Danielle Joseph is the first-time author of Shrinking Violet (MTV/Pocket Books, 2009). From the promotional copy:
High school senior Teresa Adams is so painfully shy that she dreads speaking to anyone in the hallways or getting called on in class.
But in the privacy of her bedroom with her iPod in hand,
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Cynthea Liu is the author of Paris Pan Takes the Dare (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, June 11, 2009). From the promotional copy:
Twelve-year-old Paris Pan’s life is a mess. She’s just moved to a tiny town in Nowheresville, Oklahoma; her family life is a comical disaster; her new friends are more like frenemies;
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Cheryl Renée Herbsman is the author of Breathing (Viking, April 16, 2009). From the promotional copy:
What if the guy who took your breath away was the only one who could help you breathe?
Savannah would be happy to spend the summer in her coastal Carolina town lying in a hammock reading her beloved romance novels and working at the library.
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Deva Fagan is the first-time author of Fortune’s Folly (Henry Holt, April 14, 2009). From the promotional copy:
Ever since her mother died and her father lost his shoemaking skills, Fortunata has survived by telling fake fortunes. But when she’s tricked into telling a grand fortune for a prince, she is faced with the impossible task of fulfilling her wild prophecy–or her father will be put to death.
Erin Dionne is the first-time author of Models Don’t Eat Chocolate Cookies (Dial, 2009). From the promotional copy:
Thirteen-year-old Celeste Harris is no string bean, but comfy sweatpants and a daily chocolate cookie suit her just fine. Her under-the-radar lifestyle could have continued too, if her aunt hadn’t entered her in the HuskyPeach Modeling Challenge.
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Cindy Pon is the first-time author of Silver Phoenix: Beyond the Kingdom of Xia (HarperTeen, 2009). From the promotional copy:
No one wanted Ai Ling. And deep down she is relieved–despite the dishonor she has brought upon her family–to be unbetrothed and free, not some stranger’s subservient bride banished to the inner quarters.
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Ellen Jensen Abbott is the first-time author of Watersmeet (Marshall Cavendish, April 1, 2009). From the promotional copy:
From her birth, Abisina has been an outcast–for the color of her eyes and skin, and for her lack of a father. Only her mother’s status as the village healer has kept her safe.
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Rosanne Parry is the first-time author of Heart of a Shepherd (Random House, 2009). From the promotional copy:
Brother has never been the rancher that his father and the older boys are. Sure, he can ride a horse, rescue a wayward calf, or mend a broken fence, but his heart just doesn’t seem to be in it.
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J.T. Dutton is the first-time author of Freaked (Harper, 2009). From the promotional copy:
At a grateful dead concert you need: Acid: two windowpanes taped to chest
Checked Tape deck for recording shows
Checked Wad of cash
Checked PB&J sandwiches for the munchies
Missing Tickets to the show
Missing .45 handgun
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