Eduardo F. Calcines is the first-time author of Leaving Glorytown: One Boy’s Struggle Under Castro (FSG, 2009). From the promotional copy:
Eduardo F. Calcines was a child of Fidel Castro’s Cuba; he was just three years old when Castro came to power in January 1959.
After that, everything changed for his family and his country.
Megan Frazer is the first-time author of Secrets of Truth & Beauty (Hyperion, 2009). From the promotional copy:
When Dara Cohen was little, she was a bright, shiny star. She was the cutest seven-year-old who ever sang Ella Fitzgerald, and it was no wonder she was crowned Little Miss Maine.
That was then.
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John C. Ford is the first-time author of The Morgue and Me (Viking, 2009). From the promotional copy:
Christopher just needed a job to kill time the summer after high school graduation. He didn’t expect it to be in the morgue. Or that he would accidentally discover a murder cover-up.
Or that his discovery would lead him to a full-blown investigation involving bribery,
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Kathryn Fitzmaurice is the first-time author of The Year the Swallows Came Early (HarperCollins, 2009). From the promotional copy:
Eleanor “Groovy” Robinson loves cooking and plans to go to culinary school just as soon as she’s old enough.
But even Groovy’s thoughtfully—planned menus won’t fix the things that start to go wrong the year she turns eleven—suddenly,
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Daniel Kraus is the first-time author of The Monster Variations (Delacorte, 2009). From the promotional copy:
Someone is killing boys in a small town. The murder weapon is a truck, and the only protection is a curfew enacted to keep kids off the streets.
But it’s summer—and that alone is worth the risk of staying out late for James,
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Jenny Moss is the first-time author of Winnie’s War (Walker, 2009). From the promotional copy:
A debut novel set against the backdrop of the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918.
Life in Winnie’s sleepy town of Coward Creek, Texas, is just fine for her. Although her troubled mother’s distant behavior has always worried Winnie,
Leigh Brescia is the first-time author of One Wish (WestSide, 2009). From the promotional copy:
Overweight Wrenn Scott desperately wants to be popular and snag a hot boyfriend. Living with her single mom and younger sister, Karly, she lands a lead role in the high school musical, her voice for once overshadowing her weight.
Charity Tahmaseb and Darcy Vance are the first-time authors of The Geek Girl’s Guide to Cheerleading (Simon Pulse, 2009). From the promotional copy:
When Bethany–self-proclaimed geek girl–makes the varsity cheerleading squad, she realizes that there’s one thing worse than blending in with the lockers: getting noticed.
She always felt comfortable as part of the nerd herd,
Sydney Salter is the debut author of My Big Nose and Other Natural Disasters (HM Harcourt/Graphia, 2009). From the promotional copy:
It’s the end of junior year, and summer is about to begin. The Summer of Passion, to be exact, when Jory Michaels plans to explore all the possibilities of the future–and,
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Debbie Gonzales is the first-time author of Birthday Skates, Charlie the Sleepy Bee, Kindness, Plunk! Dunk!, Raspberry Fizz, and Stormy, all to be published as part of the New Zealand’s Gilt Edge Readers Series, which will be released in winter 2009.
The books in the Gilt Edge Readers Series offer research-based multifaceted reading instruction to all children learning to read.
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