Caroline Carlson is The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates: Magic Marks the Spot (HarperCollins, 2013). From the promotional copy:
Hilary Westfield has always dreamed of being a pirate. She can tread water for thirty-seven minutes. She can tie a knot faster than a fleet of sailors,
A.B. Westrick is the first-time author of Brotherhood (Viking, 2013). From the promotional copy:
The year is 1867, and Richmond, Virginia, lies in ruins.
By day fourteen-year-old Shadrach apprentices with a tailor and sneaks off for reading lessons with Rachel,
Annemarie O’Brien is the first-time author of Lara’s Gift (Knopf, 2013)(author blog). From the promotional copy:
Young Lara is being groomed in the family tradition to take over as Count Vorontsov’s next kennel steward, breeding borzoi dogs worthy of the Tsar.
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Charlotte Gunnufson is the first-time author of Halloween Hustle, illustrated by Kevan J. Atteberry (Two Lions, 2013). From the promotional copy:
In the dark, a funky beat. Something white with bony feet. Skeleton dancing up the street, doing the Halloween Hustle.
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Amy Christine Parker is the first-time author of Gated (Random House, 2013)(author blog)(excerpt). From the promotional copy:
Do the gates keep the unchosen out or the chosen in?
In Mandrodage Meadows,
Pat Zietlow Miller is the first-time author of Sophie’s Squash, illustrated by Anne Wilsdorf (Schwartz & Wade, 2013). From the promotional copy:
On a trip to the farmers’ market with her parents, Sophie chooses a squash, but instead of letting her mom cook it,
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K.A. Barson is the first-time author of 45 Pounds (More or Less)(Viking, 2013). From the promotional copy:
Here are the numbers of Ann Galardi’s life:
She is 16.
And a size 17.
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Sara Kocek
is the first-time author of Promise Me Something
(Albert Whitman Teen/Open Road Media, 2013). From the promotional copy:
Reyna didn’t mean to become friends with Olive Barton . . .
But when Olive kept talking after the lunch bell,
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J.K. Rock is the YA writing partnership of sister-in-laws Joanne and Karen Rock and the talent behind the Camp Boyfriend series (Spencer Hill, 2013)(discussion guide)(educational resources)(pre-sale). From the promotional copy:
They said it couldn’t be done,
Allyson Valentine is the first-time author of How (Not) to Find a Boyfriend (Philomel, 2013). From the promotional copy:
Sophomore Nora Fulbright is the most talented and popular new cheerleader on the Riverbend High cheer squad.
Never mind that she used to be queen of the nerds—a chess prodigy who answered every question first,
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