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: Kim Tomsic’s THE 11:11 WISH, about a math whiz who uses a magical cat clock in an attempt to fit in at her new school. (Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins, 2018)
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CONTEMPORARY MULTICULTURAL MIDDLE GRADE: Crystal Allen's THE MAGNIFICENT MYA TIBBS: SPIRIT WEEK SHOWDOWN, about how the spunky fourth grader defeats her best frenemy and saves the school "bully" all while trying to win special tickets to the Fall Festival. (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins, 2016)
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FANCIFUL PICTURE BOOK: Author-illustrator Sophie ​Gilmore's LITTLE DOCTOR AND THE FEARLESS BEAST, about a girl who tends to crocodiles, but when the biggest one in the land arrives with a mysterious ailment, Little Doctor must hatch a clever plan to help it. (Owlkids, 2019)
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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, the first in an ongoing 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)