Sarah Glenn Marsh – Jill Grinberg Literary Management

Sarah Glenn Marsh

Sarah Glenn Marsh is an author of several young adult novels and picture books. Her young adult titles include Fear the Drowning Deep, Dread the Harvest Moon, the Reign of the Fallen series, and The Girls Are Never Gone. Her picture book titles include Selfie Sebastian, Ninita’s Big World: The True Story of a Deaf Pygmy Marmoset, The Bug Girl: Maria Merian’s Scientific Vision, Ellie’s Crayon Adventure and The Mystery of the Love List. She has also authored a nonfiction middle grade title, Your Birthstone Book, published by Running Press Kids. Her forthcoming books include Bigfoot’s Big Heart and a second middle grade nonfiction. She lives with her family in Richmond, Virginia.

Agent

Katelyn Detweiler

Bigfoot's Big Heart

Tamar Brazis and Meriam Metoui at Viking have acquired Bigfoot’s Big Heart by Sarah Glenn Marsh (l.), illustrated by Ishaa Lobo. The story follows a lonely Bigfoot, sad to always be hiding away in his cave, who decides to write Valentine’s Day letters to his equally lonely mythical friends hiding out all across the world—only to have the letters lost then found by some unlikely new friends along the way. Publication is planned for fall 2024. Katelyn Detweiler at Jill Grinberg Literary Management represented the author, and Jennifer Rofé at Andrea Brown Literary Agency represented the illustrator.

Publisher

Viking Books for Young Readers

Publication Date

Fall 2024

Age Category

Picture Book

Genre

Fiction

Rights

Penguin

Your Birthstone Book

Learn the amazing (and sometimes magical) history of gemstones from around the world through the corresponding birthstones that represent each month of the year.

Gemstones are among Earth’s rarest and most beautiful creations. They are history’s preeminent symbols of wealth and power. They are valued because they are beautiful and rare, but also because their beauty is undiminished with time. The stone that once adorned a king or maharaja, might today be set in a ring or necklace, and if not destroyed, will continue to sparkle thousands of years from now. This history only increases the value of these stones.

What better way to teach young readers about gemstones than by focusing on the different birthstones that correspond to each month of the year? Everyone (mostly) knows their birthstone. But do they know the full history of these stones–where they were mined, how/why they were popular, or how to best harness a stone’s energy to help deal with matters of friendship, family, and life? Your Birthstone Book will give readers insight into the powers assigned different bithstones while exploring their fascinating uses over the course of history.

Publisher

Running Press Kids

Publication Date

December 6, 2022

Age Category

Middle Grade

Genre

Nonfiction/Reference

Rights

Hachette

Crayola: Ellie's Crayon Adventure

Welcome to a world of infinite colors!

When Ellie and her class take a field trip to the Crayola Factory to learn how crayons are made, they are greeted by rooms full of color and bustling with activity. From mixing pigments to wrapping and sorting, there are machines and people hard at work at every turn. There are even magical creatures called color catchers who travel the world in search of Pacific Blue, Wild Watermelon, and Sunglow who really steal the show. But it isn’t until Ellie accidentally knocks into some equipment that she and her friends learn just how limitless the world of color possibilities can be.

Publisher

Running Press Kids

Publication Date

September 27, 2022

Age Category

Picture Book

Genre

Nonfiction

Rights

Hachette

The Mystery of the Love List

A heart-warming Valentine’s mystery!

Pippa’s teacher tells her students to make a love list–a list of all the things that take up room in their hearts. Pippa makes her list, but when she finds someone else’s and sees that her own name has been written down, along with all of her favorite things, she discovers she has a secret admirer! Maybe the best friend she’s always hoped for is right in her classroom, if only she can crack the case. Good thing there’s nothing Pippa loves more than a good detective story. Will she solve the mystery of the love list and find a new friend?

Praise for The Mystery of the Love List

”Charming illustrations include several visual clues (such as Mitzi reading the same book Pippa loves) and the text includes a few silly puns (a game of “Deer, Deer, Moose” rather than “Duck, Duck, Goose”) that are perfect for young readers.… A fine addition to holiday story collections for young readers.” —School Library Journal

Publisher

Viking Books for Young Readers

Publication Date

December 13, 2022

Age Category

Picture Book

Genre

Fiction

Rights

Penguin

Dread the Harvest Moon

A companion novel to Fear the Drowning Deep, an NPR Great Read of 2016.

Three tasks. Two worlds. One deadly queen.

Always follow the rules.

That’s what seventeen-year-old barmaid Liss Corkill does. She’s never cursed or kissed a boy, and until two years ago, when a mythical serpent kidnapped her, she was never late to anything. She knows that if she were like her free-spirited older sister Bridey who sailed to America just before the Great War, her mother would be devastated. Liss is determined to be what everyone expects, even if that means giving up her dreams.

Unless the faeries make you break them.

When Liss accidentally interferes in a fairy queen’s quest for true love, she’s pulled into the vast and dangerous world of Un-Mann, a magical realm as old as the Isle of Man itself. As punishment for her mistake, Liss must complete three tasks for the queen by the night of the Great Harvest Moonlight, the fairies’ biggest yearly celebration.

Or you find something worth dying for.

Liss’s attempts to complete her tasks are met with constant misfortune, as if someone doesn’t want her to win. But she has powerful friends: the town witch, Morag, and her sister’s best friend, Cat, who she’s secretly falling for as they hunt sea monsters by night to protect their home. Sensing a need for inspiration as the final gruesome task draws near, the queen marks Liss’s little sister for death unless Liss succeeds.

Her sister. Her town. Her dreams. If she can’t own who she is and make some new rules, Liss will lose it all.

Publisher

Ivy Press

Publication Date

October 13, 2020

Age Category

Young Adult

Genre

Fantasy

Rights

JGLM