Julie C. Dao

Check out acclaimed author Julie C. Dao's debut middle grade series, featuring a team of kids ready for any challenge-even saving the fantasy world of Pantaera from dark forces and certain ruin! The popular fantasy video game War of Gods and Men is being adapted for reality television, and Team Chu and company are competing for the title of child hero: the young person destined to unite the forces of Pantaera to save it from a sinister fate. Over...

Trisha de Guzman at FSG has acquired, in a seven-house action, Team Chu and the Laser Tag Adventure, a middle-grade debut by Julie C. Dao. When a Vietnamese-American brother and sister become trapped with their group of friends in a virtual reality laser tag game, they must overcome their sibling rivalry to escape, but one of them might have to make the ultimate sacrifice first. Publication is set for Spring 2022; Tamar Rydzinski at Context Literary...