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Table of Contents

Spring 2013–Fall 2015 Picture Books ...... 3–28

Fall 2013–Spring 2015 Chapter Books and Middle Grade Novels ...... 29–31

Spring 2013–Spring 2015 Young Adult ...... 32–57

Backlist Titles ...... 58–76

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Picture Books

Spring 2013–Fall 2015

3 The Typewriter Bill Thomson Also available from Bill Thomson: 10/6/2015 From award-winning illustrator Bill Picture Book Thomson comes the third in a masterfully woven wordless picture book series about imagination.

His award-winning Chalk viewed imagination through the lens of art, Fossil viewed it through science, and now The Typewriter will show how words pecked out on a typewriter inspire a group of children to imagine a fantastical story. See page 19 for more information

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Also available from J. R. Krause Happy Birthday, Poco Loco! and Maria Chua: J. R. Krause and Maria Chua 8/18/2015 Picture Book Poco is one crazy little mouse—so crazy that his friends call him Poco Loco.

He invents all kinds of amazing things that lead him and his friends on unexpected adventures. And with his birthday coming up, Poco is determined that everything will be perfect—will he be able to pull off a celebration to remember? Pep- pered with Spanish words, this vibrant, engaging story is chock-full of fun. See page 24 for more information

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Also available from Jennifer There Was an Old Martian Who Ward and Steve Gray: Swallowed a Moon 4/7/2015 Jennifer Ward Picture Book Illustrated by Steve Gray

There was an old Martian . . . who swallowed a moon, a comet, a rover, and more!

Then he blasts off in his spaceship—beep, beep, ZOOM! Zany digital illustrations by Steve Gray show the alien’s belly growing and growing as he eats a host of items throughout the galaxy. But what happens when the Martian gets to the sun? Jennifer Ward’s silly text entertains in a lively adaptation of the popular See page 64 for more information children’s song that’s “out of this world.” Rights Available: All Languages, Audio

Go to School, Little Monster Helen Ketteman

Illustrated by Bonnie Leick 7/7/2015 Also available from Helen Picture Book Ketteman and Bonnie Leick:

A companion book to Goodnight, BONNIE LEICK received her BFA in Film/Character Little Monster, in which Little animation from the Monster goes to school for the first California Institute of Art and Design. She has worked time. on several books and animated projects for children.

HELEN KETTEMAN is the author of more than nineteen books for children, including At the Haunted House (page 10) and If Beaver Had a Fever (page 66). Ms. Ketteman lives with her husband in Sanibel Island, Florida.

See page 66 for more information

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Twenty Yawns Jane Smiley

Illustrated by Lauren Castillo 5/19/2015 Picture Book

From the Pulitzer Prize– JANE SMILEY is the author winning author of A Thousand of many books for adults, including Private Life, Horse Acres comes a calming bedtime Heaven, and the Pulitzer story about a little girl who Prize-winning A Thousand Acres. She was inducted into tries to get to sleep after a busy the American Academy of day at the beach. Arts and Letters in 2001.

LAUREN CASTILLO has Everyone around her slowly yawns illustrated numerous books for children, including The their way to sleep. But will she ever be Reader by Amy Hest. She able to get to sleep? lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Circus Train Jennifer Cole Judd

Illustrated by Melanie Matthews 5/5/2015 Picture Book

Circus Train is filled with evocative images and short, descriptive verses recreating the sights, sounds, smells, and excitement of a child’s day at the big top.

The rhyming text, written by children’s poet Jennifer Cole Judd, makes for a nice read- aloud, while Melanie Matthews’s bright Sample art illustrations bring to life the excitement of the circus. The story recalls images of days gone by when the circus came to town.

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Small Wonders: The Story of Jean-Henri Fabre

Matthew Clark Smith 4/21/2015 Illustrated by Guiliano Ferri Picture Book

Introduce young readers to a fascinating pioneer of natural science.

A picture-book biography of the pioneering nineteenth-century naturalist Jean-Henri Fabre, the father of Entomology.

Sample art

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6 Also available from Karen Ferret Fun in the Sun Rostoker-Gruber and Paul Rátz Karen Rostoker-Gruber de Tagyos: 4/14/2015 Illustrated by Paul Rátz de Tagyos Picture Book

Ferrets get into mischief on vacation.

Fudge and Einsteen, who starred in Ferret Fun, are back, joining their owner on a ranch for vacation, where they have some hilarious adventures.

See page 62 for more information

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Twins

Elizabeth Winthrop 3/17/2015 Illustrated by Jane Massey Picture Book

A sweet, simple story following a set of young twins throughout their day at the park.

Sample art

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Go to Sleep

Maureen Wright 3/3/2015 Illustrated by Elizabeth Schlossberg Picture Book

From the author of Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep! comes a charming bedtime tale about a little girl whose toys don't want to go to bed.

She has to tell them just what to do—will that make her sleepy too?

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Snowman’s Story Will Hillenbrand

11/18/2014 Picture Book Will Hillenbrand’s first wordless picture book is a story about a snowman who comes to life and captivates his new friends with a book.

But when a mischievous rabbit hops onto the scene, a wintry chase ensues, leading up to a satisfying ending that affirms the power of storytelling.

Sample art

WILL HILLENBRAND has illustrated many beloved picture books, including Kiss the Cow! by Phyllis Root, Smash! Mash! Crash! There Goes the Trash! by Barbara Odanka, and What a Treasure! by Jane Hillenbrand. He also wrote and illustrated another Christmas story, Asleep in the Stable. Will enjoys visiting classrooms to talk about the creative process involved in making a picture book. He lives with his wife, Jane, and their son, Ian, in Terrace Park, Ohio.

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I Love My Hat Douglas Florian

Illustrated by Paige Keiser 10/7/2014 Picture Book This silly farmyard romp offers simple, repetitive text that makes for a great read-aloud.

Farmer Brown picks up a cat, a goat, an ox, a mouse, a pig, two turtle doves, a big brown bear, and two caribou as he heads into town on his tractor—and each animal sings a ditty about its clothes.

When they reach the town, it’s Farmer Brown’s turn to sing about his clothes—after he gets some new ones. Sample art

DOUGLAS FLORIAN is the creator of many acclaimed picture books, including Dinothesaurus, which received starred reviews in four major publications, and Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year and Horn Book Fanfare List selection. He lives with his family in New York.

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Rudy and Claude Splash into Art Adam McHeffey

9/16/2014 Picture Book Dynamic duo Rudy and Claude bring big personalities to this basic ADAM McHEFFEY is a musician and introduction to art. children's educator from Long Island, New York. Also an Rudy is a curious mouse who wonders, illustrator, he trained “What is art?” Claude, his feathered friend, with Ronnie Herman at the Herman Agency, tries to teach him. Rudy works on a self- Inc., and subsequently portrait, a still life, a landscape, found art, wrote and illustrated a sculpture—all with disastrous results! Asiago, his first book. Then he tries to create an artistic master- piece, but . . . SPLAT! Has Rudy finally become an artist?

Sample art

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Duck in the Fridge Jeff Mack

9/2/2014 Picture Book From the author of Good News, Bad JEFF MACK is the News comes a bedtime story about a creator of picture boy who discovers a duck in the books and early graphic novel readers fridge. including Hush Little Polar Bear and the Hippo and Rabbit Then more ducks appear. So he gets some series. He has also dogs to scare them away, and then some illustrated award winning picture books sheep, until the house is filled with animals and chapter books having a good time. The silliness pours off such as Eve Bunting's Hurry! Hurry! and each page, with visual humor and jokes in James Howe's word balloons. Kids will eat it up, but Bunnicula and parents will love what the boy does to get Friends. all his animal friends to sleep.

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7/8/2014 Picture Book

At the Old Haunted House Helen Ketteman Illlustrated by Nate Wragg

HELEN KETTEMAN is the author of more than twenty books for children, including If Beaver Had a Fever, illustrated by Kevin O’Malley, Goodnight, Little Monster, illustrated by Bonnie Leick, and Swamp Song, illustrated by Ponder Goembel. She lives with her husband in Sanibel Island, Florida. Learn more at: www.helenketteman.com.

NATE WRAGG works as an art director and illustrator for animation and book projects. His animation projects include Ratatouille, Puss and Boots, and Toy Story 3, for which Nate was one of the primary character design- ers. Nate also teaches courses about character design. His children’s books include Your Friend the Rat!, a collaboration of multiple authors and illustrators, and Too Many Cooks by Margaret McNamara. He lives in Southern California with his family. Learn more at: www.n8wragg.blogspot.com.

This rhyming picture book features a host of Halloween creatures who live in and around the “old haunted house.” In the end, the creatures all come together at a Halloween party.

At the old haunted house. In a room with no sun. Lived a warty green witch. And her wee witchy one. There are all kinds of creatures in the house: a big Ma monster and her wee monsters two, a scrawny black cat and her wee kittens three, a green Pa goblin and his wee goblins four, and more!

Count along as the creatures prepare for the Halloween Fright. The text, written in the pat- tern of the popular poem “Over in the Meadow,” makes reading aloud fun, while the cine- matic illustrations set the scene for an unforgettable romp through the old haunted house.

Trick or treat!

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5/13/2014 Picture Book

All Kinds of Strong

Sharon Reiss Baker Illustrated by Kris Wiltse

SHARON REISS BAKER was born in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in Maryland. She speaks Span- ish, French, and Hebrew; loves to travel; and stud- ied in both France and Israel. Currently she is a high school administrator, and she and her husband, the parents of three children, live near Phil- adelphia. To research All Kinds of Strong, Sharon conducted oral histories with people who had grown up—or whose parents and grandparents had grown up—on Jewish-owned chicken and dairy farms in Eastern Connecticut. She also read documents at historical societies and consulted with Yiddishists at the University of Pennsylvania and Trinity College. Learn more at: www.sharonreissbaker.com.

KRIS WILTSE has been creating illustrations for the publishing, editorial, and packaging industries for more than thirty years. She received her BA in painting from Western Washington University, Bellingham, and continued her studies in illustration at the School of Visual Concepts in Seattle, Washington. She presently resides on Whidbey Island in Washington State, where she illustrates, paints, and teaches art. Learn more at: www.kriswiltse.com.

Despite being small and frail, Sadie Rose is strong in other ways.

She never forgets to check the chicken coops so the foxes can’t get in. She notices when the farm animals are sick. And she always has a new idea when it’s needed. Even so, her neighbors worry that she’s not strong enough for life on a farm. But when there’s a calamity and friends and family can no longer celebrate the Sabbath in their neighbor’s parlor, Sadie Rose comes up with an idea that proves that there are “all kinds of strong.”

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Me and My Big Mouse Ethan Long

6/17/2014 Picture Book

ETHAN LONG has never owned a big mouse, nor been responsible for one, but he has had a long line of dogs, cats, fish, and hermit crabs living under his roof. Most days he hangs out with his giant cat, Bailey, and with the rest of his family, and draws pictures and writes books. Most recently, the American Library Association awarded the Theodor Geisel Award to his book, Up! Tall! and High! He lives in beautiful and sunny Orlando, Florida.

From the author and illustrator of the 2013 Geisel Award winner, Up! Tall! And High!, comes a comedic take on an unusual friendship.

A boy has a big mouse who is his constant companion. This big mouse is lovable . . . but he can also be annoy- ing. Like when he sticks too close, has bad breath, or shouts “Squeak-a-boo” when friends come over. So how can the boy get his adoring pet to change without hurting his feelings?

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Water! Water! Water! Nancy Elizabeth Wallace

6/10/2014 Picture Book

NANCY ELIZABETH WALLACE has written and illustrated many wonderful picture books about ponds, shells, leaves, seeds, art, rocks, stars, and more. She encourages children to explore the amazing world around them. Nancy lives by the water in Branford, Connecticut, with her husband, Peter.

Filled with fun facts about water, this story features delightful collage illustrations.

Walter, a warthog, sees water all around him: while brushing his teeth, doing the dishes, and looking at rain. He writes down everything he notices about water in a special blue notebook. And he wonders. And he does experiments. And he shares what he learns with his friend Willa . . . who wants to find out more about water too. And they do!

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Down by the Barn Will Hillenbrand

5/20/2014 Picture Book

WILL HILLENBRAND wrote and illustrated Down by the Barn in response to fans of Down by the Station who wished for a companion book. Will has written and/or illustrated more than fifty books. He lives with his wife, Jane, and their son, Ian, in Terrace Park, Ohio. Learn more at: www.willhillenbrand.com.

From the beloved illustrator of Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep! comes a cumulative tale featuring a farmer who drives a tractor around a farm, picking up a new animal at each stop. Animal sounds add to the rhythmic text on each page, making this a perfect read-aloud for toddlers.

Rights Available: All Languages, Audio

Ballpark Eileen R. Meyer

Illustrated by Carlynn Whitt 3/4/2014 Picture Book

EILEEN R. MEYER is the author of Who’s Faster? Animals on the Move, illustrated by Constance R. Bergum, as well as numerous published poems for children. She loves to present interactive writing workshops to grade school students. She lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband and three sons. Learn more at: www.eileenmeyerbooks.com

Award-winning illustrator CARLYNN WHITT grew up painting, drawing, and “making stuff” in East Texas. She earned her degree in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two young sons. Learn more at: www.carlynnwhitt.com.

This simple rhyming picture book shows a boy’s first trip to a baseball game with his grandpa.

We see them watching all of the parts of the game from the stands. From the crack of the bat to the umpire calling, “Let’s play ball,” sound words and dialogue are pulled out and made part of the art. It’s a fun introduction to the world of baseball, with an intergenerational dynamic and delightful new art. Rights Available: All Languages, Audio

Arlo Rolled Susan Pearson

Illustrated by Jeff Ebbeler 4/8/2014 Picture Book

SUSAN PEARSON lives in Plainfield, Massachusetts, where she grows peas and other vegetables in her huge garden. She has written three books about slugs: Slugs in Love, How to Teach a Slug to Read, and Slugger.

JEFF EBBELER has illustrated many popular picture books, including Snow Day for Mouse and Haunted House, Haunted Mouse by Judy Cox and April Fool, Phyllis! by Susanna Leonard Hill. He and his wife, Eileen, both attended the Art Academy of Cincinnati. They currently live in Cincinnati with their twin daughters, Olivia and Isabel.

From the author of How to Teach a Slug to Read comes a delightful story about a pea named Arlo who wants to be free.

So off he rolls . . . and rolls . . . and rolls. He meets a slug, he meets a bug—and still he rolls until . . . you’ll see! Filled with charming illustrations and told in verse, this endearing tale explores the ideas of independence and striking out on one’s own. Rights Available: All Languages, Audio

Orangutangled Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen Illustrated by Aaron Zenz 2/11/2014 Picture Book

SUDIPTA BARDHAN-QUALLEN is the author of numerous fiction and nonfiction books for children, including Pirate Princess, illustrated by Jill McElmurry, Hampire!, illustrated by Howard Fine, and Tightrope Poppy the High-Wire Pig, illustrated by Sarah Dillard. Sudipta lives in New Jersey with her family.

AARON ZENZ is the illustrator of Chuckling Ducklings and Nugget on the Flight Deck. He has worked as an illustrator, a graphic, multimedia, and toy designer, a college instructor, a fine artist, and an author.

Filled with wordplay and bursting with fun, this rhyming cumulative tale features two orangutans who reach for some mangoes and fall down in a gooey, gummy mess, completely orangutangled. When other animals try to help, the pile just grows and grows, and before long they are all rolling so fast they cannot stop. A great choice for read-aloud story time.

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4/15/2014 Picture Book Professor Whiskerton Presents Steampunk ABC

Written and illustrated by Lisa Falkenstern

LISA FALKENSTERN created steampunk gadgets in her studio in New Jersey as she worked on this book. Altogether, she made numerous sculptures and used 1,072 pieces of hardware before she started the artwork. She has written and illustrated one other highly praised book, A Dragon Moves In. She lives with her husband in Califon, New Jersey.

Steampunk is fun!

Steampunk is imaginative!

It’s making something new out of something old. It’s dressing up in clothing from long ago. It’s inventing machines out of hardware and found objects. It’s creating a make-believe world!

In Professor Whiskerton Presents Steampunk ABC, two mice dressed in Victorian clothing use gadgets and found objects—each starting with a letter of the alphabet—to build something fantastic, which is revealed at the end.

A wonderful and delightful surprise!

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3/11/2014 Picture Book

A Perfect Day for Digging

Cari Best Illustrated by Christine Davenier

CARI BEST’s acclaimed picture books have delighted many young readers and include When We Go Walking, as well as Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen, and Shrinking Violet, both selected School Library Journal Best Books of the Year. When she’s not writing, walking, or riding her bike, Cari Best can be found digging with her dog, Jennie, in her own backyard, where she never knows what treasures she’ll discover. Cari Best lives in Connecticut.

CHRISTINE DAVENIER has illustrated many popular picture books, including Cari Best’s popular Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen and the bestselling The Very Fairy Princess by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton. She lives in Paris and in Ligerolles, France, where she takes great joy in digging in her own garden—and in getting dirty.

In the spring, when trees unfreeze and grass grows green and pansies say, “Please plant me!” Nell and her dog, Rusty, can’t wait to dig in dirt just right for digging.

But Norman, their neighbor, says “Ewww!” to digging and dirt—until Nell and Rusty begin to dig up unexpected treasures: a pretty striped marble, the mini stegosaurus, part of a tiny china doll. Now even Norman can’t resist. He rolls up his sleeves, picks up the extra trowel, and starts to dig in his own careful way—in the process discovering all the simple joys of digging, dirt, and the fun of trying something new.

Words and pictures brimming with humor and exuberance capture one of the true rites of spring: Hooray for dirty digging!

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1/7/2014 Picture Book

Grumpy Groundhog

Maureen Wright Illustrated by Amanda Haley

MAUREEN WRIGHT has written a number of popular picture books, including Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep!, Sneezy the Snowman (illustrated by Stephen Gilpin), Earth Day, Birthday! (illustrated by Violet Kim), and most recently, Barnyard Fun (illustrated by Paul Rátz de Tagyos). She lives with her family in Athens, Pennsylvania.

AMANDA HALEY graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in Painting and Drawing. She has illustrated greeting cards and many children’s books, including leveled readers and the popular title Snowzilla (written by Janet Larson). She lives with her husband in the Tidewater region of Virginia.

Kids will love the humorous antics of Groundhog in this delightful rhyming tale from the author of Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep!.

It’s Groundhog Day, and everyone is gathered to find out if it’s time for spring.

But Groundhog does NOT want to leave his cozy bed in his cozy den. Will the townspeople be able to coax him outside to do his job?

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The Poem That Will Not End: Fun with Poetic Forms and Voices Joan Bransfield Graham 1/28/2014 Illustrated by Kyrsten Brooker Picture Book Ideal for reading aloud or acting out, this chockablock book is a perfect way JOAN BRANSFIELD GRAHAM is to spark creative thinking in readers an award-winning poet who can’t of all ages and to celebrate the joy of stop writing poetry. Her poems poetry. have been featured in antholo- gies, magazines, textbooks, and on CDs. A former teacher, she Ryan O’Brien is riding a wave of lives near Los Angeles, California. inspiration—he can’t STOP writing poetry. In the cafeteria with French fries. In KYRSTEN BROOKER’s distinct, inventive illustrations have the bathroom with toothpaste. Even on the appeared in popular and award- soccer field with mud. This innovative, inspir- winning picture books, such as ing picture book is three books in one: (1) a When We Go Walking by Cari laugh-out-loud story poem full of hilarious Best. She lives with her family in antics as Ryan writes poems in one unlikely Alberta, Canada. place after another, (2) a collection of the poems he writes—each introducing readers to a different poetic form—all cleverly imbedded in Kyrsten Brooker’s inventive illustrations, and (3) a helpful guide to poetic forms and voices.

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Gazpacho for Nacho Tracey C. Kyle

Illustrated by Carolina Farías 1/14/2014 Picture Book

This lively rhyming story, sprinkled TRACEY KYLE grew up in New Jersey and discovered her love of with Spanish, will delight little chefs. languages at an early age. She A recipe for gazpacho and a Spanish once lived in Madrid, Spain, glossary are included. where she discovered that gazpacho is her favorite soup. Today she lives and works in northern Nacho likes to eat only one thing—gazpacho! Virginia, where she teaches Span- Gazpacho for breakfast, gazpacho for lunch, ish to middle school students. gazpacho for dinner, for snacks, and for Gazpacho for Nacho is her first brunch. Nacho won’t even try other dishes— children’s book.

until he discovers miles and piles of mouth- CAROLINA FARÍAS lives in watering vegetables at the market. Argentina, where she works as an illustrator and a teacher. In 2007 she was selected by the National Cultural Secretariat of Argentina as the illustrator for the XVI Feria del Libro of Havana, Cuba.

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Mouse’s Christmas Cookie Patricia Thomas

Illustrated by John Nez 11/12/2013 Picture Book

PATRICIA THOMAS is the author of the classic picture book, “Stand Back,” Said the Elephant, “I'm Going to Sneeze!” and a more recent picture book, Red Sled. She lives in Carbondale, Pennsylvania.

JOHN NEZ has illustrated a wide variety of books, including the titles in the following series: Science Solves It, Math Matters, and Social Studies Connects. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

When Cat sees Mouse take one of Santa’s Christmas cookies, the chase is on!

“Stop Mouse!” Cat cries. Is Cat chasing Mouse because he wants the cookie, or is there some other reason? The chase ends happily, when Cat surprises Mouse with a gift—and Mouse reciprocates— showing that even unlikely friends can exchange gifts at Christmas.

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Fossil Bill Thomson

11/5/2013 Picture Book

BILL THOMSON was immediately embraced by the children’s book community when Karate Hour was released with his dramatic, extraordinary illustrations. But when Bill’s own book, Chalk, which he conceived and illustrated without an author, was released in spring 2010, his reputation really took off. That book was short-listed for the Caldecott Medal and has sold upwards of 30,000 print copies. Bill is an Associate Professor of Illustration at the University of Hartford. He and his wife, Diann, have three sons and live in Southington, Connecticut.

Told only through art, this “wordless story” will surely spark imagination and creativity.

When a boy and his dog go for a hike, the boy trips on a fossil, and it comes to life, revealing an ancient plant. The boy is so intrigued that he breaks open two more fossils that also come to life—a dragonfly and a pteranodon. When these prehistoric creatures collide with present reality, the boy must figure out a way to make things go back to normal.

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11/12/2013 Picture Book

One Hundred Snowmen

Jennifer Arena Illustrated by Stephen Gilpin

JENNIFER ARENA has written more than twenty children’s books and is an executive editor of a children’s books department at a large New York publisher. She lives on Long Island, New York.

STEPHEN GILPIN has illustrated more than thirty children’s books, among them Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright and The Three Cabritos by Eric A. Kimmel. If he’s not drawing, he’s hanging out with his lovely wife Angie and their kids. He also likes to putter around, fix things, play the bagpipes, and write. He lives with his family and an uncomfortable number of pets in Hiawatha, Kansas.

1 + 1 = 2 snowmen. 3 + 4 = 7 snowmen. 5 + 6 = 11 snowmen. Finally, 100 snowmen!

As you count and add, watch the snowmen enjoy a snowball fight, make funny faces, play hide-and-seek; and just plain have fun. And you’ll have fun, too!

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Yukon: Sled Dog Judith Janda Presnall

Illustrated by Mark Elliott 10/8/2013 Picture Book

JUDITH JANDA PRESNALL is the author of more than twenty books for young readers. Her nonfiction writing projects have led to many research adventures, including dog sledding; visiting prisons; meeting inventors, circus performers, and cowboys; and even climbing Mount Rushmore. Judy is the recipient of several writing awards as well as the Jack London Award for meritorious service to the California Writers Club. Learn more at: www.JudithJandaPresnall.com.

MARK ELLIOTT holds a BFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts. He recently illustrated When Jackie and Hank Met by Cathy Goldberg Fish- man. His work has been exhibited at the Society of Illustrators and the Art Directors Guild and has appeared in numerous Spectrum. Learn more at: www.markelliottonline.com.

Sled dogs must love to run.

Sled dogs must be strong. Sled dogs must obey commands. Sled dogs must get along with teammates. Puppy Yukon is the only girl in her litter, and she’s got high energy. Could she be a leader of the sled dog team? Trainer Roberta works with the puppies. Yukon is faster and smarter than her brothers. Roberta thinks Yukon can help lead the team! Yukon continues to train with her team for two long years. Is she finally ready to race? Mush! Mush!

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The Very Crowded Sukkah Leslie Kimmelman

Illustrated by Bob McMahon 9/10/2013 Picture Book

LESLIE KIMMELMAN is the author of The Shabbat Puppy, illustrated by Jaime Zollars (“A gentle story introducing the concept of Shabbat as a time for peaceful contemplation,” Booklist), and The Little Red Hen and the Pass- over Matzah, illustrated by Paul Meisel (“Such a clever idea!,” starred review, Publishers Weekly). Leslie has also worked as a children’s book editor for a variety of publishers. She lives with her husband and family in a small town north of New York City.

BOB McMAHON lives with his wife and daughter in sunny and hot Southern California, where they keep a tidy garden and a messy dog. He enjoys taking walks, going to the dog park, cooking, and splashing in the surf at the local beach.

It’s Sukkot, and Sam, Ava, Mom, and Dad are building a sukkah, or little house, outdoors to celebrate the holiday.

They can’t wait to share their first meal inside. But—pitter-patter, pitter-patter—it begins to rain. “Poor little sukkah,” says Ava. “All alone in the rain.” But is it? It may be just the right shelter for some very sur- prising guests.

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Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, Are You Going to School? Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson

Illustrated by Laura Bryant 8/6/2013 Picture Book

BILL MARTIN JR. (1916–2004) wrote many beloved books for children, some of which have become classics. He authored more than two hundred titles in his lifetime, including Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?, and Panda Bear, Pan- da Bear, What Do You See?.

MICHAEL SAMPSON is a children’s book author of two other books about Kitty Cat: Kitty Cat, Are You Waking Up? and Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, Are You Going to Sleep?, both illustrated by Laura J. Bryant. In addition, he has collaborated with the late Bill Martin Jr. on more than twenty books.

LAURA J. BRYANT has illustrated many popular picture books, including the first two Kitty Cat books. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

Children will love Laura J. Bryant’s appealing illustrations, which bring Kitty Cat to life, along with the other adorable kittens at the school.

On the first day of school, Kitty Cat discovers that there are lots of things to enjoy. She plays, she enjoys a snack, she paints, she sings, she listens to a story, and she shares something special during show-and-tell. The day ends with a big hug from her mom.

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Slithery Snakes Roxie Munro 8/6/2013 Non-Fiction Picture Book

ROXIE MUNRO is an award-winning author/illustrator of more than 35 children’s books, including Busy Builders (page 65) and Hatch! (page 66). Her art has been exhibited nationally, including in the Original Art Exhibit at the Society of Illustrators in New York City. She lives in New York City.

The snakes in this book are slithery . . . and maybe a little scary.

But they’re also beautiful! Slithery Snakes offers clues about these creepy creatures and gives you an up- close look at their amazing skin patterns. Do you know which kind of snake is named after an article of clothing men once wore to hold up their socks? Or which snake has venom twice as lethal as a rattle- snake’s? Or which snake appeared on the first flag of the United States? Guess—and then turn the page to find out! A glossary and list of recommended books and web sites are included.

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Rainstack! Onur Tukel 6/4/2013 Picture Book The animals are suffering from a drought in the dry, dusty valley.

They are worried that their river is dry- ONUR TUKEL is an illustrator, painter, animator, and ing up, but then Rabbit, who has always film maker. He divides his been a talented inventor, makes a time between Durham, North Carolina, and New robot. Still, the robot alone cannot York City. solve the problem. All the animals have to work together to make it rain.

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Baby Wants Mama Nancy Loewen Illustrated by Deborah Melmon 5/7/2013 Picture Book

In this fun, family-themed NANCY LOEWEN has pub- picture book, another busy day lished more than 100 award- has come to an end. winning books for children and young adults, including The Last Day of Kindergar- Everyone in the family wants some- ten. Nancy lives in Prior Lake, Minnesota. thing—Baby wants Mama. Cat wants fish. Daddy wants supper. Pup wants DEBORAH MELMON lives in Menlo Park, California. dish. But what do they ALL want? She also illustrated Give Up, Dinner! This bright, simple rhyming Gecko! by Margaret Read text, great for reading aloud, is paired MacDonald. with adorable watercolor, colored pencil, and digital artwork.

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Poco Loco J. R. Krause and Maria Chua

4/30/2013 Poco Loco is one crazy inventor Picture Book mouse . . . J. R. KRAUSE and MARIA Meet Poco Loco. He’s a very unusual CHUA are a husband–and–wife team and live near downtown ratón. He likes to invent wacky things. Los Angeles. J. R. is an artist, When Poco Loco’s Waffle Iron-Weather designer, and animator working in television, and is currently a Forecaster predicts mal tiempo, Poco designer for The Simpsons. Loco runs to tell his barnyard friends. Maria is a bilingual psychiatric But it’s still sunny out, and the other social worker in Los Angeles. animals don’t believe him. Then a roar Poco Loco is their first book. of wind whips through their picnic, and Poco Loco and his friends fly up, up, and away. But never fear! Poco Loco will use his wits (and one crazy invention) to save the day!

A Spanish/English glossary is included.

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When We Go Walking Cari Best

Illustrated by Kyrsten Brooker 4/23/2013 Picture Book Full of surprises on every page, this is a book that will inspire Many of CARI BEST’s picture young readers to walk, discover, books depict real-life problems and create on their own. and joys that children encounter—disappointment, shyness, bullying, learning to ride a bike, Wendy and her exuberant family of baking a pie, celebrating a loved one’s special day—and show a walkers discover new things on Ram- realistic and satisfying outcome bling Road every day and in all kinds of in each case, creating a sense of weather. No one keeps the things they hope and accomplishment. She lives in Connecticut, where she find except for Wendy: numbers and let- walks, gardens, laughs, and ters, ribbon and string, a bucket, a ball, a reads a lot. wheel from a wagon. But what will she KYRSTEN BROOKER’s wonder- do with all this stuff? One snowy day, ful books for children include when no one can go walking, Wendy Precious and the Boo Hag by Patricia C. McKissack, an ALA uses her treasure trove of found objects Notable Book and a School to create her own special version of Library Book of the Year. She Rambling Road for her family to share lives in Alberta, Canada. and celebrate.

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Storm Song Nancy Viau

Illustrated by Gynux 4/16/2013 Picture Book

NANCY VIAU thinks thunderstorms are fascinating (and a little scary), and she enjoys watching them from a cozy spot inside her New Jersey home. She prefers, however, to be outdoors, and on sunny days she can be found hiking and biking in the country, swimming in the ocean, or gazing up at the stars. Learn more at: www.nancyviau.com.

GYNUX lives in Lyon, France, where he works mainly for the children’s publishing industry. Learn more at: www.gynux.com.

A fun, reassuring read-aloud about a thunderstorm. As thunder and lightning approach, a family gathers inside to play, sing, eat, and snuggle together until the weather clears. This sweet story captures both the excitement of a thunderstorm and the reassurance children need during a storm. The lively, rhythmic text mimics the storm sounds while the bold, playful art conveys this special family time. Rights Available: All Languages, Audio Rights Sold: Book Club (English) Gandhi: A March to the Sea Alice B. McGinty Illustrated by Thomas Gonzalez 4/2/2013 Non-Fiction Picture Book

ALICE B. MCGINTY is the award-winning author of over forty books for children. Alice loves to hike, play the guitar, dance, and read.

THOMAS GONZALEZ, the oldest of four siblings, was born in Havana, Cuba, and migrated with his family to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1970. He has received several adver- tising and design-related awards, including a gold and two silver Addys, two Print magazine awards, two Show South awards, and a bronze International Packaging Award.

Mohandas Gandhi’s twenty-four-day March to the Sea, from March 12 to April 5, 1930, was a pivotal moment in India’s quest to become an independent country no longer ruled by Great Britain. With over seventy marchers, Gandhi walked from his hometown near Ahmedabad to the coast near Dandi. The march was a nonviolent means to protest the taxes that Great Britain had imposed on salt—not the salt that the Indians could get from the sea, but the salt that Great Britain forced them to buy. Gandhi believed that peaceful protests were an effective way to challenge British law, and his peaceful but ultimately successful movement became known as Satyagraha.

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What NOT to Give Your Mom on Mother’s Day Martha Simpson

Illustrated by Jana Christy 4/2/2013 Picture Book

MARTHA SIMPSON has written a variety of professional books for public librarians and media specialists, including Bringing Children into the Public Library. She is Head of Children’s Ser- vices at the Stratford Library Association in Connecticut, and lives in nearby Hamden. Martha and her husband have four grown children, and she fondly remembers all those Mother’s Day breakfasts. What NOT to Give Your Mom on Mother’s Day is her first picture book.

JANA CHRISTY has illustrated a number of picture books, including Around the Neighborhood by Sarah L. Thompson and How to Hug by Maryann Macdonald. She lives with her husband and two sons in North Adams, Massachusetts.

A little boy offers advice on what NOT to give your mom on Mother’s Day–unless she’s an animal.

For example, don’t give her a rotting log unless she’s a salamander, or a bunch of flies unless she’s a spider! What would Mom like best?

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Hero Mom Melinda Hardin Illustrated by Bryan Langdo 4/2/2013 Picture Book

MELINDA HARDIN was born and raised in Traverse City, Michi- gan. She went to school at Western Michigan University for a degree in education. She has traveled extensively and has lived in many places. She currently lives in Massachusetts with her wonderful husband, two children, and the spirit of Katie the shar-pei.

BRYAN LANGDO has been writing, editing, and illustrating (mostly illustrating) children’s literature for the past twelve years. During that time, he has worked with many clients, including Henry Holt & Co., HarperCollins, Scholastic, Harcourt, Ster- ling, Amazon Children’s, Grosset & Dunlap, and Hooked on Phonics. Bryan lives in New Jersey with his wife, two children, and two cats.

The moms in the book are superheroes.

They may not leap over tall buildings, and they may not have superhuman speed. But these moms con- struct buildings, fly planes, and make tanks roll. They do all kinds of things to help create a safer world. These superheroes are moms. Military moms. Hero moms.

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Slugger Susan Pearson

Illustrated by David Slonim 3/19/2013 Picture Book Ollie is a slug who loves everything about baseball. SUSAN PEARSON has written more than thirty-five books for children. She lives More than anything in the world, he in an old farmhouse in wants to make the team. Trouble is, Plainsfield, Massachusetts.

he can’t hold a bat. He isn’t much of a Illustrator DAVID SLONIM is pitcher either. And he is pretty slow at the author-illustrator of Oh, Ducky!: A Chocolate running the bases. But Ollie is one de- Calamity and the illustrator termined slug . . . and finally he gets of Moishe’s Miracle by Laura Krauss Melmed, which was his Big Chance. recognized by the New York Times as one of the Ten Best Illustrated Children’s Books of the Year. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, he lives in Chesterfield, Indiana.

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Peep Leap Elizabeth Verdick

Illustrated by John Bendall-Brunello 3/12/2013 Picture Book A counting book about the giant leap that wood ducks make on ELIZABETH VERDICK has their second day in the world. been writing books since 1997, and her books have received numerous awards, In the hollow of a tree, higher than the including the Henry Bergh Award, Oppenheim Toy eye can see . . . nine wood ducks Portfolio Gold Seal Award, hatch, one by one. “That’s good!” says and Gold Mom’s Choice Award. Mama. “We’re almost done.” One last egg is very still . . . Finally, the small- JOHN BENDALL- BRUNELLO has over twenty est egg hatches. Then it’s time for all -five years experience as a the wood ducks to make the BIG jump children’s book illustrator, working with the top pub- from the tree where their mother lishers in both the UK and made her nest to the water below. the USA with co-editions in nearly every country in the Ducklings One through Nine make the world. He has illustrated leap. But Duckling Ten isn't so books written by some of the most prestigious authors of sure . . . children’s books today.

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Barnyard Fun Maureen Wright

Illustrated by Paul Rátz de Tagyos 3/5/2013 Picture Book

When Sheep found out it was MAUREEN WRIGHT has April One, he said, “It’s time to written a number of popular have some fun!” picture books, including Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep!, Sneezy the Snowman Sheep set his alarm an hour ahead. It (illustrated by Stephen Gilpin), Earth Day, woke up Rooster in his bed. Sheep plays Birthday! (illustrated by April Fool’s jokes on Rooster, Dog, Pig, Violet Kim), and most re- and Cow. Then Horse decides to play a cently, Barnyard Fun (illustrated by Paul Rátz de trick on Sheep—and the farm animals Tagyos). She lives with her have the biggest laugh of all! family in Athens, Pennsyl- vania.

PAUL RÁTZ DE TAGYOS went to Parsons School of Design quite some time ago. He is the author/illustrator of several children’s books. He lives in New Rochelle, New York.

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Give Up, Gecko! Margaret Read MacDonald Illustrated by Deborah Melmon 1/29/2013 Picture Book Little gecko saves the day dur- DR. MARGARET READ ing a drought. Kids will love to MACDONALD travels the chant and stomp along to this world telling stories and looking for more great tales to Ugandan folktale. share. After over thirty years as a children’s librarian, and with “Elephant! Elephant! Heavy! Heavy! a PhD in Folklore from Indiana University, MacDonald now Heavy! Elephant! Elephant! STOMP! spends her time offering story- STOMP! STOMP!” telling workshops and telling stories in schools and at festi- vals in such delightful spots as Elephant was shouting and stomping. But Kota Kinabalu, Songhkla, and could he stomp a hole deep enough to Penang. Raised in Southern Indiana, MacDonald still hears reach water for the thirsty animals? May- the voice of her grandpa when be . . . maybe not. All the animals tried she tells stories. until tiny Gecko Gecko takes a turn. He is DEBORAH MELMON lives in small . . . but he is determined. And he’s Menlo Park, California. not going to give up!

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Chapter Books and Middle Grade Novels

Fall 2013–Spring 2015

The Secret Knock Club # 3 Louise Bonnett-Rampersaud

Illustrated by Adam McHeffey 2/24/2015 Chapter Book

The Secret Knock Club is on to a LOUISE BONNETT- new community service project— RAMPERSAUD has written two earlier books in the series, partnering with their kindergarten The Dyno-mite Dog Show and buddies on a “Weed and Read” event The Spring Un-Fair, and also a picture book called How Do for the school garden. You Sleep? She lives with her husband and children in Sandy Spring, Maryland. But will they be successful in recruit- ing a local author? Or in making a ADAM McHEFFEY is a musician and children’s reading bench out of milk cartons in educator from Long Island, time for the event? Of course, some New York. Also an illustrator, he trained with Ronnie Her- things do go wrong, but in the end, man at the Herman Agency, the intrepid Agnes Mary Murphy, her Inc., and subsequently wrote and illustrated Asiago, his first very special kindergarten buddy, and book. the five members of the Secret Knock Club achieve success.

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The Missing Pieces of Me Jean Van Leeuwen

9/2/2014 Middle Grade

Jean Van Leeuwen’s JEAN VAN LEEUWEN is the author of more than fifty poignant, powerful novel children’s books, including introduces a feisty heroine who picture books, Easy-to-Read books, and middle-grade proves that even a life that’s fiction. She has won numer- missing important pieces can be ous awards, among them the William Allen White Award, chock-full of things that matter. the South Carolina Children’s Book Award, and the Washington Irving Ten-year-old Weezie takes it upon Children’s Choice Award, as herself to find the daddy she has well as many ALA Notable never known–a brave search that Book citations. leads her to a new understanding of herself and the unexpected blessings of her challenging world.

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Secrets of the Book Erin Fry You don’t choose the book—the book chooses you. 2/4/2014 Middle Grade Sixth grader Spencer Lemon has a degenerative eye disease, and he’s rapidly losing his eyesight. So he has no ERIN FRY is also the author of Losing It idea why he was chosen to guard Pandora’s Book. When and The Benefactor. Ed, the old guy at the nursing home, hands over the book, he doesn’t get a chance to explain any of the rules to Spencer. Spencer only knows that the book contains famous dead people—people who can be brought back to life.

Spencer and his autistic best friend, Gregor, soon figure out how to get people—from Teddy Roosevelt to Babe Ruth—out of the book, but not how to get them back in. Then Ed disappears, and a strange man shows up on Spencer’s doorstep—and he seems to know a lot about Spencer and about Pandora’s Book. Is he one of the bad guys? Or is here to help Spencer unravel the secrets of the book? But there are others interested in Pandora’s Book, others who might use its powers to take over the world. And it’s up to Spencer, along with Gregor and Ed’s mysterious (and cute) granddaughter, Mel, to protect the book—and save the world. Rights Available: English Rights Sold: Audio Billy the Kid is Not Crazy S. F. Guerra

10/15/2013 Generous black-and-white illustrations in every Middle Grade chapter, and a ton of heart and humor, help readers cheer for Billy as he struggles to find his S. F. GUERRA is the author of the young place in the world—and discovers his true talent adult novel Torn. in the process. Guerra teaches children’s literature in Billy March has been grounded for 63% of the past the College of Educa- tion at Seattle Uni- month. Every time he almost gets his parents’ trust back, versity. Billy the Kid his mind wanders off, and he causes another disaster! is Not Crazy is her Like the time he and his best friend Keenan decided to first novel for middle play droid war in a parking lot—and ended up launching grade readers. S. F. lives in Seattle, a shopping cart into a car. . . . Now Mom and Dad are Washington, with threatening to send Billy to a psychologist. They may her husband and even make him take brain drugs! But deep down, Billy children. really worries that Dad wishes he had a different son. He’ll never be as perfect as his sisters. Maybe he doesn’t belong in this family at all. But maybe, just maybe, talking to a “shrink” won’t be as terrible as Billy thinks.

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Young Adult

Spring 2013–Spring 2015

2/10/2015 Young Adult Mystery & Thriller Atlanta Burns

Chuck Wendig

CHUCK WENDIG is the author of The Heartland Trilogy and the Atlanta Burns series, as well as numerous novels for adults. He is also a game designer and screenwriter. He cowrote the short film Pandemic, the feature film HiM, and the Emmy-nominated digital narrative Collapsus. Chuck lives in Pennsylvania with his family. He blogs at www.terribleminds.com.

Stay tuned for the next book in the Atlanta Burns series, which will be released in Fall 2015!

Atlanta Burns is a teenager with a dark past, one who lingers at the fringes of high school existence.

Until the day she’s drawn into a battle against two groups of bullies and saves a pair of new, unexpected friends. But actions have consequences, and when her new friend Chris ends up dead—by an apparent suicide—Atlanta and her pal Shane know foul play is involved.

Afraid of stirring up the hornets further by investigating Chris’s death, Atlanta turns her focus to the death of a neighborhood dog. Strangely, there seems to be a connection between the two deaths. And when Atlanta uncovers a rural dog-fighting ring, she once more finds herself face-to-face with bullies of the worst sort.

Atlanta cannot abide letting bad men do awful things to those who don’t deserve it. So she sets out to unleash her own brand of teenage justice.

Will Atlanta triumph? Or is fighting back just asking for a face full of bad news?

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Color Song Victoria Strauss 9/16/2014 Young Adult Praise for Passion Blue: Historical Fiction

“A rare, rewarding, sumptuous VICTORIA STRAUSS is exploration of artistic passion.” the author of eight novels —Kirkus Reviews, starred review for adults and young adults. She has written hundreds of book reviews for magazines and e-zines, including SF Site, and her This sequel to Passion Blue takes Giulia, articles on writing have disguised as a boy, from the convent of Santa appeared in Writer’s Marta into the rich, fascinating world of Digest and elsewhere. In 2006, she served as a Renaissance Venice, where she is determined judge for the World to prove her mettle as an artist—even though Fantasy Awards. women are not allowed to paint.

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The Stellow Project

Shari Becker 5/12/2015 Young Adult A girl narrowly escapes a killer Science Fiction / Mystery storm that hits Manhattan, finding SHARI BECKER has been refuge at her family’s lakeside cottage. But telling stories for as long as when her scientist father disappears, she she can remember. She worked at Nickelodeon as finds herself at the center of a mystery in- an Associate Producer after volving an off-the-grid government re- completing a Master of Arts in Children's Media at New search facility, the secretive boy who lives York University. Since then there, and the slow realization that her Becker has consulted for father may not be who she thinks he is. Shadow Projects, the pro- duction company behind Disney's Emmy-award- winning Bear in the Big Blue House and Book of Pooh, and she has written for Nickelodeon, BabyZone.com and TimeforKids.com, and publications such as Baby Years and Parents and Kids.

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11/4/2014 Young Adult Crossover Contemporary

Betting Blind S. F. Guerra

S. F. GUERRA is the author of the young adult novel Torn and the middle grade novel Billy the Kid is Not Crazy. Guerra teaches children’s literature in the College of Education at Seattle Univer- sity. She also serves as the Seattle host for the teen fiction blog Readergirlz. S. F. lives in Seattle, Washington, with her family. Learn more at: www.stephanieguerra.com.

Stay tuned for Out of Aces, the sequel to Betting Blind, which will be released in Spring 2015!

Photo credit: Anna Reidy

The cards are stacking up against Gabriel James: first there’s Phil, the guy who pays the bills for Gabe’s mom (but won’t leave his wife).

Then there’s Gabe’s new school, filled with rich kids competing for the Ivies, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street—while Gabe’s just trying to swing enough Cs to graduate.

Gabe’s luck seems ready to change when he meets Irina Petrova: a hot violinist who is homeschooled by her strict Russian parents. When Gabe gets her number, he impresses the top guys at his school. When he becomes the drug connection for parties, his reputation is solidified. How else is he going to afford hanging with his new crew and impressing Irina? Anyway, it’s not really dealing if you’re just hooking up friends . . . right?

Gabe’s never been loyal to a girl before, but he finds himself falling for Irina hard. As the stakes are raised, Gabe will have to decide how high he’s willing to bet on school, on friends, on Irina—but most of all, on himself.

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35 Under the Empyrean Sky The Heartland Trilogy, Book One Chuck Wendig 7/30/2013 Young Adult Crossover “. . . A super-charged, genetically modified hybrid of Dystopian The Grapes of Wrath and Star Wars.” —John Horner Jacobs, author of The Twelve-Fingered Boy Stay tuned for the Fear the Corn. Corn is king in the Heartland, and Cael McAvoy has final volume in The had enough of it. It’s the only crop the Empyrean government al- Heartland Trilogy, lows the people of the Heartland to grow—and the genetically mod- which will be released in Fall 2015! ified strain is so aggressive that it takes everything the Heart- landers have just to control it. As captain of the Big Sky Scaven- gers, Cael and his crew sail their rickety ship over the corn day after day, scavenging for valuables.

But Cael’s tired of surviving life on the ground while the Empyrean elite drift by above in their extravagant sky flotillas. He’s sick of the mayor’s son besting Cael’s crew in the scavenging game. And he’s worried about losing Gwennie—his first mate and the love of his life—forever when their government-chosen spouses are revealed. But most of all, Cael is angry—angry that their lot in life will never get better and that his father doesn’t seem upset about any of it. When Cael and his crew discover a secret, illegal garden, he knows it’s time to make his own luck . . . even if it means bringing down the wrath of the Empyrean elite and changing life in the Heartland forever.

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Blightborn The Heartland Trilogy, Book Two Chuck Wendig 7/29/2014 Young Adult Crossover Praise for Under the Empyrean Sky: “It’s a tense dystopian tale made more strange and terrifying Dystopian by its present-day implications.” —Booklist

Cael McAvoy is on the run. He’s heading toward the Empyrean to rescue his sister, Merelda, and to find Gwennie before she’s lost to Cael forever. With his pals, Lane and Rigo, Cael journeys across the Heartland to catch a ride into the sky. But with Boyland and others after them, Cael and his friends won’t make it through unchanged. Gwennie’s living the life of a Lottery winner, but it’s not what she expected. Separated from her family, Gwennie makes a bold move—one that catches the attention of the Empyrean and changes the course of an Empyrean man’s life. The crew from Boxelder aren’t the only folks willing to sacrifice everything to see the Empyrean fall.

The question is: Can the others be trusted? They’d all better hurry. Because the Empyrean has plans that could ensure that the Heart- land never fights back again.

CHUCK WENDIG is the author of The Heartland Trilogy, the Atlanta Burns series, and numerous novels for adults. He is also a game designer and screenwriter. Chuck lives in Pennsylvania with his family. He blogs at Cover art in progress www.terribleminds.com. Rights Available: All Languages Rights Sold: Audio 36

6/3/2014 Young Adult Fantasy The Shadows The Fianna Trilogy, Book One Megan Chance

MEGAN CHANCE is the award-winning author of several adult novels, including Bone River (Amazon Publishing, December 2012). She is a former television news photographer with a BA from Western Washington University. Megan lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and two daughters. Visit her at: www.meganchance.com.

Stay tuned for the next two titles in

the Fianna Trilogy, which will be Cover art in progress released in Spring and Fall 2015!

Grace Knox has grown up hearing the folktales of her Irish ancestors, especially about the warriors who fought for control of Ireland.

In nineteenth-century New York City, however, these legends are far from Grace’s mind. She’s much more concerned with how to protect her family from debt collectors, and whether her childhood friend Patrick Devlin will propose. Patrick is a member of the Fenian Brotherhood, a group of young Irish American men intent on fighting for the independence of their homeland, whatever the cost. Patrick and the Brotherhood use ancient magic to summon mythical warriors to join their fight to protect Ireland. One of them, Diarmid, finds himself drawn to Grace, and she to him. When Diarmid discovers that, in their desperation, the Brotherhood has also summoned a rival group of ancient warriors, he warns Patrick that there will be bloodshed. Grace is caught in the middle of two men she loves, and discovers she alone holds the power to save Ireland—but at a dangerous price.

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Christina Farley 3/1/2014 Sixteen-year-old Jae Hwa Lee is a Korean Young Adult Crossover American girl with a black belt, a deadly proclivity Fantasy for steel-tipped arrows, and a chip on her shoulder the size of Korea itself.

When her widowed dad uproots her to Seoul from her home in LA, Jae thinks her biggest challenges will be fitting in at a new school and dealing with her dismissive Korean grandfather. Then she discovers that a Korean demigod, Haemosu, has been stealing the soul of the oldest daughter of each generation in her family for centuries. And she’s next. But that’s not Jae’s only problem.

There’s also Marc. Irresistible and charming, Marc threatens to break the barriers around Jae’s heart. As the two grow closer, Jae must decide if she can trust him. But Marc has a secret of his own—one that could help Jae overturn the curse on her family for good. It turns out that Jae’s been wrong about a lot of things: her grandfather is her greatest ally, even the tough girl can fall in love, and Korea might just be the home she’s always been looking for.

“This richly detailed novel kept me turning the pages well into the night. Jae Hwa starts off as a strong character and ends as a noble one, using both her brains and her brawn to win the day.” —Beth Revis, New York Times bestselling author of Across the Universe

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Silvern The Gilded Series, Book Two Christina Farley 9/23/2014 Young Adult Crossover Jae Hwa Lee has destroyed Haemosu, the dangerous Fantasy demigod that held her ancestors captive, and now she’s ready to forget about immortals and move on with her life.

Then the god of darkness, Kud, sends an assassin to kill her. She escapes with the knowledge that Kud is seeking the lost White Tiger Orb, and joins the Guardians of Shinshi to seek out the orb before Kud can find it. But Kud is stronger and more devious than Haemosu ever was. Jae is soon painfully re- minded that by making an enemy of Kud, she has placed her closest friends in danger, and must decide how much she can bear to sacrifice to defeat one of the most powerful immortals in all of Korea.

CHRISTINA FARLEY is a teacher and debut novelist who has traveled and taught inter- nationally. Her short stories have been published in several magazines, including Highlights, FACES, Boys’ Quest, Fun for Kidz, and Hopscotch. Christina holds a master’s degree in education and has taught for eighteen years. As an active member of SCBWI Florida, she presents at conferences and in classrooms.

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Ticker Lisa Mantchev

Penny is like any other sixteen-year-old girl—except she has a 10/21/2014 clockwork heart. Young Adult

She is “the first of the Augmented!” and “the girl with the amazing brass Fantasy Ticker!” Her family’s dear friend, the brilliant young surgeon Calvin Warwick, operated on Penny to save her when her heart gave out—the same way it did for her two sisters. He engineered her heart with parts produced by the family business, a renovated Cogs & Rivets factory, that Penny and her twin brother, LISA MANTCHEV is the Copernicus, help run. author of the Theatre Illuminata series, which was well reviewed and has a But it turns out that Calvin also experimented on and killed dozens of strong fan base. Eyes Like Bazalgate’s citizens in order to attain the knowledge necessary to give Penny Stars was nominated for an her clockwork heart. In the course of a day, the Cogs & Rivets factory is Andre Norton Award and the bombed, Warwick disappears, and the twins receive a ransom note demand- Mythopoeic Society Award ing all his surgical notes and medical diagrams if they ever want to see their for Children’s Literature, and received a starred review parents alive again. from Kirkus. The series was nominated for the Mytho- Suddenly, they have three missions: keep Penny’s outmoded Ticker running; poeic Award for Children's locate Warwick’s notes; and rescue their parents from the kidnappers. It could Literature. be the Ferrum Viriae, the privatized army headed by the intense Marcus Kingsley, who is developing a mysterious machine dubbed the “Grand De- sign,” and whom Penny finds enigmatic and extremely attractive. Or it could be the Edoceon, a violent group of protestors who believe Augmentation violates all the principles of Man and Nature. Or perhaps it is a darker force, one that involves their two dead sisters and the chance to lift the veil between this world and the next. They are running out of time to solve these mysteries, and no one understands that threat better than a girl with a clockwork heart. Rights Available: English, Audio

Girl on a Wire Gwenda Bond

10/14/2014 A ballerina, twirling on a wire high above the crowd. Horses, prancing like salsa dancers. Trapeze artists, flying like Young Adult Crossover somersaulting falcons. And magic crackling through the air. Fantasy/Contemporary Welcome to the Cirque American!

Sixteen-year-old Jules Maroni’s dream is to follow in her father’s footsteps GWENDA BOND writes as a high-wire walker. When her family is offered a prestigious role in the young adult fantasy. She is new Cirque American, it seems that Jules and the Amazing Maronis will also a contributing writer for finally get the spotlight they deserve. But the presence of the Flying Garcias Publishers Weekly, and her may derail her plans. nonfiction work has appeared in the Washington Post, Locus Magazine, For decades, the two rival families have avoided each other as sworn ene- Subterranean Online, and mies. Jules ignores the drama and focuses on the wire, skyrocketing to fame Lightspeed, among others. as the girl in a red tutu who dances across the wire at death-defying heights. She has been a guest on But when she discovers a peacock feather—an infamous object of bad luck— NPR’s Weekend Edition, planted on her costume, Jules nearly loses her footing. She has no choice but and also guest-edited a special YA issue of to seek help from the unlikeliest of people: Remy Garcia, son of the Garcia Subterranean Online. clan matriarch, and the best trapeze artist in the Cirque.

Photo credit: Christopher Rowe As more mysterious talismans believed to possess unlucky magic appear, Jules and Remy unite to find the culprit. And if they don’t figure out what’s going on soon, Jules may be the first Maroni to do the unthinkable: fall.

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Earth & Sky Megan Crewe

10/28/2014 Young Adult Seventeen-year-old Skylar has always Science Fiction been haunted by fleeting yet powerful feelings that something around her has gone wrong. MEGAN CREWE was born in Toronto, Canada. She still lives there, with her husband and Those impressions have never seemed to reflect any- three cats. She speaks English, thing real, and have only earned her stares and whis- a small bit of French, and pers behind her back. But after she meets a mysteri- dabbled in Latin in high school. ous boy named Win, she learns an unsettling truth: She majored in psychology at York University and has spent We are not alone on Earth. Aliens have been altering much of the last twelve years our history for hundreds, even thousands, of years. As working as a behavioral the essential fabric of our world—and life as we know therapist and school aid for it—starts to unravel, Skylar, and her heightened children and teens with special needs. She can also bake very awareness, just may be the key to its salvation. delicious chocolate–chip cookies.

Photo credit: Chris Blanchenot

Stay tuned for the next two titles in the Earth & Sky series, which will be released in Spring and Fall 2015!

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On Two Feet and Wings Abbas Kazerooni 10/21/2014 In this affecting memoir, Abbas Kazerooni recounts Young Adult the story of his own survival when, as a young boy of Memoir ten, he was forced to leave behind his parents, friends, and all he had ever known—and flee from ABBAS KAZEROONI is a Tehran. lawyer in California, as well as an actor and graduate of It’s the early 1980s, the Iran-Iraq conflict is at its bloodiest, the London Academy of and the Ayatollahs have reduced the age of recruitment into Performing Arts. He has acted on the London stage the Iranian army. If Abbas doesn’t leave, even at the age of ten, in the lead role of Sleuth as he will have to go to war. His father insists he leave the coun- well as in performances for try for Istanbul in hopes Abbas can then get to London and the BBC and HBO. This is safety. In the strange and often frightening city of Istanbul the his first book. boy grows up quickly: learning to live on his own, navigate a foreign culture, and judge who is a friend—or enemy. Abbas lives by his wits, surviving because of his inventiveness and hutzpah.

On Two Feet and Wings offers young readers an illuminating glimpse of life in the Middle East, specifically Iran, an increasingly important player in our world. Yet the real pull of this memoir is the true story it tells of a young boy whose family’s fate is controlled by a repressive regime. Full of adventure and everyday challenges, Abbas Kazerooni’s true story is poignant, funny, and inspiring, and middle grade readers will be swept up in it.

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Ghosting Edith Pattou 8/19/2014 Told through multiple points of view in naturalistic free verse and stream of consciousness, Ghosting Young Adult revolves around a hot summer night in a Midwest- Contemporary ern town, when a high school teenage prank goes horrifically awry. EDITH PATTOU has found acclaim as a Alcohol, guns, and a dare. Within minutes, as events collide, writer in middle grade innocents becomes victims—with tragic outcomes altering fantasy with such lives forever, a grisly and unfortunate scenario all too famil- award-winning books as East, which re- iar from current real-life headlines. But victims can also be- ceived starred reviews come survivors, and as we come to know each character in Booklist and School through his/her own distinctive voice and their interactions Library Journal; was with one another, we see how, despite pain and guilt, they selected a Top Ten can reach out to one another, find a new equilibrium, and Book for YA, an ALA survive. Ghosting is an unforgettable, haunting tale. Notable Book, an SLJ Top Ten YA Book, and one of the “100 Best of the Best YA Books for the 21st Century” by the YALSA; and was nominated for numerous state awards.

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Gates of Thread and Stone Lori M. Lee

In the Labyrinth, we had a saying: keep silent, keep 8/5/2014 still, keep safe. Young Adult Fantasy In a city of walls and secrets, where only one man is supposed to possess magic, seventeen-year-old Kai struggles to keep hidden her own secret—she can manipulate the threads of time. LORI M. LEE was born in the mountains of When Kai was eight, she was found by Reev on the riverbank, Laos. Her family relocat- and her “brother” has taken care of her ever since. Kai doesn’t ed to a Thailand refugee know where her ability comes from—or where she came from. camp for a few years and then moved permanent- All that matters is that she and Reev stay together, and maybe ly to the United States one day move out of the freight container they call home, away when she was three. from the metal walls of the Labyrinth. Kai’s only friend is Avan, Now she lives in Wiscon- the shopkeeper’s son with the scandalous reputation that both sin with her husband frightens and intrigues her. and works as a Web technician for a major Then Reev disappears. When keeping silent and safe means newspaper company. losing him forever, Kai vows to do whatever it takes to find him. She will leave the only home she’s ever known and risk getting caught up in a revolution centuries in the making. But to save Reev, Kai must unravel the threads of her past and face shock- Stay tuned for the next title in ing truths about her brother, her friendship with Avan, and her the Gates of Thread and Stone unique power. series, which will be released in Spring 2015!

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1/1/2014 Young Adult Crossover Science Fiction

Timebound The Chronos Files, Book One Rysa Walker

RYSA WALKER grew up on a cattle ranch in the South. Her options for entertainment were talking to cows and reading books. On the rare occa- sion that she gained control of the television, she watched Star Trek and imagined living in the future, on distant planets, or at least in a town big enough to have a stoplight. These days, when not writing, she teaches history and government in North Carolina, where she shares an office with her husband and a golden retriever named Lucy. She enjoys yoga, über-dark chocolate, Galaga, and Scrabble. She still doesn’t get control of the TV very often, thanks to her sports- obsessed kids. Timebound is her debut novel.

Stay tuned for the next two titles in the Chronos Files series, which will be released in Fall 2014 and Spring 2015!

2013 Winner — Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award — Grand Prize and Young Adult Fiction Winner

When Kate Pierce-Keller’s grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteen-year-old Kate assumes the old woman is delusional. But it all becomes horrifyingly real when a murder in the past destroys the foundation of Kate’s present-day life. Suddenly, that medallion is the only thing protecting Kate from blinking out of existence.

Kate learns that the 1893 killing is part of something much more sinister, and her genetic ability to time travel makes Kate the only one who can fix the future. Risking everything, she travels back in time to the Chicago World’s Fair to try to prevent the murder and the chain of events that follows.

Changing the timeline comes with a personal cost—if Kate succeeds, the boy she loves will have no memory of her existence. And regardless of her motives, does Kate have the right to manipulate the fate of the entire world?

“Sharp writing, a flair for dialogue, and a big, twisting imagination.” —Kirkus Reviews

Rights Available: All Languages Rights Sold: Audio, German 42 In the Band Luminescent Juliet, Book One 10/22/2013 Jean Haus New Adult Eighteen-year-old Riley Middleton should be far away from home, about to start her freshman year of college on a full-ride scholarship she earned with her unmatched skills on the drums.

But instead of marching-band practice and dorm life, Riley is stuck at home—her family needs her. In an effort to help her regain her rhythm, Riley’s best friends encourage her to try out as the drummer for the hot college rock band Luminescent Juliet. But when Riley shows up for the audition, the three band members aren’t what she expected: all of them have more ego than Riley wants to deal with, and they all are drop-dead gorgeous.

Sparks immediately fly with Romeo, the band’s dark-haired and sexy lead guitar player, who doesn’t want Riley in his band and relentlessly pushes her to quit. But drumming is all that’s keeping Riley’s spirit alive—she has to make this work, and if that means ignoring both Romeo’s taunts and his dangerously smoldering looks, she’ll find a way to stay in the band.

Rights Available: All Languages Rights Sold: Audio Ink My Heart Luminescent Juliet, Book Two Jean Haus 11/12/2013 New Adult Even if he wasn’t the lead singer of the insanely popular college band Luminescent Juliet, Justin Noel wouldn’t have to work at picking up women. It only takes one flash of his dimples to make ladies swoon.

And they do—nightly. Which is perfect because Justin doesn’t have any interest in a relationship that might last longer than sunrise. For tattoo artist Allie Landon, guys like Justin are a joke. But when her ex unexpectedly shows up, desperation forces Allie to introduce Justin as her boyfriend. Justin’s more than happy to play along—after all, who wouldn’t want to be with Allie? She’s hot and she can ink a killer tattoo.

When playing along starts to mean something more to Justin, he discovers that Allie exposes emotional depths within his soul that he didn’t know he had. But Allie’s life isn’t what it seems, and there’s little room in her shattered and confused heart to let Justin in. As Justin grapples with an increasing need to have her in his life, Allie finds that ignoring the growing attraction—both physical and emotional—between them is becoming more difficult than tattoo removal.

Rights Available: All Languages Rights Sold: Audio With the Band Luminescent Juliet, Book Three Jean Haus 5/13/2014 New Adult When they get an offer to join a national tour, the musicians of Luminescent Juliet finally find their ticket to fame.

But for Sam, the band’s dazzling but troubled bassist, making sure his past stays locked away during the tour feels more important than winning the spotlight. Then Peyton, a budding music jour- nalist, joins the tour, tasked with chronicling the band’s every move. She and Sam have a history, one that has made them enemies. Neither wants to deal with old pain and misunderstanding, and they agree to keep the past in the past.

Yet being forced to look at Sam in a new way brings Peyton a different perspective on the past—and his magnetic baby-blues and rippling muscles are hard to ignore. When the tour kicks into high gear, the real truth about their shared past comes to light and Peyton is rocked by forces as passionate and chaotic as the music she loves.

JEAN HAUS lives in Michigan with her husband and son, where she spends almost as much time teaching, cooking, and golfing as she does thinking about the tough but vulnerable rockers featured in her books. Rights Available: All Languages Rights Sold: Audio 43 Killing Ruby Rose The Ruby Rose Series, Book One Jessie Humphries 5/1/2014 Young Adult Crossover In sunny Southern California, seventeen-year-old Mystery & Thriller Ruby Rose is known for her killer looks and her killer SAT scores.

But ever since her dad, an LAPD SWAT sergeant, died, she’s also got a few killer secrets. To cope, Ruby has been trying to stay focused on school (the top spot in her class is on the line) and spending time with friends (her Jimmy Choos and Manolo Blahniks are nothing if not loyal). But after six months of therapy and pathetic parenting by her mom, the Dis- trict Attorney, Ruby decides to pick up where her dad left off and starts going after the bad guys herself.

When Ruby ends up killing a murderer to save his intended victim, she discovers that she’s gone from being the huntress to the hunted. There’s a sick mastermind at play, and he has Ruby in his sights. Ruby must discover who’s using her to implement twisted justice before she ends up swapping Valentino red for prison orange. With a gun named Smith, a talent for martial arts, and a boyfriend with eyes to die for, Ruby is ready to face the worst.

And if a girl’s forced to kill, won’t the guilt sit more easily in a pair of Prada peep-toe pumps?

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Resisting Ruby Rose The Ruby Rose Series, Book Two Jessie Humphries 10/21/2014 Young Adult Crossover Thriller

Ruby’s adventures continue in this sequel to Killing Ruby Rose.

JESSIE HUMPHRIES was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. She received a BA from San Diego State University, where she cultivated her love of the beach; she then lived in France, where she cultivated her weakness for shoes. Finally, she earned a law degree from University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she cultivated her interest in justice. Appropriately, her debut novel, Killing Ruby Rose, is a thriller about vigilante justice set in sunny Southern California and featuring a shoe-obsessed pro- tagonist. Jessie currently writes and practices law in Las Vegas, where she lives with her husband and children.

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The Benefactor Erin Fry

2/11/2014 They come from different walks of life, with Young Adult different problems and different hopes and dreams. Contemporary

But they have one thing in common: they need a scholar- ERIN FRY is also the ship to college. And they’re ready to battle seven other author of Losing It and contestants on a reality TV show to get it. the forthcoming novel Secrets of the Book. She lives in Glendora, Califor- There’s: nia, with her family. Mei, a budding artist with a secret disability; Learn more at: Henry, not in it for the money but for the chance to fol- www.erinmfry.com. low his true dream; Lucy, a tough Texan from a new kind of family; Tyrell, an injured football star with a sick sister at home; Sam, a musician with no family to fall back on; Allyson, a devout Christian with a good reason to pray; Cassidy, a beauty with a secret; and Hiroshi, a varsity swimmer who left behind his true love.

But only one contestant can win on The Benefactor. Who will take home the big prize? Tune in to find out.

Rights Available: English Rights Sold: Audio The Haunting Season Michelle Muto

1/21/2014 Be careful what you let in . . . Young Adult Crossover

Fantasy Siler House has stood silent beneath Savannah’s moss-draped oaks for decades. Notoriously haunted, it has remained empty until college-bound Jess Perry and three of her peers gather to take part in a MICHELLE MUTO lives in month-long study on the paranormal. Able to talk northeast Georgia with her husband and two dogs. She to ghosts, Jess quickly bonds with her fellow test is the author of The Book of subjects, who have their own “gifts.” One is Lost Souls, an eFestival of possessed. Another just wants to forget. The third Words winner for Best is a guy who knows how to turn up the August Young Adult 2012, and heat, not to mention Jess’s heart rate . . . when he’s Don’t Fear the Reaper, an not resurrecting the dead. LDS Women’s Book Review Top Ten Pick 2011. Michelle The study soon turns into something far more sin- loves changes of season, ister when they discover that Siler House and the dogs, and all things geeky. Currently, she’s hard at dark forces within are determined to keep them work on her next book. forever. To escape, Jess and the others must open Learn more at: themselves up to the true horror of Siler House www.michellemuto.word- and channel the very evil that seeks to hold press.com. them in.

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11/5/2013 Young Adult Paranormal Fantasy Perennial Ryan Potter

RYAN POTTER has had numerous stories and novels published since he began writing in 2003, including the young adult novels Exit Strategy and Roman King and the Armies of Fire and Light, the adult novel The Cleaner, and the story collection Welcome to Detroit. He lives in the Detroit area with his wife, and enjoys baseball, yoga, and routinely suffering through Detroit Lions games.

On the morning of the first day of senior year, Alix Keener awakens from a vivid, terrifying dream in which a ghostly boy warns her: Perennial is all around you.

Shaking off the dream—and the cryptic message—is just what Alix doesn’t need as she starts a new life in Beaconsfield, the posh Detroit suburb she and her dad recently moved to after her mom’s death.

Alix manages to ignore the mysterious message until one of her new classmates, the alluring Lewis Wilde, mentions it—he knows something about Perennial, and hints that it has to do with a boy who died in Alix’s bedroom. Suddenly wracked by waking visions, Alix finds herself teaming up with Lewis to uncover the truth.

Alix’s developing psychic abilities become more powerful, but reality becomes increasingly unclear. Alix wants to trust Lewis, but a shadowy person named Vagabond hints that Alix’s trust may be misplaced. As things become more dangerous and complex, Alix must choose whether to use her burgeoning psychic powers or risk losing everything that matters to her.

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Skin Donna Jo Napoli

How do you stay strong when you don’t even 8/6/2013 recognize the skin you’re in? Young Adult Sixteen-year-old Sep stares into the bathroom mirror on the Social Issues first day of school. It’s not some weird lipstick (she never wears lipstick); she didn’t bump her lips or chew on ice. Her lips are just—white. In a panic, she digs up an old lipstick and DONNA JO NAPOLI is the smears it on her colorless lips. But soon, more and more white distinguished author of spots begin to bloom, spreading their chalky tendrils across some twenty novels for her olive-brown skin. young adults, including the award-winning Hush and Does she have a disease? Is she turning into some kind of The Smile as well as popular freak? Sep is usually the one who knows all the answers. With fairy-tale retellings such as a quicksilver mind and a supple body, she’s happiest when Zel and Bound. In talking she’s delving into the mysteries of animal biology or giving about Skin she says, “Like herself over to sweet, hot moves in Jazz Dance Club. Unlike Sep, almost all of us will her best friend, Devon, she’s never been in a rush to get a discover something wrong boyfriend. But as the white blotches spread, her dating days— with ourselves that we have like the endangered species she studies—seem numbered. to somehow cope with. Sep makes mistakes and her So when Josh, a boy she’s always liked, makes a flirty advance, mistakes hurt, but she is she wonders: why not grab pleasure while she can? Frank, able to reclaim her power funny, and full of passion, this compelling novel tells the em- and survive, realizing that powering story of a strong, gifted teen who, as her life spins despite it all, life goes on out of control, desperately tries to prove to the world—and and is good.” Donna Jo herself—that she is deeper than skin. Napoli lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Rights Available: All Languages Rights Sold: Audio The Meme Plague Angie Smibert

You, my friend, have been hacked. 8/13/2013

It begins with the name JONAS W. on the side of a cardboard Young Adult coffin—right before the funeral procession blows up. Then it’s Dystopian the whisper in the back of Micah’s head: Your father betrayed his country. ANGIE SMIBERT was born You can’t always trust your own brain. Not when you have one in Blacksburg, a once sleepy of the mayor’s mandatory chips in your skull. Micah knows college town in the moun- that the chip developed by TFC (the corporation that runs the tains of Southwest Virginia. Therapeutic Forgetting Clinics) does more than just erase un- She grew up thinking she pleasant memories—it implants new ones. The MemeCast wanted to be a veterinarian; warns citizens to “fight the hack.” organic chemistry had other ideas. But she always had Micah and his friends have each lost something—a parent, a stories in her head. Eventu- relationship, a home, maybe even their own identities as they ally, after a few degrees and remembered them to be. But, together, they can make sure a few cool jobs—including a some things are never forgotten. Election Day is coming, and ten-year stint at NASA’s Mayor Mignon is set to be elected to Congress. It’s time to Kennedy Space Center—she build a new electronic frontier, one that’s not controlled by the wrote some of those stories mayor and his cronies. It’s time to get out the vote and shake down. A frequent contribu- up the system. It’s time to finally say enough. tor to Odyssey Magazine, Angie has published many, many short stories for both adults and teens.

Rights Available: All Languages Rights Sold: Audio 47 Sanctum Guards of the Shadowlands, Book One Sarah Fine 10/16/2012 “My plan: Get into the city. Get Nadia. Find a way out. Young Adult Crossover Simple.” Fantasy

A week ago, seventeen-year-old Lela Santos’s best friend, Nadia, killed herself. Today, thanks to a farewell ritual gone awry, Lela is standing in paradise, looking upon a vast gated city in the distance—hell. No one willingly walks through the Suicide Gates, into a place smothered in darkness and infested with depraved creatures. But Lela isn’t just anyone—she’s determined to save her best friend’s soul, even if it means sacrificing her eternal afterlife.

As Lela struggles to find Nadia, she’s captured by the Guards, enormous, not-quite-human creatures that patrol the dark city’s endless streets. Their all-too human leader, Malachi, is unlike them in every way except one: his deadly efficiency. When he meets Lela, Malachi forms his own plan: get her out of the city, even if it means she must leave Nadia behind. Malachi knows something Lela doesn’t—the dark city isn’t the worst place Lela could end up, and he will stop at nothing to keep her from that fate. Rights Available: English Rights Sold: Audio, German, Italian Fractured Guards of the Shadowlands, Book Two Sarah Fine 10/29/2013 Young Adult Crossover In the week since Lela returned to Rhode Island as Captain of the Guard with Malachi as her second in command, local news has been Fantasy dominated by chilling sightings of humanlike creatures running on all fours. Lela knows there’s only one explanation: the Mazikin have arrived in the land of the living.

Needing to maintain the appearance of a normal life for her foster mother, her proba- tion officer, and her classmates, Lela returns to Warwick High along with Malachi. At night they secretly hunt for the Mazikin nest.

As one painful revelation follows another and the Mazikin start targeting those closest to her, Lela finds herself more vulnerable than she’s ever been, wanting a future more than she ever has. With an enemy determined to separate soul from body, one question remains: how much is she willing to sacrifice to protect those she loves?

Rights Available: English, German Rights Sold: Audio, Italian Chaos Guards of the Shadowlands, Book Three 10/7/2014 Sarah Fine Young Adult Crossover The conclusion to the Guards of the Shadowlands series. Fantasy

Praise for Fractured:

“High stakes and heart-pounding action continue in this satisfying sequel.” —Booklist Online

“Between the expanded worldbuilding and well-paced suspense, Fine presents a bridge to carry readers to Book 3.” —Kirkus Reviews

SARAH FINE was born on the West Coast, raised in the Midwest, and is now firmly en- trenched on the East Coast, where she lives with her husband and two children. When she’s not writing, she’s working as a child psychologist. No, she is not psychoanalyzing you right now. Her first novel, Sanctum, was published by Skyscape in 2012. Find Sarah online at: http://sarahfinebooks.com or on Twitter @FineSarah.

Rights Available: English, German, Audio Rights Sold: Italian 48 Someone to Love Someone to Love Series, Book One 10/29/2013 Addison Moore New Adult “If you don’t give your heart away, you can’t get it broken.” Romance

When twenty-year-old Kendall Jordan transfers across the country to Garrison University, the last thing she’s looking for is a one-night stand. Unfortunately that’s exactly what gorgeous Cruise Elton offers. Kendall has long since come to realize that love is an illusion, and Cruise couldn’t agree more—but something deep inside her wants him all for herself. So Kendall devises a plan to “play the player” and proposes that Cruise tutor her in becoming a female version of himself—Garrison University’s own playboy. But as real feelings emerge, the game gets complicated, and Kendall and Cruise will find themselves questioning everything they thought they knew about love.

“Someone to Love is . . . easy, frothy fun.” —Cosmopolitan

Rights Available: English Rights Sold: Audio Someone Like You Someone to Love Series, Book Two 1/28/2014 Addison Moore New Adult When coed Ally Monroe literally falls into the arms of a tattooed Romance bad-boy one night, she can't seem to let go.

Morgan Jordan is everything Ally doesn't want—he’s a playboy from a blue collar background, and Ally’s looking for upper-class stability. Though their relationship starts off as a one-night stand, once Ally learns Morgan is her best friend’s brother, there’s no escaping him . . . or the growing fire between them.

As Ally and Morgan become closer, they confront bitter enemies, his sister’s disapproval, and paths pulling them in different directions at summer’s end. When their greatest test arises, it’s one that threatens to destroy them both.

Rights Available: English Rights Sold: Audio Someone for Me Someone to Love Series, Book Three 7/1/2014 Addison Moore New Adult Kendall and Cruise ignite the pages in the final installment of the Romance nationally bestselling series Someone to Love.

Kendall Jordan knows she doesn’t need an elaborate wedding with a Vera Wang dress and a three-tiered cake. All she needs is the love of her life, the hot and romantic Cruise Elton. But she’s been dreaming of a picture-perfect wedding since childhood, and so with her finances in peril and a rock band squatting in the Elton B&B, Kendall must take extreme measures. She decides to pen a book about the kinky sexcapades of one Penny Whoredon and Cruz Belton, but in order to do the writing justice she’ll need to conduct some sexy research with the love of her life. It looks like Kendall might just pull it off—but when her protective older brother and Cruise’s jealous ex-girlfriend get involved, tempers and insecurities rise, threatening not just her dream wedding, but the possibility of having a wedding at all.

ADDISON MOORE is a bestselling author of contemporary and paranormal romance. Addison lives with her family on the West Coast. Learn more at: addisonmoorewrites.blogspot.com.

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49 Silent Harmony Fairmont Riding Academy, Book One 5/28/2013 Michele Scott Young Adult Small town seventeen-year-old Vivienne Taylor is a talented Mystery & Thriller equestrian with Olympic dreams and a little something extra going on—she is also an “equine empath,” someone who has the ability to read horses’ minds and moods.

When she receives a full scholarship to attend Fairmont Riding Academy, a prep school with a famous riding program, she struggles with homesickness, hazing by the school’s snooty drama queen, intense competition in the sport of three-day-eventing, and the not-altogether-unwelcome interest of a hot guy. On top of all of that the horse given to Vivienne via the scholarship is an animal that she cannot “read” or understand. When Vivienne learns that her new horse Harmony belonged to the school’s vet, who recently died in a freak accident, she senses that the horse’s aloof behavior may be the result of her witnessing this accident. But as a connection begins to unfold between Vivienne and Harmony, Vivienne begins to believe that the vet’s death was no accident at all—but rather murder—and she resolves, at considerable peril, to track down the killer.

Rights Available: English Rights Sold: Audio Dark Harmony Fairmont Riding Academy, Book Two 5/20/2014 Michele Scott Young Adult As seventeen-year-old Vivienne Taylor returns to Fairmont Mystery & Thriller Riding Academy for the second semester, she just wants to get past the drama that dominated her first months at the school.

Reunited with her beloved horse, Harmony, Vivvie vows to focus on riding, particularly with the announcement that a select group of students will be chosen to compete at a Three Day Event in Kentucky, with access to world-class coaches afterward. Making the team is exactly what Vivvie needs to get to the next level. Yet she’s hardly back before her talent for reading the animals’ minds gives her a slew of troubling insights, not the least of which is that certain horses seem to be walling themselves off from her. The horses make her increasingly suspicious of everything from new student Joel’s actions to her boyfriend’s troubled past. But it’s not until someone incredibly close to Vivvie goes missing that she realizes she must seek out the truth no matter the risks.

As Vivvie trains for the hyper-competitive Three Day Event, she must not only solve the mysteries around her and tune into the horses she loves so much, but she must listen to her own heart, too.

Rights Available: English Rights Sold: Audio Perfect Harmony Fairmont Riding Academy, Book Three 9/30/2014 Michele Scott Young Adult Mystery & Thriller The conclusion to the Fairmont Riding Academy trilogy.

MICHELE SCOTT lives in California with her family. With her days spent in the barn or at the keyboard, Ms. Scott has forged a flourishing career as mystery writer and is also deeply involved in the world of horses and equestrian riding.

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50 Deviants The Dust Chronicles, Book One 10/30/2012 Maureen McGowan Young Adult Crossover In Glory’s world, different means deviant—and dead. Science Fiction

In a post-apocalyptic world, where the earth is buried by asteroid dust that’s mutated the DNA of some humans, orphaned, sixteen-year-old Glory must hide and protect her younger brother. If their Deviant abilities are discovered, they’ll be expunged—kicked out of the dome to be tortured and killed by the Shredders. Glory would give anything to get rid of her unique ability to kill with her emotions, especially when Cal, the boy she’s always liked, becomes a spy for the authorities. But when her brother is discovered, and she learns their father, who was expunged for killing their mother, is still alive, she must escape the domed city that’s been her entire world.

Outside in the ruins, they’re pursued by the authorities and by sadistic, scab-covered Shredders who are addicted to the lethal-to-humans dust now covering the planet. Glory’s quests to transport herself and her brother to safety make up the thrilling and fascinating first volume of The Dust Chronicles.

Rights Available: English Rights Sold: Audio Compliance The Dust Chronicles, Book Two 6/4/2013 Maureen McGowan Young Adult Crossover 2013 Winner—NJRW Golden Leaf Award for Young Adult Science Fiction Fiction

For Glory, life inside the domed city is anything but safe. After rescuing her brother, Glory returns to Haven as a double agent to locate and save fellow Deviants. Far from her family, Glory faces danger at every turn as she trains to be a Compliance Officer—to track down and subdue her own kind—while she works undercover to rescue as many Deviants as she can.

When people she trusts turn against her, Glory questions everything she believes and can no longer tell her allies from her enemies.

Rights Available: English Rights Sold: Audio Glory The Dust Chronicles, Book Three 6/10/2014 Maureen McGowan Young Adult Crossover Glory is a Deviant. That is what she was always taught, grow- Science Fiction ing up in the domed city of Haven.

She has the power to kill with her gaze, but she’s learned to control this power and use it only against the monstrous Shredders who are addicted to the asteroid dust that mutated their DNA. Now, living in a settlement Outside, Glory has the chance to embrace her “Gift” and reunite her remaining family. But she can’t hide from the threat of Shredder attacks or the knowledge of what Management is doing to the employees of Haven. Can she face losing everything she has left to bring freedom to Haven? Will she choose the familiar safety of Cal’s love or risk Burn’s dangerous passion? Ultimately, Glory must decide how far she is willing to go to keep her family safe, and what it really means to be a monster. This is the thrilling finale to The Dust Chronicles trilogy.

MAUREEN MCGOWAN left a career in finance and software development to pursue her love of fiction, honing her craft as a novelist. She lives and writes in Toronto, Canada.

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51 Sketchy The Bea Catcher Chronicles, Book One Olivia Samms 4/30/2013 Young Adult Crossover Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Bea’s life has been a mess ever since she got kicked out of private school and sent to rehab.

Now clean, Bea is starting over at Packard High School, in a city shaken from two assaults on young women. The latest victim, Willa Pressman—the one who survived—doesn't remember a thing. But Bea has a disturbing new “skill”: she can see—and then draw—images from other people’s minds. And when she looks at Willa, Bea is shocked by what she sketches. Bea might be the only one who knows Willa’s secrets—and who can take down the killer before he strikes again.

“A page-burner that artfully combines suspense and the supernatural.” —bestselling author James Patterson

“A fresh breath in the crowded YA paranormal genre.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“5 out of 5 Stars” —San Francisco/Sacramento Book Review

“Gripping.” —Denver Post

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Snitch The Bea Catcher Chronicles, Book Two Olivia Samms 4/1/2014 Young Adult Crossover Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

In the sequel to Sketchy, Bea goes undercover to solve the murder of a teen gang member while also unearthing secrets within her school, her friends, and even her own family.

OLIVIA SAMMS is the author of the Bea Catcher Chronicles. Sketchy, her debut novel and the first in the series, received a starred review in Pub- lishers Weekly. Olivia lives with her husband and two children in LA, where she is working on the next book in the Bea Catcher Chronicles. Learn more at: www.oliviasamms.com.

Rights Available: English Rights Sold: Audio 52 The Curse: Touch of Eternity The Curse Series, Book One Emily Bold 4/16/2013 Young Adult A centuries-old curse, a mysterious amulet, and Paranormal a young love reignite a vendetta that had died down long ago . . .

When seventeen-year-old Samantha goes on a school-exchange trip to Scotland, she takes with her an old pendant that she found among her grandmother’s belongings. As soon as she arrives at her host family’s home, she is drawn into the country’s tales and myths. Then she meets the dangerously attractive Payton—a mysterious Highlander who soon conquers Sam’s heart. Caught up in her feelings, she doesn’t realize how much danger she’s in. Payton’s past holds a dark secret. A secret that has bound together both their families’ fates for hundreds of years and is now also endangering Sam’s life.

EMILY BOLD, born in 1980, has already published a number of books including her debut novel Gefährliche Intrigen, a bestselling eBook in Germany. She writes historical romance, and her novels are full of love, passion, and adventure. The Curse: Touch of Eternity is Emily’s first book translated into English.

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Breath of Yesterday The Curse Series, Book Two Emily Bold 1/28/2014 Young Adult Paranormal Romance This second volume in Emily Bold’s mystical series about Samantha Watts and Payton McLean, a cursed Scotsman from another era, takes readers on a thrilling journey across time.

After winning the battle to break a centuries-old curse, Samantha and Payton thought nothing could stand in the way of their happiness. But all too soon they learn the horrifying truth: Their struggle to keep Pay- ton alive has only just begun. Samantha ventures into the past, back to eighteenth-century Scotland where it all began—and back into the arms of Payton, the handsome young Highlander who stole her heart.

Will they unlock the secret to the legend of the five sisters in time to make their dreams come true?

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6/11/2013 Young Adult Mystery & Thriller Ghost Time Courtney Eldridge

COURTNEY ELDRIDGE is the author of Unkempt, a story collection, and The Generosity of Women, a novel. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including McSweeney’s, BOMB, and the New York Times Magazine. She lives in Los Angeles.

Praise for Courtney Eldridge:

“Eldrige is a writer of extreme talent who writes smart, funny, and well- crafted prose. She’s a strong voice in fiction today.” —The Believer

Ghost Time is a beautiful, haunting book, a love story and mystery that artfully combines the believable and the strange.

When fifteen-year-old Thea’s math-genius boyfriend, Cam, mysteriously vanishes from their upstate New York town, the weirdness is just beginning.

The FBI gets involved. The stars on the school flag go missing. Then intimate videos of Cam and Thea start going viral online—videos they never took. Cam claimed to be the world’s foremost hacker . . . is he trying to reach her, send her a sign—or is Thea losing her mind?

“Eldridge’s debut is a mind-bending blend of innovative science fiction and a stream-of-conscious writing style.” —School Library Journal

“Courtney Eldridge’s Ghost Time grabs you on the first page and holds you captive until the last word. It’s a haunting, well-crafted, page turner. Eldridge is a talented author with an exceptional voice. She has written a book with a unique storyline which will have teens anxiously awaiting the sequel.” —Bonnie Shimko, author of You Know What You Have to Do

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You Know What You Have to Do Bonnie Shimko

“Dexter meets Judy Blume!” —Ellen Bass, 3/26/2013 author of The Human Line Young Adult

You do not kill a man in cold blood and then Contemporary Thriller talk your way out of it. Other than her real name—Mary-Magdalene Feigenbaum—fifteen-year-old Maggie’s problems seem ordinary. She has tiffs with her too-critical mother, a crush on her cute psychologist, and worries that her only friend—fellow outcast Abigail—is BONNIE SHIMKO is the morphing into a popular girl, leaving her behind. author of The Private Thoughts of Amelia E. Rye, a 2011 ALA Best Book for But Maggie has a few not-so-ordinary problems. A voice YA, and Letters in the Attic, in her head is telling her to kill. And not just anyone. winner of the Lamdba Liter- Each time the target is a person who has done something ary Award. She lives in terrible to someone Maggie cares for. You know what you Plattsburgh, New York. have to do, the voice commands. Maggie struggles to resist, but the voice is relentless. And as its demands escalate, her world begins to crumble.

With rising suspense, this story of psychological horror introduces a narrator whose own unique voice and irrev- erent humor are unforgettable—an unlikely hero fighting a desperate battle against incomprehensible evil.

Rights Available: All Languages Rights Sold: Audio Me & My Invisible Guy Sarah Jeffrey

Shy Mallory’s imaginary boyfriend keeps 2/5/2013 the guys away—until everyone at school Young Adult learns the truth. Contemporary

Mallory Dane has a great family (at least on the sur- SARAH JEFFREY tries to face), is popular at school (as long as she doesn’t make squeeze writing time in waves), and dates an amazing boyfriend, Todd (who between chauffeuring her happens to be completely made up). Boys—and sex— kids around in a minivan (which she likes to pretend are something Mallory just can’t deal with, so she creat- is a Volkswagen Bug con- ed her “invisible guy” to avoid it all. vertible—red). She loves hanging out with her family, But when Liam Crawford comes along—a real guy, flesh and is a pretty skilled and bones and strumming his guitar—Mallory starts barista, a talent that comes questioning her fictional relationship. Is she really will- in handy since she drinks ing to give up Todd for Liam? And can she make tons of coffee. She lives in amends for the lies she’s told—even to her best friend, Virginia with her husband, three daughters, and a Tess? What if your biggest, most embarrassing secret variety of animals. Learn was broadcast to the whole world? more at: www.sarahjeffrey.com. Letting go of her secret will be easier said than done, and Mallory will risk everything—her family, Tess, cheerleading, her reputation, and most of all, her heart.

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World After Penryn & the End of Days, Book Two

Susan Ee 11/19/2013 Young Adult Crossover In this sequel to the bestselling fantasy thriller, Science Fiction Angelfall, the survivors of the angel apocalypse begin to scrape back together what's left of the modern world. SUSAN EE has eaten mezze in the old city of Jerusalem, surfed the When a group of people capture Penryn’s sister Paige, thinking warm waters of Costa she’s a monster, the situation ends in a massacre. Paige disap- Rica, and played her pears. Humans are terrified. Mom is heartbroken. short film at a major festival. She used to be Penryn drives through the streets of San Francisco looking for a lawyer but loves being Paige. Why are the streets so empty? Where is everybody? Her a writer because it search leads her into the heart of the angels’ secret plans, allows her imagination where she catches a glimpse of their motivations, and learns to bust out and go feral. the horrifying extent to which the angels are willing to go.

Meanwhile, Raffe hunts for his wings. Without them, he can’t Stay tuned for the third rejoin the angels, can’t take his rightful place as one of their volume in the Penryn & the End of Days leaders. When faced with recapturing his wings or helping series, which will be Penryn survive, which will he choose? released in Spring 2015!

Rights Available: English Rights Sold: UK (English), Audio The Keeper Ellen Jensen Abbott Abisina is ready to assume the role of Keeper that 11/5/2013 has been her destiny, leading the future of the Watersmeet community. Young Adult Fantasy But the survival of the land depends on the north and south—the centaurs, dwarves, fairies, humans, and fauns— ELLEN JENSEN joining together to confront a gathering evil. The rift that ABBOTT thinks that opened in the Mountains Eternal has continued to spew forth life would be perfect terrible creatures: überwolves, leviathan-birds, minotaurs. if she could move her home, her job, her Abisina knows that the most challenging creature of all has friends, and her fam- arrived—though what shape it will take is still a mystery. ily to the White Mountains of New She sets out to bring the folk together to confront this un- Hampshire, where known evil, but the land has never been more divided. As she she grew up. Until faces hostile centaurs, ambitious fairies, the destruction of the she can convince only home she’s ever known, and separation from those who everyone to join her, love her, Abisina doubts if she has the strength to be the lead- she’s content to be writing, teaching er that everyone needs. Even the power of the Keeper’s neck- English, and living lace doesn’t seem to be enough—and when that is taken from with her husband her, she’s left on the brink of hopelessness. Can Abisina’s faith and their two chil- in the power of love, acceptance, and unity that she’s learned dren in West Ches- from her friends and family survive this final test? ter, Pennsylvania. Learn more at: www.ellenjensen abbott.com

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Into That Forest Louis Nowra

9/3/2013 Young Adult Crossover Two girls survive a terrible flood in the Historical Fiction Tasmanian bush and are rescued by a pair of Tasmanian tigers who raise them in the LOUIS NOWRA is a critically wild. acclaimed playwright and author. He was born in Mel- Their story of survival is remarkable, as they adapt bourne and lives in Sydney with his wife, also a writer. to the life of the tiger, learning to hunt and to com- municate without the use of human language. When they are discovered and returned to civiliza- tion, neither can adapt to being fully human after their extraordinary experience. Totally believable, their story will both shock and captivate readers as it explores the animal instincts that lie beneath our civilized veneer.

Rights Available: Americas English Rights Sold: Audio Samurai Summer Åke Edwardson

6/25/2013 Looked at from the outside, the annual Young Adult summer camp in the countryside Mystery & Thriller seems idyllic.

But for Kenny, a boy with a samurai soul, it is no more than a prison camp, run by a sadistic woman ÅKE EDWARDSON is a who is sometimes helped by her salacious son, Swedish author of novels, Christian. To escape the adults, Kenny and his short stories, plays, and “samurai” friends sneak out to the forest to build a detective fiction, and is a secret castle. It’s off-limits to the girls, but a female three-time winner of the camper named Kerstin begs Kenny to show her the Swedish Crime Writers' castle. But suddenly she disappears, and Kenny Academy Award for best crime novel. Set in Sweden realizes something terrible must have happened to in the early 1960s, Samurai her. Something that points to the old woman who Summer is Edwardson’s runs the camp but even more so to her strange, first novel for teens. creepy son.

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10 Little Hot Dogs All in One Hour Animal Fair An Apple Pie for Around the Dinner Neighborhood: A Text by Susan Stevens Counting Lullaby John Himmelman Crummel Adapted and illustrated by Susan VanHecke Ponder Goembel Adapted by Sarah L. Concept and pictures by Illustrated by Carol Thomson Dorothy Donohue Baicker-McKee Illustrated by Jana Christy

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book A counting book about ten little A mouse leads a wild chase A playful rendering of the popu- A delicious homemade apple pie A counting lullaby based on the dachshunds playing on a chair through a town as the minutes lar song for kids is best when it’s shared classic “Over the Meadow” tick by

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Asiago An Awesome Book of Baby Bear Eats the The Ball of Clay that Ballet Bunnies Thanks! Night Rolled Away Adam McHeffey Dallas Clayton Anthony Pearson Elizabeth Lenhard Joan Elizabeth Goodman

Illustrated by Bonnie Leick Illustrated by Jason Wolff

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book A young vampire meets the Inspired by the idea of being A little bear is afraid of the dark A group of campers chase a Bunnies in ballet class! challenges of a day at the beach thankful for all that you have so he decides to eat the night sassy ball of clay

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Bandit Bandit’s Surprise Baseball Hour Basho and the River Basil’s Birds Stones Karen Rostoker-Gruber Karen Rostoker-Gruber Carol Nevius Tim Myers Lynn Rowe Reed

Illustrated by Vincent Illustrated by Vincent Illustrated by Bill Thomson Illustrated by Oki S. Han Nguyen Nguyen

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book A cat moves into a purr-fect A frisky kitten threatens Ban- Hit, run, and slide as we play A tricky fox learns a lesson from A school custodian discovers new house dit’s comfortable lifestyle baseball a wise poem that carrying a nest of birds on his head has its advantages

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Cakes and Miracles: Bed Hog Building with Dad The Birthday Pet The Busy Tree A Purim Tale Georgette Noullet Ellen Javernick Carol Nevius Barbara Diamond Goldin Jennifer Ward Illustrated by David Slonim Illustrated by Kevin Illustrated by Bill Thomson Illustrated by Lisa Illustrated by Jaime Zollars O’Malley Falkenstern

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book A dog tries to find the perfect A little boy finally gets a turtle A little boy joins his father at a Many different types of wildlife A blind boy makes place to sleep for his birthday construction site live in and around a tree hamantashen for Purim

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Chalk Cinderella City Dog, Country City Witch, Country Cock-A-Doodle Dog Switch Christmas! Bill Thomson Retold by Sarah L. Susan Stevens Crummel Wendy Wax Will Hillenbrand Thomson Illustrated by Nicoletta Illustrated by Dorothy Illustrated by Scott Ceccoli Donohue Gibala-Broxholm

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Three children discover a magi- A beautiful retelling of the A spin on the classic Aesop fable A city witch and a country witch A young chicken learns to crow cal bag of chalk on a rainy day classic fairy tale with stunning visit each other, and mischief the good news of baby Jesus’s artwork ensues birth.

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Cow Can’t Sleep De Colores: Bright A Dog’s Life Don’t Be Silly, Mrs. Don’t Wake Up the with Colors Millie! Bear! Ken Baker David Diaz Caroline Sherman Marjorie Dennis Murray Judy Cox

Illustrated by Steve Gray Illustrated by Donald Wu Illustrated by Joe Mathieu Illustrated by Patricia Wittmann

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Belle the cow can’t find a comfy The traditional Spanish folk A day in the life of a dog from a A very silly look at kindergarten Can a tiny mouse wake up a big place to sleep song brought to life in brilliant dog’s perspective sleeping bear? color

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A Dragon Moves In A Dress for Me! Earth Day, Birthday! The Elephant from Eliza’s Kindergarten Baghdad Pet Lisa Falkenstern Sue Fliess Maureen Wright Mary Tavener Holmes and Alice B. McGinty John Harris Illustrated by Mike Illustrated by Violet Kim Illustrated by Jon Cannell Illustrated by Nancy Speir Laughead

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book A baby dragon outgrows the A little hippo shops for a new It’s Earth Day—but silly Mon- Charlemagne makes friends A kindergartner saves the day house of his two best friends dress key wants to celebrate his birth- with an albino elephant, a gift when the class guinea pig gets day instead from the caliph of Baghdad loose

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Eliza’s Kindergarten Fair Cow A Fairy in a Dairy Ferret Fun The Fiesta Dress: A Surprise Quinceanera Tale Alice B. McGinty Leslie Helakoski Lucy Nolan Karen Rostoker-Gruber Caren McNelly McCormack

Illustrated by Nancy Speir Illustrated by Laura J. Illustrated by Paul Rátz de Illustrated by Martha Avilés Bryant Tagyos

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book A kindergartner misses her Effie learns what it takes to be a A bovine fairy works dairy Two ferrets try to dodge a cat A little sister comes to the res- mother at school until she state-fair cow magic in Buttermilk Hollow that thinks they’re rats cue at her big sister’s makes a mommy doll quinceneara

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Flower Girl Frankie Stein Frankie Stein Stars Fun Dog, Sun Dog Good-bye, Sheepie School Barbara Bottner Lola M. Schaefer Lola M. Schaefer Deborah Heiligman Robert Burleigh

Photographs by Laura Grier Illustrated by Kevan Illustrated by Kevan Illustrated by Tim Bowers Illustrated by Peter Atteberry Atteberry Catalanotto

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book An endearing photographic Mr. and Mrs. Stein are shocked Frankie Stein shows his class- A boy and his dog enjoy sum- A young boy comes to terms tribute to a flower girl’s role in a when their baby boy arrives and mates that he can be the scari- mer fun in the sun with the death of his beloved wedding is nothing like them est of all sheepdog

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The Hand-Me-Down Happy Birthday, Mrs. The Hiccupotamus Hippo Goes Bananas! The House Takes a Doll Millie! Vacation Aaron Zenz Marjorie Dennis Murray Jacqueline Davies Steven Kroll Judy Cox Illustrated by Dan Illustrated by Joe Mathieu Illustrated by Kevin Illustrated by Lee White Andreasen O’Malley

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book A lonely doll is passed from It’s time for everyone’s favorite A hippopotamus with a bad case Hippo’s bad toothache gets all A house takes its own vacation owner to owner until she’s silly teacher to celebrate her of the hiccups the animals talking while its family is away on adopted by just the right girl birthday! holiday

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Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, The Last Day of Little Lost Tiger Look! Look! Look! At Mary Had a Little Are You Waking Up? Kindergarten Sculpture Lamb Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Nancy Loewen Jonathan London Nancy Elizabeth Wallace Sarah Josepha Hale Sampson Illustrated by Sachiko Illustrated by Ilya Spirin with Linda K. Friedlander Illustrated by Laura Illustrated by Laura J. Yoshikawa Huliska-Beith Bryant

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Kitty Cat purr-crastinates as she A little girl, worried about first A tiger cub survives a forest fire Three mice visit a museum and Lively illustrations of the popu- gets ready for school grade, wishes it were the first and is reunited with his mother learn that sculpture comes in all lar song for kids day of kindergarten again shapes, sizes, and textures

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The Pink Party A Mountain of My Pup The Night Before Old MacDonald Had a Blintzes Christmas Dragon Margaret O’Hair Maryann MacDonald Barbara Diamond Goldin Clement Clarke Moore Ken Baker

Illustrated by Anik Illustrated by Tammie Lyon Illustrated by Gennady Illustrated by Christopher Illustrated by Judy Stead McGrory Spirin Santoro

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book The children save the Jewish A new puppy is lots of fun A classic look at old Saint Nick Old MacDonald sings about his Two girls who love pink try to holiday of Shavuot new dragon, until the other outdo each other animals complain

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Princess Peepers The Rain Stomper Ralph Tells a Story The Reader The Shabbat Puppy Picks a Pet Pam Calvert Addie Boswell Abby Hanlon Amy Hest Leslie Kimmelman

Illustrated by Tuesday Illustrated by Eric Illustrated by Lauren Illustrated by Jaime Zollars Mourning Velasquez Castillo

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Princess Peepers gets an A baton twirler fights the rain to It’s classmates to the rescue A boy, a dog, a book—and a A wiggly puppy proves that even unusual pet just in time for the save her neighborhood parade when Ralph has trouble writing snowy day to remember a pup can lead a family to Shab- royal pet show stories bat shalom (Sabbath peace)

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Sherlock Bones and the Missing Cheese Silly Tilly Sneezy the Snowman Snowzilla Sophie’s Lovely Locks Susan Stevens Crummel Eileen Spinelli Maureen Wright Janet Lawler Erica Pelton Villnave

Illustrated by Dorothy Illustrated by David Slonim Illustrated by Stephen Illustrated by Amanda Donohue Gilpin Haley

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Sherlock Bones uses his five Tilly is not an ordinary goose What’s a snowman to do when Cami Lou and her brother build Sophie donates her long hair to senses to find clues to the miss- he's sneezing and freezing and a huge snowman a child who needs it ing cheese shivering, too?

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Stuff! Reduce, Reuse, There Was an Odd There Was an Old The Spaghetti- Super-Dragon Recycle Princess Who Pirate Who Slurping Sewer Swallowed a Pea Swallowed a Fish Serpent Steven Kroll Steven Kroll Jennifer Ward Jennifer Ward Laura Ripes Illustrated by Steve Cox Illustrated by Douglas Illustrated by Lee Calderon Illustrated by Steve Gray Illustrated by Aaron Zenz Holgate

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book A hilarious story about a myste- A packrat resists recycling, The smallest dragon in the A wacky, fairy tale–inspired A pirate rendition of the rious sewer serpent, featuring reducing, and reusing family proves that he's a champ version of “There Was an Old popular song the tongue-twisting letter S Lady Who Swallowed a Fly”

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The Three Little Tickle, Tickle! Itch, Too Many Fairies: A Tunjur! Tunjur! Turkey Claus Tamales Twitch! Celtic Tale Tunjur! Eric A. Kimmel Julie Olson Margaret Read MacDonald A Palestinian Tale Wendi Silvano Retold by Margaret Read Illustrated by Valeria Illustrated by Susan Illustrated by Lee Harper MacDonald, Collected by Docampo Mitchell Ibrahim Muhawai and Sharif Kanaana Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Illustrated by Alik Picture Book A southwestern version of “The Mouse uses a feather to have A troop of fairies won’t stop Arzoumanian Turkey needs Santa’s help so he Three Little Pigs” some wily fun with Gus, the cleaning an old woman’s house Picture Book won’t be eaten for Christmas ticklish groundhog! A mischievous pot rolls into dinner trouble Rights Available: All Languages Rights Available: All Languages, Rights Available: All Languages, Rights Available: All Languages, Rights Available: All Languages, Audio Audio Audio Audio

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Turkey Trouble The Twelve Days of The Tyrannosaurus We’re Going on a We’re Going on a Christmas Game Ghost Hunt Lion Hunt Wendi Silvano Steven Kroll Susan Pearson Adapted by Margery Cuyler

Illustrated by Lee Harper Illustrated by Gennady Illustrated by S. D. Illustrated by S. D. Illustrated by Joe Mathieu Spirin Schindler Schindler

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book A turkey tries to hide on Sumptuous paintings bring new School kids make up an imagi- A seasonal twist on the popular It’s fun to leave the classroom Thanksgiving by disguising life and spectacular beauty to native story about a tyranno- children’s song and enter the imagination himself as other farm animals this classic song saurus on the loose

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What If Everybody What If Your Best Zoo Day ¡Olé! Busy Builders Flamingo Sunset Did That? Friend Were Blue? Ellen Javernick Vera Kochan Phillis Gershator Roxie Munro Jonathan London

Illustrated by Colleen M. Illustrated by Viviana Illustrated by Santiago Illustrated by Kristina Madden Garofoli Cohen Rodanas

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Imagine what might happen if Learn an important lesson Grandma teaches her grandchil- Eight insects, one spider, and A beautifully illustrated, lyrical everybody broke the rules! about character while discover- dren how to count from one to the amazing structures they story about the life cycle of ing colors ten at the zoo build flamingos

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The Furry-Legged Goodnight, Little Hatch! Hero Dad How to Hug Teapot Monster Helen Ketteman Roxie Munro Melinda Hardin Maryann MacDonald

Tim Myers Illustrated by Bonnie Leick Illustrated by Bryan Langdo Illustrated by Jana Christy Illustrated by Robert McGuire

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book A mythical Japanese creature A little monster gets ready for Nine birds and their eggs and A boy compares his father, a Bear hugs, octopus hugs, and comes vividly to life in this bed nests soldier, to a superhero other hugs that make you feel thoughtful, funny tale good

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Inside-Outside Karate Hour Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, How to Teach a Slug If Beaver Had a Fever Dinosaurs Are You Going to to Read Sleep? Susan Pearson Helen Ketteman Roxie Munro Carol Nevius Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Illustrated by David Slonim Illustrated by Kevin Illustrated by Bill Thomson Sampson O’Malley Illustrated by Laura J. Bryant

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book A boy helps Mama Slug teach Mama Bear imagines she’s a An inside-outside look at eight A dynamic celebration of the Kitty Cat purr-crastinates as she Little Slug how to read doctor with some very creative dinosaurs martial arts gets ready for bed cures

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The Best Hanukkah The Emperor’s Cool First Pooch: The The Hanukkah Mice A Giraffe Goes to Ever Clothes Obamas Pick a Pet Paris Barbara Diamond Goldin Lee Harper Steven Kroll Carole Boston Weatherford Mary Tavener Holmes and Illustrated by Avi Katz John Harris Illustrated by Michelle Illustrated by Amy Bates Shapiro Illustrated by Jon Cannell

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book A family gives each other Even a penguin has a hard time The story of our nation’s “first A giraffe causes a sensation A family of mice celebrates humorous gifts when it being cool in this hilarious dog” when she walks 500 miles to Hanukkah in a dollhouse misunderstands the rabbi’s adaptation of “The Emperor's Paris advice New Clothes”

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Hanukkah, Oh Hello, Bicycle Horseshoe Crabs and Looking for Luna Maddie’s Monster Hanukkah! Shorebirds: The Dad Olga and Aleksey Ivanov Ella Boyd Story of a Food Web Tim Myers Scott Gibala-Broxholm Victoria Crenson Illustrated by Daniel Griffo Illustrated by Mike Reed Illustrated by Annie Cannon

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Celebrating Hanukkah with a A little girl leaves behind her A food web of the horsehoe When is a lost cat a found cat? Maddie makes a Monster Dad classic song tricycle to ride her new bike crabs and shorebirds of to play with when her real dad Delaware Bay is too busy

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Missing Math: A Mother Goose Picture Mother’s Day Mrs. Millie Goes to My Big Rig Number Mystery Puzzles Surprise Philly! Loreen Leedy Will Hillenbrand Stephen Krensky Jonathan London Judy Cox Illustrated by Kathi Ember Illustrated by Viviana Illustrated by Joe Mathieu Garofoli

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Without math, there would be a Familiar Mother Goose rhymes A snake dreams up an unusual Mrs. Millie is back with more A small boy imagines himself lot of confusion use pictures in place of words to Mother’s Day gift fun--and puns--on a class trip! driving an eighteen-wheeler entertain as they teach

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My Dog Jack Is Fat My Kitten Old House, New My Teacher Is a Octopus Soup House Eve Bunting Margaret O’Hair Dinosaur: Prehistoric Phillis Gershator Poems, Jokes, Mercer Mayer Illustrated by Michael Rex Illustrated by Tammie Lyon Riddles, and Amazing Illustrated by Katherine Facts Potter Loreen Leedy

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Carson gets fatter as his dog A kitten is lots of fun An entertaining introduction to Wordless panels tell the story of A sweet story about the ups and gets thinner from diet and life on Earth from amoebas to a baby octopus that leaves home downs of moving to a new exercise dinosaurs and small mammals in search of adventure house

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Olive and Snowflake Pick a Pumpkin, Mrs. The Outfoxed Fox Millie! Pirates, Ho! Polar Opposites Tammie Lyon Tim Myers Judy Cox Sarah L. Thomson Erik Brooks Illustrated by Ariel Ya-Wen Illustrated by Joe Mathieu Illustrated by Stephen Pang Gilpin

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Olive and her dog, Snowflake, A young fox outwits a hunter Wordplay has never been so Pirates discover they’re not so A penguin and a polar bear are are always getting into trouble— much fun as on a class trip to a brave after all polar opposites and best friends they both go to the obedience farm school!

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Pond Walk Ready, Set, 100th Recycle Every Day! Rocks! Rocks! Rocks! Seven Little Bunnies Day! Nancy Elizabeth Wallace Nancy Elizabeth Wallace Nancy Elizabeth Wallace Nancy Elizabeth Wallace Julie Stiegemeyer

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Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Buddy Bear and Mama spend Using math sets, Minna designs A busy family of rabbits Buddy bear learns about the Seven little bunnies are the day at a pond learning about a unique 100th Day school demonstrates the three “R's” of rocks he collects distracted at bedtime wildlife project recycling

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Sitting in My Box Sleep, Big Bear, Sneeze, Big Bear, Soccer Hour Some Kind of Love: A Sleep! Sneeze! Family Reunion in Dee Lillegard Maureen Wright Maureen Wright Carol Nevius Poems Traci Dant Illustrated by Jon Agee Illustrated by Will Illustrated by Will Illustrated by Bill Thomson Illustrated by Eric Hillenbrand Hillenbrand Velasquez

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book The box gets more and more Big Bear misunderstands Old Big Bear’s sneezes keep him Time for soccer hour—run, kick, An African American family crowded until a hungry flea Man Winter’s message to from hearing what the fall wind goal! reunion told in poems comes along hibernate is trying to tell him

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Swamp Song Ten-Gallon Bart Ten-Gallon Bart and Ten-Gallon Bart The Sound That Jazz the Wild West Show Beats the Heat Makes Helen Ketteman Susan Stevens Crummel Susan Stevens Crummel Susan Stevens Crummel Carole Boston Weatherford Illustrated by Eric Illustrated by Ponder Illustrated by Dorothy Illustrated by Dorothy Illustrated by Dorothy Velasquez Goembel Donohue Donohue Donohue

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book A journey through the history When Gator starts tappin’ his Billy the Kid finally meets his Ride ’em, Cowboy! Ten-Gallon Bart is like a fish out and legacy of jazz toes, all the swamp animals sing match! of water when he heads north to his beat

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There Was an Old The Better-Than-Best Monkey Who Tornado Slim and the The Velveteen Rabbit Whoosh Went the Purim Swallowed a Frog Magic Cowboy Hat Margery Williams Wind! Naomi Howland Jennifer Ward Bryan Langdo Sally Derby Illustrated by Gennady Illustrated by Steve Gray Spirin Illustrated by Vincent Nguyen

Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book Picture Book A rendition of the popular “Old A cowboy is given a magic hat The 1922 classic text illustrated A wild excuse for being late for An old lady’s pets secretly deco- Lady Who Swallowed a Fly” and becomes a hero with sumptuous new artwork school rate the house for Purim song set in the rain forest

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An Eyeball in My A Field Guide to Little Swan Garden: And Other Aliens: Intergalactic Worrywarts, Celia and the Fairies Cloaked in Red Spine-Tingling Poems Jonathan London Bubblonauts, Silver- Jennifer Cole Judd, Editor, Karen McQuestion Vivian Vande Velde Slurpers, and Other Illustrated by Kristina Laura Wynkoop, Editor Extraterrestrials Illustrated by Johan Olander Johan Olander Picture Book Middle Grade Middle Grade Middle Grade Middle Grade The life cycle of a swan The magical tale of a plucky girl Eight witty stories that parody Forty-four poems about things Insights into the lives of twenty- and her fairy friend Little Red Riding Hood tale that go bump in the night seven aliens

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A Field Guide to Monsters: Googly- Eyed Wart Floppers, Fishtale My Robots: The Shadow-Casters, Toe Losing It The Marble Queen Robotic Genius of Hans Bauer and Catherine Lady Regina Eaters, and Other Masciola Erin Fry Creatures Stephanie J. Blake Bonquers III Johan Olander Johan Olander

Middle Grade Middle Grade Middle Grade Middle Grade Middle Grade Insights into the lives of mon- A boy sets out to find a mythical Bennett joins the cross country A ten-year-old girl longs to win A fictional scrapbook featuring sters from a monstrologist catfish team to see if there's more to the local marble-shooting twenty-three robots life than French fries competition

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Odd Ball: Hilarious, Unusual, and Bizarre Secrets of the Magic Nuts Baseball Moments Shelter from the Sizzle Ring Wind Timothy Tocher Kacy Cook Karen McQuestion Marion Dane Bauer Lee McClain Illustrated by Stacy Curtis

Middle Grade Middle Grade Middle Grade Middle Grade Middle Grade An eleven-year-old girl cares for Unusual baseball moments, told The eagerly anticipated sequel A thirteen-year-old girl runs Teen chef Linda must learn to two orphaned squirrels through black-and-white comic to Celia and the Fairies! away from home across the accept new tastes in cooking strips Oklahoma panhandle and assimilate into a new, large, multi-ethnic family

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The Truth About The Witches of Horses, Friends, & The Case of the Dredmoore Hollow My Life as a Coward Witch Dreams Yellow Star Purloined Professor Judy Cox Sarah P. Gibson Vivian Vande Velde Riford McKenzie Jennifer Roy With art by Omar Rayyan With art by Glin Dibley With art by Peter Ferguson

Middle Grade Middle Grade Middle Grade Middle Grade Middle Grade A hilarious first-person novel A teenage witch enters other A boy finds out that he comes Biographical poems from a Two rat brothers escape their about growing up with horses people's dreams to solve a from a family of witches Holocaust survivor classroom cage for a second murder adventure around the globe

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Alexander the Great Alicia Alonso: Prima Ballerina César: ¡Sí, Se Puede! Columbus Diego: Bigger Than Written and illustrated by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand Yes We Can! Life Written and illustrated by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand Carmen T. Bernier-Grand Illustrated by Raúl Colón Demi Illustrated by David Diaz Illustrated by David Diaz

Illustrated Biography Illustrated Biography Illustrated Biography Illustrated Biography Illustrated Biography A fascinating history of one of A biography in free verse of A collection of poems celebrat- The story of Columbus and his A picture-book biography in the most successful military Cuba’s most famous ballerina ing the life of the great labor travels across the world free verse of one of the leaders of all time leader twentieth century’s greatest artists

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Frida: ¡Viva la vida! Genghis Khan Jesus: His Life in Joan of Arc Long Live Life! Verses from the King Dolores Huerta: A Carmen T. Bernier-Grand Written and illustrated by James Holy Bible Written and illustrated by Sarah Warren Demi Demi Paintings by Frida Kahlo Illustrated by Gennady Illustrated by Robert Spirin

Illustrated Biography Illustrated Biography Illustrated Biography Illustrated Biography Illustrated Biography The story of labor leader Biographical poems about one Genghis Khan’s adventures as Gennady Spirin created one The life of a major figure in Dolores Huerta of the twentieth century’s he rises to power in the great original, spectacular oil painting France’s history who is now one greatest painters Mongolian Empire to illustrate thirteen principal of its patron saints events in the life of Jesus

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Marco Polo Michelle Obama: Obama: Only in My Hands Sing the First Mom America Blues Oprah: The Little Speaker Written and illustrated by Carole Boston Weatherford Carole Boston Weatherford Jeanne Walker Harvey Demi Carole Boston Weatherford Illustrated by Robert T. Illustrated by Robert T. Illustrated by Elizabeth Illustrated by London Ladd Barrett Barrett Zunon

Illustrated Biography Illustrated Biography Illustrated Biography Illustrated Biography Illustrated Biography Marco Polo’s adventures as he A picture-book biography of the From birth to getting elected as A train journey in Romare The first six years in the life of travels from Venice to Beijing first US African American First president, a biography told in Bearden's childhood, inspired the world's most popular talk lady lyrical prose by one of his collage paintings show host

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Our Lady of Racing Against the Rumi Sonia Sotomayor: Guadalupe Odds: The Story of Jueza de la Corte Picasso: I the King, Wendell Scott, Stock Suprema Carmen T. Bernier-Grand Car Racing’s African- Written and illustrated by Yo el rey Demi Carmen T. Bernier-Grand American Champion Illustrated by Tonya Engel Carmen T. Bernier-Grand Carole Boston Weatherford Illustrated by Thomas Illustrated by David Diaz Illustrated by Eric Gonzalez Velasquez Illustrated Biography Illustrated Biography Illustrated Biography Illustrated Biography Illustrated Biography A retelling of the well-known A look into the life and work of The story of the only black A picture-book biography of a A free-verse biography of Amer- Mexican legend about the Vir- Pablo Picasso driver to win a race in NASCAR beloved Persian poet and mystic ica’s first Hispanic Supreme gin who appears to be a peasant Grand National (Sprint Cup) Court Justice, in Spanish Division

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Sonia Sotomayor: Tutankhamun Goldilocks and the Supreme Court When Jackie and Hank Met Cactus Soup Three Bears Justice Written and illustrated by Eric A. Kimmel Cathy Goldberg Fishman Retold and illustrated by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand Demi Gennady Spirin Illustrated by Phil Huling Illustrated by Thomas Gonzalez Illustrated by Mark Elliott

Illustrated Biography Illustrated Biography Illustrated Biography Folklore Tale Folklore Tale A free-verse biography of Amer- Rich details of the king’s life in The stories of Jackie Robinson “Stone Soup” takes a trip south A familiar tale illustrated by a ica’s first Hispanic Supreme all of its golden glory and Hank Greenberg, and the of the border master artist Court Justice prejudice they each faced in their lives and careers

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The Fisherman and The Great Texas Los Tres Cabritos Sopa de cactus the Turtle Hamster Drive Little Red Riding (The Three Cabritos, Hood Spanish) Eric A. Kimmel Eric A. Kimmel Eric A. Kimmel Retold by Gennady Spirin Eric A. Kimmel Illustrated by Phil Huling Illustrated by Martha Avilés Illustrated by Bruce Illustrated by Stephen Whatley Gilpin, Translated by Marta Ramirez Rodenas Folklore Tale Folklore Tale Folklore Tale Folklore Tale Folklore Tale A classic retelling of Little Red A Mexican version of “The “Stone Soup” takes a trip south An adaptation of the Grimm Thousands of hamsters get Riding Hood's encounter Three Billy Goats Gruff,” in of the border in Spanish Brothers’ famous tale, The herded to Abilene, Texas, in this Spanish Fisherman and His Wife hilarious tall tale

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Little Britches and The Three Cabritos The 2nd The International International the Rattlers The Greedy Sparrow: Cookbook for Kids Eric A. Kimmel Eric A. Kimmel An Armenian Tale Matthew Locricchio Matthew Locricchio Lucine Kasbarian Illustrated by Vincent Illustrated by Stephen Photographs by Jack Photographs by Jack Nguyen Gilpin Illustrated by Maria Zaikina

Folklore Tale Folklore Tale Folklore Tale Cookbook Cookbook A clever little girl outwits seven A Mexican version of “The A sparrow’s greed gets the best Classic recipes from Greece, “Best Book for Children and rattlesnakes Three Billy Goats Gruff” of him Thailand, Brazil, and India that Family (USA)—Gourmand the whole family can enjoy World Cookbook Award 2005”

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The Enchanted The Adventures of The Adventure Bad to the Bone Home on the Range Collection Collection Benny Illustrated by Ross Lucy Nolan Illustrated by Ross Steve Shreve Lucy Nolan McDonald McDonald Illustrated by Mike Reed Illustrated by Mike Reed

Classic Collection Classic Collection Chapter Book Chapter Book Chapter Book Five beloved tales of extraordi- This beautifully illustrated Benny meets pirates, Bigfoot, Two canines have a ball trying Two canines dude it up at a nary heroism and exceptional collection includes five classic monkeys, a mummy, and his to train their masters ranch courage, with beautiful masterpieces very own Booger-Man illustrations

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Smarter Than Meet Mammoth On the Road Life with Mammoth Little Friends Squirrels Lucy Nolan Ian Fraser Ian Fraser Onur Tukel Lucy Nolan Illustrated by Mike Reed Illustrated by Mike Reed Illustrated by Mary Ann Illustrated by Mary Ann Fraser Fraser

Chapter Book Chapter Book Chapter Book Chapter Book Chapter Book Down Girl and Sit go on a road Down Girl and Sit protect their Further adventures of an Two lovable cavemen, one Three young neighborhood trip! masters from the cat next door energetic mammoth rambunctious mammoth friends have three seasonal adventures

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Sweet Farts #2: Rosetta, Rosetta, Sit Stan and the Toilet Sweet Farts #1 Sweet Farts #3: Rippin' it Old School by Me! Monster Blown Away Raymond Bean Raymond Bean Linda Walvoord Steve Shreve Raymond Bean Illustrated by Eric Velasquez

Chapter Book Chapter Book Chapter Book Chapter Book Chapter Book Frederick Douglass’s daughter Stan finds a mutant chameleon Keith will attempt to make the Sure Keith made one of the Sweet Farts Inc. has two tells her family's story of egg in the sewer near his home greatest scientific discovery of greatest scientific discoveries of geniuses in one company, and triumph over segregation all time, the cure for the all time, but the question facing it’s on! common fart. him now is “What's next?”

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The Adventures of The Creatures from The 13th Warning My Alien Parents Three Faces of Me Shrinkman Beyond Beyond R. L. Stine R. L. Stine R. L. Stine R. L. Stine R. L. Stine

Chapter Book Chapter Book Chapter Book Chapter Book Chapter Book Joseph had known good luck Poor Danny, shrinking fast, Randi and her brother think his entire life, but now he must When his parents start behav- Ira Fishman discovers to his faces danger everywhere as he summer vacation will be battle an evil curse before the ing mysteriously, Rob is con- shock that he has not one, but grows tinier and tinier boring—until they find them- stroke of midnight on his vinced they've been replaced by two clones selves battling monsters thirteenth birthday space aliens Rights Available: All Languages Rights Available: All Languages Rights Available: All Languages Rights Available: All Languages Rights Available: All Languages

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Zombie Town

R. L. Stine

Chapter Book R. L. Stine’s delightfully spooky take on the horror genre that’s infecting the world, bite by bite

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Angelfall Blackbriar Bloggrls: NuGrl90 Bloggrls: Sistrsic92 Deviants (Sadie) (Meg) Susan Ee William Sleator Cheryl Dellasega Cheryl Dellasega Maureen McGowan Illustrated by Karina Illustrated by Tyler LaPierre Beauford Young Adult Young Adult Young Adult Young Adult Young Adult A lightning-paced apocalyptic A teenage boy unravels the Sadie tells all in her blog—from Meg blogs about her “perfect” Meet Glory, a sixteen-year-old fantasy that’s a fan sinister mysteries of his new her parents' marriage falling big sister, who has a BIG orphan who can kill with her phenomenon home apart to sharing a bedroom with problem with food eyes her goth sister

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Favorite Flat-Out Love The Forgetting Curve Hey, Dollface Kiss & Make Up

Karen McQuestion Jessica Park Angie Smibert Deborah Hautzig Katie D. Anderson

Young Adult Young Adult Young Adult Young Adult Young Adult Angie Favorite’s brutal attack But here’s the thing about love, This sequel to Memento Nora Sometimes Val and Chloe A teen who can kiss and read leads her to a creepy mansion in all its twisty, bumpy follows tech-wiz Aiden, who wondered if their friendship minds uses her gift to get ahead permutations—it always throws joins the growing underground was too close in school you a few curves resistance

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Life on Hold Memento Nora My Name Is Not Easy Passion and Poison Passion Blue

Karen McQuestion Angie Smibert Debby Dahl Edwardson Janice M. Del Negro Victoria Strauss Illustrated by Vincent Natale Young Adult Young Adult Young Adult Young Adult Young Adult Fifteen-year-old Rae Maddox A teen struggles to hold onto Can Luke and other Native Eight original gothic tales about Her horoscope predicts a dire begins yet another school in yet her memories—and her Alaskan teens survive in an women who deal matter-of- future. Can this orphan girl defy another town identity—in a world that wants isolated boarding school? factly with the supernatural her stars and change her fate? everyone to forget

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Rebound Returnable Girl Sanctum Ship of Souls Soccerland

Bob Krech Pamela Lowell Sarah Fine Zetta Elliott Beth Choat

Young Adult Young Adult Young Adult Young Adult Young Adult Prejudice can be defined in A young girl must choose be- A seventeen-year-old girl has A young boy finds guidance A young athlete competes for a more ways than one tween two mothers one chance to rescue her best from a rescued bird shot at a US junior national friend’s soul from hell soccer team

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Starting from Here The Stones of Torn Wart, Son of Toad Where the Ground Mourning Creek Meets the Sky Lisa Jenn Bigelow Diane Les Becquets Stephanie Guerra Alden R. Carter Jacqueline Davies

Young Adult Young Adult Young Adult Young Adult Young Adult A teen comes to terms with her Francie befriends a black girl in Stella tries to save her troubled High school can be challenging A girl struggles with life while mother’s death and her own 1960s Alabama best friend from a dangerous when your dad’s the strictest living with her scientist father identity relationship with an older man teacher who is working on the Manhattan Project

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A Wish After Zitface Teen Cuisine Teen Cuisine: New Midnight Vegetarian Zetta Elliott Emily Howse Matthew Locricchio Matthew Locricchio Photographs by James Full-color photographs by Peterson James Peterson Young Adult Young Adult Cookbook Cookbook A fifteen-year-old girl wants out A teenage actress finds her life Gourmet recipes for teen cooks Teen vegetarian cooking for all of her tough Brooklyn neighbor- turned upside down when she types of vegans, raw-food fans, hood develops severe acne and meatless-dish lovers!

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