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featuring Special Guest Author VARIAN JOHNSON
Grab a bagel, pour a cup of co ee, and nd a seat! Mr. Schu and Varian Johnson will discuss Varian’s award-winning novels and the power of booktalking. If your students hear at least one booktalk every day, they will be introduced to 180 books during the school year. Imagine if every colleague on your campus booktalked every day. Mr. Schu and Varian will booktalk titles they hope will go directly from their hands to your heart.
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is a blogger, a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University, and the Ambassador of School Libraries for Scholastic Book Fairs®. Every day is a giant book party for this teacher-librarian! In
fact, Library Journal named him “The Xtreme Librarian” for the high level of exertion — along with some gears and stunts — he uses to get kids reading, and Instructor Magazine named him a “Cool Teacher” for rede ning what it means to be a teacher-librarian.
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VARIAN JOHNSON is the author of nine novels, including The Parker Inheritance, which received four starred reviews and was named a 2018 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book, a Junior Library Guild selection, a Spring 2018 Kids’ Indie Next List pick, and winner of the Coretta Scott King Honor award. His middle-grade caper novel, The Great Green Heist, has been named to over 25 state reading and best-
of lists. In addition, Varian has written for the Spirit Animals: Fall of the Beasts middle-grade fantasy series, as well as novels and short stories for YA audiences. Click here for complete biography.
TIME
7:30 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.