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I am represented by Michelle Humphrey (Martha Kaplan Agency)
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contact me: joanne@joannelevy.com
Streetwise
The most important things in Tasha Levinson’s life are her boyfriend, her upcoming trip to France with her best friend, being popular at Oakwood High and being thin and fabulous, although maybe not in that order.
But then her father suddenly dies, leaving Tasha and her mother with less than nothing, thanks to the credit crunch and a secret gambling addiction. Priorities suddenly change for Tasha who quickly realizes her mother is coming undone, spiraling down into a morass of grief and alcoholism. Naïve, broke, heartbroken and suddenly alone, Tasha ends up on the street with nothing but the clothes on her back and her determination to survive. Desperate, she enlists the help of an unlikely savior: a street-wise boy with terrible secrets of his own. Exposed to violence, poverty and hunger, it is on the street that Tasha learns the real meanings of the words survival, trust and love.
Streetwise is a gritty, poignant story about loss, strength and the endurance of the human spirit.
Trailer for Streetwise:
Rule of Nines (YA)
Sydney Levine is tired of being a nerdy junior whose idea of a good time is doing crossword puzzles and studying hard to get good grades. Determined to start living spontaneously, she decides to act on every Word of the Day e-mail that arrives in her inbox.
No matter what.
After a few stupid pranks, the word misanthrope brings her to Aidan MacKenna, the most mysterious guy in school. Not only is Aidan disfigured, scarred from burns he suffered in a fire, but he’s antisocial, with no friends at all and a demeanor that makes the guy in Saw seem like Mr. Rogers. Plus, many of the whispers at Somerset High say he was responsible for the fire that burned him and killed his sister and mother.
But now
Trailer for Rule of Nines:
Legs - The Mermaid Chronicles Book 1 (YA)
Morven is looking to escape her destiny: getting engaged on her sixteenth birthday to the merman of her father’s choosing. Anti-love and anti-marriage, Morven craves seeing the land of humans before she is forced to accept her fate.
Matthew is just looking to survive high school. Bullied and virtually friendless, he can only find solace in the sea: visiting the Monterey Bay Aquarium, caring for his own saltwater tank, and scuba diving on weekends. The two meet when Morven saves his life, disentangling him from a dense kelp forest. But they are literally worlds apart, their every minute together counted by Matthew’s dive computer. Determined to get to the surface to follow Matthew, Morven befriends a marine geneticist who lives in a research pod under the sea. When he’s not looking, she steals his secret formula that will enable her to transform into a human.
But only for eight days.
Just long enough to fall in love.
Trailer for LEGS:
Small Medium at Large (MG)
Lilah Bloom is just an average twelve year old. She's looking forward to starting a band with her best friend, tries for decent grades and is dreaming of finding the perfect guy. That is, until her regular life becomes not-so-regular when she gets hit by lightning and can suddenly hear dead people. What seems at first to be a cool trick quickly turns serious when Lilah realizes she is burdened with huge responsibilities. Alienating the school's popular girl, helping her dead grandmother find her divorced Dad a new wife and saving the grade eight fashion show were not items on Lilah's seventh grade to-do list, but these are just some of the things she has to deal with in Small Medium at Large, a middle grade paranormal.