Highlighted  Deals  of  2 0 0 9 ANDREA BROWN SIX-FIGURE DEAL: Award-winning author, Neal Shusterman's new YA novel HIT! to Rosemary Brosnan at HarperCollins. LAURA RENNERT HIGH SIX-FIGURE DEAL: Author of six NYT bestselling teen novels including the recent TRICKS, Ellen Hopkins' next. PERFECT explores the drive among teens to attain perfection through surgery, self-regulated eating and extreme exercise, to Emma Dryden at Margaret K. McElderry Books. FILM DEAL: Maggie Stiefvater's NYT bestseller SHIVER, a story of searing first love between a 16-year-old girl and a mysterious boy who spends his winters as a wolf, struggling to be together against all odds, to Michael Lynne and Robert Shaye at Unique Features/Warner Bros, by Eric Reid at William Morris Endeavor, and Laura Rennert. SIX-FIGURE DEAL: Kimberly Derting's THE BODY FINDER, weaving coming-of-age romance into the story of a sixteen-year old girl with the ability to find the bodies of murder victims through the imprints they leave behind on the world and on their killers, and who then becomes the prey of a serial killer, to Gretchen Hirsch and Farrin Jacobs at Harper Children's. SIX-FIGURE DEAL: Andrew Smith's WINGER, about a boy at prep school and his conflicted relationships with others including the girl he loves. Also Smith's THE MARBURY LENS, about a teen who is at first unwillingly pulled into a hellish, apocalyptic world and then driven to return to it, even if it means self-destruction, to Liz Szabla at Feiwel and Friends. STRONG SIX-FIGURE DEAL, AT AUCTION: Tessa Gratton's debut BLOOD MAGIC, about two teens who meet in a cemetery and plunge into a dangerous world of dark magic, first love, and the deadly secrets that hide in blood, to Suzy Capozzi at Random House Children's. CARYN WISEMAN TWO-BOOK DEAL: CLAIRE DE LUNE and a sequel by Christine Johnson, in which a teenager learns that she is a werewolf, descended from a long line of female werewolves, and must balance her human and werewolf lives while tracking down the rogue werewolf preying upon the people of her town. Sold to Anica Rissi at Simon Pulse. SERIES DEAL: DANGER'S EDGE by Dee Garretson, a middle-grade series featuring kids escaping from natural disasters: WILDFIRE AT CAMP DAVID, in which the President's son and his two friends must use their instincts to escape from the Presidential retreat after disaster strikes, and BLIZZARD AT WOLF MOUNTAIN, in which in which a novice teen actor is trapped on a mountain movie set with other child actors as a freak blizzard moves in; he must use his wits and the movie props to fashion an escape. Both to Barbara Lalicki at HarperCollins, for initial publication in Fall 2010. SERIES DEAL: BEAST FRIENDS FOREVER, written and illustrated by New York Times bestselling author, Nate Evans, and Vince Evans. The first three books in a chapter book series about a boy and his sister who discover a monster living under his bed and the wacky adventures that ensue. Sold to Daniel Ehrenhaft and Rebecca Frazer at Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky. JENNIFER ROFÉ SIX-FIGURE, TWO-BOOK DEAL, SOLD AT AUCTION: Debut author Crystal Allen's HOW LAMAR'S BAD PRANK WON A BUBBA-SIZED TROPHY in which 13-year-old Lamar Washington vows to spend the summer changing his image from dud to stud, to Kristin Daly at HarperCollins. SEQUEL: Joy Preble's HAUNTED, the sequel to DREAMING ANASTASIA, in which Anne is being haunted by a mysterious and malevolent mermaid who might just be her real maternal grandmother, to Daniel Ehrenhaft at Sourcebooks. SALE TO NEW LINE: NYT bestselling author Brandi Dougherty's MISS FORTUNE, about a girl who gets cursed by a fortune-telling gypsy at the carnival and must figure out how to break the spell before something bad happens, to AnnMarie Harris at Scholastic for the new Poison Apple line. KELLY SONNACK NON-FICTION PICTURE BOOK SERIES, SOLD AT AUCTION: Bridget Heos' non-fiction series about the life cycles and parenting techniques of different animals with the first book covering larvae and the rearing techniques of their bug parents, to Carol Hinz at Millbrook/Lerner. TWO-BOOK DEAL: Anne Osterlund's EXILE, the sequel to AURELIA, the continuing story of Princess Aurelia as she travels her kingdom while in exile after refusing the arranged marriage her father orchestrated. And SALVATION, the story of a Mexican American teen and a Caucasian teen, who strike up an unlikely romance which is put to the test when one is involved in a car accident that causes the fatality of another teenager. Sold to Angelle Pilkington at Speak/Penguin. JENNIFER LAUGHRAN TWO-BOOK, SIX-FIGURE PRE-EMPT FOR A DEBUT AUTHOR: Sonia Gensler's THE REVENANT, a Victorian ghost story complete with false identities, illicit romance, and deadly secrets, set in an Cherokee girl's school in the old west, to Michelle Frey at Knopf. TWO-BOOK DEAL, IMPRINT LEAD TITLE: Ilsa Bick's DRAWING IN THE DARK, a supernatural tale of a teen who can visit people's psyches through painting and the disturbing Nazi mystery he uncovers, and THE SIN-EATERS CONFESSION, about a teen fighting in Afghanistan and the events in high school (an illicit photo, a gay bashing, the murder of a friend) that dominoed to his making the decision to enlist, to Andrew Karre at Carolrhoda Books. REISSUE: Daniel Pinkwater's LIZARD MUSIC, about a kid whose late-night television watching leads to an alien invasion adventure, to Edwin Frank at New York Review Children's Collection for a 35th anniversary reissue in Spring 2011. JAMIE WEISS CHILTON SIX-FIGURE TWO-BOOK DEAL, PRE-EMPT: ORCHARDS by Holly Thompson. This novel in verse, with a haiku feel, explores the complexities of fourteen-year-old Kana's Japanese / Jewish / American identity and the ties that bind family and friends through tragedy. Sold to Francoise Bui at Delacorte / Random House Children's Books, for publication February 2011. TWO-BOOK DEAL FOR DEBUT AUTHOR: FALL INTO ME by Jennifer Castle is sixteen-year-old Laurel's story about the search for meaning, beauty, and forgiveness in the aftermath of the tragic loss of her family, to Rosemary Brosnan at Harper Children's. JENNIFER MATTSON IMPRINT LEAD TITLE SOLD AT AUCTION: Tom Leveen's debut PARTY, in which eleven dovetailing perspectives chronicle a raging all-nighter, where the characters' intersecting experiences drive home the complexities of race, sex, spirituality, love, and friendship, to Suzy Capozzi at Random House Children's.