Representative  Deals Caryn Wiseman Agent caryn@andreabrownlit.com PARANORMAL YA WITH A TWIST: Christine Johnson's CLAIRE DE LUNE and NOCTURNE, in which 16-year old Claire, discovers that she is a werewolf, one of a long line of female werewolves, while her new boyfriend's father is tracking down the rogue werewolf preying upon the people of her town. (Simon Pulse, 2010 and 2011) EMOTIONALLY POWERFUL, CONTEMPORARY YA: Sandra Alonzo's RIDING INVISIBLE, in which a teen runs away on horseback after his brother, who suffers from Conduct Disorder, commits an act of violence against the boy's horse, and threatens more (Hyperion/Disney, 2010) HUMOROUS MIDDLE-GRADE: Tom Angleberger's THE STRANGE CASE OF THE ORIGAMI YODA and DARTH PAPER STRIKES BACK 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 and 2012) MIDDLE-GRADE ADVENTURE: WILDFIRE RUN: by Dee Garretson, in which the President's son and his two friends must escape from Camp David after disaster strikes and they are trapped. (HarperCollins, 2010) PICTURE BOOK BIOGRAPHY: ME, FRIDA by Amy Novesky is a lyrical recounting of the time Frida Kahlo spent in San Francisco, which was, for her, a journey of self-discovery, with illustrations by Caldecott-winner David Diaz. (Abrams, 2010) CHARMING PICTURE BOOK: CALVIN CAN'T FLY: The Story of a Bookworm Birdie by Jennifer Berne, illustrated by Keith Bendis, is an adventure tale about what happens to Calvin, a starling who loves reading, learning, and libraries, after he spends the summer with his beak buried in books, while the rest of his siblings were learning to fly. (Sterling, 2010)