Preston Norton's HOPEPUNK, in which a 16-year-old girl wages musical war on homophobia in her small Wyoming town after her beloved older sister is outed, forming a queer-friendly punk rock band and competing in a local battle of the bands against a hate-driven rival in a competition that has broader implications for the soul of their town, to Laura Schreiber at Jimmy Patterson

Hollywood movie-studio consultant Aditi Khorana's MIRROR IN THE SKY, the story of a 16-year-old high school junior at an exclusive Connecticut private school, whose life is transformed by the discovery of an alternate Earth, pitched as Prep meets Age of Miracles for teens, to Jessica Almon at Razorbill, in a significant deal, at auction, in a two-book deal.

Stephanie Garber's debut CARAVAL, the first in a series about two sisters bound by love and a father they fear, who escape their tiny, secluded island for the wondrous performance of Caraval, where the audience plays along in a deadly game of determining what's real and what's fantasy, and where only one sister might be brave enough to take the chance to forever escape their dark pasts, pitched as Night Circus meets Sleep No More, to Sarah Barley at Flatiron Books, at auction. Howard's MYSTIQUIEL, a new fantasy duology with horror elements set in modern-day Astoria, Oregon, where on Halloween night, a girl still haunted by the death of her identical twin steps through a portal leading to a gloomy industrial dreamscape of goblins and faeries-seemingly born from her own graphic novels-to face a goblin king's maze of machinations and rescue the people she loves, to Cindy Loh at Bloomsbury Children's, in a two-book deal.Ĭhinese Vietnamese American Harvard graduate and graphic designer Michelle Quach's NOT HERE TO BE LIKED, in which a Chinese Vietnamese American girl is snubbed as the next editor-in-chief of the school paper for a less qualified but more 'likable' male peer, and she finds herself caught between leading a feminist reckoning and falling for the boy she's asking to step down, to Mabel Hsu at Harper Children's, in a significant deal, at auction, in a two-book deal.Īuthor of KILL THE BOY BAND Goldy Moldavsky's THE MARY SHELLEY CLUB, pitched as Scream meets Gossip Girl, the story of a new girl at New York City's elite Manchester Prep who joins a secret club to see who can come up with the best scary prank, but when the tables are turned and someone begins terrorizing the club itself, she must discover who's behind it before they all wind up dead, to Tiffany Liao at Holt Children's, in a good deal, at auction, in a two-book deal.

NYT-bestselling author of the Splintered series and ROSEBLOOD A.G.

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