Representative  Deals Mary Kole Associate Agent mary@andreabrownlit.com HIGH-CONCEPT YA PARANORMAL THRILLER: Emily Hainsworth's debut THROUGH TO YOU, about a grieving teen who discovers a parallel world where his girlfriend is still alive, only she's harboring some dangerous secrets. (Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins, 2012) YA PARANORMAL WITH A UNIQUE TWIST: Karsten Knight's WILDEFIRE, which combines characters from Oceanic, Zulu, Shinto, Norse, Egyptian, Greek, and Hopi pantheons with young love, sibling rivalry, and warring gods as a teen discovers she's a dormant Polynesian volcano goddess. (Simon & Schuster, 2011) YA WITH EMOTIONAL POWER: Lisa Albert's MERCY LILY, about a sixteen-year-old Oregon teenager's struggle to come to terms with her terminally ill mother's heart-wrenching decision to end her life. (Flux, 2011) AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR PICTURE BOOK: Author/illustrator Bethanie Murguia's BUGLETTE, THE MESSY SLEEPER, about a bug whose big dreams and even bigger messes save the day, er, night. (Tricycle/Random House, 2011) QUIRKY PICTURE BOOK: Author/illustrator Lindsay Ward's BLUE & EGG, about a bluebird who mistakes a snowball she finds in her nest for an egg and eventually discovers that even a snowmelt can't dampen her spirits. (Dutton/Penguin, 2012) COMMERCIAL PICTURE BOOK: Author/illustrator Bethanie Murguia's LULU GETS READY, about a girl who wants to be ready for any kind of day by picking just the right outfit. (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 2012)