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CHILDREN’S AND YA INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS LIST Winter 2017
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C H I L D R E N ’ S A N D Y A I N T E R N A T I O N A L R I G H T S L I S T
Winter 2017
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Table of Contents
Middle Grade
BOUNCED TED STAUNTON ............................................................................................... 3 MASTER DIPLEXITO AND MR. SCANT SERIES BRYAN METHODS .......................... 5 MORT ZIFF IS NOT DEAD CARY FAGAN ........................................................................ 4
Young Adult
36 QUESTIONS THAT CHANGED MY MIND ABOUT YOU VICKI GRANT ............. 6 THE AGONY OF BUN O'KEEFE HEATHER SMITH ........................................................ 7 BEWARE THAT GIRL TERESA TOTEN .............................................................................. 9 ICE-OUT MARY CASANOVA ................................................................................................ 8
Non-Fiction
ALL THE DIRT KATHERINE ASHENBURG, illustrated by CAPUCINE MAZILLE ............ 10
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Ted Staunton BOUNCED marks a return to middle grade fiction after Who I’m Not, which won the John Spray Mystery Award in 2014, and Jump Cut, a young adult novel (part of the Orca Books Seven Series) which has sold over 6,000 copies in Canada alone. BOUNCED is a middle grade novel about a 12-yearold boy, Duncan, who lives with his rather Bohemian aunt who is determined to give him a private (and expensive) education. Duncan is not particularly interested in school and wants to be a detective like the ones in the World’s Best 100 Detective Stories he avidly reads when he should be studying. As Duncan says himself: “In the beginning, it was simple: I wanted to be a detective, and I
needed something to detect...” Fortunately for Duncan (and for the reader!), he gets something to detect in the first chapter of this entertaining and funny crime mystery written in the style of Jack Gantos that will appeal to young readers everywhere. BOUNCED is a middle grade novel in which the adults often behave like overgrown children and Duncan learns to take responsibility for his own (and his adult relatives) actions.
TED STAUNTON has worked in schools both as a visiting writer and as a schoolteacher. He has travelled widely through North America and worked with kids from disadvantaged backgrounds. Ted’s work in schools led him to develop the workshop series Building Books and The Stories CD for students in the primary/junior grades and up. He has conducted the workshops many times and in 1999 he received an Ontario Arts Council grant for this work, which has also led to numerous presentations to teachers. His books have been translated into French, German, Korean and Portuguese.
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Mort Ziff Is Not Dead
Cary Fagan What would you do with a thousand dollars? Buy a new bike? A set of drums? Fix the leaky roof in the family house? That’s what young Norman has to decide in the fabulously funny MORT ZIFF IS NOT DEAD. It’s the winter of 1965 and Norman Fishbein—called “Wormy” by his two older brothers—faces just such a dilemma after he wins the “Count-the-Doozy-Dots Contest.” Norman decides that what his family needs is their first real vacation—a luxury trip to Miami Beach. One day at the pool Norman spots an old man in a black suit, who his father tells him is a
once-famous comedian named Mort Ziff. A chance meeting begins an unusual friendship between Norman and the old comedian. But after hearing that Mort Ziff has been fired, to be replaced by "The Centipedes," a pop group imitating the Beatles, Norman takes matters into his own hands. With a little help from fellow vacationer Amy, her obnoxious sisters, and even Norman's brothers, Norman resolves to save Mort's job and in the process, comes to realize an inner strength he didn't know he had.
CARY FAGAN is the author of more than twenty books for young readers, as well as a number of award-winning adult books. His kids' books include the popular Kaspar Snit novels, the two-volume Master Melville's Medicine Show, and the best-selling picture book Mr. Zinger's Hat. His books have been translated into Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, French, Italian, Korean, Spanish and Turkish.
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Praise for the work of Cary Fagan:
“With a kid’s eye-view Fagan navigates the ups and downs of life
with genuine warmth and a wry sense of humour. His stories perambulate a landscape of small adventures, creating moments of epiphany for his characters that ultimately alter and shift their lens on the world...Fagan’s stories are a perfect balance between
the comic and the dramatic." —Jury citation, Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young
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Master Diplexito and Mr. Scant Series
Bryan Methods
After discovering his family butler is secretly a master criminal, a boy fears for his l ife—until the truth inspires him to become the thief ’s apprentice. Book 1 MASTER DIPLEXITO AND MR. SCANT: THE THIEF'S APPRENTICE Nobody could have been more surprised than Oliver Diplexito to discover his family butler is a notorious master criminal. Now he alone knows Mr. Scant’s secret, and it puts his entire family in danger. But there is more to the break-ins at London’s most famous museums than the newspapers have reported, and the truth might just lead young Oliver to become a thief’s apprentice. THE THIEF'S APPRENTICE takes its readers from the grandest buildings of Edwardian Britain to its darkest corners, and shows how an unlikely partnership can challenge an empire’s most powerful men. Book 2 MASTER DIPLEXITO AND MR. SCANT: THE SHANGHAI INCIDENT The second adventure of Oliver Diplexito and his criminal mastermind butler finds them racing across the world to solve a dangerous kidnapping case. Mr. Scant and Oliver arrive in Paris, searching for Elspeth Gaunt, Mr. Scant's niece. They discover that children are disappearing, snatched from the streets. Guided by a young Parisian searching for his brother, Mr. Scant and Oliver journey to Shanghai, where they unravel a plot to attack the Emperor of China himself. Can Mr. Scant and his allies end the conspiracy and rescue the street children, or will they fall victim to a shadowy criminal organization bent on international war? And where in all this is Elspeth Gaunt? THE SHANGHAI INCIDENT publishes in the U.S. in fall 2017 with Carolrhoda.
BRYAN METHODS got his Master's in screen media and cultures from Cambridge University, specializing in animation. He currently lives in Tokyo, Japan. The third book to complete the trilogy is due next year..
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Represented by Fiona Kenshole [email protected]
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36 QUESTIONS THAT CHANGED MY MIND ABOUT YOU
Vicki Grant Two random strangers. Two heart-breaking secrets. 36 questions to make them fall in love.
Hildy is intellectual, rule-abiding, brittle. Paul is brooding, disaffected, gorgeous. One struggles with a tragic past while the other fights to keep their family together. Each teen has private reasons for joining the university psychology study that asks a simple question: Can love be engineered? By the time Hildy and Paul have made it to the end of the questions they’ve laughed and cried and lied and thrown things and run away and come back and driven each other almost crazy. They’ve also each discovered the painful secret the other was trying so hard to hide. But have they fallen in love? Inspired by the famous NYT "Modern Love" column that sparked hundreds of first dates and even some dating apps, this is a thoroughly 21st century romance. With drop-dead-clever dialog and witty characters, this story embraces the heart of classic rom coms, complete with a last-minute chase across town that culminates in a first kiss under lamplight in a snow-filled street.
VICKI GRANT is a Gemini-Award winning children's network TV writer. Her fifteen YA novels have been translated into seven languages, including Korean, Spanish, and German, and have won a New York Public Library Best Book award, Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Book awards, and multiple Arthur Ellis Awards for Best Juvenile Crime Novel, among others. The Globe and Mail said of her most recent work, “This is what Don Draper’s daughter would have read at 13.”
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The Agony of Bun O'Keefe
Heather Smith Fourteen-year-old Bun O'Keefe has lived a solitary life in an unsafe, unsanitary house in Newfoundland in 1986. Her mother is a compulsive hoarder, and Bun has had little contact with the outside world. What she's learned about life comes from the random books and old VHS tapes that she finds in boxes and bags her mother brings home. Bun and her mother rarely talk, so when Bun's mother tells Bun to leave one day, she does.
Hitchhiking out of town, Bun ends up on the streets of St. John's. Fortunately, the first person she meets is Busker Boy, a street musician who senses her naivety and takes her in. Together they live in a house with an eclectic cast of characters: Chef, a pot-smoking dishwasher with culinary dreams; Cher, a drag queen with a tragic past; Big Eyes, a Catholic school girl desperately trying to reinvent herself; and The Landlord, a man who Bun is told to avoid at all cost. Through her experiences with her new roommates, and their sometimes tragic revelations, Bun learns that the world extends beyond the walls of her mother's house and discovers the joy of being part of a new family—a family of friends who care.
HEATHER SMITH's first novel, Baygirl, was on the Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year list, and was a White Pine Honour Book (Ontario Library Association). Originally from Newfoundland, Heather now lives in Waterloo, Ontario, with her husband and three children.
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Represented by Amy Tompkins [email protected]
Praise for Heather Smith's previous work:
“sprightly dialogue, relatable characters, and a story that delves into serious subject matter without becoming morose."
—Quill & Quire, starred review
“Sitting at the juncture between historical and contemporary realism, Baygirl is,very much, a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story that will captivate the attention of today’s young adults.”
—CM Magazine
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Ice-Out
Mary Casanova In the Midwestern U.S. , "walking on thin ice" is more than a saying. For Owen, nineteen and responsible for keeping his mother and five brothers alive, the ice is thin indeed. Owen, smitten with Sadie Rose, is struggling to make something of himself at a time when no one seems to hold the moral high ground. Bootlegging is rife, corruption is rampant, and lumber barons run roughshod over the people and the land. As hard as things seem when his father dies, they get considerably tougher and more complicated when Owen gets caught up in the suspicious deaths of a local sheriff and deputy.
ICE-OUT returns to the frigid and brutal Prohibition-era borderland of Mary Casanova's beloved novel Frozen. Inspired by real events and Mary Casanova's family history, ICE-OUT is both a story of young romance against terrible odds and true grit in a northern town divided between license and responsibility, rich and poor, and right and wrong in early twentieth-century America.
MARY CASANOVA is best known as the million copy-selling author of the beloved American Girls McKenna, Grace, and Chrissa. She has published fifteen books, which have won awards including the American Library Association Notable Award, Aesop Accolades from the American Folklore Society, Parents’ Choice Gold Award, and a Booklist Editors’ Choice.
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“A unique look at a familiar period in history." —Kirkus
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Beware That Girl
Teresa Toten This will be our l itt le secret For fans of We Were Liars , Gone Girl , and The Girl on the Train comes a powerful psychological thril ler with a gripping pace and Hitchcockian twists. The Haves. The Have-Nots. Kate O’Brien appears to be a Have-Not. Her whole life has been a series of setbacks she’s had to snake her way out of—some more sinister than others. But she’s determined to change that. She’s book smart. She’s street-smart. Oh, and she’s also a masterful
liar. As the scholarship student at the Waverly School in NYC, Kate has her work cut out for her: her plan is to climb the social ladder and land a spot at Yale. She’s already found her “people” among the senior class “it” girls—specifically in the cosseted yet deeply damaged Olivia Sumner. As for Olivia, she considers Kate the best friend she’s always needed, the sister she never had. When the handsome and whip-smart Mark Redkin joins the Waverly administration, he immediately charms his way into the faculty’s and students’ lives—becoming especially close to Olivia, a fact she’s intent on keeping to herself. It becomes increasingly obvious that Redkin poses a threat to Kate, too, in a way she can’t reveal yet can’t afford to ignore. Mark has his own plan and never doubts that he can pull it off. How close can Kate and Olivia get to Mark without having to share their dark pasts?
TERESA TOTEN won the Governor General’s Literary Award in Canada for The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B, which also won the American Library Association’s Schneider Family Book Award and was chosen by the International Board on Books for Young People as one of its Outstanding Books for Young People With Disabilities in 2015. She is the author of the acclaimed Blondes series, as well as The Game, The Onlyhouse, and, with Eric Walters, The Taming. Teresa lives in Toronto. Visit her online at Teresatoten.com and on Facebook, and follow her at @TTotenAuthor on Twitter.
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2017; Spanish, Penguin Random House, Spring 2017; French, Hachette Jeunesse; Portuguese in Brazil, Record; Dutch, Gottmer; Russian, AST Publishers
Turkish, Pegasus Publishers; Audio, Random Audio Film rights, Awesomeness TV
Books Available Represented by Marie Campbell [email protected]
“Combines a Gossip Girl milieu with the unsettled psychological
terrain of Gone Girl.” —Publishers Weekly
“Has all the makings of a crossover hit. It’s smart, dark, entertaining, and unpredictable.”
—Quill & Quire, starred review
“A sharp narative whose twists will demand an instant reread. Beware That Girl is a terrifying chess game, and Toten is the
ultimate player.” —National Reading Campaign (Canada)
“A tense teen thriller.” —Kirkus
“The author skillfully reveals gritty and tantalizing details in meager bites, keeping readers captivated. A must-have for teen
fans of psychological thrillers such as Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl.” —School Library Journal
“A solid page-turner with two compelling main characters.
Readers will be absorbed by this gripping, sometimes disturbing drama.” —The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
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All the Dirt A HISTORY OF GETTING CLEAN
Katherine Ashenburg, illustrated by Capucine Mazille A real “stinker” of a book for ages 9-12 that takes a l ight-hearted look at the history of cleanliness. ALL THE DIRT is a lively, informative exploration of the evolution of personal hygiene. Starting with a number of myths about cleanliness, the author gives a quick overview of the topic. Throughout most of history, people rejected the notion of keeping clean, with
some exceptions—the ancient Romans were obsessive about it. Readers will discover how the definition of cleanliness in one part of the world may differ radically from another. In Zimbabwe, for example, cleanliness means coating your washed body with a mixture of oil and dirt! There is just enough of a gross factor that young readers will find the book as entertaining as it is enlightening. Colorful spreads, lots of sidebars, humorous illustrations, and photos make it ideal for browsing as well as reading in depth. ALL THE DIRT is the middle grade follow-up the author's best-selling adult book The Dirt on Clean (published in the U.K. as Clean: An Unsanitised History of Washing), which was translated into Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Polish and praised by the Sunday Times: "The only possible complaint about Ashenburg's exceptionally enjoyable book is that, being beautifully designed and illustrated, it is not suitable for reading in the bath".
KATHERINE ASHENBURG writes for a wide variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Walrus, and Toronto Life. She is the author of three non-fiction books for adults, including The Dirt on Clean. ALL THE DIRT is her first book for young readers. She lives in Toronto.
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“makes the history of cleanliness unexpectedly fun."
—Booklist
“Ashenburg's ... prose is tight and fun...accessible yet uncompromisingly smart language."
—Quill & Quire
“humorous cartoon images from illustrator Capucine Mazille keep the pages colorful and bright...even the most reluctant
historians are sure to be delighted with this open look at hygiene from around the world"
—Foreword Reviews
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