Author Event Sessions

Booth # 2463 - Melissa de la Cruz, Author - LOST IN TIME: A Blue Bloods Novel

Booth # 2534 - Jack Gantos, Author - Dead End in Norvelt

Booth # 2558 - Eloise Greenfield, Author - The Great Migration

Booth # 2534 - Steve Sheinkin, Author - The Notorious Benedict Arnold; Bomb

Booth # 2310 - Kathleen Krull , Author - Lives of... Series

Booth # 2534 - Laura Vaccaro Seeger, Author - Green

Booth # 2367 - Susan Mallery, Author - BAREFOOT SEASON

Booth # 2459 - Carmen Agra Deedy, Author - The Return of the Library Dragon, The Library Dragon, The Cheshire Cheese Cat, 14 Cows for America, Martina the Beautiful Cockroach, The Secret of Old Zeb, Yellow Star, Agatha's Feather Bed, and The Last Dance

Booth # 2550 - Paul Meisel, Author/Illustrator - SEE ME RUN: An I Like to Read� Book

Booth # 2511 - Kadir Nelson, Illustrator - I Have a Dream

Booth # 2411 - Christina Forshay, Illustrator - The Really Groovy Story of the Tortoise and the Hare

Don't miss this annual celebration of the literary diversity and creativity that enriches our world. Many Voices, One Nation brings together writers and artists from different perspectives and presents a rich program of spoken word and performance that celebrates and reminds us of the many unique cultures sharing one world.

Featuring Gerald Chertavian, Tewodros Fekadu and Javier O. Huerta!

Gerald Chertavian is the CEO and founder of Year Up, a non-profit organization that provides intensive professional education to urban young adults. His organization was recently recognized by Fast Company and The Monitor Group as one of the top 25 organizations in the nation using business excellence to engineer social change.  “A Year Up: How a Pioneering Program Teaches Young Adults Real Skills for Real Jobs-With Real Success” will be published by Viking Adult Books in July. Dedicated to closing the Opportunity Divide, he combined his entrepreneurial skills and his passion for working with urban young adults to found Year Up in 2000.  Year Up provides the technical, professional and communication skills needed to empower urban young adults to make successful transitions to careers and higher education.  

Born in Eritrea, Tewodros "Teddy" Fekadu has lived in five countries on three continents and is fluent in four languages. He currently lives in Australia, where he founded the African Communities Association Gold Coast Inc., which aims to share African traditions and heritage through performance and education. He also works with several organizations to help resettle African refugees to the Gold Coast. His company, Moonface Entertainment, produces films and documentaries about East Africa. In his book, “No One's Son: The Remarkable True Story of a Defiant African Boy and His Bold Quest for Freedom” (Leapfrog Press), Tewodros recounts the challenges and triumphs of surviving a poverty-stricken childhood on the streets of Ethiopia. As he struggles with loneliness and the need for love, his enduring courage brings him the loyalty of friends and mentors along the way.  Striving for freedom, Tewodros envisions a better life elsewhere and flees Africa, but new cultures bring new complications—first in Egypt, then in Japan.

Javier O. Huerta is the author of “American Copia: An Immigrant Epic” and “Some Clarifications y Otros Poemas,” recipient of the Chicano / Latino Literary Prize. His poems have been included in numerous anthologies, including “American Tensions: Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice” and “The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011.” A native of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, he currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where he is working on his doctorate in English at the University of California, Berkeley.

Booth # 2511 - Deborah Hopkinson and Raul Colon, Author/Illustrator - Annie and Helen

Booth # 2458 - Dianna Hutts Aston, Illustrator - A Rock is Lively

Booth # 2600 - Jon Scieszka, Author - Spaceheadz Book #3

Booth # 1608 - Deborah D. Levitov, Author - Activism and the School Librarian: Tools for Advocacy and Survival

Booth # 2616 - Sheila O'Connor, Author - Sparrow Road and Keeping Safe the Stars

Book Buzz Theater Featuring The Davids Discuss Manga with a Tiny Librarian (VIZ and Kodansha)

Booth # 2471 - Seymour Simon, Author - Earthquakes, Volcanoes