First Second Books New Releases in Spring 2013

SPRING 2013

FIRST SECOND • MAY 2013 JUVENILE FICTION / COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

DAVE ROMAN Astronaut Academy: Re-entry

Strap on your gravity boots and guard your hearts—it's time for spring semester in space school!

The wild and wacky world of Astronaut Academy is back! It's spring semester at this futuristic institution of learning, and Hakata Soy has lost his heart. Literally. And he's not the only one . . . something is stalking the halls of Astronaut Academy, impersonating the crush-objects of students and making off with their extra hearts! With a sprawling cast of unforgettable characters, Astronaut Academy Re-Entry is a high-octane, hilarious follow-up to Dave Roman's quirky Astronaut Academy: Zero Gravity.

Dave Roman is the author of several graphic novels

including Astronaut Academy: Zero Gravity, Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery, and Teen Boat. He has contributed

stories to Explorer: The Mystery Boxes, Nursery Rhyme Comics,and is the co-author of two New York Times bestselling

graphic novels, X-Men: Misfits and The Last Airbender: Zuko's Story. Roman worked as a comics editor for the

groundbreaking Nickelodeon Magazine from 1998 to 2009.

He lives in Astoria, New York, with his wife, the

cartoonist Raina Telgemeier.

Praise For...

"Hilariously wacky!"

-Jennifer & Matthew Holm, creators of Babymouse & Squish

"Awesome kids who like awesome things will love Dave Roman's Astronaut Academy series! They are kids' comics at their finest!"

-Jarrett Krosoczka, creator of Lunch Lady

MAY First Second Juvenile Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels On Sale 5/14/2013 Ages 10 to 14

Paperback / softback / Trade paperback (US) , 192 pages 6.000 in W | 8.500 in H Carton Quantity: 40

ISBN: 9781596436213

$9.99/$10.99 Can.

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WRITTEN BY CECIL CASTELLUCCI, ILLUSTRATED BY SARA VARON Odd Duck

A charming tale of two unlikely friends.

Theodora is a perfectly normal duck. She may swim with a teacup balanced on her head and stay north when the rest of the ducks fly south for the winter, but there's nothing so odd about that. Chad, on the other hand, is one strange bird. Theodora quite likes him, but she can't overlook his odd habits. It's a good thing Chad has a normal friend like Theodora to set a good example for him. But who exactly is the odd duck here? Theodora may not like the answer. Sara Varon (Robot Dreams) teams up with Cecil Castellucci (Grandma's Gloves) for a gorgeous, funny, and heartwarming examination of the perils and pleasures of friendship.

Cecil Castellucci's books include Boy Proof (Candlewick,

2005), The Plain Janes (Minx/DC Comics, 2007), and The Year of the Beasts (Roaring Brook, 2012). She is the YA editor

of the Los Angeles Review of Books and a two time Macdowell

Fellow. She lives in Los Angeles. misscecil.com

Originally from the Chicago area, Sara Varon now resides

in Brooklyn, New York. When not drawing, she likes visit the

flowers in her yard and pet the neighborhood dogs. Like

Theodora, she might be considered an odd duck. Her books

include Robot Dreams, Bake Sale, Chicken and Cat, and

Chicken and Cat Clean Up. chickenopolis.com


Hardback / With dust jacket , 96 pages 1.111 in W | 1.111 in H | 1.111 in T Carton Quantity: 30

ISBN: 9781596435575

$15.99/$18.50 Can.

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http://www.chickenopolis.com/


MARKETING Local Author Appearances

National Media Campaign

Promotional Item for Giveaway

Book Trailer

Extensive Online Promotion

Feature at Major School and Library Conferences

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WRITTEN BY PRUDENCE SHEN, ILLUSTRATED BY FAITH ERIN HICKS Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong

How to steal a high school election, build a battlebot, and run away from home on Thanksgiving.

You wouldn’t expect Nate and Charlie to be friends. Charlie’s the laid-back captain of the basketball team, and Nate is the neurotic, scheming president of the robotics club. But they are friends, however unlikely—until Nate declares war on the cheerleaders. At stake is funding that will either cover a robotics competition or new cheerleading uniforms—but not both.

It's only going to get worse: after both parties are stripped of their funding on grounds of abominable misbehavior, Nate enrolls the club's robot in a battlebot competition in a desperate bid for prize money. Bad sportsmanship? Sure. Chainsaws? Why not. Running away from home on Thanksgiving to illicitly enter a televised robot death match? Nothing can possibly go wrong.

Prudence Shen is a writer and caffeine addict who pays

rent in New York even though she mostly lives in airports.

Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong is her first book. She loves

robots. Not like that.

Faith Erin Hicks is a writer and artist in Halifax, Canada.

Her first two graphic novels, Zombies Calling and The War at Ellsmere, were published by SLG Publishing. Most recently,

she illustrated First Second’s Brain Camp and wrote and

illustrated 2012's Friends With Boys, a coming of age story

with supernatural elements and a musical about zombies.

Praise For...

Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong Online Serial:

"I love Hicks’ artwork and I’m excited to see what new author Shen has in store. " —Wired.com GEEKDAD blog

"Sounds like my kind of thing!" —Cory Doctorow, BOINGBOING.com



ISBN: 9781596436596

$16.99/$18.99 Can.

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FIRST SECOND • MAY 2013 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / CRIME & MYSTERY

WRITTEN & ILLUSTRATED BY MATT KINDT Red Handed The Fine Art of Strange Crimes

A thrilling look at the mysterious nature of crime and justice.

Welcome to the city of Red Wheelbarrow, where the world's greatest detective has yet to meet the crime he can't solve—every criminal in Red Wheelbarrow is caught and convicted thanks to Detective Gould's brilliant mind and cutting-edge spy technology.

But lately there has been a rash of crimes so eccentric and random that even Detective Gould is stumped. Will he discover the connection between the compulsive chair thief, the novelist who uses purloined street signs to write her magnum opus, and the photographer who secretly documents peoples' most anguished personal moments? Or will Detective Gould finally meet his match?

Operating with wit and perception in the genre of hard-boiled crime fiction, Red Handed owes as much to Paul Auster as Dashiell Hammett, and raises some genuinely sticky questions about...

Matt Kindt is the award-winning writer and artist of the

graphic novels Revolver, 3 Story, Super Spy, 2 Sisters, and

Pistolwhip. He is currently the writing monthly comics for

DC Comics and is writing and drawing his own monthly

comic, MIND MGMT, for Dark Horse. Critically-acclaimed,

Kindt's work has been nominated for four Eisner Awards and

three Harvey Awards and listed in Time magazine's best

graphic novels (2001) and Booklist's Top 10 Graphic Novels

(Super Spy). Matt Kindt lives in Webster Groves, Missouri.

Praise For...

"Matt Kindt is the man." —Junot Diaz

MAY First Second Comics & Graphic Novels / Crime & Mystery On Sale 5/7/2013

Hardback / With dust jacket , 272 pages 1.111 in W | 1.111 in H | 1.111 in T Carton Quantity: 10

ISBN: 9781596436626

$26.99/$31.00 Can.

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FIRST SECOND • JUNE 2013 JUVENILE NONFICTION / COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

WRITTEN BY JIM OTTAVIANI, ILLUSTRATED BY MARIS WICKS Primates The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas

A fun and immersive look into the lives of the three greatest primatologists of the twentieth century: Biruté Galdikas, Dian Fossey, and Jane Goodall, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Feynman.

Jim Ottaviani returns with an action-packed account of the three greatest primatologists of the last century: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. These three ground-breaking researchers were all students of the great Louis Leakey, and each made profound contributions to primatology—and to our own understanding of ourselves.

Tackling Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas in turn, and covering the highlights of their respective careers, Primates is an accessible, entertaining, and informative look at the field of primatology and at the lives of three of the most remarkable women scientists of the twentieth century. Thanks to the charming and inviting illustrations by Maris Wicks, this is a nonfiction graphic novel with broad appeal.

Jim Ottaviani has written nonfiction, science-oriented

comics since 1997, notably the number one New York Times

bestseller, Feynman. He has worked as a nuclear engineer,

caddy, programmer, and reference librarian. He lives in Ann

Arbor, Michigan.

Maris Wicks lives with fellow primate Joe Quinones and

their cat, Biggs, in Somerville, Massachusetts. She has used

her opposable thumbs to draw comics for Adhouse Books,

Tugboat Press, and Spongebob Comics, and written stories for

Image and DC Comics. When she's not making comics, Maris

works as a program educator at the New England Aquarium.

She is an avid tool user and is particularly fond of bananas.

JUNE First Second Juvenile Nonfiction / Comics & Graphic Novels On Sale 6/11/2013 Ages 12 to 17

Hardback / With dust jacket , 144 pages 6.000 in W | 8.500 in H Carton Quantity: 18

ISBN: 9781596438651

$19.99/$22.99 Can.

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FIRST SECOND • JUNE 2013 JUVENILE NONFICTION / COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

MARKETING Local Author Appearances

National Media Campaign

National Consumer Advertising Campaign

Industry Buzz Mailing

Book Trailer

Extensive Online Promotion

Major School and Library Promotions

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FIRST SECOND • JULY 2013 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / GENERAL

WRITTEN BY STEVEN T. SEAGLE, ILLUSTRATED BY TEDDY H. KRISTIANSEN Genius

Quantum physicist Ted Marx finds his life turned upside down by the revelation of Einstein's last, most terrifying secret

Ted Marx works hard at his career as a quantum physicist. But lately the demands of his job have begun to overwhelm him. Then Ted makes a startling discovery: his wife's father once knew Einstein and claims that Einstein entrusted to him a final, devastating secret—a secret even more profound and shattering than the work that led to the first atom bombs. If Ted can convince his father-in-law to tell him what Einstein had to say, his job will be safe. But does he dare reveal Einstein's most dangerous secret to those who might exploit it? Acclaimed duo Teddy H. Kristiansen and Steven T. Seagle have created in Genius an exploration of the heights of intellectual and scientific achievement and the depths of human emotion and confusion.

Steven T. Seagle is the seven-time Eisner Award-

nominated writer best known for his semi-autobiographical

graphic novel, It's a Bird . . . illustrated by Teddy H.

Kristiansen. He is a two-time GLAAD Media Award-nominee

for his series American Virgin. Seagle is a co-founder of Man

of Action Studios, creators of Ben 10 and Generator Rex. He

also writes and directs for the stage.

Teddy H. Kristiansen is a Eisner Award-winning artist

from the faraway land of Denmark who spends a lot of time

with his computer and the many books in his house. (Too

many, according to his wife.) In addition to his work in

animation and children's books, Kristiansen is a critically-

acclaimed comics artist.

Praise For...

It's a Bird: "This remarkable, genre-bending work...details a son's search for his missing father and a writer's struggle to tap

JULY First Second Comics & Graphic Novels / General On Sale 7/9/2013


ISBN: 9781596432635

$17.99/$19.99 Can.

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FIRST SECOND • JULY 2013 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / FANTASY

WRITTEN BY JORDAN MECHNER, ILLUSTRATED BY LEUYEN PHAM & ALEX PUVILLAND Templar

When the king of France and the pope conspire against the Knights Templar, it's up to one renegade knight to avenge his slain brothers in this sprawling historical adventure

Martin is one of a handful of Templar Knights to escape when the king of France and the pope conspire to destroy the noble order. The pope and king aim to frame the Templars for heresy, execute all of them, and make off with their legendary treasure. That's the plan, anyway, but Martin and several other surviving knights mount a counter-campaign to regain the lost treasure of the Knights Templar. With gorgeous illustrations by LeUyen Pham and Alexander Puvilland and lush coloring from Hilary Sycamore, this 480-page, full-color, hardcover graphic novel is itself a treasure.

Acclaimed author, screenwriter, and video game designer

Jordan Mechner began his career by creating the

blockbuster games Karateka and Prince of Persia. Mechner

was born in New York and attended Yale University.

LeUyen Pham and Alex Puvilland have illustrated not

only this book, but also Prince of Persia, the graphic novel,

with Jordan Mechner and A.B. Sina. Alex works for

DreamWorks Animation as a visual development artist, and

LeUyen is the illustrator of over forty books for children,

including the Freckleface Strawberry series by Julianne

Moore, the Alvin Ho Series by Lenore Look, and her own All the Things I Love About You. leuyenpham.com and

alexpuvilland.com.

JULY First Second Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy On Sale 7/9/2013

Hardback / With dust jacket , 480 pages 6.000 in W | 8.500 in H Carton Quantity: 10

ISBN: 9781596433939

$39.99/$45.99 Can.

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