Jessica Spotswood is the first-time author of Born Wicked (The Cahill Witch Chronicals, Book One)(Putnam, 2012). From the promotional copy:
Our mother was a witch, too, but she hid it better.
I miss her.
To me,
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Debra with Midge, Italian Greyhound and writing helper
Debra McArthur is the first-time novelist of A Voice for Kanzas (Kane Miller, 2012)(author blog). From the promotional copy:
“Kanzas” Territory in 1855 is a difficult place to settle,
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Barbara Wright is the first-time children’s-YA author of Crow (Random House, 2012). From the promotional copy:
The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He’s growing apart from his best friend,
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Cynthia Y. Levinson is the first-time author of We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March (Peachtree, 2012)(excerpt)(blog). From the promotional copy:
The inspiring story of one of the greatest moments in civil rights history as seen through the eyes of four young people who were at the center of the action.
Megan Bostic is the first-time author of Never Eighteen (Graphia, 2012)(author blog). From the promotional copy:
I had the dream again. The one where I’m running. I don’t know what from or where to, but I’m scared, terrified really.
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Kami Kinard is the first-time author of The Boy Project (Notes and Observations of Kara McAllister)(Scholastic, 2012). From the promotional copy:
For anyone who’s ever felt that boys were a different species….
Wildly creative seventh grader, Kara McAllister,
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Caroline Starr Rose is the first-time author of May B. (Schwartz and Wade, 2012)(author blog). From the promotional copy:
I watch the wagon
until I see nothing on the open plain.
For the first time ever,
Robin Bridges is the first-time author of The Gathering Storm (Book One of The Katerina Trilogy)(Delacorte, 2012). From the promotional copy:
St. Petersburg, Russia, 1888.
As she attends a whirl of glittering balls, royal debutante Katerina Alexandrovna, Duchess of Oldenburg,
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Mônica Carnesi is the first-time author-illustrator of Little Dog Lost: The True Story of a Brave Dog Named Baltic (Nancy Paulsen/Penguin, 2012)(blog). From the promotional copy:
On a cold winter day, a curious dog wandered onto a frozen river,
K. M. Walton is the first-time author of Cracked (Simon Pulse, 2012)(author blog). From the promotional copy:
Victor hates his life. He’s relentlessly bullied at school and his parents ridicule him for not being perfect. He’s tired of being weak,
