Representative  Deals Kelly Sonnack Agent kelly@andreabrownlit.com LITERARY COMING-OF-AGE: Steve Watkins' DOWN SAND MOUNTAIN, in which Dewey Turner, a sheltered twelve-year-old boy, discovers the cruelty of racism in a small Florida mining town amid the changing mores of the 1960s. A classic loss-of-innocence story. (Candlewick, 2008) DYSTOPIAN YA: Anna Sheehan's A LONG SLEEP in which a princess of the future is regularly put into stasis so that her parents can properly raise her between their interplanetary trips. And when she falls in love with a boy they disapprove of, they punish her in the worst of ways: they don't wake her up. Sixty years later, she must confront the ugly truth about her parents and come to terms with what she has lost. (Candlewick, 2011) JUVENILE GRAPHIC NOVEL: James Burks' GABBY AND GATOR, the story of the unlikely friendship between a feisty but quiet, young environmentalist and the trouble-making, dog—and cat-eating alligator that terrorizes their neighborhood. (Yen Press, 2010) MULTICULTURAL, LITERARY MG: Carolyn Marsden's STARFIELDS, about a traditional Mayan girl who meets a scientist's daughter from Mexico City and learns about the forthcoming end of the Mayan calendar and the ancient prophecy that the world will end in 2012. (Candlewick, 2011) SILLY & CLEVER PICTURE BOOK: Candace Ryan's ANIMAL HOUSE, in which a boy's teacher says he lives in a zoo, and she isn't far from the truth. After paying him a home visit, the teacher discovers a house where the walls, carpets, and appliances in his home are alive—and sometimes temperamental. (Walker, 2010) FUN NON-FICTION PICTURE BOOK: Bridget Heos's series about the life cycles and parenting techniques of different animals with the first book covering larvae and the rearing techniques of their bug parents. (Millbrook, 2011)