Tracy Trivas is the first-time children’s author of The Wish Stealers (Simon & Schuster, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Griffin Penshine is always making wishes. But when a sinister old woman tricks her into accepting a box of eleven shiny Indian Head pennies from 1897, Griffin soon learns these are no ordinary pennies,
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Mindi Scott is the first-time author of Freefall (Simon Pulse, 2010). From the promotional copy:
How do you come back from the point of no return?
Seth McCoy was the last person to see his best friend Isaac alive, and the first to find him dead. It was just another night,
Matthew J. Kirby is the first-time author of The Clockwork Three (Scholastic, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Three ordinary children are brought together by extraordinary events. . .
Giuseppe is an orphaned street musician from Italy, who was sold by his uncle to work as a slave for an evil padrone in the U.S.
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Jacqueline West is the first-time author of The Books of Elsewhere, Volume One: The Shadows (Dial, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Old Ms. McMartin is definitely dead. Now her crumbling Victorian mansion lies vacant.
When eleven-year-old Olive and her dippy mathematician parents move in, she knows there’s something odd about the place–not least the walls covered in strange antique paintings.
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Matt Myklusch is the first-time author of Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation (Aladdin, 2010). From the promotional copy:
All Jack Blank knows is his bleak, dreary life at St. Barnaby’s Home for the Hopeless, Abandoned, Forgotten, and Lost, an orphanage that sinks further into the swampland of New Jersey with each passing year.
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M. G. King is the first-time author of Librarian on the Roof! A True Story, illustrated by Stephen Gilpin (Albert Whitman, 2010). From the promotional copy:
When RoseAleta Laurell begins her new job at the Dr. Eugene Clark Library in Lockhart, Texas, she is surprised that the children of the town think the library is for adults.
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Jessica Leader is the first time author of Nice and Mean (Aladdin MIX, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Nice and Mean by Jessica Leader is a hilarious story about two girls–one nice, one mean–facing off in their middle school video elective.
Are you a plotter or a plunger? Do you outline first,
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Shari Maurer is the first-time author of Change of Heart (WestSide, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, popular varsity soccer star Emmi comes down with an ordinary virus. But when she doesn’t bounce back as always, she gets the worst possible news—she’s had myocarditis that’s destroyed her heart,
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Eden Maguire is the first-time author of Beautiful Dead (Book 1 – Jonas)(Sourcebooks, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Not alive. Not dead. Somewhere in between lie the Beautiful Dead.
Something strange is happening at Ellerton High. Phoenix is the fourth teenager to die within a year. His street-fight stabbing follows the deaths of Jonas,
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Chiêu Anh Urban is the first-time author of Raindrops: A Shower of Colors, illustrated by Viviana Garofoli (Sterling, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Look—a rainbow of colors is showering down on the animals!
This very simple, beautiful, and innovative concept book shows children how primary colors magically blend to create secondary ones.
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