New Voice: Liz Fichera on Hooked

Posted on February 20, 2013January 4, 2019

Liz Fichera is the first-time author of Hooked (HarlequinTEEN, Jan. 29, 2013)(author blog). From the promotional copy:

Get hooked on a girl named Fred…

HE said: Fred Oday is a girl?

New Voice: C.J. Flood on Infinite Sky

Posted on February 18, 2013January 4, 2019

C.J. Flood is the first-time author of Infinite Sky (Simon & Schuster U.K., 2013). From the promotional copy:

Iris Dancy’s free-spirited mum has left for Tunisia, her dad’s rarely sober and her brother’s determined to fight anyone with a pair of fists.

Posted on February 5, 2013January 4, 2019

Miriam Forster is the first-time author of City of a Thousand Dolls (HarperTeen, 2013)(Pinterest inspiration board). From the promotional copy:

Nisha was abandoned at the gates of the City of a Thousand Dolls when she was just a child.

Posted on January 17, 2013January 4, 2019

Erica Lorraine Scheidt
is the first-time author of Uses for Boys (St. Martin’s Press, 2013)(blog; see also). From the promotional copy:

Anna remembers a time before boys, when she was little and everything made sense.

Posted on January 15, 2013January 4, 2019

Lenore Jennewein is the author of Chick-o-Saurus Rex, illustrated by Daniel Jennewein (Simon & Schuster, 2013). From the promotional copy:

The humorous story of a little chick who proves his mettle to the farm’s big bullies when he discovers he has a very mighty lineage.

Posted on December 13, 2012January 4, 2019

By 2012 debut author Lynne Kelly

To you, these names should represent some of the brightest, most respected talents in youth literature.