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"Satisfying, gratifying, touching, weighty--this authentic piece of work has got soul."--NYT Book Review
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Kicked out for refusing to join a
cult, seventeen-year-old Jamie
must fi nd a way to survive on her
own
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editor : stacey.barney@us.penguingroup.com
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Stacey Barney
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The Bourne Identity meets The Sopranos in this action-packed adventure.
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GENRES & SPECIALTIES |
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General fiction
Mystery
Juvenile fiction
Biography
Business/investing/finance
History
Mind/body/spirit
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Travel
Lifestyle
Sports
African-American
I also provide freelance Editorial work for novels and nonfiction proposals
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OTHER TITLES ACQUIRED / EDITED
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• Sara Wilson Etienne's HARBINGER, a compelling, fast-paced paranormal thriller where Girl,Interrupted meets Beautiful Creatures (Spring 2012).
• Author of ALA Best Book for Young Adults, THE BEST BAD LUCK I EVER HAD, Kristin Levine's THE LIONS OF LITTLE ROCK, about two best friends whose race separates them during the early days of public school integration in Arkansas (Spring 2012).
• The Delivery Room author Sylvia Brownrigg's KEPLER'S DREAM, about a girl sent to live with her difficult grandmother while her mother undergoes a bone marrow transplant during a harrowing battle with leukemia and a very valuable book in her grandmother's library goes missing (Summer 2012).
• WHAT YOU WISH FOR: A BOOK FOR DARFUR, a collection of YA short stories about the double-edged power of wishes, to benefit the Book Wish Foundation, which provides books for Darfur refugees in Chad, with contributions by worldwide bestsellers Alexander McCall Smith, Cornelia Funke, Meg Cabot, Ann M. Martin, John Green, Francisco Stork, Karen Hesse, Nikki Giovanni, Jane Yolen, Marilyn Nelson, Jeanne DuPrau and others to be named (Fall 2011).
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BEST-KNOWN PROJECTS
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• Sheila O'Connor's SPARROW ROAD, where 12-year-old Raine is uprooted from her home and taken to a mysterious artists' mansion in the country; she sets out to uncover secrets about its haunted history and the cast of quirky characters who inhabit it--but it's an unexpected secret from her own past that she must face during one life-changing summer.
• Actress Elizabeth Berkley's self-esteem handbook for teen girls, ASK ELIZABETH: Real Answers to Everything You Secretly Wanted to Ask About Love, Friends, Your Body…And Life in General.
• Heidi R. Kling's debut SEA, about a California teen who travels with her father and his volunteer organization to a post-tsunami Indonesian orphanage and falls for a charismatic, haunted boy during a three-week life-changing adventure.
• Former LA high school teacher L. Divine's DRAMA HIGH series, featuring a quick-witted, 15-year-old AP student from Compton who is bussed to a predominately white high school, and the clique of friends she hangs out with.
• Kristin Levine's THE BEST BAD LUCK I EVER HAD, the story of a friendship between a poor white boy and an educated African-American girl in 1918 rural Alabama, based on diaries from the author's grandfather.
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MOST RECENT PURCHASES
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• Walter Jury and S.E. Fine's SCAN and a sequel, BURN, a high-action thriller about a 16-year-old boy who has been prepared his whole life for "something important," only to discover it means he's one of the last humans left on earth.
• Jennifer Banash's WHITE LINES, set in New York City in the 1980s and centered around the club kid scene, and EDGE OF SEVENTEEN, about a girl whose bullying ways come full circle when she wakes up from an accident in the body of the very girl she'd tormented (Spring 2013).
• Elizabeth Richards's THE BLACK CITY CHRONICLES, set in the burning ruins of the Black City, where in the aftermath of a bloody war humans and Darklings live divided by a high wall and where a half-blood Darkling and the daughter of the Sentry Emissary who hates Darklings, struggle to fight their forbidden feelings for each other (Fall 2012).
• T.M. Goeglein's FURY, pitched as a teenage Bourne Identity, in which a 16-year old girl must unravel a complex mystery and discover who she truly is while on the run from seemingly everyone (Summer 2012).
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PREVIOUS PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE
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Kensington Books; HarperCollins; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Lee & Low Multicultural Children's Book Publisher
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