Representative  Deals Jamie Weiss Chilton Agent jamie@andreabrownlit.com YA WITH EMOTIONAL POWER: Jennifer Castle's THE BEGINNING OF AFTER, about a sixteen-year-old's search for meaning, beauty, and forgiveness in the aftermath of the car accident that claims the lives of her mother, father, and brother. (HarperCollins, 2011) YA WITH CURRENT EVENT / POLITICAL CONTENT: Kristen Chandler's WOLVES, BOYS, AND OTHER THINGS THAT MIGHT KILL ME, in which high school junior's newspaper column draws a parallel between the behavior of the people she knows and that of the wolves in neighboring Yellowstone, with unexpected results. (Viking, 2010) YA WITH PARANORMAL ELEMENTS: Jennifer Bosworth's debut STRUCK, set in earthquake-devastated Los Angeles, in which seventeen-year-old lightning-rod Mia Price finds herself in the middle of a power struggle between two fanatical doomsday cults, one that wants to save the world, and another that wants to destroy it. (FSG, 2012) NOVEL IN VERSE: Holly Thompson's ORCHARDS, a novel in verse with a haiku feel, that explores the complexities of fourteen-year-old Kana's Japanese/Jewish/American identity and the ties that bind family and friends through tragedy. (Delacorte, 2011) CHARACTER DRIVEN PICTURE BOOK: EVERY COWGIRL NEEDS DANCING BOOTS by Rebecca Janni, the sequel to EVERY COWGIRL NEEDS A HORSE. Illustrated by Lynne Avril. (Dutton, 2011)