Grades 9 – 12 Moderated by Ismery Pavon, program coordinator at Miami Book Fair. In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores their childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting their teeth kicked out by bullies at age 5, to […]
Grades 9 – 12 Moderated by Brittany King, Dream Defenders. From Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of World War II. In Daniel Nayeri’s Everything Sad is Untrue: (a true […]
Grades PreK – 3 Introduced by Cierra Bragan, Miami Mom Collective. Author Isaac Fitzgerald and illustrator Brigette Barrager join forces for How to Be a Pirate. When the neighborhood boys tell CeCe that she can't be a pirate, she asks grandpa. He has the tattoos. As he shares the stories of his tattoos, Grandpa and […]
Live Q&A: Wednesday, November 18 @ 4 – 4:30 p.m. EST Grades 9 – 12 In 2014, Flint, Michigan, was a cash-strapped city that had been built up, then abandoned by General Motors. As part of a plan to save money, government officials decided that Flint would temporarily switch its water supply from Lake Huron […]
Grades 9 – 12 Moderated by Aurora Dominguez, YA book reviewer at Frolic Media. In Cinderella Is Dead, Kalynn Bayron takes us 200 years past the day that Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over, and we learn that there's more to Cinderella's story than we ever knew. Filled with mystery and […]
Grades 9 – 12 Moderated by Meagan Albright, Nova Southeastern University Library. In Renée Ahdieh’s The Beautiful #2: The Damned, Sébastien Saint Germain is now cursed and forever changed. The treaty between the Fallen and the Brotherhood has been broken, and war between the immortals seems imminent. And just as Bastien and Celine begin to […]
Grades 3 – 7 Moderated by Ellen Book, children’s librarian at Miami-Dade Public Library System. Inspired by real figures in American history, Katherine Factor and Kyandreia Jones present two new books in the interactive Choose Your Own Adventure: Spies gamebook series, putting you in the shoes of Civil War heroine Mary Bowser (Jones), or America’s […]
Grades 3 – 7 Moderated by Jennifer Jhon, editor of South Florida Family Life Magazine. Lev Grossman on The Silver Arrow, Kate and her younger brother Tom lead dull, uninteresting lives. And if their dull, uninteresting parents are anything to go by, they don’t have much to look forward to. Why can’t Kate have thrilling adventures and […]
Grades 9 – 12 Moderated by Joan Hilty, editorial director at Nickelodeon. The Emmy award-winning American animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender and its sequel The Legend of Korra launched a fandom that has lasted for years. Four creators come together for a special conversation about all things in the Avatarverse, including F. C. […]
Grades 9 – 12 In Wayward Witch by Zoraida Córdova, Rose Mortiz has brand new powers that she doesn’t understand, and her family is still trying to figure out how to function in the wake of her amnesiac father’s return home. Then, on the night of her Death Day party, Rose discovers her father’s memory […]
Grades 9 – 12 Introduced by the Miami-Dade County Teen Court. Punching the Air, a novel-in-verse by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam, tells the story of Amal Shahid, who has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then […]
Grades 5 – 9 Introduced by Cierra Bragan, Miami Mom Collective. Memory Superpowers!: An Adventurous Guide to Remembering What You Don’t Want to Forget is a fun and highly practical guide to helping kids achieve remarkable memorization skills. The Memory Thief wants to steal your memories! Luckily, Nelson, the Memory Champ, is on hand to […]