Join Penguin Random House, Library Journal, and School Library Journal for our Spring 2023 virtual book and author festival, a free day-long event celebrating reading, authors, and librarians everywhere!
Penguin Random House Spring Book & Author Festival Tuesday, April 4th, 2023 We are excited to announce TWO Keynote speakers! Join our free virtual event to listen in as these amazing authors discuss their latest works. | Ruta Sepetys is the internationally acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of I Must Betray You, Between Shades of Gray, Salt to the Sea and other historical fiction published in over sixty countries and forty languages. Her five novels have won or been shortlisted for more than forty book prizes and are included on more than sixty state award lists. Ruta was born and raised in Michigan and now lives with her family in Nashville, Tennessee. | Deb Caletti is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of over sixteen books for adults and young adults, including Honey, Baby, Sweetheart, a finalist for the National Book Award; A Heart in a Body in the World, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book; Girl, Unframed; and One Great Lie. Her books have also won the Josette Frank Award for Fiction, the Washington State Book Award, and numerous other state awards and honors, and she was a finalist for the PEN USA Award. | And check out the YA and Middle Grade panels! | New Must-Read YA Books Fantasy, fate and fun make up these young adult titles. Erin A. Craig, House of Roots and Ruin (Random House Children’s Books) Justina Ireland, Chaos and Flame (Penguin Young Readers) Joy McCullough, Enter the Body (Penguin Young Readers) justin a. reynolds, House Party (Random House Children’s Books) Moderator: Elizabeth Libberton, Library Media Specialist, St. Charles East High School | Identity, Family, and Contemporary Themes Four middle grade titles explore the many trials and triumphs of not-quite teens. Jack Cheng, The Many Masks of Andy Zhou (Penguin Young Readers) Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter (Random House Children’s Books) Wendy Mass, Lo & Behold (Random House Children’s Books) Lilliam Rivera, Barely Floating (Penguin Young Readers) Moderator: Jessica Agudelo, Youth Collections Coordinator, BookOps (NY) | Know someone who would love this event? Forward this email and invite them to join us! | Can't attend this Spring's Penguin Random House Book and Author Festival? Register now, and you’ll receive a link when the on-demand sessions are available! Click here to be unsubscribed from any 2023 Spring Penguin Random House Book and Author Festival communication. | |