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Sid Fleischman Award to Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can’t Have
We are delighted to announce that Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can’t Have by Allen Zadoff has been awarded the Sid Fleischman Humor Award, presented annually by the SCBWI to an outstanding book that uses humor to establish its voice.
Bree Despain on Tour!
Beginning March 16th, Egmont’s very-own Bree Despain will be hitting the internet with a 20-blog tour to promote The Dark Divine. Click here for a detailed list of blogs and dates.
Wish You Were Dead Trailer Live
We have a treat for all you thriller fans out there. A brand new trailer for Wish You Were Dead, in stores now!

Click here to view the newest trailer for Wish You Were Dead, by Todd Strasser.
Beware the Power of the Candle Man!
Is the power of the Candle Man out of control? That’s the question Scotland Yard is asking tonight, as top members of the underworld have disappeared after tangling with London’s mysterious crime fighter, Lord Wickland.

All citizens are advised to upload an image here and imaging a confrontation with the Candle Man.

http://www.powerofthecandleman.com

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Glenn Dakin

Glenn Dakin

Author of Candle Man, Book One: The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance

Glenn Dakin has written for many comics and children's TV shows, including the BBC's Shaun the Sheep, for which he won an International Emmy Award; Temptation; and the semi-autobiographical strip Abe. He lives in Cambridge, England.

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Todd Strasser, author of Give a Boy a Gun, Boot Camp, If I Grow Up, and the Help, I’m Trapped . . . series, has written wildly popular middle-grade and teen books of all genres. When he’s not speaking at schools and conferences, he makes his home in a suburb of New York City. Todd is active in a number of sports but enjoys surfing most of all.
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Kristin Clark Venuti wrote on many things while growing up, including her father’s prized dictionary, her mother’s walls, and the family dog (with blueberry ink, of course). Now a children’s-theater producer, scene painter, and two-time black belt, she lives with her husband, children, and their ink-free dog in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. Leaving the Bellweathers is her first novel.
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The Rise of Renegade X
Written by Chelsea M. Campbell
Sixteen-year-old Damien Locke has a plan: major in messing with people at the local supervillain university and become a professional evil genius, just like his supervillain mom. But when he discovers the shameful secret she's been hiding all these years, that the one-night stand that spawned him was actually with a...

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Eeeek, Mouse!
Written by Lydia Monks
Illustrated by Lydia Monks
Minnie loves mice! But her parents hate them. So when a family of mice move into Minnie's house, she has to work fast to save them from her dad's amazing mousetrap and a hungry cat.
Featuring the same family as Monks's Aaaarrgghh, Spider!, this vibrantly illustrated adventure is filled with die-cut...

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Leaving the Bellweathers
Written by Kristin Clark Venuti
The young Bellweathers–fourteen-year-old Spider, thirteen-year-old Ninda, and the ten-year-old triplets, Brick, Spike, and Sassy–and their equally peculiar parents have brought constant chaos to the once-peaceful village of Eel-Smack-by-the-Bay. Still, no one has suffered more than their loyal butler, Benway, who has finally had enough. He is secretly writing his tell-all memoirs,...

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Violet Wings
Written by Victoria Hanley
For Zaria Tourmaline, the three years without her mother and brother have been lonely ones, living with a cold and distant guardian while she completes her education. Just as she is ready to join the world of adult fairies and genies, she finds a spellbook written entirely in her mother’s hand....

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Mirrorscape
Written by Mike Wilks
Prepare to enter the Mirrorscape–a world where the bizarre is commonplace and logic makes no sense.Melkin Womper is thrilled to escape his dull future as a village weaver and develop his artistic talent when he’s apprenticed to Ambrosius Blenk, one of Vlam’s most famous masters. Mel is especially excited by the...

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The Tension of Opposites
Written by Kristina McBride
When Tessa's best friend Noelle disappears right before the start of eighth grade, Tessa's life changes completely--she shies away from her other friends and stops eating in the cafeteria. Now, two years later, Noelle has escaped her captivity and is coming home, in one piece but not exactly intact, and definitely...

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Frozen in Time
Written by Ali Sparkes
Rachel and Ben are resigning themselves to a long, wet summer stuck at their uncle's house in the English countryside, until they discover the underground vault at the bottom of the garden, and the amazing secret inside - two children from the 1950s who they awaken from a sleep that's lasted...

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Candle Man, Book One: The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance
Written by Glenn Dakin
Murder, mystery, and adventure aren’t your typical birthday presents . . .
But for Theo, anything that breaks up his ordinary routine is the perfect gift.
A mysterious “illness” and Theo’s guardians force him into a life indoors, where gloves must be worn and daily medical treatments are the norm. When Theo...

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Raised by Wolves
Written by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Adopted by the Alpha of a werewolf pack after a rogue wolf brutally killed her parents right before her eyes, fifteen-year-old Bryn knows only pack life, and the rigid social hierarchy that controls it. That doesn't mean that she's averse to breaking a rule or two.
But when her curiosity gets...

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Things I Know About Love
Written by Kate le Vann
Things I know about love.
1. People don't always tell you the truth about how they feel.
2. Nothing that happens between two people is guaranteed to be private.
3. I don't know if you ever get over having your heart broken.
Livia Stowe's past experiences with love have been nothing but disappointing, but all that is about...

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The Boy Who Could Fly
Written by James Norcliffe
A young boy lives in an orphanage that is completely surrounded by a thick wall. Every day, he wishes he were free. He wishes he had a new life. And then he meets the loblolly boy, who is strange, mysterious and who promises the young boy that he can teach him...

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Siren
Written by Tricia Rayburn
Seventeen-year-old Vanessa Sands is afraid of everything--the dark, heights, the ocean--but her fearless older sister, Justine, has always been there to coach her through every challenge. That is until Justine goes cliff diving one night near the family's vacation house in Winter Harbor, Maine, and her lifeless body washes up on...

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Shadow Hills
Written by Anastasia Hopcus
After her sister Athena's tragic death, it's obvious that grief-stricken Persephone "Phe" Archer no longer belongs in Los Angeles. Hoping to make sense of her sister's sudden demise and the cryptic dreams following it, Phe abandons her bubbly LA life to attend an uptight East Coast preparatory school in Shadow Hills,...

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Vordak the Incomprehensible: How to Grow Up and Rule the World
Written by Vordak T. Incomprehensible
Slip on your acid-free gloves, make sure you have a duplicate copy of How to Grow Up and Rule the World (just in case something should happen to this one) and try to follow along as the incomparable, superior-in-all-ways Vordak the Incomprehensible teaches you a thing or two about villainy. Now...

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Dangerous Neighbors
Written by Beth Kephart
It is 1876, the year of the Centennial in Philadelphia. Katherine has lost her twin sister Anna in a tragic skating accident. One wickedly hot September day, Katherine sets out for the exhibition grounds to cut short the haunted life she no longer wants to live.
Filled with vivid detail that...

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Stealing Death
Written by Janet Lee Carey
“I want that soul sack,” he said suddenly. “What?” the witch asked around the scrap of meat she was chewing.“I want it so no one I love will ever, ever, ever have to go inside again.” “It’s not for mortal hands to have.” The witch spat out a bit of bone....

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Wish You Were Dead
Written by Todd Strasser
Str-S-d:I’ll begin with Lucy. She is definitely first on the list. You can’t believe how it feels to be in the cafeteria and turn around and there she is staring at me like I’m some disgusting bug or vermin. Does she really think I WANT to be this way? I hate...

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Virgin Territory
Written by James Lecesne
Virgin Territory explores the power of faith and our need to believe in miracles. Sixteen-year-old Dylan Flack is uprooted from his cozy life in New York City by the death of his mother of cancer the night before 9/ll. He finds himself transplanted to Jupiter, Florida, and in the chaos of...

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Rich and Mad
Written by William Nicholson
Maddie is a 16-year-old who likes a boy in her theater club. But does he like her back? Or is a more average boy, a kind boy who reads books, the one who might ultimately touch her heart? A novel about a teen who learns that the best boyfriend might not...

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The Invisible Order, Book One: Rise of the Darklings
Written by Paul Crilley
Emily Snow is twelve years old, supporting herself and her younger brother on the streets of Victorian England by selling watercress. One early winter morning on her way to buy supplies, she encounters a piskie--a small but very sarcastic fey creature that has been cornered by a group of the Black...

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Not Me!
Written by Nicola Killen
Illustrated by Nicola Killen
The house has been turned upside down! There's paint on the walls, tire tracks on the carpet, and peas all over the floor.
But who's been making so much mess?
Can you guess?

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Blood on My Hands
Written by Todd Strasser
Callie is at an October keg party in the woods, when she notices that her friend Katherine has gone missing. The kids spread out to look for her and Callie finds her, lying on a path, with a big, bloody fake knife in her. She reaches for the knife and raises...

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The Butler Gets a Break: A Bellweather Tale
Written by Kristin Clark Venuti
All is (temporarily) peaceful in the village of Eel-Smack-by-the-Bay. An art heist has been averted, an albino alligator refuge established, and a family of refugee circus performers, gainfully employed. After much thought (and a tell-all memoir) Tristan Benway has decided to remain in the employ of the Bellweather family, and the...

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Meanicures
Written by Catherine Clark
When four best friends get together, the first thing they talk about these days is always the mean girls in their lives. They decide to banish their enemies by holding a ceremony and burning slips of paper with the mean girls' names on them. But soon afterwards, they discover themselves becoming...

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The Dragons of Noor
Written by Janet Lee Carey
A dreamwalker who has lost her way. A shape shifter who fears his own dark power. A fire herd punished for his magic. Can these three teens keep the human world of Noor and the magical world of Oth from splitting apart?
The ancient trees of Noor are dying. If the...

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