Tamera Will Wissinger is the first-time author of Gone Fishing: A Novel In Verse (Houghton Mifflin, 2013). From the promotional copy:
For fishing tomorrow
it’s just us two.
Not Mom, not Grandpa,
not Lucy.
It’ll be like playing catch or
Painting the garage.
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Lindsey Scheibe is the first-time author of Riptide (Flux, 2013). From the promotional copy:
Grace has one summer to prove she’s good enough.
For Grace Parker, surfing is all about the ride and the moment. Everything else disappears.
Liesl Shurtliff is the first-time author of Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin (Knopf, 2013). From the promotional copy:
In a magical kingdom where your name is your destiny, 12-year-old Rump is the butt of everyone’s joke.
Rump has never known his full name—his mother died before she could tell him.
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is the first-time author of The Key & The Flame (Margaret K. McElderry/Simon & Schuster, 2013)(author blog). From the promotional copy:
“A wand such as yours can only belong to an Adept—one of great magical power.”
Eleven-year-old Holly Shepard is hardly one of great magical power.
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By Karen Rock
Scott Blagden is the debut YA author of Dear Life, You Suck (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). The novel has received a starred review from School Library Journal as well as a rave in The Wall Street Journal.
It’s a humorous, raw, coming-of-age novel in which an orphan who faces graduation,
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Elisabeth Dahl is the first-time author-illustrator of Genie Wishes (Amulet, 2013). From the promotional copy:
This sweet, funny novel follows fifth-grader Genie Kunkle through a tumultuous year.
From the first day of school, Genie knows there will be good,
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is the first-time author of Brianna on the Brink
(Holiday House, 2013)(excerpt). From the promotional copy:
Sixteen-year-old Brianna Taylor finds herself lost, alone and with a major surprise in store after a one-night-stand.
Just when she’s got nowhere left to turn,
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Joe Lawlor is the first-time author of Bully.com (Eerdmans, 2013). From the promotional copy:
Jun never wanted to be a detective. He’s a shy kid, better at interfacing with PCs than people.
But his world turns upside down when the principal accuses him of posting pictures on the school’s website that expose the eating disorder of one of his classmates.
Bridget (wearing her blue “party hair” post chemo) & E.M.
Bridget Zinn was the debut author of Poison (Hyperion, 2013). She grew up in Wisconsin.
She went to the county fair where she met the love of her life, Barrett Dowell.
They got married right before she went in for exploratory surgery which revealed she had colon cancer.
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Cal Armistead
is the first-time author Being Henry David
(Albert Whitman, 2013). From the promotional copy:
A teenage boy awakes from a deep sleep to find himself at Penn Station in New York City, with no memory of who he is,
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