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BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS DEALING IN DREAMS 2018$18.99 US AT NIGHT, LAS MAL • $25.99 CAN Ages 14 up 0319 CRIADAS Julian Sambrano Julian Author photo © Author NALAH LEADS DEALING THE FIERCEST OWN ALL-GIRL LILLIAM CREW IN MEGA CITY. IN THESE That role RIVERA RIVERA brings is the author of the young adult with it novel The Education of Margot STREETS. violent Sanchez. A 2016 Pushcart Prize throw downs and access to the hottest winner and a 2015 Clarion DREAMS boydega clubs, but the sixteen-year-old grows graduate, she has published Simon & Schuster weary of the life. Her dream is to get off the works in Fantasy & Science streets and make a home in the exclusive Fiction, Nightmare, Los Angeles Mega Towers, in which only a chosen few get Times, and Latina, among to live. To make it to the Mega Towers, Nalah LILLIAM must prove her loyalty to the city’s benevolent others. Lilliam lives in Los founder and cross the border in a search for Angeles with her family. Visit the mysterious gang the Ashé Riders. Led her at LilliamRivera.com. by a reluctant guide, Nalah battles other RIVERA crews and her own doubts, but the closer she Jacket design by LIZZY BROMLEY gets to her goal, the more she loses sight of Jacket illustration copyright © 2019 by ASTER HUNG everything—and everyone—she cares about. EBOOK EDITION ALSO AVAILABLE Nalah must do the unspeakable to get what she wants—a place to call home. But ISBN 978-1-4814-7214-2 $17.99 U.S./$23.99 Can. is a home just where you live? Or who you ISBN 978-1-4814-7214-2 51799 choose to protect? SIMON & SCHUSTER BFYR Simon & Schuster • New York 9 781481 472142 Visit us at simonandschuster.com/teen JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. 49 W. 45th St., #12N, New York, NY 10036-4603 Phone: +1-917-388-3010 Fax: +1-917-388-2998 Joshua Bilmes, President Krystyna Lopez, Director of Foreign Rights Adriana Funke, Foreign Rights Assistant [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Follow us at: @awfulagent @jabberworld Visit us on the web at: www.awfulagent.com for constantly updated reviews, bibliography, rights info and more The information in this catalog is accurate as of March 2018 but is subject to change. Clients, titles, and availability should be confirmed. Table of Contents Author Genre Page # Marie Brennan .............................YA Fantasy ....................................... 34 Global Partners Jack Campbell.............................. YA Crossover Fantasy.................. 16-17 Albania Anthea Adam-Troy Castro ........................MG Fantasy ................................ 26-27 Baltics Nurnberg Associates Brazil Tassy Barham Associates Jason Denzel ................................. YA Crossover Fantasy....................... 12 Bulgaria Anthea Frederic S. Durbin .......................MG Fantasy ..................................... 28 China The Grayhawk Agency K. Eason........................................YA Science Fiction ........................... 13 Croatia Katai & Bolza Czech Republic Kristin Olson Literary Agency Nancy Farmer ............................... MG Fantasy/Contemporary ............. 29 France Agence Littéraire Eliane Benisti Mike Grosso .................................MG Contemporary .................... 14, 33 Germany Paul & Peter Fritz Agency Jim C. Hines..................................MG Fantasy .................................... 31 Greece Read n’ Right Hungary Katai & Bolza Gregory Scott Katsoulis.......... ..... YA Science Fiction.............................11 Indonesia The Grayhawk Agency Corry L. Lee.................................. YA Fantasy ...................................... 32 Israel Book Publishers Association of Israel Italy Piergiorgio Nicolazzini Literary Agency Jeff Macfee.......................... ...........MG Fantasy .................................... 31 Japan The English Agency, Ltd. Kate Alice Marshall...................... YA Contemporary...............................7 Korea The Danny Hong Agency Bryce Moore ................................. MG Fantasy ......................................15 Latin America Julio F. Yañez Agencia Literaria The Netherlands Sebes & Bisseling Literary Agency E.C. Myers ....................................YA Science Fiction ............................10 Poland Book/lab Daniel José Older......................... YA Fantasy, MG Fantasy .................4-6 Romania International Copyright Agency, Ltd. Janci Patterson .............................YA Contemporary ............................ 25 Russia/Ukraine Alexander Korzhenevski Agency Scandinavia Bookman Ellery Queen ................................Juvenile Detective ............................ 31 Serbia Katai & Bolza Lilliam Rivera ..............................YA Contemporary .......................... 8-9 Slovakia Kristin Olson Literary Agency Brandon Sanderson......................MG Fantasy, YA Fantasy ............. 18-24 Slovenia Katai & Bolza Spain/Portugal Julio F. Yañez Agencia Literaria Heidi Stallman .............................MG Contemporary .......................... 33 Taiwan The Grayhawk Agency Edo van Belkom ...........................MG Horror/Suspense ...................... 30 Thailand The Grayhawk Agency Turkey Anatolialit Agency UK Zeno Agency Global Partners ....................................................................................... 3 Vietnam The Grayhawk Agency 2 3 Daniel José Older YA Fantasy YA Fantasy Daniel José Older The Shadowshaper Cypher Five starred reviews! SHADOWSHAPER FEATURED ON SHADOWSHAPER (#1) 20+ BEST LISTS, INCLUDING: Cassandra Clare meets Caribbean legend. New York Times’ Notable Children’s Books of 2015 • A #5 New York Times bestseller! Publishers Weekly’s Best Young Adult Books of 2015 • Winner of the International Booklist’s Editors’ Choice Books of 2015 Latino Book Award! Kirkus’s Best Teen Books of 2015 With the help of a mysterious fellow artist named Robbie, Sierra discovers shadowshaping, a thrilling magic that School Library Journal’s Best Books of 2015: Young Adult infuses ancestral spirits into paintings, music, and stories. YALSA’s 2016 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults But someone is killing the shadowshapers one by one— and the killer believes Sierra is hiding their greatest secret. FINALIST FOR: Now she must unravel her family’s past, take down the killer in the present, and save the future of shadowshaping Mythopoeic Award, Kirkus Prize, Andre Norton Nebula Award, for herself and generations to come. Locus Prize, Cybils Award, CBCC Choices Award, Lincoln Award, James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Praise for SHADOWSHAPER: “This story about ancestors, ghosts, power, and community has art and music at its Novellas core…Warm, strong, vernacular, dynamic—a must.” GHOST GIRL IN THE CORNER (#A) –Kirkus, Starred review! “Excellent diverse genre fiction in an appealing package.” DEAD LIGHT MARCH (#B) –School Library Journal, Starred review! Set between the New York Times-bestselling “For adventure seekers in search of a culturally robust fright fest.” Shadowshaper and its sequel Shadowhouse Fall, –School Library Journal, audio book, Starred review! these beautiful novellas of mystery and love will “What makes Older’s story exceptional is the way Sierra belongs in her world, draw the reader deep into Daniel José Older’s grounded in family, friends, and an awareness of both history and change…with an magical Brooklyn. effortlessness that simultaneously demonstrates Older’s mastery of his medium.” • Named a “Best YA SFF of 2016” by Tor.com –Publishers Weekly, Starred review! “Smart writing with a powerful message that never overwhelms the terrific storytelling.” Praise for The Shadowshaper –Booklist, Starred review! Cypher novellas: SHADOWHOUSE FALL (#2) “GHOST GIRL IN THE CORNER is short and sweet. “SHADOWHOUSE FALL is about more than mystical It’s funny…and widens Daniel’s fantastical Brooklyn into fantasy, as it will touch on real political themes that teens face an even larger cast of fully developed characters…It’s a every day. And make no mistake, Older knows that today’s novella that shows the way community evolves and how young people are just as magical as his characters.” we can take what others teach us and adapt it to our own –Teen Vogue strengths. And with that strength, whatever it may be, we can help people. We learn to be our own heroes.” Rights sold: Italy (#1) – Fanucci Turkey (#1) – Yabanci –Black Girl Nerds Brazil (#1) – Rocco N. America (#1-2) – Vietnam (#1) – Mintbooks Germany (#1) – Carlsen Arthur A. Levine Film/TV – Niskala Arose, Inc. Rights sold: N. America (#A-B) – Arthur A. Levine 4 5 Daniel José Older MG Fantasy YA Contemporary Kate Alice Marshall FORTHCOMING 2018 FORTHCOMING JULY 2018 Dactyl Hill Squad I AM STILL ALIVE DACTYL HILL SQUAD: Cheryl Strayed’s Wild meets The RESCUE RUN (#1) Revenant in this heart-pounding New York Times bestselling YA author story of survival and revenge in makes middle grade debut that is equal the unforgiving wilderness. parts Dinotopia and Gangs of New York It’s 1864 and dinosaurs, most of them domesticated, From an author who has roam the streets of New York while the Civil War already proven herself in rages between raptor-mounted armies down south. multiple genres comes an Magdalys Roca and her friends from the Colored evocative YA novel that’ll stick Orphans Asylum are on a field trip when she receives a letter saying her older brother, Montez, with you long after you’ve who was recently drafted into the Union Army, turned the last page. has been gravely wounded in battle. Magdalys desparately
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