Here is a selection of some recently released covers for upcoming YA books. Check the descriptions below for publishers, release dates and more.
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21 Proms by David Levithan & Daniel Ehrenhaft (eds.)
Publisher: Push
Release date: December 30th 2014
From an amazing array of authors including John Green, David Levithan, E. Lockhart, Libba Bray, Ned Vizzini, and Holly Black… Prom. It’s supposed to be one of the best nights of your life. Or, at least, you’re supposed to have a good time. But what if you’d rather be going with your best friend’s date than your own? What if a sinister underground society of students has spiked the punch? What if your date turns out to be more of a frog than a prince? Or what if he’s (literally) an ape?
Bleeding Earth by Kaitlin Ward
Publisher: Egmont
Release date: August 4th 2015
Lea was in a cemetery when the earth started bleeding. Within twenty-four hours, the blood made international news. All over the world, blood appeared out of the ground, even through concrete, even in water. Then the earth started growing hair and bones. Lea wants to ignore the blood. She wants to spend time with her new girlfriend, Aracely, and be a regular teen again, but the blood has made her a prisoner in her own home. Fear for her social life turns into fear for her sanity, and Lea must save herself and Aracely whatever way she can.
Burning Nation (Divided We Fall #2) by Trent Reedy
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Release date: January 27th 2015
Danny goes into hiding with his friends in order to remain free. But after the state declares itself a Republic, Idaho rises to fight in a second American Civil War, and Danny is right in the center of the action, running guerrilla missions with his fellow soldiers to break the Federal occupation. Yet what at first seems like a straightforward battle against governmental repression quickly grows more complicated, as more states secede, more people die, and Danny discovers the true nature of some of his new allies.
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Delicate Monsters by Stephanie Kuehn
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Release date: June 9th 2015
When nearly killing a classmate gets seventeen-year-old Sadie Su kicked out of her third boarding school in four years, she’s meant to stay out of trouble. But it’s hard. Emerson Tate’s a poor boy living in a rich town, with his widowed mother and strange, haunted little brother. An old childhood friend, Sadie knows his worst secrets. Haunted is a good word for fifteen-year-old Miles Tate. Miles can see the future, after all. And he knows his vision of tragic violence at his school will come true, because his visions always do. But can Miles stop the violence? Or has the future already been written? Maybe tragedy is his destiny. Maybe it’s all of theirs.
Dissonance (Dissonance #1) by Erica O’Rourke
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release date: July 21st 2015
Every time someone makes a choice, a new parallel world is spun off the existing one. As a Walker who can navigate between these realities, Del is training to help keep the dimensions in harmony. When Del secretly starts to investigate other dissonant worlds, she get tangled up with an Echo of her longtime crush. She knows she shouldn’t keep seeing him. But as Del persists, she uncovers a truth that the Council of Walkers is trying to hide—a secret that threatens the entire multiverse.
The Favorite (The Selection #2.5) by Kiera Cass
Publisher: HarperTeen Impulse
Release date: March 3rd 2015
While America Singer’s heart was torn between Aspen and Prince Maxon, her friend Marlee knew exactly what she wanted—and paid the price. Revisit the captivating world of Kiera Cass’s Selection series in this digital original novella. Told from Marlee’s point of view, this all-new 64-page story returns to the fateful Halloween when Marlee and Carter were discovered, and reveals how that night—and Prince Maxon—changed their lives forever.
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Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
Publisher: Penguin
Release date: March 10th 2015
Sixteen-year-old Austin Szerba interweaves the story of his Polish legacy with the story of how he and his best friend , Robby, brought about the rise of an army of six-foot tall praying mantises in small-town Iowa. To make matters worse, Austin is in love with his girlfriend, Shann, but remains confused about his sexual orientation. He’s stewing in a self-professed constant state of maximum horniness, directed at both Robby and Shann. Ultimately, it’s up to Austin to save the world and propagate the species in this sci-fright journey of survival, sex, and the complex realities of the human condition.
Infandous by Elana K. Arnold
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Release date: March 1st 2015
Sephora Golding lives in the shadow of her unbelievably beautiful mother. Even though they scrape by in the seedier part of Venice Beach, she’s always felt lucky. As a child, she imagined she was a minor but beloved character in her mother’s fairy tale. But now, at sixteen, the fairy tale is less Disney and more Grimm. And she wants the story to be her own. Then she meets Felix, and the fairy tale takes a turn she never imagined. Sometimes, a story is just a way to hide the unspeakable in plain sight.
Ink and Ashes by Valynne E. Maetani
Publisher: Lee and Low Books
Release date: May 15th 2015
Claire Takata has never known much about her father. But on the anniversary of his death, not long before her seventeenth birthday, she finds a mysterious letter from her deceased father, addressed to her stepfather. Claire never even knew that they had met. In search of answers, Claire combs through anything that will give her information about her father… until she discovers he was a member of the yakuza, the Japanese mafia. The discovery opens a door that should have been left closed.
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Not After Everything by Michelle Levy
Publisher: Dial/Penguin
Release date: August 4th 2015
Tyler has a football scholarship to Stanford, a hot girlfriend, and a reliable army of friends to party with. Then his mom kills herself. Now he needs to dodge his dad’s verbal tirades and abuse and earn what his dad isn’t (money). Tyler finds a job that crashes him into Jordyn, his former childhood friend turned angry-loner goth-girl. She brings Tyler an unexpected reprieve from the pity party his life has become. How could he not fall for her? But with his dad more brutally unpredictable than ever, Tyler knows he can’t risk bringing Jordyn too deeply into the chaos.
Resonance (Dissonance #2) by Erica O’Rourke
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release date: July 21st 2015
Del risked everything to save Simon, and now he’s gone, off in another world with no way for Del to find him. She’s back at the Consort—training to be a Walker like everyone in her family. But the Free Walkers have other plans for her. This rebel group is trying to convince Del that the Consort is evil, and that her parents are unwittingly helping the Consort kill millions of people. The Free Walkers make Del the ultimate promise: if Del joins their fight, she will be reunited with Simon.
The Trouble With Destiny by Lauren Morrill
Publisher: Delacorte
Release date: TBD
With her trusty baton and six insanely organized clipboards, drum major Liza Sanders is about to take Destiny by storm—the boat, that is. When Liza discovered that her band was losing funding, she found Destiny, a luxury cruise ship complete with a $25,000 spring break talent show prize. Liza can’t imagine senior year without the band, and nothing will distract her from achieving victory. But it’s not going to be smooth sailing. After the Destiny breaks down, all of Liza’s best-laid plans start to go awry. Liza likes to think of herself as an expert at everything, but when it comes to love, she’s about to find herself lost at sea.
