Miami Book Fair Online

72nd Annual National Book Awards
2021-11-17 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Livestream
Miami Book Fair joins the National Book Foundation to livestream the National Book Awards from New York City! Tune in to be among the first to learn who the winners are across its five categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Young People’s Literature, and Translation.
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Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora
2021-11-14 12:00 - 14:00 | On Demand
In Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora, bestselling and award-winning authors as well as up-and-coming voices interrogate the different myths and stereotypes about the Latinx diaspora. These 15 original pieces delve into everything from ghost stories and superheroes, to memories in the kitchen and travels around the world, to addiction and grief, to identity and anti-Blackness, to finding love and speaking your truth. Full of both sorrow and joy, this collection is an essential celebration of this rich and diverse community. Featuring the book’s editor, Saraciea J. Fennell, and contributors Naima Coster, Kahlil O. Haywood, Zakiya Jamal, Janel Martinez, Meg Medina, and Jasminne Mendez. Moderated by Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana: A Novel.
Grades 9 – 12

Mystery, Magic & Mayhem: Three Graphic Novel Adventures
2021-11-14 12:00 - 13:00 | On Demand
Barb the Last Berzerker must free her fellow warriors and stop Witch Head from taking over Bailiwick in this side-splitting graphic novel by Dan Abdo and Jason Patterson. In Nidhi Chanani’s Jukebox, Shaheen and her cousin are transported through decades of music history to search for her missing father. And John Patrick Green’s sewer-loving secret agents are back to solve the mystery of giant bugs in InvestiGators: Ants in Our P.A.N.T.S. . Moderated by Armando Mendive, teacher for Monsignor Edward Pace High School.
Grades 3 – 7
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The National Book Award for Young People’s Literature: A Virtual Book Club
2020-12-12 13:00 - 14:00 | On Demand
Click here to register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/virtual-book-club

The Way Back by Gavriel Savit
In partnership with the National Book Foundation, Miami Book Fair will be hosting a series of online book discussions for young people, creating an opportunity for dialogue between NYC and Miami students around this year’s National Book Award honorees. Each week, a moderator will facilitate open discussion among students featuring one of the ten longlisted honorees of this year’s National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
Join us for a free moderated book discussion each week:
Saturdays, September 26 – December 12
(no discussion Nov. 21 or Nov. 28)
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EST.
For more info about the ten longlisted books, visit:
https://www.nationalbook.org/2020-national-book-awards-longlist-for-young-peoples-literature/
For any questions, please contact Ismery Pavon at ipavon@mdc.edu.
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In partnership with the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Miami-Dade County Public Library System, Broward County Public Schools, Broward County Public Library System, Palm Beach County Public Schools, and Palm Beach County Public Library System.

The National Book Award for Young People’s Literature: A Virtual Book Club
2020-12-05 13:00 - 14:00 | On Demand
Click here to register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/virtual-book-club

We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
Moderator: Brittany King from Dream Defenders
In partnership with the National Book Foundation, Miami Book Fair will be hosting a series of online book discussions for young people, creating an opportunity for dialogue between NYC and Miami students around this year’s National Book Award honorees. Each week, a moderator will facilitate open discussion among students featuring one of the ten longlisted honorees of this year’s National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
Join us for a free moderated book discussion each week:
Saturdays, September 26 – December 12
(no discussion Nov. 21 or Nov. 28)
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EST.
For more info about the ten longlisted books, visit:
https://www.nationalbook.org/2020-national-book-awards-longlist-for-young-peoples-literature/
For any questions, please contact Ismery Pavon at ipavon@mdc.edu.
Sponsored by:

In partnership with the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Miami-Dade County Public Library System, Broward County Public Schools, Broward County Public Library System, Palm Beach County Public Schools, and Palm Beach County Public Library System.

Claire Legrand in conversation with Annie Berger
2020-11-22 | On Demand
Grades 9 – 12
Claire Legrand on Lightbringer the Empirium Trilogy
Two queens, separated by a thousand years must face their ultimate destinies. Queen Rielle, pushed away from everything she loves, turns to Corien and his promises of glory. Meanwhile, whispers from the empirium slowly drive her mad, urging her to open the Gate. Separated from Audric and Ludivine, she embraces the role of Blood Queen and her place by Corien’s side, determined to become the monster the world believes her to be. In the future, Eliana arrives in the Empire’s capital as a broken shell of herself. Betrayed and abandoned, she fights to keep her power at bay―and away from Corien, who will stop at nothing to travel back in time to Rielle, even if that means destroying her daughter. But when the mysterious Prophet reveals themselves at last, everything changes, giving Rielle and Eliana a second chance for salvation―or the destruction their world has been dreading. Lightbringer is the incredible conclusion to the Empirium Trilogy that started with the instant New York Times bestsellers Furyborn and Kingsbane.
Moderated by Annie Berger, Senior Editor, Sourcebooks Fire

Panel: Star Wars: The Florida Edition
2020-11-22 | On Demand
Grades 9 – 12
Moderated by Juan Navarro, Creature Entertainment.
Galaxy’s Edge: Black Spire by Delilah Dawson uncovers a secret history in Star Wars. After devastating losses at the hands of the First Order, General Leia Organa has dispatched her agents across the galaxy in search of allies, sanctuary, and firepower – and her top spy, Vi Moradi, may have just found all three on a secluded world at the galaxy’s edge. In Poe Dameron: Free Fall, Alex Segura tells a story only hinted at in the new Star Wars films. It’s been a few years since Poe’s mother passed away, and Poe and his father, who was a pilot for the Rebellion, have had more and more trouble connecting. Not sure what he wants to do with his life, teenage Poe runs away from home to find adventure, and to figure out what kind of man he is meant to be.

Panel: Ask Me Anything: YA Authors Spill the Tea
2020-11-22 | On Demand
Grades 9 – 12
You have questions. Burning questions. Silly questions. Six contemporary YA authors tell it like it is – their (least) favorite characters, strangest habits, writing tips, and so much more. Hear it firsthand from this all-star lineup, featuring Kacen Callender (Felix Ever After and King and the Dragonflies), Mike Curato (Flamer), Alex Flinn (Love, Jacaranda), Ben Philippe (Charming as a Verb), Justin A. Reynolds (Early Departures), and David Yoon (Super Fake Love Song).
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Panel: Speculative Fiction in YA
2020-11-21 | On Demand
Grades 7 – 12
Moderated by writer and editor Safon Floyd.
In Rebel Sisters, the epic, action-packed sequel to Tochi Onyebuchi’s War Girls, the battles are over, but the fight for justice has just begun. Though they are working toward common goals of helping those who suffered, Ify and Uzo are worlds apart. But when a mysterious virus breaks out among the children in the Space Colonies, their paths collide. Ify makes it her mission to figure out what’s causing the deadly disease. And doing so means going back to the homeland she thought she’d left behind forever.
Nic Stone’s Shuri: A Black Panther Novel sets out on a quest to save her homeland of Wakanda. For centuries, the Chieftain of Wakana (the Black Panther) has gained his powers through the juices of the Heart Shaped Herb. Indeed, even Shuri herself has gained powers from this mythical herb, which grows only in Wakanda. Much like Vibranium, the Heart Shaped Herb is essential to the survival and prosperity of Wakanda. But something is wrong. The plants are no longer growing. No matter what the people of Wakanda do, they can’t create new ones, and their supply is running short. It’s up to Shuri to travel from Wakanda in order to discover what is killing the Herb, and how she can save it.

What the Puck: A Slam-Dunk Conversation
2020-11-21 | On Demand
Grades 9 – 12
In the conclusion to Ngozi Ukazu’s mega-popular webcomic, Check, Please!: Sticks and Scones, Eric Bittle not only has new teammates – he has a brand new boyfriend! Bitty and Jack must navigate their new, secret, long-distance relationship, and decide how to reveal their relationship to friends and teammates. It’s two full hockey seasons packed with big wins and high stakes!
Gene Luen Yang understands stories – comic book stories, in particular. But Yang doesn’t get sports. He lost interest in basketball long ago, but at the high school where he now teaches, it’s all anyone can talk about. The men’s varsity team, the Dragons, is having a phenomenal season that’s been decades in the making. What he doesn’t know yet is that this season is not only going to change the Dragons’ lives, but his own life as well, in Dragon Hoops.

Panel: Disney’s Twisted Tales
2020-11-19 - 2020-11-20 | On Demand
Grades 9 – 12
Moderated by Brittany Rubiano, editor at Disney/Hyperion.
Three authors take on age-old fairy tales, with a twist. In Liz Braswell’s Straight On Till Morning, 16-year-old Wendy Darling’s only real escape is in writing down tales of Never Land – and then gets an opportunity to travel to Never Land via pirate ship. Jen Calonita’s Conceal, Don’t Feel reimagines Frozen, but this time with a major twist: What if Anna and Elsa never knew each other? In So This is Love, Elizabeth Lim’s Cinderella never tried on the glass slipper. She attempts a fresh start, only to become witness to a grand conspiracy to take the king – and the prince – out of power, as well as a longstanding prejudice against fairies, including Cinderella’s own Fairy Godmother.

Panel: Ripped from the Headlines
2020-11-19 - 2020-11-20 | On Demand
Grades 9 – 12
Moderated by Lauren Odom, librarian at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center.
Christina Hammonds Reed’s The Black Kids explores issues of race, class, and violence through the eyes of a wealthy Black teenager in L.A. whose family gets caught in the vortex of the 1992 Rodney King Riots. Tiffany D. Jackson‘s Grown, a riveting, ripped-from-the-headlines mystery, explores some of the horrific secrets hiding behind the limelight and embraces the power of a young woman’s voice. When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields?
Note: Grown explores mature and explicit themes in examining an abusive, age-inappropriate relationship.

Panel: Do You Have What It Takes to Be a K-POP Star?
2020-11-19 - 2020-11-20 | On Demand
Grades 9 – 12
Moderated by Ismery Pavon, program coordinator at Miami Book Fair.
In I’ll Be The One, Lyla Lee introduces us to fat girl Skye Shin, who dreams of joining the world of K-Pop – even if it means breaking all the rules that society, the media, and even her own mother, have set for girls like her. Stephan Lee’s K-Pop Confidential is a romantic coming-of-age novel about chasing big dreams while staying true to yourself, as a Korean-American girl travels to Seoul in hopes of debuting in a K-pop girl group backed by the company behind the most popular boy band on the planet.

Panel: A Spectre-tacular Conversation: On Magic, Monsters, and Raising the Dead
2020-11-18 - 2020-11-19 | On Demand
Grades 9 – 12
Kat Cho’s Gumiho #2: Vicious Spirits picks up right after the events of Wicked Fox – Jihoon is still grieving the loss of his grandmother, and Miyoung is distant as she grieves over her mother’s death and learns to live without her fox bead. The only one who seems ready to move forward is their not-so-favorite dokkaebi, Junu.
In Darcie Little Badger’s Elatsoe, America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Seventeen-year-old Elatsoe (“Ellie” for short) can raise the ghosts of dead animals, a skill passed down through generations of her Lipan Apache family. Her beloved cousin has just been murdered, in a town that wants no prying eyes. The picture-perfect façade of Willowbee masks gruesome secrets and Ellie will rely on her wits, skills, and friends to tear off the mask and protect her family.
Moderated by Sarah Divine, Librarian, Nova Southeastern University’s Alvin Sherman Library.

All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
2020-11-18 - 2020-11-19 | On Demand
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 flea marketing with their loving grandmother, to their first sexual relationships, this young adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys. Both a primer for teens eager to be allies as well as a reassuring testimony for young queer men of color, All Boys Aren’t Blue covers topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, structural marginalization, consent, and Black joy. Johnson’s emotionally frank style of writing will appeal directly to young adults.

Panel: The New Colossus: YA Writers on America’s Difficult History
2020-11-18 - 2020-11-19 | On Demand
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 story), an Iranian kid, Khosrou (whom everyone calls “Daniel”), tries to tell a fantastic story full of both magical and scary places, to his classmates in a middle school classroom in Oklahoma. No one believes him, but it’s true. It’s his story. Through the lives of three teens, Pulga, Chico, and Pequeña, making their perilous way from Guatemala through Mexico, We Are Not from Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez offers a gripping view of the plight of migrants at the U.S. southern border.

Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation
2020-11-18 10:40 - 12:30 | On Demand
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 to the Flint River. Within months, many residents broke out in rashes. Then it got worse: Children stopped growing. Some people were hospitalized with mysterious illnesses. Others died. Citizens of Flint protested that the water was dangerous. Despite what seemed so apparent from the murky, foul-smelling liquid pouring from the city’s faucets, officials refused to listen. They treated the people of Flint as the problem, not the water, which was actually poisoning thousands. Poisoned Water shows not just how the crisis unfolded in 2014, but also the history of racism and segregation that led up to it, the beliefs and attitudes that fueled it, and how the people of Flint fought – and are still fighting today – for clean water and healthy lives.

Panel: A Legendary Remix: Fresh Fairy Tale Faces
2020-11-17 - 2020-11-18 | On Demand
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 a rich magic system, Tracy Deonn’s Legendborn offers dark allure with a modern-day twist on a classic legend and a lot of Southern Black Girl Magic. Chloe Gong‘s These Violent Delights is an imaginative retelling of Romeo and Juliet set in 1920s Shanghai, with rival gangs and a monster in the depths of the Huangpu River. Updating a Greek myth in an Afro-Latinx setting, Lilliam Rivera‘s Never Look Back blends a touch of magical realism into a timely story about cultural identity, overcoming trauma, and the power of first love.

Panel: Raising the Stakes: Vampires, Slayers, and Sequels
2020-11-17 - 2020-11-18 | On Demand
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 uncover the danger around them, they learn their love could tear them apart. Chosen, the second novel in the New York Times bestselling series from Kiersten White, is set in the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Nina continues to learn how to use her slayer powers against enemies old and new.

Panel: Inside the World of Avatar, The Last Airbender
2020-11-16 - 2020-11-17 | On Demand
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. Yee, author of the Kyoshi novels; and Faith Erin Hicks, Peter Wartman, and Gene Luen Yang, who wrote and illustrated the Avatar: The Last Airbender graphic novels.

Witches, Wolves, and Women
2020-11-16 - 2020-11-17 | On Demand
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 loss has been a lie. As she rushes to his side, the two are ambushed and pulled through a portal to the land of Adas, a fairy realm hidden in the Caribbean Sea. If Rose wants to return home so that she can repair her broken family, she must figure out how to heal Adas first.
In Romina Garber’s Lobizona, Manuela Azul has been crammed into an existence that feels too small for her. As an undocumented immigrant who’s on the run from her father’s Argentine crime family, Manu is confined to a small apartment and a small life in Miami – until her protective bubble is shattered. Without a home, without answers, and finally without shackles, Manu investigates the only clue she has about her past, which leads her to a secret world buried within our own. A world straight out of Argentine folklore, where the seventh consecutive daughter is born a “bruja,” or witch, and the seventh consecutive son is a “lobizón,” a werewolf.
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Panel: The Fight for Justice & Truth
2020-11-16 - 2020-11-17 | On Demand
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 one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. “Boys just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white. Suddenly, at just 16 years old, Amal’s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it?
In Nic Stone’s Dear Justyce, Vernell LaQuan Banks and Justyce McAllister grew up a block apart in the Southwest Atlanta neighborhood of Wynwood Heights. Years later, though, Justyce walks the illustrious halls of Yale University … and Quan sits behind bars at the Fulton Regional Youth Detention Center. Through a series of flashbacks, vignettes, and letters to Justyce – the protagonist of Dear Martin – Quan’s story takes form. Troubles at home and misunderstandings at school give rise to police encounters and tough decisions. But then there’s a dead cop and a weapon with Quan’s prints on it. What leads a bright kid down a road to a murder charge? Not even Quan is sure.
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National Book Foundation Presents Teen Press Conference
2020-11-16 10:30 - 11:30 | On Demand
Event starts Monday, November 16 at 10:30 a.m.
For the first time, the National Book Awards Teen Press Conference will be a wholly virtual experience!
Co-presented with Miami Book Fair and in partnership with 92nd Street Y, this year’s event will continue a decades-long tradition, bringing the excitement of the most prestigious literary award in the country to middle and high school students in New York City and Miami-Dade County.
Students from NYC and Miami are invited to participate in this free, virtual literary event that’s curated just for them, with access to exclusive videos, digital materials, a live Q&A with authors, and more.

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2020 National Book Award Finalists in Young People’s Literature
KACEN CALLENDER
King and the Dragonflies
VICTORIA JAMIESON & OMAR MOHAMED
When Stars Are Scattered
TRACI CHEE
We Are Not Free
CANDICE ILOH
Every Body Looking
GAVRIEL SAVIT
The Way Back
Hosted by JASON REYNOLDS

Additional activities featuring this year’s National Book Award honorees that are free and open to all students include:
Online Book Clubs: Miami Book Fair will be hosting a series of online book clubs for young people, creating an opportunity for dialogue between NYC and Miami students around this year’s National Book Award honorees. Click here for more info.
Student Writing Showcase: Miami Book Fair will be sharing student writing (related to this year’s National Book Award honorees) on its official blog. Students from NYC and South Florida are invited to submit their work. Click here for more info.

Panel: Tor Teen Presents Own Your Magic
2020-11-15 - 2020-11-16 | On Demand
Grades 9 – 12
Four Tor Teen authors – TJ Klune (The Extraordinaries and House of the Cerulean Sea), Bethany C. Morrow (A Song Below Water), Mark Oshiro (Each of Us a Desert), and Lauren Shippen (A Neon Darkness) – come together to tackle contemporary issues with fantasy elements, writing characters who must reconcile with difficult truths in order to discover themselves.
Moderated by Ismery Pavon, program coordinator at Miami Book Fair.

Panel: Perilous Schemes, Dangerous Skies
2020-11-15 - 2020-11-16 | On Demand
Grades 9 – 12
Moderated by Ismery Pavon, program coordinator at Miami Book Fair.
In Jeff VanderMeer’s A Peculiar Peril, Jonathan Lambshead stands to inherit his deceased grandfather’s overstuffed mansion – a veritable cabinet of curiosities – once he and two schoolmates catalog its contents. But the three soon discover that the house is filled with far more than just oddities: It holds clues linking to an alt-Earth called Aurora, where the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley has stormed back to life on a magic-fueled rampage across a surreal, through-the-looking-glass version of Europe replete with talking animals (and vegetables).
In Gold Wings Rising, the final installment of Alex London‘s Skybound Saga, Kylee and Brysen must fight for their lives and their humanity. The war on the ground has ended, but the war with the sky has just begun. While the humans fly familiar circles around each other, the ghost eagles create schemes far greater and more terrible than either Kylee or Brysen could have imagined. Now, the tug-of-war between love and power begins to fray, threatening bonds of siblinghood and humanity alike.

Panel: Whodunit: Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem
2020-11-15 - 2020-11-16 | On Demand
Grades 9 – 12
Moderated by Oline Cogdill, mystery fiction book reviewer for the Sun Sentinel and Publishers Weekly.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ new mystery novel follows Avery, whose fortunes change when a billionaire dies and leaves her his entire fortune. To receive her inheritance Avery must survive and solve The Inheritance Games. In the Study with the Wrench is Diana Peterfreund’s thrilling sequel in the Clue Mystery series, in which identities come under question, motives come to light, and nobody gets off the hook.

Two Fantasy Superstar Writers on Forbidden Magic, Forgotten Lives
2020-11-15 | On Demand
To see the LIVE Q&A replay, click the “Next Up” arrow on the player beside the volume icon.
In Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House, Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. The sole survivor of a horrific and unsolved multiple homicide, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most prestigious universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in on campus tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. But their occult activities are far more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive.
She’s joined by V. E. Schwab, author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, a tale of a woman in 18th-century France who makes a proverbial deal with the devil. Freed from one miserable fate only to be rushed into another, Addie then begins a hauntingly lonely journey spanning three centuries in search of a sense of identity and someone, anyone, with whom she can genuinely connect.
Moderated by Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Miami Book Fair program coordinator.

Panel: Truth or Dare with DC’s YA Authors
2020-11-14 19:00 - 2020-11-15 18:59 | On Demand
Grades 9 – 12
Moderated by Michele Wells, VP and executive editor at DC Young Reader
Your favorite DC YA authors and artists Kami Garcia (Teen Titans: Raven, Teen Titans: Beast Boy), Danielle Paige (Mera: Tidebreaker, Wonder Women of History), Laurie Halse Anderson (Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed), Alex Sanchez (You Brought Me the Ocean), Sarah Kuhn (Shadow of the Batgirl), and Maggie Stiefvater (Swamp Thing: Twin Branches) are coming to Miami Book Fair to play the ultimate game of Truth or Dare – with a DC twist! Ask them the TRUTH about anything – writing tips, tricks or best and worst habits, working on DC’s iconic characters, how much do they really know DC mythology – or ask something completely different. DARE an author to draw their favorite main character, or watch the panelists DARE each other to do the silliest of activities. Come to play, come to laugh, and come to hear about DC’s awesome new YA graphic novels to add to your #TBR pile … There will be plenty of surprises in store!

Virtual Pachanga: The YA Edition
2020-11-14 - 2020-11-15 | On Demand
Grades 9 – 12
In Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo, 16-year-old Camino Rios lives for the summer – especially the first week of June – when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. Roughly 1,500 miles away in New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, where she meets her “Ms. Universe-perfect” mother with her hair in rollers waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash, and her entire world changes. Separated by distance – and Papi’s secrets – the two girls are forced to face a new reality, one in which their worlds collide, and their lives are forever altered.
Ismée Williams’ This Train is Being Held is about Alex, a baseball player. A great one. His papi is pushing him to go pro, but Alex maybe wants to be a poet. Not that Papi would understand or allow that. Isa is a dancer. She’d love to go pro, if only her Havana-born mom weren’t dead set against it, just like she’s dead set against her daughter falling for a Latino. And Isa’s privileged private-school life – with her dad losing his job and her older brother struggling with mental illness – is falling apart. Not that she’d ever tell that to Alex. Fate, and the New York City subway, bring Alex and Isa together. Is it enough to keep them together when they need each other most?
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