SELLING HOPE - Available November 9

Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan

ISBN 978-0312611224

It’s May 1910, and Halley’s Comet is due to pass thru the Earth’s atmosphere. And thirteen-year-old Hope McDaniels and her father are due to pass through their hometown of Chicago with their ragtag vaudeville troupe.  Hope wants out of vaudeville, and longs for a “normal” life—or as normal as life can be without her mother, who died five years before. Hope sees an opportunity: She invents “anti-comet” pills to sell to the working-class customers desperate for protection. Soon, she’s joined by a fellow troupe member, young Buster Keaton, and the two of them start to make good money. And just when Hope thinks she has all the answers, she has to decide: What is family? Where is home?

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AUTUMN WINIFRED OLIVER DOES THINGS DIFFERENT

Delacorte Press/Random House

ISBN 978-0-38-573569-8

Autumn Winifred Oliver prides herself on doing things her way.  But she meets her match when she moves in with her cantankerous Gramps.  The Oliver girls were supposed to join Pop in Knoxville for some big-city living, but Gramps’s recent sick spell convinced Mama to stay put in Cades Cove.  Folks in the Cove are all aflutter about turning their land into a national park, but Autumn’s not sure what to think.  Loggers like Pop need jobs, but if things keep going at the current rate, the forests will soon be chopped to bits.  And Gramps seems to think there’s some serious tourist money to be made.  Can Autumn’s family and friends save their homes from the chainsaw by partnering with the slick Colonel Chapman and other park volunteers?

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