This(ese) Week(s) in YA- October 10(and 17), 2009

Random:

• You can help put The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School by Laurie Halse Anderson in Cheerios boxes. To find out how go to Laurie's post here.
• You can read Sarah Rees Breenan's account of how her tour with Scott Westerfeld is going on her blog here.
• Meg Cabot posted the cover for the fourth Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls book as well as the redesigned covers of the past books in the series on her blog here.
• The National Book Award finalists are up. You can find the list here.
• Lisa Mantchev is holding an Eyes Like Stars contest. Go to her blog here for more information.
• Melissa Marr posted an excerpt of Radiant Shadows, the fourth Wicked Lovely book coming out next year, on her blog here.
• Saundra Mitchell is posting a ghost story every month in honor of Trick or Treat 2009. She's also holding a giveaway for a huge treat (think cauldron of goodies huge). You can find out more information including how to enter on her post here.
• Diana Peterfreund is giving away signed copies of Graceling and Fire by Kristin Cashore. You can find out more on her blog here.
• Janni Lee Simner posted the cover for Thief Eyes on her blog here.
• Michelle Zink is holding a contest for lots of Halloween/horror-filled swag. You can find out more on her blog here.

Books that came out last week:

• Percival, Guardian of the King by Kent North and Susanne Lakin
• We Were Here by Matt de la Pena
• Vanishing Girl: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Third Case by Shane Peacock
• Tyranny by Lesley Fairfield
• Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd
• Ricky's Adventures by Rick S. Decker
• Mirrorscape by Mike Wilks
• Metamorphosis: Junior Year by Betsy Franco and Tom Franco
• Medina Hill by Trilby Kent
• Little Black Lies by Tish Cohen
• Lily Dale: Discovering by Wendy Corsi Staub
• Legacy by Tom Sniegoski
• Lady Macbeth's Daughter by Lisa Klein
  
• I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President by Josh Lieb
• Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
• The Goodbye Season by Marian Hale
• Girl in the Arena by Lise Haines
• Gifted: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow by Marilyn Kaye
• Finn the half-Great by Theo Caldwell
• Fat Cat by Robin Brande
• Death in the Air (The Boy Sherlock Holmes) by Shane Peacock
• Exposure by Mal Peet
• Dare to Be Scared 4: Thirteen More Tales of Terror by Robert D. San Souci and David Ouimet
• A Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle Cooper
• The Book of Samuel: A Novel by Erik Raschke
• Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher
• Miracle Girls #3: A Little Help from My Friends by Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt
• Hatter M, Vol. 2: Mad With Wonder by Frank Beddor, Liz Cavalier, and Sami Makkonen
• Gateway by Sharon Shinn
• The Dying Breath: Forensic Mystery by Alane Ferguson
• ArchEnemy: The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

Books that come out this week:

• October 19- The Other Side of Blue by Valerie O. Patterson
• October 19- The Day of the Pelican by Katherine Paterson
  
• October 19- Age 14 by Geert Spillebeen and Terese Edelstein
• October 19- Sistrsic92 (Meg) (Bloggrls) by Cheryl Dellasega
• October 19- Nothing Like You by Lauren Strasnick
• October 19- Never After by Dan Elconin
• October 19- The Islands of the Blessed by Nancy Farmer and Jon Foster
• October 19- Hold Still by Nina LaCour
• October 19- Dragonfly by Julia Golding
• October 19- Blackbriar by William Sleator
• October 19- Aaliyah (The Divas) by Victoria Christopher Murray
• October 19- The Shadrach Trilogy by Joy Cowley

-The YAthenaeum Team