Can't Wait Wednesday!

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week I can't wait for 

Better Than the Best Plan
Lauren Morrill
Age/Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Release Date: June 25, 2019
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Lauren Morrill's Better Than the Best Plan is a fresh, funny, romantic YA novel about a teenage girl who finds an unexpected silver lining in her life when plans get turned upside down.

Plans are made to be broken.

It’s the last day of junior year, and seventeen-year-old Ritzy—short for Maritza—is pretty sure she has a great plan. Summer job—check. Hang with friends at the beach—check. Keep looking after herself as she’s been doing since her mom bailed to follow her bliss—check. Or no check?

After someone reports that Ritzy is living alone, a social worker shows up and puts her into foster care. That’s surprise enough. Even more surprising? Ritzy has been in foster care before, as an infant, and the woman who cared for her then takes her in again. But maybe the greatest surprise of all for Ritzy is that living with her foster mother, Kristin, in Kristin’s gorgeous house, isn’t all that bad. And neither is the cute, friendly boy next door. If Ritzy’s mom hadn’t gotten her back all those years ago, this is the life she could have had. But is it the life she should have had?

When Ritzy’s old life catches up with her new one, she has some decisions to make. Can she plan for the worst, but still hope for the best?

Why I want to read this book

I have read and enjoyed other books by Morrill, so I am always willing to take a chance on one of her books, but I loved the premise too. Ritzy is reunited with the woman, who fostered her as an infant. What are the chances? I am also curious to find out what sort of choices she will be faced with and what choices she will make.

Technically, You Started It
Lana Wood Johnson
Age/Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Release Date: June 25, 2019
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When a guy named Martin Nathaniel Munroe II texts you, it should be obvious who you're talking to. Except there's two of them (it's a long story), and Haley thinks she's talking to the one she doesn't hate.

A question about a class project rapidly evolves into an all-consuming conversation. Haley finds that Martin is actually willing to listen to her weird facts and unusual obsessions, and Martin feels like Haley is the first person to really see who he is. Haley and Martin might be too awkward to hang out in real life, but over text, they're becoming addicted to each other.

There's just one problem: Haley doesn't know who Martin is. And Martin doesn't know that Haley doesn't know. But they better figure it out fast before their meet-cute becomes an epic meet-disaster . . .

Why I want to read this book

My understanding is that this book is told via text messages. I am always up for an alternate format book, and I like that it starts with an accidental text and a case of mistaken identity. I am really eager to find out what happens, when Haley discovers which Martin she has been getting to know better. Sounds like a rom-com setup to me.

What are you waiting on?

Let us know in the comments!