


Sydney Langford's SOMETHING TO DAYDREAM ABOUT, in which Deaf 18-year-old Natalie spends a whirlwind summer teaching ASL to (and trying not to fall for) the lead singer of America's hottest boy band so he can communicate with his sister-all while trying to save her family's failing Deaf Center, to Elanna Heda at Disney Hyperion, in a six-figure deal, in a two-book deal, for publication in the spring of 2025, by Emily Forney at BookEnds Literary (world English).Īlana Tyson's DEVIN'S GIFT, in which a boy embarks on a journey to find the perfect gift for his friend's birthday, finding himself stuck between what everyone seems to think a boy might want and what he knows his friend really likes, illustrated by Ebony Glenn, to Talia Benamy at Philomel, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2025, by Tracy Marchini and Emily Forney at BookEnds for the author and Anne Moore Armstrong at The Bright Group for the illustrator (world). UK & Comm rights, at auction, to Natasha Qureshi at Hodder & Stoughton. Hayley Dennings's BITTERSWEET POISON, During the most morally disruptive period in US history, Black bodies are experimented on and turned into bloodthirsty reapers and the Saint Empire is tasked with protecting human life, Saint heiress Elise must kill her childhood best friend turned enemy and reaper, Layla but when a Saint member is murdered and reapers murmur about a cure, the two girls are forced into an alliance and must keep their confusing feelings in check, to Wendy McClure at Sourcebooks Fire, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, for publication in the fall of 2024, by Emily Forney at BookEnds Literary (NA).
