Highlighted  Deals  of  2 0 1 0 ANDREA BROWN SIX-FIGURE DEAL FOR THREE-BOOK MIDDLE GRADE SERIES: Neal Shusterman and Eric Elfman's NICK SLATE TRILOGY about four kids caught up in a dangerous plan that is concocted by the eccentric inventor, Nikola Tesla, to Stephanie Lurie at Hyperion/Disney. LAURA RENNERT SEVEN-FIGURE, TWO-BOOK DEAL FOR DEBUT ADULT NOVEL: Ellen Hopkins's TRIANGLES written in verse and following three friends, each turning 40, as they face varied midlife crises from infidelity, illness, and the difficulties of raising teenagers. Sold to Sarah Branham at Atria. NEAR SEVEN-FIGURE DEAL: Maggie Stiefvater's FOREVER, which will be the last book in the author's SHIVER trilogy, and three forthcoming stand-alone YA fantasy novels. FOREVER presents the resolution to the paranormal love story that kicked off with August 2009's SHIVER; which went on to spend 28 weeks on the Times bestseller list. LINGER, the second title in the series, was published in July, and debuted at # 1 on the New York Times Bestseller List. Sold to David Levithan at Scholastic. SIX-FIGURE DEAL: Two more books in Kimberly Derting's paranormal YA series THE BODY FINDER, about a teen girl who can sense echoes of those who have been murdered—and the matching imprints on their killers. Sold to Farrin Jacobs at Harper. FILM DEAL: Longtime NYT bestseller Jay Asher's THIRTEEN REASONS WHY, about a boy who receives a box of mysterious audiotapes from his first love, and follows her recorded voice on a strange night journey to discover why she committed suicide, to Universal Pictures, with July Moon Productions and Strike Entertainment (Children of Men) producing, Jennifer O'Kieffe writing, and Selena Gomez (Ramona and Beezus) starring. CARYN WISEMAN FOLLOW UP TO NAT'L INDIE BESTSELLER: Tom Angleberger's DARTH PAPER STRIKES BACK, the next book in the ORIGAMI YODA middle-grade series. Origami Yoda returns to McQuarrie Middle School to aid students Dwight, Tommy, Kellen, Sara, Rhondella and the others, but this time he'll be joined by none other than Darth Vader. Sold to Susan van Metre at Abrams/Amulet. MULTIPLE OFFER DEAL FOR DEBUT YA AUTHOR: FLUTTER by Gina Linko, in which a seventeen-year old girl experiencing deadly "loops" which could be clairvoyance, telepathy, time travel, or something else entirely, runs away to the Upper Peninsula and meets a boy with secrets of his own. Sold to Suzy Capozzi at Random House. THIRD BOOK IN NY TIMES BESTSELLER PICTURE BOOK SERIES: THE JELLYBEANS AND THE BIG CAMP KICKOFF by Nate Evans (represented) and Laura Numeroff, illustrated by Lynn Munsinger. The four "Jellybeans" friends go to summer camp, and when one of them learns that her favorite sport, soccer, is not offered, she and her friends form their own team. Sold to Tamar Brazis at Abrams, for publication in March, 2011. JENNIFER ROFÉ PRE-EMPT, TWO-BOOK DEAL FOR DEBUT AUTHOR: Laura Riken's CYBERNETIC, about a 16-year-old girl who lives in a walled city surrounded by bloodthirsty beasts and rival armies of cybernetic soldiers who want to enslave humanity. Sold to Abby Ranger at Disney-Hyperion. DEBUT MIDDLE GRADE: Barry Wolverton's NEVERSINK: A PUFFIN SAGA, a "Pixar meets Watership Down" adventure, in which a puffin reluctantly assumes the role of hero when a hat-wearing faction of owls attempts to take over his home island of Neversink. Sold to Jordan Brown at Walden Pond Press/HarperCollins. DEBUT YA: Diana Greenwood's INSIGHT, in which a fourteen-year-old and her family drive cross-country with a traveling preacher after her baby sister, a seer, tells the family that their father is awaiting their arrival in California. Sold to Jacque Alberta at Zondervan. FINAL BOOK IN A TRILOGY: Joy Preble's AGAIN AND AGAIN, the final book in the DREAMING ANASTASIA series in which Anne, having survived Baba Yaga's forest twice, finds herself bound by the witch to undertake a journey into past, present, and future. Sold to Leah Hultenschmidt at Sourcebooks. KELLY SONNACK SIX-FIGURE, TWO-BOOK PRE-EMPT FOR A DEBUT AUTHOR: Sharon Cameron's TURNING CLOCKWISE, about a girl who is sent to her uncle's remote estate in Victorian England to have him committed, but when she arrives, she realizes that his madness is not as straightforward as it seems, to Lisa Sandell at Scholastic. PRE-EMPT FOR A DEBUT AUTHOR AND MULTIPLE FOREIGN DEALS: Anna Sheehan's A LONG, LONG SLEEP in which a princess of the future has been asleep for 62 years when she is woken by a kiss. Now, her parents and her first love are long dead and she's the long-lost heir to an interplanetary empire. Sold to Andrea Tompa at Candlewick. The book has also been sold to the UK, Brazil, Germany, and Russia. THIRD PICTURE BOOK IN SERIES: Carole Gerber's SPRING BLOSSOMS, the Spring follow up to her LEAF JUMPERS and WINTER TREES, a journey through the forest about the discovery of flowering trees. Sold to Emily Mitchell at Charlesbridge. JENNIFER LAUGHRAN THREE BOOK, SIX-FIGURE DEAL: Ilsa Bick's ASHES trilogy, which begins when an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky, killing the vast majority of the world population and zapping every electronic device. Everyone still alive has changed considerably—some for the better (those who acquired a superhuman sense) while others for the worse (those who acquired a taste for human flesh). Sold to Greg Ferguson at Egmont. SERIES DEAL: 2010 E.B. White Read Aloud Award winner Kate Messner's SILVER JAGUAR SOCIETY series, in which a group of kids whose families are part of a secret society bound to protect the world's artifacts pool their talents to solve mysteries tied to the creations of their ancestors, in a three book deal, starting with THE STAR-SPANGLED SET-UP. Sold to Anamika Bhatnagar at Scholastic. DEBUT AUTHOR: Erin Lange's debut novel, BUTTER, about a lonely 423-pound boy who decides to eat himself to death live on the Internet, and the bullies who become macabre cheerleaders for his plan. Sold to Caroline Abbey at Bloomsbury. SEQUEL: Jackie Dolamore's MAGIC UNDER STONE, the sequel to MAGIC UNDER GLASS, which continues the adventures of the dance hall girl and the cursed clockwork prince. Again to Melanie Cecka at Bloomsbury Children's. JAMIE WEISS CHILTON DEBUT YA NOVEL AT AUCTION: STRUCK by Jennifer Bosworth. After Los Angeles is devastated by a massive earthquake, seventeen-year-old human lightning rod Mia Price finds herself in the middle of a power struggle between two fanatical doomsday cults: one that wants to save the world, and another that wants to destroy it. Sold to Janine O'Malley at FSG. THIRD PICTURE BOOK IN A SERIES: Rebecca Janni's EVERY COWGIRL NEEDS A BLUE RIBBON to follow EVERY COWGIRL NEEDS A HORSE (2010) and EVERY COWGIRL NEEDS DANCING BOOTS (2011), illustrated by Lynne Avril. Sold to Steve Meltzer at Dutton. NOVELTY BOOK AT AUCTION: Creator Salina Yoon's KALEIDOSCOPE, an innovative, interactive, and visually captivating novelty board book. Sold to Connie Hsu at Little Brown. JENNIFER MATTSON FOLLOW-UP TO LEAD YA: ZERO by Tom Leveen, author of Random House Children's's lead 2010 title, PARTY. Confidence shaken after failing to win an art school scholarship, an aspiring painter loses herself in an intense first romance. Sold to Suzy Capozzi at Random House Children's. MIDDLE-GRADE DEBUT: THE BARFTASTIC LIFE OF LOUIE BURGER by Jenny Meyerhoff, the first middle-grade novel by the author of THIRD GRADE BABY and QUEEN OF SECRETS. Fifth grader and stand-up comedy hopeful Louie Burger vows to face down stage fright and perform at the school talent show, in a narrative interleaved with pages from his comedy-sketch notebook. Sold to Janine O'Malley at FSG. MARY KOLE PICTURE BOOK SOLD AT AUCTION: Author/illustrator Bethanie Murguia's picture book LULU GETS READY, about a girl who prepares for everything the day might bring by wearing everything in her closet. Sold in a three-house auction to Cheryl Klein at Arthur A. Levine's imprint at Scholastic. LEAD TITLE DEBUT YA NOVEL: Debut novelist Karsten Knight's WILDEFIRE, the first book in a trilogy about Ash Wilde, a volatile incarnation of Pele, the Polynesian volcano goddess, who flees from a hometown tragedy and meets four other demi-gods at a boarding school in California. The only problem is, they've been assembled there under dangerous and mysterious circumstances. Sold to Courtney Bongiolatti at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.