Holly Nicole Hoxter is the first-time author of The Snowball Effect (HarperTeen, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Lainey Pike can tell you everything you need to know about the people in her family just by letting you know how they died. Her reckless stepfather drove his motorcycle off the highway and caused the biggest traffic jam in years.
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Dia Reeves is the first-time author of Bleeding Violet (Simon Pulse, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Love can be a dangerous thing….
Hanna simply wants to be loved. With a head plagued by hallucinations, a medicine cabinet full of pills, and a closet stuffed with frilly, violet dresses, Hanna’s tired of being the outcast,
Janet S. Fox is the debut novelist of Faithful (Speak/Penguin, 2010). From the promotional copy:
In 1904 Margaret Bennet has it all – money, position, and an elegant family home in Newport, Rhode Island.
But just as she is to enter society, her mother ruins everything, first with public displays,
Alyxandra Harvey is the first-time author of The Drake Chronicles—Hearts At Stake (My Love Lies Bleeding in UK)(Dec., 2009-Jan., 2010); Blood Feud (June, 2010) and Out for Blood (Nov. 2010), all from Bloomsbury Walker Books. From the promotional copy:
On Solange’s sixteenth birthday, she is going to wake up dead.
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Elizabeth Eulberg is the first-time author of The Lonely Hearts Club (Point/Scholastic, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Love is all you need…or is it?
Penny is sick of boys and sick of dating, so she vows: No more. She’s had one too many bad dates, and has been hurt by one too many bad boys.
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Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich is the first-time author of 8th Grade Superzero (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 2010). From the promotional copy:
After the worst first day of school ever, Reggie “Pukey” McKnight wants to get through the school year, out of the spotlight, and on the sidelines. He wants to turn his image around,
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Jane Kelley is the first-time author of Nature Girl (Random House, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Eleven-year-old Megan is stuck in the wilds of Vermont for the summer with no TV, no Internet, no cell phone, and worst of all, no best friend.
So when Megan gets lost on the Appalachian Trail with only her little dog,
Swati Avasthi is the first-time author of Split (Knopf, 2010). From the promotional copy:
16-year-old Jace Witherspoon arrives at the doorstep of his estranged brother Christian with a re-landscaped face (courtesy of his father’s fist), $3.84, and a secret. It is about what happens after. After you’ve said enough, after you’ve run, after you’ve made the split –
Vicki Oransky Wittenstein is the first time author of Planet Hunter: Geoff Marcy and the Search for Other Earths (Boyds Mills, 2010). From the promotional copy:
He has discovered more planets than anyone in history.
In this inspiring true story, Geoff Marcy’s love of space helped him overcome struggles in his studies until finally he became an astronomer.
Mara Purnhagen is the first-time author of Tagged (Harlequin Teen, 2010). From the promotional copy:
Can Kate Morgan stand up for herself—without being labeled a snitch?
Kate is just as confused as her best friend Lan when she arrives at Cleary High to find the building’s been “tagged” with a life-size graffiti mural.
