Cori McCarthy is the first-time author of The Color of Rain (Running Press, 2013). From the promotional copy:
If there is one thing that seventeen-year-old Rain knows and knows well, it is survival. Caring for her little brother, Walker, who is “Touched,” and losing the rest of her family to the same disease,
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Peggy Eddleman is the first-time author of Sky Jumpers (Random House, 2013). From the promotional copy:
Twelve-year-old Hope lives in White Rock, a town of inventors struggling to recover from the green bombs of World War III.
But Hope is terrible at inventing and would much rather sneak off to cliff dive into the Bomb’s Breath—the deadly band of compressed air that covers the crater left by the bombs—than fail at yet another invention.
Author photo by Leigh Elise
By Kathi Appelt
N. Griffin is the first-time author of The Whole Stupid Way We Are (Atheneum, 2013). From the promotional copy:
It’s Maine. It’s winter. And it’s freezing stinkin’ cold!
Dinah is wildly worried about her best friend,
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By Greg Pincus
Greg Pincus is the first-time author of The 14 Fibs of Gregory K. (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2013)(author blog). From the promotional copy:
Gregory K. comes from a family of mathematical geniuses. But if he claimed to love math he’d be fibbing.
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I’ve spent several months on an unconventional book tour for my latest YA, Fat Angie (Candlewick, 2013)–workshopping with at-risk youth who have affectionately tagged me as the tattooed, rockstar, Wexican (whitest Mexican American) YA author/filmmaker.
This whirlwind tour, where I stuffed my belongings into storage and traveled by rental car,
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Sam Bond is the first-time author of Operation Golden Llama (Cousins in Action)(Volume 1)(Bound, 2013). From the promotional copy:
Dumped at their eccentric Grandma’s, Cagney, Olivia, Aidan, Lissy and Tess are convinced they’re in for a boring summer. But when Grandma gets a series of mysterious phone calls and a highly unlikely pet sitter arrives,
Susan Signe Morrison is the first-time editor of Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America by Joan Wehlen Morrison (Chicago Review Press, 2012)(author blog and facebook page). From the promotional copy:
This diary of a smart,
A.R. Capetta is the first-time author of Entangled (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013). From the promotional copy:
“Alone was the note Cade knew best. It was the root of all her chords.”
Seventeen-year-old Cade is a fierce survivor, solo in the universe with her cherry-red guitar.
The Clockwork Scarab: A Stoker and Holmes Novel (Chronicle, 2013) is Colleen Gleason‘s debut young adult novel. She has previously published novels for grown-ups.
What inspired you to choose the point of view featured in your novel? What considerations came into play? Did you try the story from a different point of view at some point?
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Stephanie Watson is the first-time author of The Wee Hours, illustrated by Mary GrandPré (Disney-Hyperion, 2013). From the promotional copy:
What if the wee, small hours of the morning weren’t just hours, but playful creatures instead?
And what if those creatures came out in the early-morning hours,
