The 2013 New Voices Committee spent the tail-end of the summer reading more than 50 titles for kids and teens by first-time authors. Committee members read, voted on, and selected 10 noteworthy and exciting debuts publishing between July 1 and December 31, 2013, in two categories: Ages 8 – 12 and Teen. 

The Fall 2013 New Voices Picks are:

Ages 8 – 12

• After Iris by Natasha Farrant (Penguin Young Readers Group / Dial Books)
• The Mysterious Woods of Whistle Root by Christopher Pennell (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
• The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates: Magic Marks the Spot by Caroline Carlson (HarperCollins)
• What We Found in the Sofa and How It Saved the World by Henry Clark (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Teen

• The Brokenhearted by Amelia Kahaney (HarperCollins / HarperTeen)
• How to Love by Katie Cotugno (HarperCollins / Balzer + Bray)
• If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan (Algonquin Young Readers)
• The Paradox of Vertical Flight by Emil Ostrovski (HarperCollins / Greenwillow)
• The Theory of Everything by Kari Luna (Penguin Young Readers Group / Philomel Books)

These titles will be featured in a two-page spread in the ABC Best Books for Children Catalog [5] — a great way for independent bookstores to offer fresh choices during the holiday gifting season.  The entire list of Fall Picks is featured with bookseller quotes on IndieBound.org [6].

The ABC Children’s Group at ABA would like to thank the New Voices Committee for its tireless efforts to promote the best debut authors for kids and teens of 2013:

• Committee Chair Becky Quiroga Curtis, Books & Books [7], Coral Gables, Florida
• Chair Emeritus Meghan Goel, BookPeople [8], Austin, Texas
• Holly Alder, Blue Marble Children’s Bookstore [9], Ft. Thomas, Kentucky
• Kaley DeGoursey, RJ Julia Booksellers [10], Madison, Connecticut
• Amanda Hurley, Inkwood Books [11], Tampa, Florida
• Lauren Mayer, University Book Store [12], Seattle, Washington
• Lauren Peugh, Changing Hands Bookstore [13], Tempe, Arizona
• Christopher Rose, Andover Bookstore [14], Andover, Massachusetts
• Hannah Smith, The Doylestown Bookshop [15], Doylestown, Pennsylvania
• Angie Tally, The Country Bookshop [16], Southern Pines, North Carolina
• Kyle Warren, Boulder Book Store [17], Boulder, Colorado
• Julia Wilson, The Bookworm [18], Omaha, Nebraska