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Imaginary Girls available now from Dutton

Eerie and gripping and told with lush and inviting scenes, Imaginary Girls will haunt its readers. An intensely vivid portrayal of love and no-choice loyalty and power that has no easy answers. –Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

A surreal little nightmare in book form. I just loved it. Nova Ren Suma’s voice is unique and riveting, and so is the indelible Ruby, who dominates the reader from the very first page. It’s the book everyone will be dying to talk about. –Nancy Werlin, author of Impossible and Extraordinary

A surreal and dreamy world where magical thinking is carried to a chilling extreme. Suma uses the story’s supernatural horror movie–ready elements in the best of ways; beneath all the strangeness lies beauty, along with a powerful statement about the devotion between sisters. –Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A sexy, surreal, and touching exploration of the outer limits of sisterly love’s power.… This glittering puzzle box of a story about the exertion of one girl’s will over life and death is as moving as it is creepy. –Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

A strange, passionate tribute to sisterly bonds and an ominous, delicious tale that’ll scare everybody away from swimming for the summer, if not eternity. –The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)

Imaginary Girls will submerge its readers in an eeriness and intensity not often felt in YA literature. –BookPage

…An atmospheric piece that draws readers in and holds them through unexpected developments. –School Library Journal (starred review)

by Nova Ren Suma • YA • Simon Pulse • June 5, 2012

NEWS! NEWS! NEWS!

Dani Noir is being given a second life in paperback this summer… with a new title and a new cover and for a new audience! Fade Out is coming to the YA shelves in trade paperback from Simon Pulse on June 5, 2012.

For more about this news, please visit the cover reveal post on my blog.

About the book:

Dani Callanzano is thirteen going on miserable. It’s the summer before eighth grade in her sleepy small town, and her cheating father has left, her mom is broken-hearted, and her best friend has moved away. The only salve to her lonely solitude is the Little Art movie theater, where she soaks in old black-and-white noir films…and where the suspicious appearance of a girl in polka-dot tights marks the beginning of a noir mystery of her very own. Armed with a vivid imagination, a flair for the dramatic, and her extensive knowledge of film and all things Rita Hayworth, Dani sets out to solve the mystery of the Girl in the Polka-Dot Tights—and learns more about herself than she ever thought she could.

Fade Out will be available in trade paperback on June 5, 2012. Pre-order links coming soon.