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Turning Twelve by Kathryn Ormsbee and Molly Brooks is a semi-autobiographical middle-grade graphic novel and sequel to their earlier hit Growing Pangs from May 2022. Turning Twelve “tells the story of homeschooled Katie; it’s 2004 and turning 12 brings big changes for Katie—bras, her period, her first babysitting job, and the realization that she has a crush on a girl, something she knows some members of her community won’t approve of.”
Shana Corey at Random House Books for Young Readers has purchased world rights to Turning Twelve with publishing set for the autumn of 2024. Kathryn Ormsbee’s agent Beth Phelan at Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency and Molly Brooks’s agent Sara Crowe at Pippin Properties represented the paint in negotiations.
Kathryn Ormsbee writes kids’s fantasy novels as Okay.E. Ormsbee together with The Water and the Wild portal fantasy trilogy, The House in Poplar Wood and Midnight on Strange Street, in addition to YA novels Lucky Few, Tash Hearts Tolstoy, The Great Unknowable End and The Sullivan Sisters. She additionally writes MG graphic novels similar to Candidly Cline, Vivian Lantz’s Second Chances and Growing Pangs.
Molly Brooks is creator of the Sanity & Tallulah graphic novels from LBYR, in addition to the artist on Flying Machines and Growing Pangs.
The enlargement of youngsters’s graphic novels is fuelling all method of publishers extending into the comics medium. Right now it looks as if an infinite market that’s being tapped into, and creating longstanding comedian ebook readers for many years to return. It isn’t for nothing that youngsters graphic novels in bookstores are being known as the newsstand of the twenty-first century, and the longer term readers of the medium are being fashioned and created proper right here, proper now.
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