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TWIX de Jennifer Donnelly & Dave Mottram

Sold in a heated auction, this illustrated middle-grade duology from New York Times bestselling author, Jennifer Donnelly is bursting with heart and adventure!

TWIX
by Jennifer Donnelly
illustrated by Dave Mottram
Balzer + Bray/Macmillan, March 2027
(via Writers House)

Twix is afraid of a LOT of things (including, but not limited to, rat traps, cats, and Brussels sprouts, to name a few), but most of all he’s afraid of disappointing his big brother, Rolo. Rolo is everything Twix is not: cool, smart, and fearless, not to mention one of the best RATSCAR drivers in New York City. So when Rolo disappears, Twix doesn’t believe for a second that his larger than life brother is truly gone. He’s determined to find him, even if it means leaving the cozy comfort of their family’s apartment and venturing onto the mean streets of Manhattan. With the help of his best friends, Wilson and Plum, Twix embarks on the perilous journey.

Photo: © Doug Dundas

But the three get more than they bargained for when their search leads them to a mysterious island run by a gang of sinister rats. Dangers abound on the island, and soon Twix discovers that his brother isn’t the only one who has been taken prisoner. Not only that, but the entire colony is controlled by a vicious and power-hungry rat king. What can three little city rats possibly do in the face of such overwhelming odds? Twix must learn to manage his anxiety and embrace his unique talents if he has any hope of rescuing his brother and freeing the imprisoned rats.

Jennifer Donnelly is the author of the adult novels The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, and The Wild Rose, as well as the young adult novels These Shallow Graves, Revolution, and A Northern Light, winner of Britain’s prestigious Carnegie Medal, the LA Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, and a Michael L. Printz Honor Book Award. She lives and writes full-time in Upstate New York.

Dave Mottram is a designer and illustrator working in Ohio. He has illustrated Wordy Birdy, Race Car Dreams, Mighty Tug, and Oy Vey! Life in a Shoe. To learn more about Dave’s work, visit him at davemottram.com and follow him on Instagram at @dmott70.

BEAST de Jennifer Donnelly

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Donnelly delivers an explosive reimagining of a tale as old as time! Think Beauty and the Beast meets Inside Out in this gender-reversed retelling, in which the beast is a mysterious noblewoman named Arabella, and the beauty is a handsome and cheeky thief named Beau—who stumbles into Arabella’s castle when he’s on the run after a robbery goes wrong.

BEAST
by Jennifer Donnelly
Scholastic, May 2024
(via Writers House)

A roaring fire and a grand feast await Beau when he arrives at Arabella’s domain, but it abruptly ends when a golden clock strikes midnight and a savage beast emerges. Beau escapes the vicious creature but becomes a prisoner in the castle. The next day, he meets the beautiful, disdainful Arabella, her tight-lipped servants, and a collection of sinister courtiers who behave very strangely, including the smile-until-your-face-cracks (literally) Lady Elge; the shuffling, mumbling Lady Iglut; and the rampaging Lady Rega.
Determined to escape, Beau steals a master key and lets himself into the cellar, where he hunts for a way out, but instead of finding the tunnel he’s certain must exist, he finds a child who’s been locked away. Her name is Hope. She appears to be a pitiful creature, but it’s a ruse. She steals his key, then leads him on a chase through the castle as she searches for her lost sisters, Faith and Love.
With Hope’s help, Beau learns that Arabella was cursed to turn into a beast every night when the clock strikes twelve,

and that the one who cursed her is none other than the forbidding Lady Espidra—the most fearsome of all Arabella’s courtiers. He also discovers why Arabella was cursed—and that the wounded, gifted young woman is as much a prisoner in the castle as he is. As he begins to fall in love with Arabella, Beau becomes determined to help her break the curse, but what he doesn’t know is that the golden clock is ticking—and time is running out.
BEAST is a story about two damaged people learning to love and forgive, but it’s also about how we all get trapped in prisons of our own making—and how we need to learn how to tear down walls and build bridges if we’re ever going to escape them.

Jennifer Donnelly is the author of A Northern Light, which was awarded a Printz Honor and a Carnegie Medal; Revolution (named a Best Book by Amazon, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and the Chicago Public Library, and nominated for a Carnegie Medal); the Deep Blue series; and many other books for young readers, including Lost in a Book, which spent more than 20 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. She lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.

POISONED de Jennifer Donnelly

From Jennifer Donnelly, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Stepsister, comes a fairytale retelling that’ll forever change the way you think about strength, power, and the real meaning of « happily ever after. »

POISONED
by Jennifer Donnelly
Scholastic Press, October 2020
(chez Writers House)

Once upon a time, a girl named Sophie rode into the forest with the queen’s huntsman. Her lips were the color of ripe cherries, her skin as soft as new-fallen snow, her hair as dark as midnight. When they stopped to rest, the huntsman took out his knife . . . and took Sophie’s heart. It shouldn’t have come as a surprise. Sophie had heard the rumors, the whispers. They said she was too kind and foolish to rule — a waste of a princess. A disaster of a future queen. And Sophie believed them. She believed everything she’d heard about herself, the poisonous words people use to keep girls like Sophie from becoming too powerful, too strong . . . With the help of seven mysterious strangers, Sophie manages to survive. But when she realizes that the jealous queen might not be to blame, Sophie must find the courage to face an even more terrifying enemy, proving that even the darkest magic can’t extinguish the fire burning inside every girl, and that kindness is the ultimate form of strength.

Jennifer Donnelly is the author of A Northern Light, which was awarded a Printz Honor and a Carnegie Medal, Revolution (named a Best Book by Amazon, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and the Chicago Public Library, and was nominated for a Carnegie Medal), the Deep Blue series, and many other books for young readers, including Lost in a Book, which spent more than 20 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. She lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Endeavor Content adaptera STEPSISTER de Jennifer Donnelly!

Voici donc une bonne nouvelle pour ce roman YA dont les droits ont été cédés dans 12 Pays (US, Royaume Uni, Espagne, Italie, Brésil, Grèce, Israël, Hongrie, République Tchèque, Pologne, Russie et Turquie), souvent après enchères ou en préempte. Le réalisateur et le casting n’ont pas encore été annoncés.

Sold in a heated 9-bidder auction, Jennifer Donnelly’s STEPSISTER is a fairy tale for the 21st century in which the very essence of happily ever after is up for grabs

STEPSISTER
by Jennifer Donnelly
Scholastic, Spring 2019

STEPSISTER begins with the bloody conclusion of the Brothers Grimm Cinderella as the ugly stepsisters obey their mother’s command to cut off their toes in order to fit into the glass slipper. Isabelle, Cinderella’s “wicked and hideous” sibling, emerges from the margins of our known narrative to reveal the sadness and trauma that created her family’s infamously cruel dynamic. Jennifer frames her alternate version of the fairy tale with a showdown between the three Fates and Chance who battle over the direction of Isabelle’s life. This battle continues as Isabelle begins to reclaim the person she was before her mistreatment of her stepsister defined her entire being. As hardships abound, it becomes clear that Isabelle cannot merely wish for transcendence—she must fight for it.

This is the novel that Jennifer Donnelly has been waiting her entire career to write. STEPSISTER combines the beautiful writing, rich historical setting and unforgettable characters that made “A Northern Light” a Carnegie Medal winner and Printz Honor book with the fantastical world that Jennifer created in “Lost in a Book”, her original take on Beauty & The Beast, which spent almost 20 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and has sold more than 125,000 copies since its release earlier this year.

Book #2 will be another fairy tale and will be published by Scholastic on Spring 2020.

Le nouveau roman de Jennifer Donnelly convoité par les éditeurs étrangers

A moins d’une semaine de l’inauguration de la Bologna Children’s Books Fair, les droits pour THESE SHALLOW GRAVES ont été déjà vendus au Royaume-Uni (Hot Key Books, droits préemptés), en Allemagne (Piper, droits préemptés) et en Italie (Mondadori, après enchères). En Grèce, les négociations sont en cours et ça ne saurait tarder dans d’autres pays.

Life is dirtier than Jo Montfort could have ever imagined. And the truth may be the dirtiest part of all

THESE SHALLOW GRAVES
by Jennifer Donnelly
Delacorte, September 2015

Jo Montfort is beautiful, rich, and soon to be married off to a rich bachelor—but that’s the last thing she wants. Instead, Jo dreams of becoming a newspaper reporter like Nellie Bly, the boundary-breaking female reporter made famous by her book Ten Days in a Madhouse. Jo’s biggest problem is not having her writing aspirations taken seriously. That is, until she learns that her father is dead—reported to have shot himself while cleaning his pistol. Charles Montfort was a newspaper tycoon, and, Jo knows, far too meticulous to accidentally set off a loaded gun. The more Jo hears about his death, the more something feels wrong about the story. Suicide is the obvious explanation, but Jo feels sure that is not the case. Then she meets Eddie—the young, smart, infuriatingly handsome reporter at her father’s newspaper, and it becomes all too clear howmuch she stands to lose if she keeps searching for the truth. Only now it might be too late to stop.

Jennifer Donnelly is the author of Carnegie winning A NORTHERNLIGHT, REVOLUTION, and, most recently, THE WATER FIRE SAGA.