2012 Spring New Voices Titles Announced

By Shannon OConnor on Thursday, Apr 19, 2012

For the past few months, the 2012 New Voices Committee has been hard at work, reading more than 80 titles by first-time authors. Their task? To pick the top debuts published between January 1 and June 30, 2012 in two categories: Ages 8 - 12 and Teen. The results are in, and the committee’s top six picks in each category are featured on a flier arriving at ABA member stores in the May Children’s White Box mailing.

The 2012 Spring New Voices titles, picked by kids’ booksellers for bringing something fresh and exciting to literature for children and teens, are:

Ages 8 - 12

Child of the Mountains, by Marilyn Sue Shank (Delacorte/Random House)
Glory Be, by Augusta Scattergood (Scholastic Press)
If Only, by Carole Geithner (Scholastic Press)
May B., by Caroline Starr Rose (Schwartz & Wade/Random House)
My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer, by Jennifer Gennari (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March, by Cynthia Levinson (Peachtree Publishers)

Teen

Breaking Beautiful, by Jennifer Shaw Wolf (Bloomsbury)
Cinder: Book One in the Lunar Chronicles, by Marissa Meyer (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan)
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, by Jesse Andrews (Abrams)
Wonder Show, by Hannah Barnaby (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Something Like Normal, by Trish Doller (Bloomsbury)
Shadow & Bone, by Leigh Bardugo (Henry Holt/Macmillan)