I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

Releasing September 16, 2014 from Dial

A brilliant, luminous story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, David Levithan, and Rainbow Rowell

Jude and her brother, Noah, are incredibly close twins. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude surfs and cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and divisive ways . . . until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as an unpredictable new mentor. The early years are Noah’s story to tell. The later years are Jude’s. What the twins don’t realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they’d have a chance to remake their world.
 
This radiant, fully alive, sometimes very funny novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Sky Is Everywhere will leave you breathless and teary and laughing—often all at once.

Why I love the cover:

This cover is absolutely beautiful. It is so colorful and happy and simple, that I love it.

“Shouldn’t You be in School?” (All the Wrong Questions book 3) by Lemony Snicket

Releasing September 30, 2014 from Little, Brown BFYR

Is Lemony Snicket a detective or a smoke detector?
Do you smell smoke? Young apprentice Lemony Snicket is investigating a case of arson but soon finds himself enveloped in the ever-increasing mystery that haunts the town of Stain’d-by-the-Sea. Who is setting the fires? What secrets are hidden in the Department of Education? Why are so many schoolchildren in danger? Is it all the work of the notorious villain Hangfire? How could you even ask that? What kind of education have you had?
Maybe you should be in school?

Why I love the cover:

First things first, the first line of the summary: LOL. *crack up* I love Seth’s art—I love that it is all one hue and he plays around with it and makes it really cool. His art is so mysterious and it suits Lemony Snicket perfectly. Then he adds the blue box with the words and it stands out and it becomes a wonderful cover. *applauds*

What covers are YOU lovin’?

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