JENNIFER LAUGHRAN'S
Representative Books
Some client books Jenn feels represent her tastes
JennL@andreabrownlit.com
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LITERARY CONTEMPORARY YA: Karen Rivers's BEFORE WE GO EXTINCT, the story of a shark-obsessed teen whose best friend commits suicide (or was it an accident?) in front of him; he spends the summer processing his grief on an abandoned beach resort island where his dad is the caretaker. (FSG/Macmillan, 2016)
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YA ROMANCE: Paula Stokes' new rom-com GIRL AGAINST THE UNIVERSE, about a girl who is convinced that anyone who gets close to her will be hurt, and her romance with a boy who doesn't believe in bad luck. (HarperTeen/HarperCollins, 2016)
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MAGICAL YA MYSTERY: Gwenda Bond's GIRL ON A WIRE, about a girl from a legendary circus family who performs as a daredevil high wire walker. When mysterious accidents begin to plague the circus, she must team up with her arch-rival to solve the crimes, or she might just be the next victim. (Skyscape/Amazon, 2014)
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CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE GRADE: Alex Gino's debut GEORGE, about a girl the world sees as a boy, and how she reveals her identity after losing out on being cast as Charlotte in her fourth-grade class's production of Charlotte's Web. (Scholastic, 2015)
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HUMOROUS MIDDLE GRADE: Sarah Darer Littman's CHARMED, I'M SURE, a humorous look at the tribulations of growing up normal in the shadow of megawatt celebrity parents, in this case, Snow and Prince White-Charming. (Aladdin/S&S, 2016)
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MIDDLE GRADE MAGICAL REALISM: E.B. White Read Aloud Award winner Kate Messner's ALL THE ANSWERS, about a nervous 12-year-old who wishes life had less uncertainty and fewer math tests until a dash of magic shows her that having all the answers may be more trouble than it's worth. (Bloomsbury, 2015)
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MIDDLE GRADE SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/ADVENTURE: Patrick Samphire's SECRETS OF THE DRAGON TOMB, set in a very proper Regency-era British colony on Mars, where a boy who has always dreamed of being a spy gets more than his share of adventure when a villainous archeologist kidnaps his parents, and he and his sisters must trek across an inhospitable planet to save them. (Holt/Macmillan, 2016)