At the age of four, Michaela was adopted by an American family, who encouraged her love of dancing and enrolled her in classes. She went on to study at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at the American Ballet Theatre and is now the youngest principal dancer with the Dance Theatre of Harlem.
Elysa Dutton
A girl falls in love on the day her family struggles to keep from being deported.
The YA romance, which has been described as “intense story of longing and forbidden desire,” centers on a young latina girl whose academic career is thrown into jeopardy when she falls for Tate Collins, a mysterious singer.
Pitched as Fifty Shade of Grey for teens, centers on a high school-age girl whose studies and personal convictions are thrown into jeopardy when she succumbs the attention of a bad boy pop star.
Follows Maddy, a teen who has severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a rare disease that causes her to be allergic to practically everything. She has spent 17 years hiding out in her home, only seeing her mother and her nurse, Carla. But when a boy named Olly moves in next door, Maddy begins to fall in love.
Goodloe is adapting the debut YA novel by Nicola Yoon, which MGM nabbed before the book even hit shelves.
Logline: After her Aunt passes away, Ginny, a seventeen-year-old girl, realizes that she has left her with thirteen envelopes containing money and instructions for a journey for her to take around the world.
New Line Cinema and Alloy Entertainment are developing a film adaptation of Maureen Johnson’s hit novel 13 Little Blue Envelopes. Elysa Dutton is set to produce, with Andrea Johnston overseeing for the studio. The story follows a seventeen-year-old girl named Ginny on a coming-of-age adventure.
Logline: An aspiring musician and a soldier marry under false pretenses, but eventually find true love.
Logline: A young girl overcomes her experiences as an orphan in war-torn Sierra Leone in order to fulfill her dreams and become a world famous ballerina.
A new girl at a small-town high school is taken in by a popular clique, who have plans to perform a dangerous exorcism on a classmate.
Logline: Centers on a new girl at a small town high school who gets involved with a popular clique, only to have them compel her into joining then in a dangerous exorcism of a punky, rebellious classmate.
Logline: Follows the friends ten years later after they’ve grown apart when Tibby tries to reunite the girls on a trip that will change their lives forever.
Logline: A girl from the future may be the only hope at saving the world, but doing so would mean giving up the one thing she depends upon.
Logline: When a girl is in a nearly fatal accident, she awakes in an underground lab with a bionic heart in her chest. Navigating through her new life, she uncovers the sinister truth behind those she trusted most, and the chilling secret of her family lineage.
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