Zita the Spacegirl BEN HATKE - Macmillan

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Zita the Spacegirl
BEN HATKE
MIDDLE GRADE GRAPHIC NOVEL
On Sale: 2/1/2011
Full-color graphic novel
Ages 8–12 • Grades 3–7
Trade Paperback • 192 pages • 6 x 8 1/2
Carton Qty: 36
ISBN: 978-1-59643-446-2 • $10.99/$12.99 can
FS: First Serial, Second Serial, Book Club, Reprint, British, Translation
TERRITORY: World AGENT: Hansen Literary Agency
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FIRST SECOND
Zita’s life took a cosmic
left turn in the blink of
an eye.
When her best friend is abducted by an
alien doomsday cult, Zita leaps to the rescue and
finds herself a stranger on a strange planet. Humanoid
chickens and neurotic robots are shocking enough as
new experiences go, but Zita is even more surprised to
find herself taking on the role of intergalactic hero. Before
long, aliens in all shapes and sizes don’t even phase her.
Neither do ancient prophecies, doomed planets, or even
a friendly con man who takes a mysterious interest in
Zita’s quest.
Zita the Spacegirl is a fun, captivating tale of friendship
and redemption from Flight veteran Ben Hatke. It also has
more whimsical, eye-catching, Miyazaki-esque monsters
than you can shake a stick at.
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BEN HATKE has published comic stories
in the Flight series as well as Flight Explorer. In
addition to writing and drawing comics, he also
paints in the naturalist tradition and, occasionally,
performs one-man fire shows. He lives and
works in the Shenandoah Valley with his wife
and a boisterous pack of daughters. This is his
first graphic novel.
www.benhatke.com
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FEBRUARY
Lewis & Clark
NICK BERTOZZI
NICK BERTOZZI lives in Queens, New York,
with his wife and daughters. He is the
author and/or artist of many other cartoon
stories, among them The Salon, Houdini: The
Handcuff King, and First Second’s Stuffed!
YOUNG ADULT GRAPHIC NOVEL
On Sale: 2/15/2011
Black-and-white graphic novel
Ages 12 & up • Grades 7 & up
Trade Paperback • 144 pages • 8 1/2 x 10 7/8
Carton Qty: 20
ISBN: 978-1-59643-450-9• $16.99/$19.50 can
FS: First Serial, Second Serial, Book Club,
Reprint, British, Translation
TERRITORY: World AGENT: Creative Book Services
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FIRST SECOND
Two of America’s greatest
explorers embark on the
adventure that made their
names—and sealed their fates.
In 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William
Clark departed St. Louis, Missouri, for one of the greatest
adventures this nation has ever known. Appointed and
funded by President Jefferson himself, and led by a cadre of
experts (including the famous Sacajawea), the expedition
was considered a success almost before it had begun.
From the start, the journey was plagued with illness,
bad luck, unfriendly Indians, Lewis’s chronic depression,
and, to top it all, the shattering surprise of the towering
Rocky Mountains and the continental divide. But despite
crippling setbacks, overwhelming doubts, and the bare facts
of geography itself, Lewis and Clark made it to the Pacific in
1806.
Nick Bertozzi brings the harrowing—and, at times,
hilarious—journey to vivid life on the pages of this oversized
black-and-white graphic novel. With his passion for history
and his knack for characterization, Bertozzi has made an
intimate tale of a great American epic.