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    Buzz Books 2019: Young Adult Spring/Summer: Excerpts from next season's best new titles by Ian Doescher, Gaby Dunn, David Elliott, Kosoko Jackson, Mary Weber and more
    Buzz Books 2019: Young Adult Spring/Summer: Excerpts from next season's best new titles by Ian Doescher, Gaby Dunn, David Elliott, Kosoko Jackson, Mary Weber and more
    Buzz Books 2019: Young Adult Spring/Summer: Excerpts from next season's best new titles by Ian Doescher, Gaby Dunn, David Elliott, Kosoko Jackson, Mary Weber and more
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    Buzz Books 2019: Young Adult Spring/Summer: Excerpts from next season's best new titles by Ian Doescher, Gaby Dunn, David Elliott, Kosoko Jackson, Mary Weber and more

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    Our tenth Buzz Books: Young Adult gives readers the special excitement of being among the first to sample the best in forthcoming young adult novels months ahead of their actual publication.

    These substantial pre-publication excerpts include several titles based on historical figures: Joan of Arc (Voices by David Elliott); King Arthur (Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy); Romanov by Nadine Brandes; as well as history-based stories such as Christelle Dabos’s The Missing of Clairedelune and William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Mean Girls by Ian Doescher.

    Mary Weber’s To Best the Boys is a new fantasy from the bestselling author of the Storm Siren trilogy, while Please Send Help by Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin is a follow-up to their New York Times bestseller I Hate Everyone But You.

    You will discover three debut writers to keep an eye on as well. Kosoko Jackson writes about war in A Place for Wolves, Joan He’s Descendant of the Crane is based on Chinese epics, and Crystal Smith offers a romantic fantasy in Bloodleaf.

    For broader reading, check out Buzz Books 2019: Spring/Summer, also available now, for 44 excerpts from top forthcoming adult fiction and nonfiction titles. Visit buzz.publishersmarketplace.com.
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    PublisherPublishers Lunch
    Release dateJan 16, 2019
    ISBN9781948586207
    Buzz Books 2019: Young Adult Spring/Summer: Excerpts from next season's best new titles by Ian Doescher, Gaby Dunn, David Elliott, Kosoko Jackson, Mary Weber and more

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      Buzz Books 2019 - Publishers Lunch

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      Contents

      The Spring/Summer 2019 Young Adult Publishing Preview

      Nadine Brandes, Romanov (Thomas Nelson Bfyr)

      Amy Rose Capetta And Cori Mccarthy, Once & Future (Jimmy Patterson)

      Christelle Dabos, The Missing of Clairdelune (Europa Editions)

      Ian Doescher, Much Ado About Mean Girls, (Quirk Books)

      Gaby Dunn And Allison Raskin, Please Send Help (Wednesday Books)

      David Elliott, Voices (HMH Books For Young Readers)

      Joan He, Descendant of the Crane (Albert Whitman Teen)

      Kosoko Jackson, A Place for Wolves (Sourcebooks Fire)

      Kyo Maclear, Illustrated by Byron Eggenschwiler, Operatic (Groundwood)

      Claire Mcfall, Outcasts (Floris)

      Crystal Smith, Bloodleaf (Hmh Books For Young Readers)

      Mary Weber, To Best the Boys (Thomas Nelson Bfyr)

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      The Spring/Summer 2019 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 titles.

      You’ll be able to sample many of the highlighted titles right now in Buzz Books 2019: Young Adult Spring/Summer; they are noted with an asterisk. And please remember: because we prepare this preview many months in advance, titles, content, and publication dates are all subject to change.

      Fiction

      The fall and winter features an assortment of young adult fiction, including new books by Holly Black, Amy Rose Capetta, Cassandra Clare, and Markus Zusak (his first since The Book Thief), and many more:

      Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High (HarperTeen, 4/17) –A new novel from the National Book Award winning author of The Poet X.

      Arvin Ahmadi, Girl Gone Viral (Viking BYR, 5/21)

      Samira Ahmed, Internment (Little, Brown BYR, 3/19)

      Gennifer Albin, Immortal (Entangled: Teen, 8/6)

      Mindee Arnett, Shadow & Flame (Balzer + Bray, 6/4)

      Victoria Aveyard, Broken Throne (HarperTeen, 5/7)

      Tracy Banghart, Queen of Ruin (Little, Brown BYR, 7/2)

      Michael Barakiva, Hold My Hand (FSG BYR, 5/21)

      Claire Eliza Bartlett, We Rule the Night (Little, Brown BYR, 4/2)

      Alexis Bass, Happily and Madly (Tor Teen, 5/21)

      Erin Beaty, The Traitor’s Kingdom (Imprint, 7/9)

      Emma Berquist, Missing, Presumed Dead (Greenwillow, 5/21)

      Julie Berry, Lovely War (Viking BFYR, 3/6)

      Katharyn Blair, The Beckoning Shadow (Katherine Tegen, 7/2)

      Chelsea Bobulski, Remember Me (Feiwel & Friends, 8/6)

      Moe Bonneau, The Pursuit of Miss Heartbreak Hotel (Henry Holt BYR, 5/21)

      Erin Bowman, Immunity (HarperTeen, 7/2)

      Nadine Brandes, Romanov (Thomas Nelson, 5/7)*

      Anna Bright, The Beholder (HarperTeen, 6/4)

      Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell, Sky Without Stars (Simon Pulse, 3/26)

      Sophie Cameron, Last Bus to Everland (Roaring Brook, 5/14)

      Ann Dávila Cardinal, Five Midnights (Tor Teen, 6/4)

      Cora Carmack, Rage: A Stormheart Novel (Tor Teen, 6/11)

      Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry, Hello Girls (Katherine Tegen, 8/6)

      Sona Charaipotra, Symptoms of a Heartbreak (Imprint, 5/21)

      Kat Cho, Wicked Fox (G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR, 6/25)

      Ally Condie, The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe (Dutton BYR, 3/26)

      Audrey Coulthurst, Of Ice and Shadows (Balzer + Bray, 8/13)

      L.D. Crichton, All Our Broken Pieces (Disney-Hyperion, 5/7)

      Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu, The Red Scrolls of Magic (Margaret K. McElderry, 4/9)

      Brandy Colbert, The Revolution of Birdie Randolph (Little, Brown BYR, 8/20)

      Christelle Dabos, The Missing of Clairdelune, Book Two of The Mirror Visitor Quartet (Europa Editions, 4/30)*

      Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe (Harper, 4/2)

      Somaiya Daud, Court of Lions: A Mirage Novel (Flatiron, 8/27)

      Natasha Deen, In the Key of Nira Ghani (Running Press Kids, 4/9)

      Ian Doescher, William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Mean Girls (Quirk, 4/19) *

      Jennifer Dugan, Hot Dog Girl (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 4/30)

      Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints (Wednesday Books, 4/2)

      Shannon Dunlap, Izzy + Tristan (Poppy, 3/12)

      Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin, Please Send Help (Wednesday Books, 7/16)*

      Pintip Dunn, Sky-Kissed (Entangled: Teen, 8/13)

      David, Elliott, Voices (HMH BYR, 3/26)*

      Elizabeth Eulberg, Past Perfect Life (Bloomsbury YA, 7/9)

      Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame (FSG BYR, 5/14)

      Mary Fan, Stronger Than a Bronze Dragon (Page Street Kids, 6/11)

      Lisa Fiedler, We Walked the Sky (Razorbill, 7/2)

      Alex Flinn, Girls of July (HarperTeen, 6/4)

      Jessie Ann Foley, Sorry for Your Loss (HarperTeen, 6/4)

      Kristina Forest, I Wanna Be Where You Are (Roaring Brook, 6/4)

      Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float (Dial, 5/7)

      Gillian French, The Missing Season (HarperTeen, 5/21)

      Stephanie Garber, Finale: A Caraval Novel (Flatiron, 5/7)

      Lori Goldstein, Screen Queens (Razorbill, 6/11)

      Maurene Goo, Somewhere Only We Know (FSG BYR, 5/7)

      Ellen Goodlett, Rise (Little, Brown BYR, 6/11)

      Erin Gough, Amelia Westlake Was Never Here (Poppy, 5/21)

      Claudia Gray, Defy the Fates (Little, Brown BYR, 4/2)

      Sally Green, The Demon World (Viking BYR, 8/6)

      Sandy Hall, The Shortest Distance Between Love and Hate (Swoon Reads, 7/9)

      Harriet Reuter Hapgood, How to Be Luminous (Roaring Brook, 4/30)

      Rachel Hawkins, Her Royal Highness (G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR, 5/7)

      Kaui Hart Hemmings, Testimony from Your Perfect Girl (G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR, 5/14)

      Joan He, Descendant of the Crane (Albert Whitman, 4/2)*

      Stephanie Hemphill, The Language of Fire: Joan of Arc Reimagined (Balzer + Bray, 6/11)

      Katie Henry, Let’s Call It a Doomsday (Katherine Tegen Books, 8/6)

      Sarah Henstra, We Contain Multitudes (Little, Brown BYR, 5/14)

      Christine Lynn Herman, The Devouring Gray (Disney-Hyperion, 4/2)

      Anthony Horowitz, Alex Rider Secret Weapon: Seven Untold Adventures From the Life of a Teenaged Spy (Philomel, 5/21)

      Kosoko Jackson, A Place for Wolves (Sourcebook Fire, 4/2)*

      Tiffany D. Jackson, Let Me Hear a Rhyme (Katherine Tegen, 5/21)

      Danielle L. Jensen, Dark Shores (Tor Teen, 5/7)

      Carrie Jones, Steven E. Wedel, In the Woods (Tor Teen, 7/16)

      Claire Kann, If It Makes You Happy (Swoon Reads, 6/4)

      Brigid Kemmerer, Call It What You Want (Bloomsbury YA, 6/25)

      Eric Kester, Gut Check (FSG BYR, 8/13)

      Adrienne Kisner, The Confusion of Laurel Graham (Feiwel & Friends, 6/4)

      SM Koz, Risking It All (Swoon Reads, 6/18)

      Autumn Krause, A Dress for the Wicked (HarperTeen, 8/6)

      David Kreizman, The Year They Fell (Imprint, 7/30)

      Dawn Kurtagich, Teeth in the Mist (Little, Brown BYR, 6/11)

      J. M. Lee, Flames of the Dark Crystal #4 (Penguin Workshop, 7/23)

      Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl (G.P Putnam’s Sons BYR, 8/13)

      Katrina Leno, You Must Not Miss (Little, Brown BYR, 4/23)

      Pittacus Lore, Lore Novel #3 (HarperCollins, 6/25)

      Rachael Lucas, My Box-Shaped Heart (Feiwel & Friends, 8/20)

      Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday (HarperTeen, 7/23)

      Taran Matharu, The Chosen (Feiwel & Friends, 5/7)

      Cori McCarthy and Amy Rose Capetta, Once & Future (Jimmy Patterson, 3/26)*

      S. C. Megale, This Is Not a Love Scene (Wednesday, 5/7)

      Sam J. Miller, Destroy All Monsters (HarperTeen, 7/2)

      Derek Milman and James Patterson, Swipe Right for Murder (Jimmy Patterson, 8/6)

      Joseph Moldover, Every Moment After (HMH, 4/9)

      Nina Moreno, Don’t Date Rosa Santos (Disney-Hyperion, 5/14)

      Lauren Morrill, Better Than the Best Plan (FSG BYR, 6/25)

      Maya Motayne, Nocturna (Balzer + Bray, 5/17)

      Abdi Nazemian, Like a Love Story (Balzer + Bray, 6/4)

      Jenn P. Nguyen, Fake It Till You Break It (Swoon Reads, 5/28)

      Preston Norton, Where I End and You Begin (Disney-Hyperion, 6/4)

      Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard (G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR, 6/4)

      Margaret Owen, The Merciful Crow (Henry Holy BYR, 7/30)

      James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet, The Fall of Crazy House (Jimmy Patterson, 4/8)

      Mary E. Pearson, Vow of Thieves (Henry Holt BYR, 8/6)

      Mitali Perkins, Forward Me Back to You (FSG BYR, 4/2)

      Shivaun Plozza, Tin Heart (Flatiron, 3/12) 9781250312761

      Rebecca Podos, The Wise and the Wicked (Balzer + Bray, 5/28)

      Ashley Poston, Soul of Stars (Balzer + Bray, 7/23)

      Anna Priemaza, Fan the Fame (HarperTeen, 8/20)

      Sara Raasch, These Divided Shores (Balzer + Bray, 8/27)

      Christine Riccio, Again, but Better (Wednesday, 5/7)

      Becca Ritchie and Krista Ritchiem The Last Hope (Wednesday Books, 8/20)

      Lilliam Rivera, Dealing in Dreams (Simon & Schuster BYR, 3/5)

      Jess Rothenberg, The Kingdom (Henry Holt BYR, 5/28)

      Madeleine Roux, Tomb of Ancients (HarperTeen, 5/14)

      Meredith Russo, Birthday (Flatiron, 5/21)

      Aminah Mae Safi, Tell Me How You Really Feel (Feiwel & Friends, 6/11)

      Shannon Schuren, The Virtue of Sin (Philomel, 7/25)

      Breeana Shields, The Bone Charmer (Page Street Kids, 5/21)

      Andrew Shvarts, War of the Bastards (Disney-Hyperion, 6/4)

      Laura Sibson, The Art of Breaking Things (Viking BYF, 6/18)

      Crystal Smith, Bloodleaf (HMH BYR, 3/12)*

      Isabel Sterling, These Witches Don’t Burn (Razorbill 5/28)

      Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay (HarperTeen, 6/11)

      Danielle Stinson, Before I Disappear (Feiwel & Friends, 7/23)

      Danika Stone, Switchback (Swoon Reads, 5/28)

      Misa Sugiura, This Time Will Be Different (HarperTeen, 6/4)

      Leah Thomas, Wild and Crooked (Bloomsbury YA, 6/4)

      Blair Thornburgh, Ordinary Girls (HarperTeen, 6/4)

      Stacia Tolman, The Spaces Between Us (Henry Holt BYR, 7/23)

      Danielle Vega, The Haunted (Razorbill, 6/4)

      Alexandra Villasante, The Grief Keeper (G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR, 6/11)

      Ria Voros, The Center of the Universe (Kids Can Press, 4/2)

      Mary Weber, To Best the Boys (Thomas Nelson, 3/19)*

      Jacqueline West, Last Things (Greenwillow, 5/7)

      Kevin Wignall, When We Were Lost (Jimmy Patterson, 6/4)

      Jen Wilde, Going Off Script (Swoon Reads, 5/21) 9781250311276

      Natalie Williamson, Rules We’re Meant to Break (Swoon Reads, 6/11)

      Sara Wolf, Find Me Their Bones (Entangled: Teen, 6/4)

      Nonfiction

      Michael Bennett, Sarah Bennett, and Bridget Gibson (Illustrated by), Ann Bausum, Life Sucks: How to Deal with the Way Life Is, Was, and Will Always Be Unfair (Penguin Workshop, 4/9)

      Alex Bertie, Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard (Little Brown BFYR, 5/14)

      Sean Cisterna, Always Smile: Carley Allison’s Secrets for Laughing, Loving and Living (Kids Can Press, 5/7)

      Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey (Young Readers Edition) (Philomel, 5/7)

      Jeffrey Kluger, Disaster Strikes!: The Most Dangerous Space Missions of All Time (Philomel, 5/7)

      Nicola Morgan, Positively Teen: A Practical Guide to a More Positive, More Confident You (Poppy, 7/16)

      Anna Crowley Redding, Elon Musk: A Mission to Save the World (Feiwel & Friends, 7/2)

      Jesselyn Silva, My Corner of the Ring (G.P. Putnam’s Sons BFYR, 6/4)

      SUMMARY

      The history books say I died. They don’t know the half of it. Anastasia Nastya Romanov was given a single mission: to smuggle an ancient spell into her suitcase on her way to exile in Siberia. It might be her family’s only salvation. But the leader of the Bolshevik army is after them…and he’s hunted Romanov before. Nastya’s only chances of saving herself and her family are either to release the spell and deal with the consequences, or to enlist help from Zash, the handsome soldier who doesn’t act like the average Bolshevik. Nastya’s only dabbled in magic, but it doesn’t frighten her half as much as her growing attraction for Zash. She likes him. She thinks he might even like her…That is, until she’s on one side of a firing squad…and he’s on the other.

      EXCERPT

      Chapter One

      April 25, 1918

      Tobolsk, Russia

      I watched my diaries burn.

      Pages curled in on themselves, like spider legs accepting death. My past—my stories—turned to ash and tendrils of smoke. But I would not weep for them. The Bolsheviks could take far more precious things from me. I would not give them my tears.

      I shoved another diary into the white-tiled stove that filled the corner of the bedroom I shared with my three older sisters here in Tobolsk. Here in exile. A photo slipped free from between two pages, as if putting forth a last attempt to escape its fate. I picked up the black-and-white portrait.

      Tired, hooded eyes, a long, dark beard, and his hair parted meticulously down the middle: Grigori Rasputin. Our friend. Our spell master. He healed Alexei, he counseled Mamma, and he had been about to teach me spell mastery…until they shot him. The Bolsheviks shot him as easily as they threw back a shot of vodka at the end of the day. Or the beginning of the day, depending on how many deaths weighed down their hands.

      Now they were coming for us.

      I threw Rasputin’s photo into the fire. That photo, more than any other, could get me in the most trouble if the approaching Bolsheviks conducted a search. Evidence of our connection with the spell master would work against us. And they were searching for any reason to condemn Papa, no matter that he’d abdicated the Russian throne.

      I snatched my book on spell mastery from my bedside table and shoved it on the bottom of our small bookshelf with the other volumes. It was a German translation—one the Russian guards likely couldn’t read—and I’d rebound it with the cover from a German book of folktales. Still, they’d find it if they tried hard enough.

      The clip, clip, clip of Papa’s polished boots sounded down the hallway. They passed my door, stopped, and then returned. The door opened and his calm beard-and-mustached face turned toward me. Nastya. They’re here.

      I shut the stove door and stood. Papa held himself straight and regal, despite his short stature. We walked down the chilled corridor together. In silence. Ex-tsar and ex-princess. We passed Alexei’s room and I glanced in. My thirteen-year-old brother lay thin and haggard on his bed, his skin yellow and

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