Accepting the Comtemps Challenge

There is a new challenge in the blogosphere, and I for one am more than a little excited about it. 

The Comtemps Challenge is hosted by a group of YA authors with contemporary novels releasing over the course of the next year. Their website states, "We are passionate about realistic fiction because these are the books that remind us we're not alone in this real world. Our mission is simple - to spotlight contemporary fiction for young adults through blog posts, author events, and (over)sharing from our teen years" 

By accepting the challenge I am promising to read 18 to 21 upcoming contemporary novel starting now and ending August 15, 2011.

Here are the books:

1. Losing Faith by Denise Jaden
2. The DUFF by Kody Keplinger
3. Girl Stolen by April Henry 9/5
4. Freefall by Mindi Scott
5. The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney
6. Fixing Delilah by Sarah Ockler
7. Fall For Anything by Courtney Summers 2/5
8. Trapped by Michael Northrop
9. Rival by Sarah Bennet Wealer
10. Sean Griswold's Head by Lindsey Leavitt
11. Like Mandarin by Kirsten Hubbard
12. Family by Micol Ostow
13. Back When You Were Easier to Love by Emily Wing Smith
14. Pearl by Jo Knowles
15. Saving June by Hannah Harrington
16. The Day Before by Lisa Schroeder
17. Small Town Sinners by Melissa Walker
18. Between Here and Forever by Elizabeth Scott
19. The third book in the Carter series by Brent Crawford
20. Sharks & Boys by Kristen Tracy
21. Want to Go Private? by Sarah Darer Littman

Thanks to Michelle and Leslie's Book Picks for turning me onto this great challenge.

So are you up to the challenge too?