Alyson Heller has acquired North American rights to Barbara Dee's (Star-Crossed, Halfway Normal, Maybe He Just Likes You) new middle grade novel, Violets Are Blue. The book is about a seventh-grade girl obsessed with special effects makeup who learns that her mother, an ER nurse, is struggling with opioid addiction. Publication is scheduled for fall 2021; Jill Grinberg at Jill Grinberg Literary Management brokered the deal.