YA Book Movies in 2015!

~Here are the YA books being made into movies this year~

Fallen

Author: Lauren Kate

Suspected in the death of her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Luce is sent to a Savannah, Georgia, reform school where she meets two intriguing boys and learns the truth about the strange shadows that have always haunted her.

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Starring: 

Luce: Addison Timlin (Zero Hour, Californication)

Daniel Gregori: Jeremy Irvine (Great Expectations, War Horse, Life Bites)

Movie release date:  no date set yet, but sometime in 2015, probably late this year

Paper Towns

Author: John Green

One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.

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Starring:

Quentin Jacobsen: Nat Wolff (The Fault in Our Stars - Isaac)

Margo Roth Spiegelman:  Cara Delevingne (Anna Karenina)

Release Date:  

June 5th 2015

The DUFF

Author: Kody Keplinger

Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper starts sleeping with Wesley Rush, a notorious womanizer who disgusts her, in order to distract her from her personal problems, and to her surprise, the two of them find they have a lot in common and are able to help each other find more productive ways to deal with their difficulties.

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Starring:

Bianca Piper: Mae Whitman (Parenthood, Arrested Development)

Wesley Rush: Robbie Amell (Flash, Tomorrow People, Revenge)

Release Date: 

February 20th 2015

Insurgent

Author: Veronica Roth

As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.

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Starring:

Tris Prior: Shailene Woodley (Divergent, The Fault in Our Stars) 

Four/Tobias: Theo James (Divergent, Golden Boy)

Release Date:

March 20 2015

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 2

Author: Suzanne Collins

Katniss Everdeen's having survived the Hunger games twice makes her a target of the Capitol and President Snow, as well as a hero to the rebels who will succeed only if Katniss is willing to put aside her personal feelings and serve as their pawn.

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Starring:

Katniss Everdeen: Jennifer Lawrence (Hunger Games, Silver Linings Playbook)

Peeta Mellark: Josh Hutcherson (Hunger Games, Epic)

Gale Hawthorne: Liam Hemsworth (Hunger Games, Expendables 2)

Release date:

November 20 2015

Other movies in development (being worked on, but not yet actively filming or anything like that):

• A Great and Terrible Beauty
• Scorpio Races
• Wicked Loveley
• Wither
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
• Diviners
• Daughter of Smoke and Bone
• Matched

Your newest summer reads...July books! Part 1

Here they are guys and gals, new books for July!

The Story of Us by Deb Caletti

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After jilting two previous fiances, Cricket's mother is finally marrying the right man, but as wedding attendees arrive for a week of festivities, complications arise for Cricket involving her own love life, her beloved dog Jupiter, and her mother's reluctance to marry.

Incarnate by Jodi Meadows

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Ana is new. For thousands of years in Range, a million souls have been reincarnated over and over, keeping their memories and experiences from previous lifetimes. When Ana was born, another soul vanished, and no one knows why.  Even Ana's own mother thinks she's a nosoul, an omen of worse things to come, and has kept her away from society. To escape her seclusion and learn whether she'll be reincarnated, Ana travels to the city of Heart, but its citizens are suspicious and afraid of what her presence means.

DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend by Kody Keplinger

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Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper starts sleeping with Wesley Rush, a notorious womanizer who disgusts her, in order to distract her from her personal problems, and to her surprise, the two of them find they have a lot in common and are able to help each other find more productive ways to deal with their difficulties.

The Game of Triumphs by Laura Powell

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Fifteen-year-old Cat and three other London teens are drawn into a dangerous game in which Tarot cards open doorways into a different dimension and while there is everything to win, losing can be fatal.

Tempest by Julie Cross

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After his girlfriend Holly is fatally shot during a violent struggle, nineteen-year-old Jackson uses his supernatural abilities and travels back in time two years, where he falls in love with Holly all over again, learns that his father is a spy, and discovers powerful enemies of time who will stop at nothing to recruit him for their own purposes.

New books for October (Part 4)

iDrakula by Bekka Black

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18-year-old Jonathan Harker is diagnosed with a rare blood disorder after visiting a Romanian Count. His girlfriend Mina and a pre-med student named Van Helsing team up to investigate the source of the disease. The teenagers discover a horrifying truth: the Count is a vampire. The harrowing events unfold through emails, text messages, web pages, Twitter feeds, and instant messaging-the natural modernization of Bram Stoker's original Dracula, which was written in letters, diary entries, and news clippings.

 Vanish by Sophie Jordan

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To save the life of the boy she loves, Jacinda did the unthinkable: She betrayed the most closely-guarded secret of her kind. Now she must return to the protection of her pride knowing she might never see Will again—and worse, that because his mind has been shaded, Will’s memories of that fateful night and why she had to flee are gone. 

 Shut Out by Kody Keplinger

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Fed up with the increasingly violent rivalry between the football and soccer teams at Hamilton High, Lissa and other players' girlfriends go on strike, but the girls will succeed only if their libidos can be controlled longer than the boys' can.

Money Boy by Paul Yee

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Ray Liu knows he should be happy. He lives in a big suburban house with all the latest electronic gadgets, and even finds plenty of time to indulge in his love of gaming. He needs the escape. It’s tough getting grades that will please his army veteran father, when speaking English is still a struggle. And he can’t quite connect with his gang at high school — immigrants like himself but who seem to have adjusted to North American life more easily. Then his father accesses Ray’s internet account, and discovers Ray has been cruising gay websites. Before Ray knows what has hit him, his belongings have been thrown on the front lawn, and he has been kicked out. 

 First Kill by Heather Brewer

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The summer before ninth grade, when Joss sets off to meet his uncle and hunt down the beast that murdered his younger sister three years earlier, he learns he is destined to join the Slayer Society.