Leanna Renee Hieber
is the first-time YA author of Darker Still: A Novel of Magic Most Foul (Sourcebooks, 2011). From the promotional copy:
I was obsessed.
It was as if he called to me, demanding I reach out and touch the brushstrokes of color swirled onto
the canvas.
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Krista Russell is the first-time author of Chasing the Nightbird (Peachtree, 2011)(teachers guide). From the promotional copy:
Fourteen-year-old Lucky Valera is a seasoned sailor about to join the crew of the whaling ship, Nightbird. But when his estranged older brother suddenly kidnaps him and forces him into servitude as a mule spinner at the mill,
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Shannon Wiersbitzky is the first-time author of The Summer of Hammers & Angels (Namelos, 2011). From the promotional copy:
Most folks have never seen an angel.
I know, because I’ve asked them.
Helen Landalf is the first-time novelist of Flyaway (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011). From the promotional copy:
Fifteen-year-old Stevie Calhoun is used to taking care of herself. But one night, her mom, who works as an exotic dancer in a downtown Seattle nightclub, never comes home.
Prudence Breitrose is the first-time author of Mousenet, illustrated by Stephanie Yue (Hyperion, 2011)(author blog). From the promotional copy:
When ten-year-old Megan helps her uncle invent the Thumbtop, the world’s smallest computer, mice are overjoyed, and they want one for every mouse hole.
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Kimberly Marcus is the first-time novelist behind Exposed (Random House, 2011). From the promotional copy:
Sixteen-year-old Liz is Photogirl – sharp, focused, and confident about what she sees through her camera lens. Confident that she and Kate will be best friends forever.
But everything changes in one blurry night.
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Mike Mullin is the first-time author of Ashfall (Tanglewood, 2011). From the promotional copy:
Many visitors to Yellowstone National Park don’t realize that the boiling hot springs and spraying geysers are caused by an underlying supervolcano. It has erupted three times in the last 2.1 million years,
Winifred Conkling is the first-time author of Sylvia & Aki (Tricycle Press, 2011). From the promotional copy:
Sylvia never expected to be at the center of a landmark legal battle. All she wanted was to enroll in school.
Aki never expected to be relocated to a Japanese internment camp in the Arizona desert.
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Kiki Hamilton is the first-time author of The Faerie Ring (Tor, 2011). From the promotional copy:
The year is 1871, and Tiki has been making a home for herself and her family of orphans in a deserted hideaway adjoining Charing Cross Station in central London.
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A. LaFaye is previously published in the novel, but Walking Home to Rosie Lee, illustrated by Keith D. Shepherd (Cinco Puntos, 2011) is her debut picture book. From the promotional copy:
Young Gabe’s is a story of heartache and jubilation.
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