YA Book Deals of the Week

[Adrienne Gelbart]

Here are the YALITCHAT Member Book Deals of the Week - January 24th, 2010.

Thanks to Elle for watching out for them!

January 14, 2011
Children's/Young Adult
Debra Driza's debut, a three-book sci-fi thriller series, to Claudia Gabel at Katherine Tegen Books, in a very nice deal, by Taylor Martindale at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.
http://www.houndrat.com/
 
January 17, 2011
International rights/UK Children's                           
Lisa McMann's THE MISSING, when a local schoolgirl disappears, an already off-balance 16-year-old is freaked out by seeing her friend's empty desk in her classroom, but tries to keep calm... until the her boyfriend also vanishes; suddenly the town is in full-blown panic, and she starts getting creepy messages, to Rachel Denwood at Harper Children's UK, for publication in June 2011, by Stephanie Voros of Simon and Schuster.
http://lisamcmann.com/
 
January 18, 2011
Children's/Young Adult
Janet Trumble's DON'T LET ME GO, about a gay high school student, his long-distance boyfriend, and his straight best friend, to Peter Senftleben at Kensington, by Stephen Fraser at the Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency (World).
[e-mail]
http://janettrumble.wordpress.com/
 
January 19, 2011
Children's/Middle Grade
REAL MERMAIDS DON'T WEAR TOE RINGS author Helene Boudreau's next two books in the Real Mermaids series, about a plus-sized, aquaphobic teenager with mermaid tendencies, again to Rebecca Frazer at Jabberwocky, by Lauren MacLeod at The Strothman Agency (World English).
http://www.heleneboudreau.com/

 

Source: Publishers Marketplace

[Elle Stone]

Big congrats to Debra & Janet for their debut sales! You guys rock : )

[Georgia McBride]

How awesome is this????? Thanks so much for posting! Love, love, love this.