This Week in YA- September 26, 2009

Random:

• Ally Carter posted mini-FAQs on her blog here.
• Tera Lynn Childs posted about the different superpowers in her book Goddess Boot Camp on her blog here.
• Melissa de la Cruz had a chat on the Blue Bloods forum and posted the transcript on her blog here.
• Stacey Jay is giving away an ARC of Undead Much? to someone who sends her something inspired by You Are So Undead to Me. To find out more go to her blog here.
• Danielle Joseph is heading a campaign to save Shrinking Violet from being put on back order. To find out how you can help go to her blog here. She's also running a contest there as well.
• Melissa Marr posted a few randomly requested excerpts of her new book, Radiant Shadows, and short story, "Stopping Time", on her blog here. She also answered questions about religion/copyediting, tours/events, and her office.
• Carrie Ryan posted new covers for The Forest of Hands and Teeth and The Dead-Tossed Waves on her blog here.
• Janni Lee Simner posted the flap copy of Thief Eyes on her blog here.
• Maggie Stiefvater is having a contest in honor of her new book Ballad. Find out more information, including how to enter, on her blog here.

Books that came out last week:

• The Well by A. J. Whitten
• Wish You Were Dead by Todd Strasser
• Voices in the Dark: The Last Descendants #2 by Catherine Banner
• Sphinx's Princess by Esther Friesner
• Riot by Walter Dean Myers
• The Pricker Boy by Reade Scott Whinnem
• The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
• The Magician's Elephant: Special Signed Edition by Kate DiCamillo and Yoko Tanaka
• The Long Wait for Tomorrow by Joaquin Dorfman
• The Hunting, Book One: Z. Rex by Steve Cole
• The Hunchback Assignments by Arthur Slade
• Homestretch by Paul Volponi
• Going Bovine by Libba Bray
• Eli the Good by Silas House
• Devoured by Amanda Marrone
• Candor by Pam Bachorz
• Blue Plate Special by Michelle D. Kwasney

Books that come out this week:

• September 29- The Squire's Quest by Gerald Morris
• September 29- Rapture of the Deep: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Soldier, Sailor, Mermaid, Spy by L. A. Meyer
• September 29- Panama by Shelby Hiatt
• September 29- Leigh Ann's Civil War by Ann Rinaldi a
• September 29- Jungle Crossing by Sydney Salter
• September 29- The Waking: Dreams of the Dead by Thomas Randall
• September 29- Spellbinder by Helen Stringer
• September 29- Ride Wit' Me by Deja King
• September 29- Pastworld by Ian Beck

  My Invented Life by Lauren Bjorkman
• September 29- Liar by Justine Larbalestier
• September 29- Leven Thumps and the Ruins of Alder by Obert Skye
• September 29- Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern
• September 29- In the Path of Falling Objects by Andrew Smith
• September 29- Elphame's Choice by P.C. Cast
• September 29- Secret Society by Tom Dolby
• September 29- Demon Princess: Reign or Shine by Michelle Rowen
• September 29- Crossing Stones by Helen Frost
• September 29- The Caves of Kazoo by Ron G. Copeland
• September 29- Cat O'Nine Tails by Julia Golding
• September 29- Betraying Season by Marissa Doyle
• September 30- The Ring by Bobbie Pyron
• September 30- Listen by Nancy Coffelt
• Ocotober 1- The Winter Drey: The Trilogy of the Tree, Part II by Sean Dixon
• Ocotober 1- The Vampire Is Just Not That Into You by Vlad Mezrich
• Ocotober 1- This Girl Isn't Shy, She's Spectacular by Nina Beck
• Ocotober 1- A Summer of Silk Moths by Margaret Willey
• Ocotober 1- Star in the Middle by Carol Larese Millward
• Ocotober 1- Something Terrible Happened on Kenmore by Marci Stillerman
• Ocotober 1- Saved by the Music by Selene Castrovilla

-The YAthenaeum Team