By Lena Coakley
Richard Ungar is the author and illustrator of four children’s picture books, but he’s switched gears to debut his first novel, the middle-grade time travel, Time Snatchers (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2012).
From the promotional copy:
The year is 2061,
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Eve Marie Mont is the first-time author of A Breath of Eyre (Kensington, 2012). From the promotional copy:
Get lost in a good book. Literally.
Emma Townsend has always believed in stories—the ones she reads voraciously, and the ones she creates in her head.
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Sarah Frances Hardy is the first-time author of
Puzzled by Pink
(Viking, 2012)(author-illustrator blog). From the promotional copy:
Not every girl loves pink . . .
Izzy hates pink as much as her sister,
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Lizzie K. Foley
is the first-time author of Remarkable (Dial, 2012). From the promotional copy:
A wonderfully whimsical debut that proves ordinary people can do extraordinary things.
In the mountain town of Remarkable, everyone is extraordinarily talented,
Gina Damico is the first-time author of Croak (Graphia/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012)(author blog). From the promotional copy:
Sixteen-year-old Lex Bartleby has sucker-punched her last classmate. Fed up with her punkish, wild behavior, her parents ship her off to upstate New York to live with her Uncle Mort for the summer,
By Cynthia Leitich Smith
for Cynsations
Elissa Janine Hoole is the first-time author of Kiss the Morning Star (Marshall Cavendish, 2012) From the promotional copy:
When Anna sets out on a post-high school road trip towards an unknown destination with best friend Kat, she thinks she’s prepared for everything.
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E.C. Myers
is the first-time author of Fair Coin (Pyr, 2012). From the promotional copy:
Sixteen-year-old Ephraim Scott is horrified when he comes home from school and finds his mother unconscious at the kitchen table, clutching a bottle of pills. The reason for her suicide attempt is even more disturbing: she thought she’d identified Ephraim’s body at the hospital that day.
Jenny Lundquist is the first-time author of Seeing Cinderella (Aladdin M!X, 2012). From the promotional copy:
Calliope Meadow Anderson is terrified to start seventh grade. Not that the summer has been so great— her overachieving best friend, Ellen, is slipping away,
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Mary Losure is the first-time author of The Fairy Ring, or Elsie and Frances Fool the World (Candlewick, 2012)(excerpt). From the promotional copy:
Frances was nine when she first saw the fairies. They were tiny men,
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Kristen Simmons is the first-time author of Article 5 (Tor Teen, February 14, 2012). From the promotional copy:
New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC have been abandoned.
The Bill of Rights has been revoked, and replaced with the Moral Statutes.
