JEN ROFÉ'S
REPRESENTATIVE BOOKS 
Some client books Jen feels best represent her tastes
jennifer@andreabrownlit.com
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CONTEMPORARY MULTICULTURAL YA: Meg Medina's YAQUI DELGADO WANTS TO KICK YOUR ASS, about a 15-year-old honor student who hears a rumor that Yaqui Delgado wants to fight her, but she doesn't even know who Yaqui is. (Candlewick, 2013) 
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CONTEMPORARY YA: Lauren Strasnick’s 16 WAYS TO BREAK A HEART, a smart and page-turning epistolary novel about the breakdown of an electric relationship gone wrong. (Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins, 2017)
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COMMERCIAL, ADVENTUROUS MIDDLE GRADE: Christina Diaz Gonzalez's MOVING TARGET, about a 12-year-old girl who discovers she belongs to an ancient bloodline, enabling her to use a legendary object that can alter the future. (Scholastic, 2015)
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COMMERCIAL MIDDLE GRADE WITH HEART: Jill Diamond’s LOU LOU AND PEA AND THE MURAL MYSTERY, about two best friends who solve a series of strange mysteries cropping up around their quaint and quirky neighborhood as the town prepares for its Dia de Los Muertos procession. (FSG/Macmillan, 2016) 
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SMART, LITERARY PICTURE BOOK: Denise Doyen and Eliza Wheeler’s THE POMEGRANATE WITCH, about a gang of neighborhood children who make a determined effort to seize some of the pomegranate fruits from the magnificent tree by the scary, run-down farmhouse--but the tree is guarded by a "witch.” (Chronicle, 2017)

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CHARACTER-BASED PICTURE BOOK: Dev Petty and Mike Boldt’s I DON’T WANT TO BE A FROG series, about a stubborn frog who wants to be anything but a slimy, wet frog until a hungry wolf convinces him otherwise. (Doubleday/PRH, 2015)