When studious 13-year-old Juniper wins a scholarship to the prestigious Ellsmere Academy, she expects to find a scholastic utopia. But living at Ellsmere is far from ideal: She is labeled a "special project," Ellsmere's queen bee is out to destroy her, and it's rumoured that a mythical beast roams the forest next to the school. (From First Second)

Hicks is an Eisner Award-winning comic creator whose books include the Nameless City series, Friends with Boys and the YA novel Comics Will Break Your Heart.