New YA Releasing August 22 2017 – Happy Book Birthday!

Welcome to my list of New YA Releasing August 22 2017!

HBB aims to include every traditionally published YA book. Indie authors, I’m happy to include indie titles if you shoot me an email with at a week or two notice.

Please let me know about books that came out this week that I might have missed! Some titles may have different release dates outside the US.

Click on the title of a book (in the list below the photos) to get to that book’s Goodreads page.

Happy Birthday to all the new YA Releasing August 22 2017!

After the Game (Field Party #3) by Abbi Glines (Simon Pulse)

The Arsonist by Stephanie Oakes (Dial)

Dress Codes for Small Towns by Courtney Stevens (Harper).

Mr. 60% by Clete Barrett Smith

Orphan, Agent, Prima, Pawn (Dukovskaya #3) by Elizabeth Kiem (Soho)

The year is 1958, and sixteen-year-old Svetlana is stuck in a Moscow orphanage designated for the unwanted children of Stalin’s enemies. Ballet is her obsession and salvation, her only hope at shedding a tainted family past. Sveta’s dream is to make a new life as a dancer.

Her dream comes true: she’s invited to join The Bolshoi Ballet, whose power as a symbol of Soviet prowess is unmatched—except perhaps by the dreaded KGB secret police. Sveta is stunned when officers show up at her door. Inexplicably, they know about a fainting spell she once had: a trance she slipped into. Something like a vision.

Some very powerful people believe Sveta is capable of serving the regime as much more than a dancer. They want to enlist her against the West as a psychic spy. She must explore this other talent if she is to erase the sins of her family, if she is to dance on the world stage for the Motherland—if she is to survive.

The Rattled Bones by S. M. Parker (Simon Pulse)

Unearthing years of buried secrets, Rilla Brae is haunted by ghostly visions tied to the tainted history of a mysterious island in this haunting novel from the author of The Girl Who Fell.

Maine-bred, independent Rilla Brae is no stranger to the deep. She knows the rhythms of hard work and harder seas. But when she experiences the sudden death of her father, the veil between the living and the dead blurs and she begins to be haunted by a girl on a nearby, uninhabited island. The girl floats a song over the waves, and it is as beautiful as it is terrifying. Familiar and distant.

Then Rilla meets Sam, a University of Southern Maine archeology student tasked with excavating the very island where the ghostly girl has appeared.

Sam tells Rilla the island has a history no locals talk about—if they know about it at all—due to the shame the events brought to the working waterfront community. All Rilla knows for sure is that the island has always been there—an eerie presence anchored in the stormy sea. Now Sam’s work and the ghostly girl’s song lure Rilla to the island’s shores.

As Rilla helps Sam to unearth the island’s many secrets, Rilla’s visions grow—until the two discover a tragedy kept silent for years. And it’s a tragedy that has everything to do with Rilla’s past. 

Thin Places by Lesley Choyce (Dundam)

Have you read any of these yet or are you planning to?