Young Adult

Becky Allen’s first young adult fantasy novel, BOUND BY BLOOD AND SAND (Delacorte), addresses issues of power and justice as it follows a slave leading her people to revolution. (HB)

Annie Barrows’ first young adult novel, NOTHING, the story of two ordinary teenage girls, was recently sold to Greenwillow at auction. (LD)

Author of THE DEMON CATCHERS OF MILAN, which is about a girl who must travel to Italy to learn the secret of her dangerous family business of exorcism (Egmont). (CB)

Her YA dark fantasy trilogy DARK STAR sold to Hyperion at auction in a mid-six-figure deal. (CB)

Rosamund Hodge writes young adult fantasy novels and fairytale retellings, including CRUEL BEAUTY and CRIMSON BOUND (Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins), and her most recent series – a two-book reimagining of Romeo and Juliet in a fantasy world – which is introduced with BRIGHT SMOKE, COLD FIRE (Balzer & Bray). (HB)

Ariel Kaplan’s debut novel from Knopf, GRENDEL’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND WAR, is a funny and poignant reimagining of the epic of Beowulf as a prank war between teen neighbors (Knopf Books for Young Readers). (HB)

YA fantasy author of KEEPER OF THE MIST and THE FLOATING ISLANDS, which was selected as one of ALA’s 2012 Best Fiction for Young Adults, a Junior Library Guild Selection, and a Kirkus Best of 2011 Selection (Knopf Children’s). (CB)

Debut author of ESSENCE, in which a girl escapes from a cult to join a utopian community of thrill-seekers living in the ruins of Yosemite National Park, only to find there are dark secrets under her new home’s beautiful surface (Strange Chemistry). (HB)

The author of ASH AND BRAMBLE, the feminist retelling of Cinderella and its sequel, ROSE AND THORN. (CB)