Gabrielle Zevin sold the first three books in her YA “Birthright Series” to Janine O’Malley at Farrar, Straus and Giroux’s Books for Young Readers. Agent Douglas Stewart (of Sterling Lord Literistic) handled the deal. The stories are “set in a dystopian future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband while water and paper are carefully rationed. The series relates the ascension and ultimate downfall of a 16-year-old girl, the heir apparent to an important and dangerous New York City crime family.”