Beth Fehlbaum is the first-time author of Hope in Patience (WestSide Books, October 25, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Fifteen-year-old Ashley Asher has spent half of her life living in fear. Her stepfather has been sexually abusing her for years, but her mother doesn’t believe her.
After his latest assault lands her in the emergency room,
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Frank Dormer is the first-time author-illustrator of Socksquatch (Henry Holt, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Poor Socksquatch.
All he wants is two warm feet, but things aren’t going his way. Even his friends can’t help.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
What’s a monster to do?
Frank Dormer’s sweet, funny monster story will charm the socks off young readers.
Kiersten White is the first-time author of Paranormalcy (HarperTeen, 2010)(author blog). From the promotional copy:
Evie’s always thought of herself as a normal teenager, even though she works for the International Paranormal Containment Agency, her ex-boyfriend is a faerie, she’s falling for a shape-shifter, and she’s the only person who can see through paranormals’ glamours.
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Daniel and Dina Nayeri are the debut co-authors of the Another series (Candlewick, 2009-2010). From the promotional copy of Another Pan (2010):
An ancient Egyptian spell is turning the tony Marlowe School into a sinister underworld. Will all hell break loose?
A darkness continues to haunt the Marlowe School, and this time, someone is plotting payback.
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Gayle Brandeis is the first-time children’s author of My Life With The Lincolns (Henry Holt, 2010)(author blog). From the promotional copy:
Mina Edelman believes that she and her family are the Lincolns reincarnated. Her main task for the next three months: to protect her father from assassination, her mother from insanity,
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Ryan Potter is the first-time author of Exit Strategy (Flux, 2010)(blog). From the promotional copy:
Looming above Zach Ramsey’s hometown of Blaine are the smokestacks of the truck-assembly plant, the greasy lifeblood of this Detroit suburb. Surrounded by drunks, broken marriages, and factory rats living in fear of the pink slip,
Bethany Hegedus is the author of Between Us Baxters (WestSide, 2009) and Truth with a Capital T (Delacorte, 2010). From the promotional copy of Truth with a Capital T:
Lots of families have secrets. Little-Known Fact: My family has an antebellum house with a locked wing—and I’ve got a secret of my own.
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Tami Lewis Brown is the first-time author of Soar Elinor (FSG, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Elinor Smith was six when she first went for a ride in a rickety “flying machine,” and she was just sixteen when she earned her aviation license in 1928. But not everyone thought that girls should fly.
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Sara Beitia is the first-time author of The Last Good Place of Lily Odilon (Flux, 2010)(author blog). From the promotional copy:
We’ve been over this, he says. We have to get to her first.
I know! Olivia snaps. I’m keeping company with a suspected murderer and I’ve probably become an accessory at this point,
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Holly Cupala is the first-time author of Tell Me a Secret (HarperTeen, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Tell me a secret, and I’ll tell you one…
In the five years since her bad-girl sister Xanda’s death, Miranda Mathison has wondered about the secret her sister took to the grave, and what really happened the night she died.
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