Kristen Kittscher is the first-time author of The Wig in the Window (HarperChildren’s, 2013). From the promotional copy:
Best friends and seventh graders Sophie Young and Grace Yang have made a game of spying on their neighbors. But on one of their late-night pretend stake-outs,
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Suzanne Del Rizzo is the first-time illustrator of Skink on the Brink, written by Lisa Dalrymple (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2013). From the promotional copy:
Stewie is a very special skink — he has a beautiful blue tail which gives him a superpower against his enemies.
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Corina Vacco is the first-time author of My Chemical Mountain (Delacorte, 2013)(author blog). From the promotional copy:
Rocked by his father’s recent death and his mother’s sudden compulsion to overeat, Jason lashes out by breaking into the abandoned mills and factories that plague his run-down town.
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Jennifer H. Lyne is the first-time author of Catch Rider (Clarion, 2013). From the promotional copy:
Sidney Criser, 14, pursues her dream of becoming a catch rider–a show rider who can ride anything–despite her poor background and ferocious competition from more privileged girls.
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Betsy Bird is the first-time author of Giant Dance Party, illustrated by Brandon Dorman (Greenwillow, 2013)(author blog). From the promotional copy:
Giants can’t dance!
Can they?
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Melanie Crowder is the first-time author of Parched (Harcourt, 2013) From the promotional copy:
A mesmerizing debut about a girl, a boy, and a dog struggling to survive in a parched and barren land.
Sarel is a girl with secrets.
Nancy J. Cavanaugh is the first-time author of
This Journal Belongs to Ratchet (Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky, 2013). From the promotional copy:
Eleven-year-old Ratchet determines to make a friend, save a park, and find her own definition of normal. She tells her story through the assignments in her homeschool language arts journal.
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Laurie Boyle Crompton is the first-time author of Blaze (or Love in the Time of Supervillains) (Sourcebooks, 2013) and looks forward to the release of
Adrenaline (FSG/Macmillian, 2014) and
The Real Prom Queens of Westfield High (Sourcebooks, 2014).
Polly Holyoke is the first-time author of The Neptune Project (Hyperion, 2013). From the promotional copy:
With her weak eyes and useless lungs that often leave her gasping for air, Nere feels more at home swimming with the dolphins her mother studies than she does hanging out with her classmates.
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Kit Grindstaff is the first-time author of The Flame in the Mist (Delacorte, 2013). From the promotional copy:
The sun never shines in the land of Anglavia. Its people live within a sinister mist created by their rulers, the cruel Agromond family.
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