Atheneum Books for Young Readers has bought world English rights to a collaboration between Judith Viorst (Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day) and Lane Smith (The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales). They will create a chapter book called Lulu and the Brontosaurus, to be published in September 2010.
Disney Book Group has acquired a three-book series from YA author Maureen Johnson at auction. The series features an American high school student attending a London boarding school for her junior year. A series of murders begins to take place across the city—on the exact dates and in the exact style of Jack the Ripper—and her ties to the killer bring her in contact with a secret paranormal branch of the British police. The first book in the series will be published in summer 2011, with a new book following each subsequent summer.
Putnam’s Sons has acquired North American rights for picture book author/artist Richard Ungar’s middle-grade debut, Time Snatchers, at auction in a two-book deal. Time Snatchers stars a 14-year-old orphan and conscripted time thief, from 2061 New Beijing, who steals treasures from the past for a mafioso named Uncle. The book is currently planned for fall 2011.
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