Leah Cypess is the first-time author of Mistwood (Greenwillow/HarperCollins, 2010). From the promotional copy:
The Shifter is an immortal creature bound by an ancient spell to protect the kings of Samorna. When the realm is peaceful, she retreats to the Mistwood. But when she is needed she always comes.
Isabel remembers nothing.
Jacqueline Houtman is the first-time author of The Reinvention of Edison Thomas (Front Street, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Science geek Eddy Thomas can invent useful devices to do anything, except solve his bully problem.
Eddy Thomas can read a college physics book, but he can’t read the emotions on the faces of his classmates at Drayton Middle School.
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Irene Latham is the first-time author of Leaving Gee’s Bend (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Ludelphia Bennett may be blind in one eye, but that doesn’t mean she can’t put in a good stitch. In fact, Ludelphia sews all the time, especially when things are going wrong.
But when Mama gets deathly ill,
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Ann Finnin is the first-time YA author of The Sorcerer of Sainte Felice (Flux, 2010). From the promotional copy:
“I was only an apprentice. I swear it. By all the angels in Heaven.”
Condemned to death by the Holy Office for sorcery, fifteen-year-old Michael de Lorraine is rescued from the flames by Abbot Francis and granted refuge at Sainte Felice,
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N.H. Senzai is the first-time author of Shooting Kabul (Paula Wiseman/Simon & Schuster, 2010)(chapter one). From the promotional copy:
Fadi never imagined he’d start middle school in Fremont, California, thousands of miles away from home in Kabul. But, here he was, half a world apart from his missing six-year-old sister who’d been lost because of him,
Shannon Delany is the first-time author of 13 to Life (St. Martin’s, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Something strange is stalking the small town of Junction…
When junior Jess Gillmansen gets called out of class by Guidance, she can only presume it’s for one of two reasons. Either they’ve finally figured out who wrote the scathing anti-jock editorial in the school newspaper,
Marianne Malone is the first-time author of The Sixty-Eight Rooms (Random House, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms.
Housed deep within the Art Institute of Chicago, they are a collection of sixty-eight exquisite – almost eerily realistic miniature rooms.
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Ricki Thompson is the first-time author of City of Cannibals (Front Street, 2010). From the promotional copy:
“You will not show yourself to the boy.”
“Yes. I mean, I won’t, Father.”
“Or venture past your mother’s cross.”
He gripped his spoon as if it were a knife.
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Josh Berk is the first-time author of The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin (Knopf, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Being a hefty, deaf newcomer almost makes Will Halpin the least popular guy at Coaler High.
But when he befriends the only guy less popular than him, the dork-namic duo has the smarts and guts to figure out who knocked off the star quarterback.
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Lindsey Leavitt is the first-time author of Princess for Hire (Hyperion, 2010). From the promotional copy:
When an immaculately dressed woman steps out of an iridescent bubble and asks you if you’d like to become a substitute princess, do you a) run b) faint c) say Yes!
For Desi Bascomb,
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