Shirley Reva Vernick is the first-time author of The Blood Lie (Cinco Puntos, 2011)(teachers’ guide). From the promotional copy:
One autumn afternoon in 1928, a Christian girl disappeared near her home in a small upstate New York town.
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Katherine Battersby is the first-time author-illustrator of Squish Rabbit (Viking, 2011)(blog). From the promotional copy:
Squish is just a little rabbit. But being little can lead to BIG problems. Sometimes Squish is hard to hear, and see. And it isn’t easy making friends.
But no matter how little Squish is,
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Nikki Shannon Smith is the first-time author of The Little Christmas Elf, illustrated by Susan Mitchell (Random House/Little Golden Books, 2011)(author at facebook). From the promotional copy:
Nina, the littlest elf in Santa’s workshop, doesn’t finish the teddy bear she’s making in time for it to get loaded onto Santa’s sleigh-but,
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Jane Kohuth is the first-time author of Estie the Mensch, illustrated by Rosanne Litzinger (Random House, 2011)(author blog). From the promotional copy:
What’s a mensch, and why does her family keep telling Estie to be one? She’d much rather be a jungle cat,
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Lena Coakley is the first-time author of Witchlanders (Atheneum, 2011). From the promotional copy:
High in their mountain covens, red witches pray to the Goddess, protecting the Witchlands by throwing the bones and foretelling the future.
It’s all a fake.
At least, that’s what Ryder thinks.
Carrie Harris is the first-time author of Bad Taste in Boys (Delacorte, 2011). From the promotional copy:
Super-smartie Kate Grable gets to play doctor, helping out her high school football team. Not only will the experience look good on her college apps, she gets to be this close to her quarterback crush,
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Matt Blackstone is the first-time author of A Scary Scene in a Scary Movie (FSG, 2011). From the promotional copy:
Rene, an obsessive-compulsive fourteen year old, smells his hands and wears a Batman cape when he’s nervous.
If he picks up a face-down coin, moves a muscle when the time adds up to thirteen (7:42 is bad luck because 7 + 4 + 2 = 13),
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Trent Reedy is the first-time author of Words in the Dust (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 2011). From the promotional copy:
A beautiful debut about a daughter of Afghanistan discovering new friends and opportunities after the defeat of the Taliban.
Zulaikha hopes. She hopes for peace, now that the Taliban have been driven from Afghanistan;
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Divya Srinivasan is the first-time author-illustrator of Little Owl’s Night (Viking, 2011)(portfolio). From the promotional copy:
It’s evening in the forest and Little Owl wakes up from his day-long sleep to watch his friends enjoying the night. Hedgehog sniffs for mushrooms, Skunk nibbles at berries, Frog croaks,
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Tess Hilmo is the first-time author of With a Name Like Love (Farrar Straus Giroux/Macmillan, Margaret Ferguson Books, 2011)(author blog). From the promotional copy:
When Ollie’s daddy, the Reverend Everlasting Love, pulls their travel trailer into Binder to lead a three-day revival, Ollie knows that this town will be like all the others her daddy drags them through—it is exactly the kind of nothing Ollie has come to expect.
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