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Join Margaret Peterson Haddix in conversation with Erin Entrada Kelly on tour with her dystopian yet hopeful Sci-Fi novel, The Secret Life of Snap.The event is free to the public but due to limited seating registration is requested: https://events.columbuslibrary.org/event/17425547
📚 Both authors' books will be sold on site by Cover to Cover Children's Books.
✍️ Readers are limited to TWO items for signing, as time permits. Details subject to change. You may bring books from home or purchase books at the event.
🚗 Parking is free in Main Library's attached garage, while available.
📍 Main Library (96 S. Grant Ave.)
SCHEDULE:
5:30 p.m. | Book sale & seating opens
6 p.m. | Author talk and Q&A
7 p.m. | Book signing
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Erin Entrada Kelly is a two-time Newbery Medalist, Newbery Honoree, and National Book Award Finalist whose work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. She is a New York Times-bestselling author and is on the founding faculty of the MFA in Writing for Young Readers program at the University of San Francisco. She has a bachelor's degree in liberal arts from McNeese State University, an MFA in fiction from Rosemont College, and an honorary doctorate of fine arts from Moore College of Art and Design. A native of Louisiana, she now lives in Delaware.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Twelve-year-old Zuzu Santos doesn’t want a robot. She and her best friends would rather explore Bright Valley on their own. But then Zuzu meets Snap, a know-it-all guardian robot with a limited battery life and an abundance of hope. A gripping, stand-alone, thematically rich survival story by two-time Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly, for fans of The Wild Robot and A Rover’s Story.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR:
Margaret Peterson Haddix grew up on a farm near Washington Court House, Ohio. She graduated from Miami University (of Ohio) with degrees in English/journalism, English/creative writing and history. Before her first book was published, she worked as a newspaper copy editor in Fort Wayne, Indiana; a newspaper reporter in Indianapolis; and a community college instructor and freelance writer in Danville, Illinois. She has since written 50 books for kids and teens, including Running Out of Time, the Shadow Children series, the Missing series and many more. Her latest book, Tangled In Time, is the second in the Moonleapers series. Her books have been honored with New York Times bestseller status, an Edgar Allan Poe Award for best juvenile mystery; the International Reading Association’s Children’s Book Award; American Library Association Best Book and Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers notations; and numerous state reader’s choice awards. They have also been translated into more than twenty different languages. Haddix and her husband, Doug, now live in Columbus, Ohio. They are the parents of two grown kids.
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