Representative  Deals Jennifer Rofé Agent jennifer@andreabrownlit.com CONTEMPORARY YA MYSTERY: Lauren Strasnick's DAKOTA WEBB IS MISSING, about high school rock goddess Dakota Webb whose mysterious disappearance is deemed a suicide, but her ex-BFF Adrienne Knox doesn't buy it and attempts to uncover what really happened. (Simon Pulse, 2012) CONTEMPORARY YA WITH A FANTASY TWIST: Joy Preble's HAUNTED, the sequel to DREAMING ANASTASIA, in which Anne is being haunted by a mysterious and malevolent mermaid who might be her real maternal grandmother. (Sourcebooks, 2010) TEEN SCI-FI ADVENTURE: Nick James' debut SKYSHIP ACADEMY. When fifteen-year-old slacker Jesse Fisher discovers that he has the power to control Pearls—fragments of space-debris that are a dying Earth's most important energy source—the government's forces work to capture him. (Flux, 2011) LITERARY MIDDLE GRADE: Kathryn Fitzmaurice's debut THE YEAR THE SWALLOWS CAME EARLY. Eleanor 'Groovy' Robinson loves cooking and plans to go to culinary school just as soon as she's old enough, but even her thoughtfully planned menus won't fix the things that start to go wrong the year she turns eleven. (HarperCollins, 2009) COMMERCIAL, HUMOROUS MIDDLE GRADE: Crystal Allen's debut HOW LAMAR'S BAD PRANK WON A BUBBA-SIZED TROPHY. Lamar Washington may be the maddest, baddest most spectacular bowler ever, but he doesn't have game. So he vows to spend the summer changing his image from dud to stud in order to snag a fine Honey. (Balzer & Bray, 2011) SMART, LITERARY PICTURE BOOK: Denise Doyen's debut and E.B. White Read Aloud Honor recipient ONCE UPON A TWICE. This cautionary tale for mice is written in the style of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky. (Random House, 2009)