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Review: Seven Percent of Ro Devereux by Ellen O’Clover

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Remember the game Mansion Apartment Shack House (MASH)? It’s a fun kids game that tells you your future. For her senior project, Ro Devereux decided to create an app version of the popular children’s game that can predict your future with 93% accuracy.

With the help of her family friend Vera, a behavioral scientist, Ro was able to ask participants the right questions, while handling the coding side.

Ro never planned on her app becoming big. She just wanted to create it to prove to her dad that she doesn’t need college because she’s ready to start her career out of high school. But when Ro’s influencer cousin promotes online, MASH starts getting hundreds of thousands of downloads.

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Review: This Is the Way the World Ends by Jen Wilde

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Waverly sticks out at her prestigious Manhattan school, Webber Academy. She’s from Queens, low-income, autistic and queer, so most of the time she feels out of place at school.

To make extra money, Waverly tutors the rich kids at her school, including the beautiful and popular Caroline. One day when Waverly is at Caroline’s house, Caroline gives Waverly an expensive gown and accessories. The reason: Caroline doesn’t feel like going to the Masquerade Ball, the dean’s annual fundraising event.

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Review: Wait for Me by Sara Shepard

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Do you believe in reincarnation?

Sara Shepard asks readers to be open to the possibility.

Casey Rhodes already lives an unconventional life. At 17, she’s a sophomore at NYU and dating Marcus Coleman, one of the most eligible men in NYC. At an exclusive holiday party thrown by her boyfriend’s father, Casey hears a voice inside her head. One that makes her blood go cold.

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Review: Where There’s a Whisk by Sarah J. Schmitt

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Top Chef meets Love From Scratch in Schmitt’s Where There’s a Wisk. Peyton Sinclaire wants to escape her terrible life in North Florida. When she gets a chance to compete on Top Teen Chef, Food TV’s new reality show, Peyton jumps at the chance to spend the summer in Manhattan.

The winner receives a culinary scholarship, which would change Peyton’s life. But things aren’t so easy when you have people out to get you, snarky judges and cameras in your face 24/7. With seven other teen chefs competing for the prize, Peyton doesn’t know who she can trust and who has the fake TV persona.

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Review: When You Get the Chance by Emma Lord

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Millie Price wants nothing more than to be a Broadway Star. She loves living in NYC and can’t imagine spending her life anywhere else. But when she gets into a prestigious theatre program in Los Angeles for her senior year, Millie jumps at the chance to further her career.

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Review: Girl off the Grid by Jillian Dodd and Kenzie Harp

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Camille Caldwell, NYC fashion blogger and college student, gets offered an amazing opportunity at her favorite magazine. Camille gets to all-expenses paid eco-trip to Costa Rica for a week. The only thing she has to is write about her experiences as soon as gets home and give up social media for the week. Camille has no idea what to expect since she has never travelled before, but she imagines herself lounging on the beach and looking fabulous.

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Review: The Witch Haven by Sahsa Peyton Smith

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It’s New York City in 1911. Frances Hallowell is an ordinary seamstress who lives with the other girls she works with. Her life changes forever when she kills a man who is trying to attack her. Except, she never moved a muscle. 

Afraid of the impending murder investigation, Frances tries to lay low when a couple of women whisk her away from Manhattan to a place called Haxahaven Academy located in Queens. 

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Morgan Matson’s YA Books Ranked

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Morgan Matson is one of our favorite authors for YA contemporary books. Her books are perfect beach reads, that’s why we’re posting  our thoughts on her books in August. Have you read Matson before? Let us know your favorite book in the comments. 

1. The Unexpected Everything

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Andie, the daughter of a U.S. Senator Connecticut, had her entire life planned out. She’d score an amazing internship and have a memorable summer with her friends before senior year. Too bad the universe had other plans. Her summer internship falls through and she has to take a job as a dog walker. To make matters worse, a political scandal threatens her relationship with her dad and upends her life. But when she meets Clark, one of her clients, she realizes that not everything needs a plan and that letting go can lead to the unexpected.

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Book vs TV Show: Tiny Pretty Things

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Amazon.com: Tiny Pretty Things (9780062342409): Charaipotra, Sona, Clayton, Dhonielle: Books

Warning: Spoilers if you haven’t read the book series or watched the TV show. 

Late last year, Tiny Pretty Things released on Netflix. We had to watch it as soon as we saw the trailer. How could we resist a dark mystery set at a hyper-competitive ballet school? 

The book by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton was published in May 2015. We read the book recently and couldn’t wait to compare it to the show. 

While the show has not been renewed yet for a season 2, we hope it gets one. After all, the book has a sequel titled Shiny Broken Pieces. We’re excited to see what happens next in both the book and TV show. 

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YA City Guide: New York City

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Do you want to travel right now but you don’t have the time? We can help by providing our readers with book recommendations! The YA City Guide is a new feature on our blog where we recommend great books set in a major city. If you haven’t already, check out our previous city guides for Paris and London. 

This YA City Guide is all about New York City! The city that never sleeps. The Big Apple. We admit, we became obsessed with NYC because of Gossip Girl. We used to dream of strolling the streets of the Upper East Side like Blair and Serena.

Keep reading to learn about some of our favorite YA books set in NYC! Did we mention any of your favorites? Let us know in the comments.

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