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Devon Tennyson wouldn't change a thing. She's happy watching Friday night games from the bleachers, silently crushing on best friend Cas, and blissfully ignoring the future after high school. But the universe has other plans. It delivers Devon's cousin Foster, an unrepentant social outlier with a surprising talent for football, and the obnoxiously superior and maddeningly attractive star running back, Ezra, right where she doesn't want them-first into her P.E. class and then into every other aspect of her life.

Pride and Prejudice meets Friday Night Lights in this contemporary novel about falling in love- with the unexpected boy, with a new brother, and with yourself.

We are hosting a giveaway of LOVE FORTUNES AND OTHER DISASTERS by Kimberly Karalius on Goodreads! Enter now!

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Love is real in the town of Grimbaud, and Fallon Dupree has dreamed of attending high school there for years. After all, generations of Duprees have successfully followed the (100% accurate!) love fortunes from Zita’s famous Love Charms Shop to happily marry their high school sweethearts. It’s a tradition. So she is both stunned and devastated when her fortune states that she will NEVER find love. Fortunately, Fallon isn’t the only student with a terrible love fortune, and a rebellion is brewing. Fallon is determined to take control of her own fate—even if it means working with a notorious heartbreaker like Sebastian. Will Fallon and Sebastian be able to overthrow Zita’s tyranny and fall in love?

Look what we’ve got!! ARCs for TONIGHT THE STREETS ARE OURS by Leila Sales have come into the office!!

Check out the best bad publicity stunts for a book release from author of FINDING MR. BRIGHTSIDE, Jay Clark.

"How could someone hurt you so bad but you still wanted to hold him and tell him it was going to be okay?"

Why is it that some people in the world get to wake up in beautiful houses with fairly normal parents and enough food in the fridge while the rest of us have to get by on the scraps the universe throws at us? http://bit.ly/14rGHpi

"I could see dozens of scars.." 

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Heather Demetrios, author of I'LL MEET YOU THERE, wrote a letter to go along with ARCs. Read the letter here.

Exclusive Cover Reveal for JOYRIDE by Anna Banks!!

In honor of Leila Sales' THIS SONG WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE book-aniversary, Leila created a playlist of songs that have saved her fans' lives. 

Patrick Flores Scott created this great video for this book JUMPED IN.

Sam has the rules of slackerhood down: Don’t be late to class. Don’t ever look the teacher in the eye. Develop your blank stare. Since his mom left, he has become an expert in the art of slacking, especially since no one at his new school gets his intense passion for the music of the Pacific Northwest—Nirvana, Hole, Sleater-Kinney. Then his English teacher begins a slam poetry unit and Sam gets paired up with the daunting, scarred, clearly-a-gang-member Luis, who happens to sit next to him in every one of his classes. Slacking is no longer an option—Luis will destroy him. Told in Sam’s raw voice and interspersed with vivid poems, Jumped In by Patrick Flores-Scott is a stunning debut novel about differences, friendship, loss, and the power of words.

ReaLITy: Real Books for Real Teens

ReaLITy is a program designed to shine a light on Macmillan’s realistic literary fiction. These titles feature strong writing, important themes, and memorable voices. They are pathways to discussion about topics that impact the lives of today’s young adults. These are real books for real teens.