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Children's Books Frankfurt 2019 Children’s Books Frankfurt 2019 CONTENTS YOUNG ADULT FICTION & NON-FICTION 3 MIDDLE-GRADE FICTION 14 ILLUSTRATED BOOKS 27 BACKLIST & ESTATES 31 CONTACT 37 YOUNG ADULT FICTION & NON-FICTION YOUNG ADULT FICTION ALL THAT EVER WAS by Caitlin Devlin Moonrise by Sarah Crossan meets Girl Missing by Sophie McKenzie in this beautiful debut novel for young adults. When Edie finds her runaway sister Mae after four months, she assumes that their problems are over. But there’s a lot that Mae still isn’t telling her. It’s been four months now since Mae packed a bag and left with her boyfriend in the middle of the afternoon, and Edie is beginning to wonder if Mae is even still out there. Agent: Silvia Molteni So when new information comes to light about Mae’s On submission: Autumn whereabouts, Edie doesn’t waste any time in setting out to 2019 bring Mae home. Age: 14+ Dragging her infinitely patient best friend Finn along, she heads for Guernsey, to find a very different girl from the Genre: Contemporary, one she parted with four months earlier. Mae is scared. realistic And she’s lying. And now people are going to get hurt. Months earlier, in a small flat on the island of Guernsey, Mae contemplates her escape. She knows her way out. But there’s a chance that the people she left behind will never forgive her. And there’s an even greater chance that the person who knows her better than anyone else will ruin everything. Caitlin Devlin is studying English and Creative Writing at Warwick University. Her writing has been recognised by national and international competitions including the Iggy Litro Young Writers’ award, the Flash500 short story competition, the Exeter Writers short story competition, and in the music world, by the UK Song Writing Contest. She debuted her play ‘Aftermath’ with Bench Theatre Company in February 2019. All That Ever Was is her first novel for Young Adults. 4 YOUNG ADULT FICTION TO DIE FOR by Ava Eldred Part pacey thriller, part emotional exploration of celebrity culture; murder mystery meets fandom in this funny yet poignant debut for young adults. Karen McManus’ One Of Us Is Lying crossed with Alice Oseman’s I Was Born For This. When Harri Lodge said she’d do anything for Half Light, solving a murder wasn’t quite what she had in mind. Agent: Lucy Irvine Boyband Half Light are pretty complacent about fan worship. After all, crowds of teenage girls screaming their Currently on submission names became commonplace a long time ago, and surprises are rare when every move is choreographed. But Age: 14+ when frontman Frankie Williams is arrested on suspicion of murder and their carefully curated world implodes, it is Genre: Contemporary, up to superfans Harri and Jas to side-step the police and thriller begin an investigation of their own. They may not technically be qualified detectives, but they’ve spent long enough watching Frankie Williams to prove he wouldn’t kill someone. Would he? Using their self-taught sleuthing prowess, the girls become convinced that Frankie is being set up, and that his relationship with band mate Jack is at the heart of it. Empowered by social media, Harri and Jas rally an international army of fans to prove that it’s a mistake to underestimate a teenager with a passion, and that when they said they’d do anything for Frankie, they meant anything. Ava Eldred was born in London, and has spent the last decade writing and developing stage musicals, as well as producing large scale theatrical concerts. Her work has been performed both in London and internationally. She is a recent alumna of Faber Academy’s Writing a Novel course, and a life-long fan of boybands. To Die For is her first novel. 5 YOUNG ADULT FICTION WELCOME TO THE END OF THE WORLD by B.J. Ryan Becky Albertalli’s Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda meets The Walking Dead; a coming out YA story set in the zombie apocalypse. “Have you ever had a secret so big it feels like if you don’t tell someone the world will end? But you know the second you tell people, YOUR world, as you know it, will be Agent: Silvia Molteni gone?” On submission: Autumn Alex has one. But then the world actually ended! 2019 When his city is overrun by the undying – reanimated, Age: 14+ bloodthirsty corpses – Alex decides that simply surviving the apocalypse is not enough. To truly live, he Genre: Coming-of-age, must finally come out to his tough and distant big brother, action, adventure Brody, before it’s too late. But Alex doesn’t want to make things awkward with the only living family he has left. Not while they’re fighting their way through undying hordes, trying to escape a dead city. And especially not when there is a huge, living-dead beast on their trail. And worst of all... what if Brody rejects him? Then Alex glimpses a boy with a beautiful smile, out there all alone in a world full of monsters, and he realises that if he doesn’t tell Brody his big secret soon, it’ll be as if he never really lived. He will be no better than the undying corpses that now wander the earth. B. J. Ryan studied media at Macquarie University in Australia. One of his short films received an honourable mention at the International Film Awards Berlin. His writing has also received an honourable mention in the Eric Hoffer Book Award and was a finalist in the 2019 American Fiction Awards. He now writes concepts for TV as well as novels for young people and lives in Utrecht, The Netherlands. 6 YOUNG ADULT FICTION THE UNDYING TOWER by Melissa Welliver The first instalment in a political trilogy set in a future world in which an overpopulation crisis has caused society to collapse, The Undying Tower is The Hunger Games for 2019. ‘Melissa Welliver has no problem inventing adventures and once she’s let loose she’ll run and run’ Jeanette Winterson When the world discovered that a small percentage of the Agent: Lucy Irvine population stopped aging, it tore itself apart. Fifty years later, The Avalonia Zone is one of the only civilisations On submission: Autumn left. A place where healthcare is restricted; religion is 2019 banned; hangings are televised; and the terrorist group the Three-book series Alchemists fight for Undying rights. Age: 14+ Sadie cares for her father and yearns for a heart transplant for him. But after she is injured in a terrorist Genre: Political future attack and a blood test reveals her to be one of the Undying, she and her family are no longer eligible for med- ical treatment. The government give Sadie an ultimatum: find the Alchemist leak inside the Tower, the highest security Undying prison in the country, and her father can have his heart transplant. As Sadie probes deeper into what she always considered a criminal underworld, she begins to realise that there is more to the Undying than is reported on the news. And when she discovers the Tower’s darkest secret, will she risk everything to save the Undying, or will she abandon them to save her father? Melissa Welliver studied Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. Her work has listed in Bath Novel Award; Mslexia; the #BNAKids Award; and was recently shortlisted for the inaugural Hachette Children’s Novel Award. She has been published in two short story collections. The Undying Tower is her first novel. 7 YOUNG ADULT FICTION WITCHES OF ASH AND RUIN by E. Latimer Modern witchcraft blends with ancient Celtic mythology in a mesmerizing novel that’s perfect for fans of V.E. Schwab’s Shade of Magic trilogy and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. With razor-sharp prose and achingly real characters, E. Latimer crafts a sweeping, mesmerizing story of dark magic and brutal mythology set against a backdrop of contemporary Ireland that’s impossible to put down. Seventeen-year-old Dayna Walsh is struggling to cope Agent: Silvia Molteni with her somatic OCD; the aftermath of being outed as US publisher: Disney bisexual in her conservative Irish town; and the Hyperion return of her long-absent mother, who barely seems like a parent. But all that really matters to her is ascending and US editor: Hannah Allaman finally, finally becoming a full witch—plans that are complicated when another coven, rumoured to have a US publication: 3 March sordid history with black magic, arrives in town with 2020 premonitions of death. Age: 14+ Dayna immediately finds herself at odds with the bewitchingly frustrating Meiner King, the Genre: Fantasy granddaughter of their coven leader. And then a witch Rights sold: turns up murdered at a local sacred site, along with the Audio US (Listening Library) blood symbol of the Butcher of Manchester—an infamous Spanish and Catalan serial killer whose trail has long gone cold. (Editorial Planeta) The killer’s motives are enmeshed in a complex web of witches and gods, and Dayna and Meiner soon find themselves at the center of it all. If they don’t stop the Butcher, one of them will be next. E. Latimer lives in Canada. Her breakout success on the online writing platform, Wattpad.com, has resulted in a fan base of nearly 90k followers, with over 20 million combined reads. Her first MG novel, The Strange and Deadly Potraits of Bryony Gray was published by Tundra Books in February 2018. Witches of Ash and Ruin is her debut novel for young adults.
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