Representative  Deals Caryn Wiseman Agent caryn@andreabrownlit.com CONTEMPORARY YA WITH A TOUCH OF MAGICAL REALISM: Rhonda Stapleton's STUPID CUPID, the first book of a trilogy in which a 17-year-old girl becomes a cupid for her high school, arranging matches with a tricked-out Palm Pilot. (Simon Pulse, 2009) EMOTIONALLY POWERFUL, CONTEMPORARY YA: IF EYES HAD NO TEARS by Laura Lascarso about a sixteen-year old Native American girl who is sent to a juvenile psychiatric correctional facility where she meets some very interesting characters; pitched as Girl, Interrupted meets Looking for Alaska. (Atheneum, 2011) HUMOROUS MIDDLE-GRADE: Tom Angleberger's THE STRANGE CASE OF THE ORIGAMI YODA in which a sixth-grade boy and his school friends are given advice about life, love, and friendship from an origami Yoda figure often found on the finger of their strange classmate. (Abrams, 2010) PICTURE BOOK BIOGRAPHY: MANFISH: A STORY OF JACQUES COUSTEAU by Jennifer Berne, a lyrical, lovingly wrought picture book biography of a curious little boy who grew up to be the world-famous undersea explorer and ardent conservationist. (Chronicle, 2008) MULTICULTURAL PICTURE BOOK: Ji-li Jiang's RED KITE, BLUE KITE about a boy and his father, who are separated by the events of the Cultural Revolution and communicate with each other by flying kites. (Hyperion, 2012) MULTICULTURAL NONFICTION PICTURE BOOK: I SEE THE RHYTHM OF GOSPEL by Toyomi Igus and Michele Wood, an exploration of the history of gospel music in lyrical prose and paintings. (Zonderkidz, 1998)