Meg Eden Kuyatt

Emily Seife at Scholastic Press has acquired MG novel in verse The Girl in the Wall by Good Different author Meg Eden Kuyatt. When a neurodivergent girl discovers a ghost living in her grandmother’s walls who seems determined to destroy the house, the family, and the girl's own relationship with her grandmother, she must uncover what the ghost wants and what secrets her grandmother is keeping. Publication is slated for 2025; Lauren Spieller of Folio Literary Management negotiated the deal for world rights.

A extraordinary novel-in-verse about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate her difference. Selah knows her rules for being normal. She always, always sticks to them. This means keeping her feelings locked tightly inside, despite the way they build up inside her as each school day goes on, so that she has to run to the bathroom and hide in the stall until she can calm down. So that she has to tear off her normal-person mask the second she gets home from school, and listen to her favorite pop song on repeat, trying to recharge. Selah feels like a dragon stuck in a world of humans, but she knows how to hide it. Until the day she explodes and hits a fellow student. Selah's friends pull away from her, her school threatens expulsion, and her comfortable, familiar world starts to crumble. But as Selah starts to figure out more about who she is, she comes to understand that different doesn’t mean damaged. Can she get her school to understand that, too, before it’s too late?