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featuring Special Guest Author KELLY YANG
Grab a bagel, pour a cup of co ee, and nd a seat! Mr. Schu and
Kelly Yang will discuss Kelly’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 Kelly 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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KELLY YANG is the author of Front Desk, which received four starred
reviews and was named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018. Her family immigrated to the United States from China when she was a young girl, and she grew up in California in circumstances very similar to those of Mia Tang. She eventually left the motels and went to college at the age of 13, and is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard Law School. Upon graduation, she gave up law to pursue her dream of writing and teaching kids writing. She is the founder of The Kelly Yang Project, a leading writing and debating program for children in Asia and the United States. She is also a columnist for the South China Morning Post and has been published in The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Atlantic. Kelly is the mother of three children and splits her time between Hong Kong and San Francisco. Find her online at kellyyang.com and on Twitter @kellyyanghk.
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7:30 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.