Recent Acquisitions

Bram Stoker finalist Ally Malinenko's BROKEN DOLLS, about a girl with arithmomania and selective mutism, who moves upstate after her grandfather's death and starts to lose her sister to a creepy doll—who wants to turn her into a doll herself—and the girl must stop her sister's transformation, because dolls never die, to Sara Schonfeld at Harper Children's, in an exclusive submission, for publication in summer 2025, by Rena Rossner at Deborah Harris Agency (NA).

NYT-bestselling author and social media influencer Joey Graceffa's THE TWELVE, about 16-year-old twin sister witches born minutes apart—with the powers of separate zodiac signs—who are recruited by a powerful coven that may or may not have their best interests at heart, written with Laura Sullivan, to Kristen Pettit while at Harper Teen, with Sara Schonfeld editing, by Kirsten Neuhaus at Ultra Literary (NA).

A.R. Vishny's THE NIGHT OWLS, following two estries—owl-shifting women vampires from Jewish tradition—who both break their oaths to never fall in love in order to face Manhattan's monstrous underworld and save the girl one of them loves with help from the crush of the other, to Sara Schonfeld at Harper Teen, in a very nice deal, for publication in fall 2024, by Linda Epstein at Emerald City Literary Agency (world English).

Melanie Wick Singer's MARTINA'S MUY BAD DAY, following a young girl as she returns home after a bad day; while searching for a distraction, she finds her abuela making magic en la cocina and realizes that bad days are worth celebrating, too, illustrated by Natalia Jimenez Osorio, to Sara Schonfeld at Harper Children's, in a nice deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2024, by Ramona Pina and Naomi Davis at BookEnds for the author, and by Aurora Barlam at Astound US for the illustrator (world).

Author of DIARY OF A CONFUSED FEMINIST Kate Weston's MURDER ON A SCHOOL NIGHT, a humorous teen murder mystery romcom in which a teen's amateur sleuthing into social media bullying turns bloody when a classmate is found murdered, suffocated with a menstrual cup—and when another dies by sanitary pad, she finds herself hot on the trail of a menstrual murderer, to Sara Schonfeld at Katherine Tegen Books, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 23, by Chloe Seager at Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency (NA).

Rachel Moore's THE BOOK OF FADES, a paranormal rom-com pitched as UNDEAD GIRL GANG meets NINTH HOUSE, following a girl on a quest to connect to her late father through a mysterious book, leading her to an equally mysterious boy—who is definitely cute, is probably a ghost, and just might be behind a string of disappearances at her school, to Sara Schonfeld at Katherine Tegen Books, in a six-figure deal, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2023, by Claire Friedman at Inkwell Management (world English).

Tina Athaide's SUNSHINE IN THE MONSOONS, illustrated by Archana Sreenivasan, to Sara Schonfeld at Katherine Tegen Books, for publication in summer 2025, by Stephanie Fretwell-Hill at Red Fox Literary for the illustrator.

Emi Pinto's BEE BAKSHI AND THE GINGERBREAD WITCH, pitched as a modern retelling of Hansel and Gretel, following a 12-year-old who is self-conscious of her too-Indian family in a white community with a sinister secret, but her stress about fitting in is soon the least of her worries when she's drawn to a strange house and history begins to repeat itself, to Sara Schonfeld at Katherine Tegen Books, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in the fall 2023 and fall 2024, by Emily Forney at BookEnds (world).

Kate Fussner's O&E, pitched as a queer retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice in verse, in which two middle school girls learn to love each other and themselves as they fight not to lose one another, to Sara Schonfeld at Katherine Tegen Books, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2023, by Eric Smith at P.S. Literary Agency (world English).

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and activist Alice Walker's THERE IS A FLOWER AT THE TIP OF MY NOSE SMELLING ME, a celebration of the self and the world we live in through poetry and art, illustrated by Queenbe Monyei, to Sara Schonfeld at Katherine Tegen Books, for publication in June 2022, by by Sylvie Hamel at Anna Goodson Illustration Agency for the illustrator.

Author of the forthcoming GHOST GIRL Ally Malinenko's THIS APPEARING HOUSE, pitched as A Monster Calls-esque story navigating the effects of trauma and illness, following a girl and her best friend who get trapped inside a haunted house that turns out to be a lot more than what it seems, to Sara Schonfeld at Katherine Tegen Books, for publication in summer 2022, by Rena Rossner at Deborah Harris Agency (NA).