Broken Things by Lauren Oliver

Available October 2, 2018

Told in two voices:  Brynn and Mia were accused of killing their best friend Summer 5 years ago.  They were 11.  Now at 17 they are still dealing with the after affects of the loss of their friend and a past that won't let go.  They begin to relive and try to figure out what really happened to Summer by flashing back to the past, putting together pieces from interviewing people now, and talking to each other again.  Will definitely keep you guessing til the end and reading to find out what happens.

8th grade and up. 

Royal Academy Rebels: Misfits by Jen Calonita

Totally fun book.  Devin Nile is a princess, but she doesn't really want the typical princess life.  She is able to communicate with animals and wants to be a creature caretaker.  However, she is required to attend Royal Academy to hone her princess skills.  There she meets Raina White (Snow White's little sister), Sasha (Rose Briar's little Sister) and others.  The fairy godmother, Olivania, is the headmistress, but something is amiss at RA.  Olivania gives tests that seem to verge on destruction and Devin keeps getting in trouble for being herself and is in danger of failing out of RA and being banished.  Will she discover what is going on there??

Books coming to Movies 2018-19

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August 17, 2018

Suspicious and uneasy about the atmosphere at her new boarding school, fourteen-year-old Kit slowly realizes why she and the other three students at the school were selected.

September 21, 2018

A boy goes to live with his magician uncle in a mansion that has a clock hidden in the walls which is ticking off the minutes until doomsday.

October 2018 (AKA Ashes in the Snow)

In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family.

 March 2019 (AKA Chaos Walking)

Todd, one month away from an important birthday, learns all the tough lessons of adulthood when he is forced to flee after discovering a secret near the town where he lives.

August 2019

Twelve-year-old evil genius Artemis Fowl tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, but the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.

here's another one:

I'm not sure when it is supposed to come out.  

Sixteen-year-old Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so, while grappling with her feelings for a co-worker who is clearly attracted to her, Will and some other misfits prepare to compete in the beauty pageant her mother runs.

Do you know of any other books coming to movies?  Comment if you do :)

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

Let me just preface to say I can't wait to read the second book in the series.  

Mara Dyer is moving to a new town, new school because she needs to get away from her old life.  She and some friends were involved in an accident and she was the only one to survive.  How did she survive and no one else did?  New school...enter Noah Shaw.  He is different from anyone at the new private school.  She is not interested (but all the other girls are), but he is about the only one who seems to want to befriend her.  She finally relents to go out with him and finds out her brother and Noah have been conspiring to get them together.  As she grows closer with him she begins to share with him her past and all the strange things and Noah begins to help her unravel what is going on with her.

The Opposite of Innocent by Sonya Sones

Available September 4, 2018

Lily, 14 y.o., has been crushing on her parent's friends Luke for years.  He is back in the states and her parents invite him to stay with them until he finds a place of his own.  Lily thinks finally he will notice her, but he treats her just like he always did.  A little girl.  As she continues wanting him to notice her, she thinks he starts to, but does he really?  One day as he picked her up, he ends up kissing her and an inappropriate relationship starts.  Luke tells her they can't tell anyone, because they wouldn't understand.  Lily starts to get nervous and scared when she is around him.  She's also scared to tell.  What should she do and how does she get him to stop?

Written in Free Verse.  I felt a little uncomfortable reading this.  Definitely high school book.

Ebb & Flow by Heather Smith

Jett goes to visit his Grandma Jo for the summer.  His mom thinks it will be good for him. He and his grandma like to say puns, but Jett hopes she is not expecting the old him, because he's not there. They spend time on the beach, playing games, and paint rooms.  Jett did a bad thing and he is not his old self because of it.  He is trying to come to terms with it and get back to living.  

The book is told in Free Verse so it's a super fast read. :)

Greystone Secrets: The Strangers by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Available March 2, 2019

LOVE it!  I don't think I've read or heard of any book like it.  But it did remind me of "Stranger Things" a little which I can use to promote it to my students!  What a novel concept of an alternative world with our doppelgangers there.  Really gave me something to think about. 

There is mystery and intrigue from the beginning.  Three kids with their exact names and birthdays go missing in Arizona and then the Greystone kid's mom has to go somewhere on business and they must stay with a lady who they've never stayed with before.  They still go back to their house to check on their cat and when they do they find their mom's cell phone pre-programmed with text messages to them, her laptop, and the key to a room in the basement.  They discover that it has a secret tunnel to another house.  As they start to research about the missing kids, their mom's website designs, and other clues they begin to realize there is an alternate world and they are from there.