Lissa Price is the first-time author of Starters (Random House, 2012). From the promotional copy:
In a future Los Angeles, becoming someone else is now possible.
Sixteen-year-old Callie discovers the Body Bank where teens rent their bodies to seniors who want to be young again.
Jennifer Gennari is the first-time author of My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer (Houghton Mifflin, 2012)
Twelve-year-old June Farrell is sure of only one thing—she’s great at making pies—and she plans to prove it by winning a blue ribbon in the Champlain Valley Fair pie competition.
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Lynne Kelly is the first-time author of Chained (FSG, 2012). From the promotional copy:
The story of a boy and an elephant who have a friendship stronger than any lock, shackle, or chain.
Ten-year-old Hastin’s sister has fallen ill,
Mary G. Thompson is the first-time author of Wuftoom (Clarion, 2012)(blog). From the promotional copy:
Everyone thinks Evan is sick … everyone thinks science will find a cure.
But Evan knows he is not sick;
Jennifer Shaw Wolf is the first-time author of Breaking Beautiful (Walker, 2012). From the promotional copy:
Allie lost everything the night her boyfriend, Trip, died in a horrible car accident—including her memory of the event.
As their small town mourns his death,
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Barry Wolverton is the first-time author of Neversink (Walden Pond, 2012). From the promotional copy:
Along the Arctic Circle lies a small island called Neversink, whose jagged cliffs and ice-gouged rocks are home to a colony of odd-looking seabirds called auks, including one Lockley J.
Elisa Ludwig is the first-time author of Pretty Crooked (Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins, 2012). From the promotional copy:
Willa’s secret plan seems all too simple: take from the rich kids at Valley Prep and give to the poor ones.
Yet Willa’s turn as Robin Hood at her ultra-exclusive high school is anything but.
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Marissa Burt is the first-time author of Storybound (HarperCollins, 2012). From the promotional copy:
When Una Fairchild stumbles upon a mysterious book buried deep in the basement of her school library, she thinks nothing of opening the cover and diving in.
But instead of paging through a regular novel,
J. Anderson Coats is the first-time author of The Wicked and The Just (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012). From the promotional copy:
1293. North Wales. Ten years into English rule.
Cecily would give anything to leave Caernarvon and go home.
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By Ben Clanton
The idea for Vote for Me! (Kids Can, 2012) came to me on November 17, 2010 at 1:03:53 P.M. (or some time around there) when I was working on another story idea called “Don’t Eat Me!” which is about a turkey who is willing to try anything and everything to convince the reader not to eat him.
