who could have her hanged for crossing the wall…the other is a hunter who may be more ruthless than the beasts he stalks.

 


 

The Darkest Path
by Jeff Hirsch • Scholastic


A civil war rages between the Glorious Path—a militant religious group—and what's left of the U.S. government. Fifteen-year-old Callum Roe and his younger brother, James, were captured and forced to convert six years ago. But when Cal and his dog, Bear, go on the run, Cal’s loyalties are tested and the fate of the entire country hangs in the balance.

 


 

The Bar Code Prophecy
by Suzanne Weyn • Scholastic


On Grace’s 17th birthday, she comes home to find her family gone and police everywhere. In a split second, she’s on the run—part of a dark conspiracy and an extraordinary prophecy that will change the world forever.

 


 

The Enchanter Heir
by Cinda Williams Chima • Disney Publishing Worldwide


Uniquely gifted Jonah grew up worlds away from wild child Emma, but they’re about to learn they share a legacy of secrets, danger and magic. Universes collide, intrigues abound and familiar faces return in Cinda Williams Chima's brilliant new entry in her beloved and bestselling Heir Chronicles series.

 


 

Time After Time
by Tamara Ireland Stone • Disney Publishing Worldwide


Calling Anna and Bennett’s romance long distance is an understatement: she’s from 1995 Chicago and he’s a time traveler from 2012 San Francisco. They never should have met, but they did. They fell in love, even though they knew they shouldn’t. Can they find a way to stay together…or will they have to say goodbye?

 


 

Eve and Adam
by Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant • Square Fish


And girl created boy…. Using an amazingly detailed simulation, Eve starts building a boy from the ground up. Eve is creating Adam. And he will be just perfect…won't he?

 


 

Tumble & Fall
by Alexandra Coutts • Farrar Straus Giroux


The question isn’t how to save the world—the question is: What to do with the time that’s left? As an unavoidable asteroid races to destroy Earth, three teens find that even the end of everything can be filled with beginnings.

 


 

The Rose Diaries Book One: The Weaving of the Fates
by Natalia La Fey • Independently published


The faeries of The Rose Diaries are beautiful, dark and powerful; true to faerie law and legend they will delight and fascinate all who believe. The Rose Diaries is both a coming-of-age story and an adventure that will appeal to those with an interest in all things magical. With a strong yet quirky female protagonist, an exciting and suspenseful plot and lush illustrations, the series will explain the magic that surrounds us.

 


 

Guardians of the Amulet: The War for the Galaxies
by Amy Zhang • iUniverse


Upon the heartbreaking loss of her colleagues, Sable, the guardian of darkness, finds herself facing new battles with evils rising darker and stronger. It is her destiny to unite the others and save the galaxy as we know it. Can they live up to the challenge and rekindle the amulet?


 
 
Are You “Normal”? & Are You “Normal”? 2
by Mark Shulman • National Geographic Kids


Have you ever been grounded? Normal. Bite your nails? Totally normal—so do 50% of kids. Love school lunches? Downright weird! Answer the hilarious and thought-provoking questions on all sorts of topics, then see where you rate on the Weird-O-Meter compared to teens from coast to coast. Typical? A Little Wacky? Weird? One-of-a-Kind!

 


 

The Beasts of Upton Puddle
by Simon West-Bulford • Medallion Press


Cloaked behind centuries of mystical power, an ancient breed of dragons plots to destroy the human race. Twelve-year-old Joe Copper doesn’t know it yet, but he’s been chosen as mankind’s secret ambassador. And only he can stop the invasion.
medallionmediagroup.com/books/beasts-of-upton-puddle

 


 

The Infinite Moment of Us
by Lauren Myracle • Amulet Books


For Charlie and Wren, life after high school seems to be just the beginning. And everything—including true love—seems possible. Sweet, smart and steamy, bestselling author Lauren Myracle’s latest novel takes an unforgettable look at first love and the magic of stepping hand-in-hand into the unknown.

 


 

Teardrop
by Lauren Kate • Random House Children's Books


Teardrop is the first book in a new series about love, betrayal and epic consequences from Lauren Kate, the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fallen novels. Coming Oct. 22, pre-order your copy today.
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