My Life as a “Troubled Teen”

Dangerous Child: My Life as a “Troubled Teen” by Sofia Szamosi is a brand new YA graphic memoir following Sofia’s adolescence being despatched away to residential remedy centres for youngsters. The e book explores how damaging labels may be—from Good Child to Dangerous Child—and the way they form our decisions and identities all through our lives. Sarah Alpert at Algonquin Younger Readers has acquired North American rights to Dangerous Child: My Life as a “Troubled Teen”, and publication is deliberate for 2025.

Sofia Szamosi’s first YA graphic novel, Unretouchable was just lately revealed by Lerner/Graphic Universe, in regards to the lived expertise of using picture retouching software program within the mannequin pictures trade. Her tremendous artwork has been proven in group and solo reveals in New York Metropolis, Chicago, and Detroit,  illustrations have been featured in publications corresponding to Glossy Journal and Vice and he or she obtained her BA with honours from NYU’s Gallatin Faculty for Individualized Examine in 2017. Sofia Szamosi can also be the illustrator for Complete Lady by Sadie Radinsky (Sounds True, Feb 2021). Initially from New York Metropolis, she now lives in western Massachusetts.

Sofia Szamos’s agent Jennifer Weltz at Jean V. Naggar Literary Company negotiated the deal for Dangerous Child: My Life as a “Troubled Teen”. Jean Naggar established the literary company in 1978 and in 2004, Jean determined to associate with Jennifer Weltz, who had joined the company in 1994.

Algonquin Books was based in 1983 in a woodshed behind cofounder Louis Rubin‘s Chapel Hill, NC, house. He and Shannon Ravenel based Algonquin as an unbiased press dedicated to publishing literary fiction and nonfiction by undiscovered writers, largely from the South. Acquired by Workman in 1989, Algonquin expanded to incorporate workplaces in each New York Metropolis and Chapel Hill. In 2013, Algonquin launched the Algonquin Younger Readers imprint that includes center grade and younger grownup books.