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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]