Publishers Weekly Children’s Bookshelf reports:

Stacey Barney at Putnam won at auction Natalie Anderson‘s debut YA novel, The Breaking Wheel. The novel follows a Congolese refugee, Tina, who is nursing visions of revenge after seeing her mother murdered. Anderson has worked for NGOs and the United Nations toward refugee relief in Africa. Publication is planned for fall 2017; Faye Bender at the Book Group represented Anderson in the deal for North American rights.

Lora Fountain & Associates is representing THE BREAKING WHEEL in the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Holland, Brazil, Portugal and Israel.