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featuring KEYNOTE SPEAKERS JASON REYNOLDS and DONALYN MILLER
Jason Reynolds is a New York Times best-selling author, Newbery Award Honoree, Printz Award Honoree, National Book Award Honoree, Kirkus Award winner, two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, NAACP Image Award Winner, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors. Reynolds
was the American Booksellers
Association’s 2017 spokesperson
for Indies First, and served as the
national spokesperson for the 2018
celebration of School Library Month
in April 2018 sponsored by the
American Association of School Librarians (AASL). Jason’s many works of ction include: When I Was the Greatest, Boy in the Black Suit, All American Boys (co-written with Brendan Kiely), As Brave As You, For Every One, Miles Morales: Spider Man, the Track series (Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and Lu), and Long Way Down, which received both a Newbery Honor and a Printz Honor. Click here for his complete biography.
is a leading expert on independent reading, children’s literature, and the author of two
bestsellers, The Book Whisperer and Reading
in the Wild. She is founder of the annual
#bookaday event, co-founder with Colby
Sharp of The Nerdy Book Club, and co-host
of the monthly Twitter chat, #titletalk. Her
most recent book is co-authored with Colby Sharp, Game Changer! Book Access for All Kids.
Click here for her complete biography.
Photo credit: Marta X. Perez Photo credit: Jati Lindsay