Representative  Deals Jennifer Rofé Agent jennifer@andreabrownlit.com 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) LITERARY YA WITH A MAGICAL REALISM BENT: Meg Medina's THE GIRL WHO COULD SILENCE THE WIND. A teenager in the mining community of Tres Montes, Mexico, is believed to have special powers, but she knows the truth about the mythology surrounding her. (Candlewick, 2011) 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) 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) COMMERCIAL MIDDLE GRADE WITH LIGHT MYSTERY: Cynthea Liu's PARIS PAN TAKES THE DARE. Paris Pan just wants to fit in and make friends in her new hometown, but everyone has to take the Dare, and Paris Pan's turn is up. (Puffin, 2009)