The 2012 Author Debut Challenge

CHALLENGE OBJECTIVE:

* To read & review a minimum of twelve young adult or middle grade debut novels between the dates of January 1, 2012 - January 31, 2013.*

*The 2013 extension is so that December Debuts can be read and count toward the challenge.

* Any advance reader copies you read from 2012 BEFORE the January 1st start date DO NOT count toward the challenge!
* You can read twelve books in one month, or one book a month. It doesn't matter as long as you have 12 read by the end of the year!


RULES & GUIDELINES:

* You must have a Blog to post your reviews or be a member of Goodreads.
* Your blog must be written in English.
* Deadline to join is May 31, 2012.

BOOK GUIDELINES:

* Must be a young adult or middle grade title.
* Must be the author’s YA or MG debut, released in 2012.
* If an author has a previous novel published for adults or children, they can still qualify for the challenge.
* If an author has a previous YA or MG title, they do not qualify for the challenge.
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I figure I should go ahead and sign up for this I signed up for this years and I have done a terrible job  -hangs head- I'm hoping next year will be better. There are some awesome sounding books coming out. Yea!

1. Incarnate by Jodi Meadows
2. Everneath by Brodi ashton
3. Under the never sky by Veronica Rossi
4. Something strange and deadly by Susan Dennard
5. Harbinger by Sara Wilson Etienne
6. Sweet evil by Wendy Higgins
7. The Vanishing Game by Kate kae Myers
8. Halflings by Heather Burch
9. The Catastrophic History of You and Me by Jess Rothenburg
10. When the sea is rising red by Cat Hellisen
11.Fracture by Megan Miranda
12. Struck by Jennifer Bosworth