INSIGHT by Diana Greenwood

• Publication Season/Year: Spring 2011
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Release Date: April 15, 2011
• ISBN (hardcover): 0310723140
• ISBN (paperback): TBD

Some secrets won’t let you go.

Elvira Witsil lives about as far away from civilization as you can get, in a remote corner of Wisconsin where nothing much ever happens. In a house crowded with her mother, her cantankerous grandmother, and her little sister, Jessie, Elvira feels forgotten and alone.

Their house also contains numerous secrets, and Elvira’s family holds their secrets closely. Secrets about the father that Jessie never knew, and that Elvira can’t forget. Secrets about that day five years ago. And the one secret that Elvira can’t quite understand: that Jessie sees things no one else can see.

These secrets will lead Elvira and her family on a journey far away from home—on a journey toward redemption and healing—if she can just bring herself to believe.

Tía Isa wants a car. Something big enough for the whole family when they’re together. A special car to take them all the places where the bus cannot go. But how can a girl and her tía find the money – and where will they find that one special car?

FOR THE LOVE OF STRANGERS by Jacqueline Horsfall

• Publication Season/Year: Fall 2010]
• Publisher: Leap Books
• Release Date: October 2010
• ISBN (hardcover):
• ISBN (paperback): 978-1-61603-003-2

For the Love of Strangers puts a new spin on the classic hero-savior myth as 16-year-old Darya realizes that she is descended from a line of Russian deer-women who reincarnate over eons. Whitetail deer follow her. She talks to them, meets them in the most unlikely places, unaware that she is one of them. From Neolithic caves to the safety of a modern-day women’s shelter, Darya’s cycle of rebirths sweep her closer to her destiny: to save a wild species from extermination.

Stupid Fast is the story of Felton Reinstein, a fifteen-turning-sixteen-year-old in a rural Wisconsin town whose sudden growth spurt turns him from a small, sad, jumpy, picked-on kid (called squirrel nut) to a powerful athlete.  In Felton’s voice, speaking from his bedroom in the middle of the night, we learn of his broken home, his mother’s intensifying depression, his little brother’s pirate-clothed struggles, and the seeming root of all trouble – his father’s suicide ten years earlier, against the back-drop of his growing athletic success, his first love – a young African-American pianist named Aleah, and growing relationships with the same kids who tortured him through-out his childhood.  As his home crumbles, literally and figuratively, Felton finds triumph on the field born of real kindness from new friends, from the support he’s given by Aleah and her father, from his once estranged grandmother’s rescue mission, and, most importantly, from his new understanding of his father, his self, and his potential for both destruction and magnificence.  Stupid Fast asks us to know ourselves, to be compassionate, and to be unremittingly passionate about what we love.

FREAKSVILLE by Kitty Keswick

• Publication Season/Year: Winter 2010
• Publisher: Leap Books
• Release Date: January 8, 2010
• ISBN (hardcover): TBD
• ISBN (paperback): ISBN-13:978-1-61603-001-8

FREAKSVILLE

A group of teenagers, trapped in a haunted theater on the night of a full moon, discover that ghosts are the least of their worries…

Every woman in the Maxwell family has the gift of sight. A talent sixteen-year-old Kasey would gladly give up. All she wants is a normal life. Shopping and talking about boys with her best friend and long-time sidekick, Gillie Godshall, consume her days. Until Kasey has a vision about Josh Johnstone, the foreign exchange student from England. The vision leads her into new realms, a lead in a play, a haunted theater … and into the arms of Josh. Yet, both Kasey and Josh have secrets lurking in dark corners. Can Kasey’s new romance survive FREAKSVILLE?

BORN AT MIDNIGHT by C.C. Hunter

• Publication Season/Year:  Spring, 2011
• Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
• Release Date: March 29, 2011
• ISBN (hardcover): None
• ISBN (paperback): 978-0312624675

Kylie Galen has had a lot of crap tossed in her lap. Her parents are getting a divorce. Her boyfriend broke up with her because she wouldn’t put out. Her grandmother died and now Kylie’s acquired a stalker. Unfortunately, she’s the only one who seems to be able to see the stalker. And that gets her sent to a psychologist’s sofa. The kooky psychologist gets Kylie sent to Shadow Falls Camp. Kylie and her parents think it’s a camp for troubled teens. They thought wrong. It’s a camp of supernaturals: vampires, werewolves, fairies, witches and shape shifters. And if she believes the camp leader, Kylie is one of them, too.

SHOES FOR ME! by Sue Fliess

• Publication Season/Year: Spring/2011
• Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books, Pinwheel Books
• Release Date: March 1, 2011
• ISBN (hardcover): 978-0761458258

When Hippo realizes her feet have grown, she and Mom set off to buy new shoes. Hippo tries on every pair until she finally finds the perfect shoes for her.

PRISONERS IN THE PALACE by Michaela MacColl

• Publication Season/Year: Fall, 2010
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Release Date: October 13, 2010
• ISBN (hardcover): 978-0-8118-7300-0
• ISBN (paperback): TBD

London, 1836. Sixteen-year-old Liza’s dreams of her society debut are dashed when her parents are killed in an accident. Penniless, she accepts the position of lady’s maid to young Princess Victoria and steps unwittingly into the gossipy intrigue of the servant’s world below-stairs as well as the trickery and treason above. Is it possible that her changing circumstances may offer Liza the chance to determine her own fate, find true love, and secure the throne for her future queen? Meticulously based on new interpretations of history, this riveting novel is as rich in historical detail as Catherine, Called Birdy, and as sizzling with intrigue as The Luxe.

• Publication Season/Year: Spring 2011
• Publisher: Scholastic Press
• Release Date: January 1, 2011
• ISBN (hardcover): 978-0545162159
• ISBN (paperback): TBD

Lucy Wu, aspiring basketball star and interior designer, is on the verge of having the best year of her life.  When her dad invites a long-lost aunt in China to come visit, her plans are ruined – or are they?  Like the Chinese saying that events that appear to be good or bad luck often turn out to be quite the opposite, Lucy finds that while she may not get the “perfect” year she had planned, she can create something better.

Lucy’s relationship with her great-aunt, Yi Po, gets off to a rocky start when Lucy’s floundering Chinese skills causes her to misinterpret an innocent comment.  Slowly, though, the two develop a powerful connection as Lucy discovers Yi Po’s difficult past and Yi Po helps Lucy with her own problems.  When Lucy’s hopes of leading the sixth-grade basketball team to victory are threatened by an unscrupulous rival, it is Yi Po who helps tip back the scales of justice.  In the end, Lucy does get much of what she wanted – but finds that nothing is the same because of Yi Po.

BUGLETTE THE MESSY SLEEPER by Bethanie Murguia

• Publication Season/Year: Summer 2011
• Publisher: Tricycle Press/Random House Children’s Books
• Release Date: May 10, 2011
• ISBN (hardcover): 1582463751
• ISBN (paperback): TBD

Buglette is a tidy little bug by day and a messy little sleeper at night. She tosses, turns, kicks and flips while she dreams of doing BIG things. Her quirky habit annoys her family, but in the end, Buglette’s big dreams help her to save the day. Whimsical watercolor illustrations of a ladybug family and an endearing story about being different, dreaming big, and learning to be brave will appeal to all children—messy sleepers or not.

THE ROTTEN ADVENTURES OF ZACHARY RUTHLESS by Allan Woodrow

• Publication Season/Year: Spring 2011
• Publisher: HarperCollins Children’s Books
• Release Date: May 1, 2011
• ISBN-10: 0062005871
• ISBN-13: 978-0062005878

Meet Zachary Ruthless. Better yet, do not meet him. Because Zachary only looks like he is the nicest ten-year old boy in the world. Actually, he is evil and horrible and a bunch of other bad things we don’t like to think about. Why, In The Rotten Adventures of Zachary Ruthless alone, he shoots brain-erasing lasers, sets loose vicious insects and chews nasty, vegetable-flavored gum.

Zachary‘s dream is to join The Society of Utterly Rotten, Beastly and Loathsome Lawbreaking Scoundrels (SOURBALLS), the most horrid consortium of super villains in the world. So when Zachary hears SOURBALLS is looking for someone to join their nefarious gang, he jumps at the chance. He and his sidekick, Newt, hatch a devious plan. They will turn the mayor into a zombie who obeys their every whim. Unfortunately, Zachary and Newt are not the only ones itching to get into SOURBALLS. Zachary and Newt must battle the horrible Mayor Mudfogg and other felonious foes, not only to join SOURBALLS, but to survive! Bwa-ha-ha!

THE SWEETEST THING by Christina Mandelski

• Egmont USA
• Release Date: May 10, 2011
• ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-60684-253-9
• ISBN (paperback): TBD

In the world of Sheridan Wells, life is perfect when she’s decorating a cake. Unfortunately, everything else is a complete mess: her mom ran off years ago, her dad is more interested in his restaurant and the idea of a boyfriend is laughable.

But Sheridan is convinced finding her mom will solve all of her problems – only her dad’s about to get a cooking show in New York, which means her dream of having her family back together will be dashed. Using just the right amount of romance, family and cute boys, THE SWEETEST THING will entice fans with its perfect mixture of girl-friendly ingredients.

Morgan Skully is the world’s only blonde demon girl and she’s got a brand new, very unusual after-school job. Spying for the Devil. She’d much rather spy on hottie-licious, Derek, with her friends, but the Devil won’t take no for an answer. Lucky for Morgan, her new boss is kinda hot. Her assignment is simple: find out who at Pitch Fork Prep is funneling secrets to the Russian Werewolf Council. If she succeeds, pedicures and platinum highlights are just the beginning. But if she fails, she’ll be expelled before she can woo Derek into asking her to the Brimstone Ball!

THE LITTLE WEED FLOWER by Vicky Whipple

• Publication Season/Year: Fall, 2010
• Publisher: Raven Tree Press
• Release Date: September 16, 2010
• ISBN (hardcover):  978-1-936299-34-8 English
• ISBN(Hardcover) :978-1-936299-32-4  bilingual, English and Spanish
• ISBN (paperback): 978-1-936299-33-1 bilingual, English and Spanish

THE LITTLE WEED FLOWER  Have you ever felt that you are a little different from the rest around you, and that you just do not fit in?

This story is about a little weed flower that has hope and dares to dream of leaving the weed patch in which she lives. She discovers help from a Hawk to accomplish her dreams of going to live in a beautiful garden. She sees that a wonderful, kind gardener cares for and tends the other flowers, so they can grow happy and strong. Once she gets to her dream place, she discovers that the beautiful flowers are not so willing to accept her, because she came from the weed patch.

She discovers that she has brought with her some wonderful survival skills from the weed patch. She and her friend share positive lessons by encouraging others, thereby growing love and hope. The gardener teaches that no matter where we come from, everything has its own beauty and a special purpose in the big garden of life. She becomes the most beloved flower in the garden. Not all flowers bloom at the same time, but when they bloom they can change the world with kindness and encouragement.

TEN BIG TOES AND A PRINCE'S NOSE by Nancy Gow, Illustrations by Stephen Costanza

• Publication Season/Year: Fall/2010
• Publisher: Sterling
• Release Date: October 5, 2010
• ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-4027-6396-0

A beautiful princess with very big feet and a fun-loving prince with an enormous nose have a hard time attracting a suitable partner. But when the self-conscious pair meet on a ski-lift in the Alps (their peculiarities are well hidden beneath winter clothing), they quickly discover the beauty that lies beneath appearances.