People look forward to the new year for all sorts of reasons: a chance to start
over, a time to focus on resolutions and goals, and even an opportunity to
splurge on a fancy new planner or calendar. For me, I find the most new year’s
happiness when looking at all the incredible books expected to release that
year. For 2016, the YA market has an abundance of exciting upcoming books to
look forward to.
From retellings that will spin the imagination to historicals that will make you
wish for a time machine, here is Part 1 of my most anticipated 2016 young adult
reads.
In this stunningly creative debut, Nicole Castroman
reimagines the origins of history’s most infamous
pirate—Blackbeard—and tells the story of the girl who
captured his heart and then broke it, setting him on a path
to destruction.
When Edward “Teach” Drummond, son of one of Bristol’s
richest merchants, returns home from a year at sea, he finds
his life in shambles. Betrothed to a girl he doesn’t love
and sick of the high society he was born into, all Teach
wants is to return to the vast ocean he calls home. There’s
just one problem: he must convince his father to let him
leave and never come back.
Following the death of her parents, Anne
Barrett is left
penniless. Though she’s barely worked a day in her life,
Anne takes a job as a maid in the home of Master Drummond.
Lonely days stretch into weeks and Anne longs to escape the
confines of her now mundane life. How will she ever achieve
her dream of sailing to Curaçao—her mother’s birthplace—when
she’s trapped in England?
From the moment Teach and Anne meet, they set
the world
ablaze. Drawn together by a shared desire for freedom, but
kept apart by Teach’s father, their love is as passionate as
it is forbidden. Faced with an impossible choice, Teach and
Anne must decide whether to chase their dreams and leave
England forever—or follow their hearts and stay together.
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Perfect for fans of Ellen Hopkins—a heartbreaking tale of
family tragedy and drug addiction where sometimes the best
intentions lead to the worst possible outcomes.
Cecelia Price killed her
brother. At least, that's what the
police and the district attorney are saying. Although CeCe
is now locked up and forced into treatment, she knows the
story is much more complicated. Cyrus wasn't always a
drug-addled monster. He used to be a successful athlete,
but
when an injury forced Cyrus off the soccer field and onto
pain medication, his life became a blur of anger,
addiction,
and violence.
All CeCe could do was stand by and watch, until she
realized
an effective way to take away her brother's drugs while
earning the money she needed for college: selling the
pills.
Only she never expected what happened next.
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True Grit meets True Blood in this delightfully dark and
fantastical Western perfect for fans of Gail Carriger,
Cassandra Clare, and Holly Black. This thrilling novel is a
remarkable tale of danger and discovery, from debut author
Michelle Modesto.
The two-bit town of Rogue City is a lawless place, full of
dark magic and saloon brawls, monsters and six-shooters. But
it’s just perfect for seventeen-year-old Westie, the
notorious adopted daughter of local inventor Nigel Butler.
Westie was only
a child when she lost her arm and her family
to cannibals on the wagon trail. Seven years later, Westie
may seem fearsome with her foul-mouthed tough exterior and
the powerful mechanical arm built for her by Nigel, but the
memory of her past still haunts her. She’s determined to
make the killers pay for their crimes—and there’s nothing to
stop her except her own reckless ways.
But Westie’s search ceases when a
wealthy family comes to
town looking to invest in Nigel’s latest invention, a
machine that can harvest magic from gold—which Rogue City
desperately needs as the magic wards that surround the city
start to fail. There’s only one problem: the investors look
exactly like the family who murdered Westie’s kin. With the
help of Nigel’s handsome but scarred young assistant,
Alistair, Westie sets out to prove their guilt. But if she’s
not careful, her desire for revenge could cost her the
family she has now.
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New York Times bestseller Alison Goodman's eagerly awaited
new novel -- a Regency adventure starring a stylish and
intrepid demon-hunter!
Helen must make a choice: Save her reputation, or
save the
world.
London, 1812. Eighteen-year-old Lady Helen Wrexhall is on
the eve of her debut presentation at the royal court of
George III. Her life should revolve around gowns, dancing,
and securing a suitable marriage. Instead, when one of her
family’s maids disappears, she is drawn into the shadows of
Regency London.
There, she meets Lord Carlston, one of the few able to stop
the perpetrators: a cabal of demons that has infiltrated all
levels of society. Carlston is not a man she should be
anywhere near, especially with the taint of scandal that
surrounds him. Yet he offers her help and the possibility of
finally discovering the truth about the mysterious deaths of
her parents.
Soon the two of them are investigating a terrifying
conspiracy that threatens to plunge the newly Enlightened
world back into darkness. But can Helen trust a man whose
own life is built on lies? And does she have the strength to
face the dangers of this hidden world and her family’s
legacy?
Set in the glittering social world of the Regency
upper-crust, the Dark Days Club is a supernatural adventure
that introduces New York Times best-selling author Alison
Goodman’s Lady Helen Wrexhall—another heroine whom, like
Eona, readers can take to their hearts.
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Alien queen Kora has a problem as vast as the endless
crimson deserts. She’s the first female ruler of her
territory in generations, but her people are rioting and
call for her violent younger twin brother to take the
throne. Despite assassination attempts, a mounting uprising
of nomadic human rebels, and pressure to find a mate to help
her rule, she’s determined to protect her people from her
brother’s would-be tyrannical rule.
Eros is a rebel soldier hated by
aliens and human alike for
being a half-blood. Yet that doesn’t stop him from defending
his people, at least until Kora’s soldiers raze his camp and
take him captive. He’s given an ultimatum: be an enslaved
bodyguard to Kora, or be executed for his true identity—a
secret kept even from him.
When Kora and Eros are framed for the attempted
assassination of her betrothed, they flee. Their only chance
of survival is to turn themselves in to the high court,
where revealing Eros’s secret could mean a swift public
execution. But when they uncover a violent plot to end the
human insurgency, they must find a way to work together to
prevent genocide.
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