Author of the forthcoming IT FOUND US Lindsay Currie’s THE MYSTERY OF LOCKED ROOMS, a middle grade escape room adventure in which a twelve-year-old mathematician and her best friends team up to find a hidden treasure in an abandoned 1950’s funhouse before her family loses their home, to Annie Berger at Jabberwocky, for publication in spring 2024.

Author of OVER AND OUT Jenni L. Walsh’s OPERATION: HAPPY, a middle grade novel inspired by the experiences of a young Pearl Harbor survivor, in which a brave girl copes with wartime and family upheaval by completing a bucket list with her dog, to Katherine Easter at Zonderkidz, for publication in 2024.

Schneider Family Book Award honoree Alison Gervais’s untitled YA mystery, in which an aspiring teen writer adjusting to hearing loss finds herself caught up in an uncanny mystery in London—one that may involve the most famous detective duo of all time, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, and one that will put her awakening powers of observation to the test, to Katherine Jacobs at Blink, for publication in summer 2024.

A.D. Rhine’s DAUGHTERS OF BRONZE, the sequel to their Bronze Age epic HORSES OF FIRE, an historical novel of Troy, following Andromache, Rhea, Helen, and Cassandra as these fierce, unsung women and their band of unlikely allies work together to save the city’s greatest hope, to Cassidy Sachs at Dutton.

Author of the forthcoming INDIGO AND IDA Heather Murphy Capps’s RULE OF THREE, her next middle grade novel in which a biracial baseball player conjures a strange smoke in stressful moments and learns this is rooted in his family history, to Amy Fitzgerald at Carolrhoda Books.

Author of THE CALL OF THE WRENS Jenni L. Walsh’s untitled novel, based on the life of Alice Marble, the 1930s-era Grand Slam tennis champion and Wonder Woman comic editor who became a spy during World War II to avenge her husband’s death, to Kimberly Carlton at Harper Muse, in a two-book deal.

Author of THE LUNAR HOUSEWIFE Caroline Woods’s GHOST MOTHER, set in 1894 Minneapolis, following a young woman who arrives at a home for unwed mothers, and quickly becomes the subject of paranoia and suspicion as claims begin to spread that she is a Mesmerist, the latest spiritualist trend sweeping the community, while a serial killer stalks the city, and the women of the home must unite in search of answers, again to Carolyn Williams at Doubleday, in a very nice deal, for publication in 2024.

Author of LIKE SPILLED WATER Jennie Liu’s young adult novel THE RED CAR TO HOLLYWOOD, set in 1920s Los Angeles, in which a 16-year-old girl struggles to balance her first-generation parents’ expectations with her own dreams, and her life plan shifts when she strikes up a friendship with the young movie star Anna May Wong, to Amy Fitzgerald at Carolrhoda Lab, for publication in spring 2025.

A.D. Rhine’s historical epic HORSES OF FIRE, in which Troy is a historical place where real people schemed and defended, loved and lost; not a playground of gods and goddesses, but a political and physical battleground where ordinary people and strong, yet misunderstood women take center stage: Andromache, Helen, Cassandra, and Rhea, a refugee and horse whisperer, and an unlikely hero amidst the chaos of the famous war, to Cassidy Sachs at Dutton.

Heather Murphy Capps’s debut INDIGO AND IDA, in which an eighth-grade aspiring reporter finds letters from 19th-century journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells, inspiring the girl to take a stand and expose racist policies at her school, to Amy Fitzgerald at Carolrhoda Lab, for publication in spring 2023.