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Comments Showing 1-25 of 25 (25 new)

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message 1: by Jasmine (new)

Jasmine Removed Sky Raiders— Sky Raiders (Five Kingdoms, #1) by Brandon Mull — as it's a 2014 book, not 2017.


message 2: by Ella (new)

Ella Can someone please remove At Your Service and You're Invited, which have both been released already.


message 3: by Andréa (new)

Andréa It's Me, Clover is on the list and is being published this year, but its Goodreads record shows it was published previously in 2015. Should it be removed?


message 4: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart I'm not sure about It's Me, Clover. It might have been originally scheduled for 2015, but I couldn't find any evidence of it having actually been released. Still seems to be pending.


message 5: by Andréa (new)

Andréa Rainbowheart wrote: "I'm not sure about It's Me, Clover. It might have been originally scheduled for 2015, but I couldn't find any evidence of it having actually been released. Still seems to be pending."

Weird. I just did some digging, too, and could also only find the pending edition. I don't know where that 2015 info on Goodreads came from...


message 6: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Sometimes the original release date changes, and no one ever updates the Goodreads info. You have to edit the box all the way down at the bottom, so I bet they forget. I'll go change it now.


message 7: by Serina (new)

Serina Thank you for this list!


message 8: by Booklo (new)

Booklo I can't to read these books because they seem so interesting!!!!!!!!


message 9: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Removed The Tundra Trials, which got an earlier 2016 release.


message 10: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Removed My Perfect Me and P.S. I Miss You, both of which got pushed to 2018.


message 11: by Megan (new)

Megan Removed The Whisper in the Stone by Kamilla Benko. It's been pushed back to Feb 2018


message 12: by Rainbowheart (last edited May 03, 2017 08:22PM) (new)

Rainbowheart Removed Love Sugar Magic, The Art of the Swap, and Pip Bartlett #3, which got pushed to 2018.


message 13: by Brenna (new)

Brenna Lindgren I recomend EVERY BOOK ON THIS LIST


message 14: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Removed Too Much Space, The Whisper in the Stone, The Problim Children, The Science of Breakable Things, The Greatest Story Ever Bowled, and Peasprout Chen, Future Legend of Skate and Sword, which all got pushed to 2018.


message 15: by Kristin (new)

Kristin The Hate U Give #243 is YA, not MG.


message 16: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Thanks for the heads up, Kristin. I removed that one.


message 17: by Kristin (new)

Kristin Rainbowheart wrote: "Thanks for the heads up, Kristin. I removed that one."

It's baaaack at # 259. ;) Also, Everything Everything # 195 is YA.


message 18: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart So it is! I removed those two. Thanks for the heads up. :)


message 19: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Removed Wizardmatch, The Playground, Weaving a Net is Better Than Praying for Fish, Clem Hetherington and the Ironwood Race, and The Thrifty Guide to the American Revolution, which all got pushed to 2018.


message 20: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Removed for having release date delayed until 2018 or later....

Glitch
Lifeboat 12
Miracle Molly
Threadworlds
The Searchers
Blobby Blobson
Pocket Geniuses
Untitled by An Na
The Shadow Clock
Feathers Like Rain
The Book of Daniel
Far Sight, Deep Time
Here Comes Trouble
Genesis Begins Again
When She Came Back
A Small Zombie Problem
The Wilder Cats of Piran
The Penderwicks at Last
The Dark Lord's Daughter
Untitled Dungeoneers #3
Everything I Know About You
Al Capone Throws Me a Curve
Clivo Wren and the Fall of Phoenix
My Life as an Ice-Cream Sandwich


message 21: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Removed several Richard Peck books, none of which were 2017.


message 22: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Removed Blood and Fire by Marcus Alexander. This is a 2014 release.


message 23: by Lisa (new)

Lisa Castellano Moto & Me #199 is nonfiction


message 24: by Tabitha (new)

Tabitha Could Where the Crawdads Sing be removed because it is not a middle grade book?


message 25: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Thanks for the heads up! I removed that one.


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