Finding Your Place in Middle Grade
How does a middle schooler learn to fit in? In Lisa Moore Ramée’s The Everybody Experiment, Kylie takes a scientific approach to “become mature” by doing what everybody else does, while Ming Lee from Arree Chung’s latest graphic novel,…
The End of the (Fantastical) World: Complicated Relationships in Dystopia
If the world was ending, we’d want to be next to these dystopian reads that also warm the heart! The Art Thieves, a work of Cherokee Futurismby Andrea L. Rogers, begins amidst a climate crisis in 2052, when a high-school museum employee becomes…
Pages and Pictures from Early Reader to Middle Grade
The only thing better than an awesome story? An awesome story with pictures, perfect for early readers and middle graders! Follow along with Stella & Marigold as they explore secrets involving blankets, a terrible storm, and two brave children…
All Bodies All Selves
As we face increasing attacks on our bodily autonomy from our federal and state governments, these books provide essential resources and narratives that approach the topic with acuity and compassion. Award-winning author Zetta Elliott reflects…
Follow Your Heart to Graphic Novels
Whether in a comic panel or at a panel discussion, these earnest graphic novel stories are here to remind us to stay true to ourselves, our beliefs, and our passions! Follow Huda Fahmy’s exhilarating and chaotic family vacation to Disney World,…
Moving House, Moving Place, and Opening Our Minds
Join us for this uplifting read aloud featuring beautiful and heartfelt picture books! Take a peek into Miri’s eventful move into a new apartment, where her grandfathers are waiting with surprises, in Adam Chang and Stephanie Wildman’s Miri’s…
Fighting for What You Love
From education to sports to the environment, we fight for what we love! Learn from three amazing picture books that tell true stories of inspiring people taking a stand against the norm. In Traci Huahn’s Mamie Tape Fights to Go to School,…
I’m Awesome, Just the Way I Am
No matter who you are, where you’re from, and how you communicate, you are awesome! If you don’t believe us, turn to these wonderful picture books that feel like a big, warm hug. Just. Like. You. by Meredith Steiner is a rhyming story about…
Bite-Sized Biographies: Picture Books of Resistance and Resilience
Join us in this exciting panel of picture book biographers depicting the lives of influential historical figures whose impacts were anything but bite-sized. Edie for Equality by Michael Genhart narrates the numbers-loving and LGBTQ-rights activist…
Love +
This kaleidoscopic panel will explore the love stories that blossom within broader contexts. In Finding Famous, a secret celebrity father, a potential soulmate, and a whirlwind of paparazzi take the stage in Candice Jalili’s Iranian-American,…