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Make This Year the Year of the Author Visit
Every student deserves to experience an author visit. It doesn’t matter if they attend a rural Title I school in York County, Nebraska or an elite prep school on the Upper West Side of New York City, every student should have the opportunity to experience an author...
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Nine More Authors Join The Author Village!
The Author Village is growing again! We’re thrilled to announce that nine more exceptional authors are joining our collective this summer! Like the others on our roster, they are a dynamic and diverse group of creators. They all excel at interacting with children and...
Opportunity
Jeff Zentner is the recipient of the William C. Morris Award, the Amelia...
The Author Village Welcomes Five New Authors!
The Author Village is thrilled to announce that five more stellar authors are joining our community this winter! Like the other authors on our roster, they are a dynamic and diverse group of creators who each excel at interacting with children and readers of all ages....
Meg Medina, Elizabeth Acevedo, Elana K. Arnold, and Tiffany Jackson Win ALA Youth Media Awards!
We’re beyond excited here at The Author Village! On Monday January 28, 2019, the American Library Association (ALA) announced the winners of the 2018 Youth Media Awards, and four authors from The Author Village received well-deserved recognition. First,...
Elizabeth Acevedo: National Book Award Winner!
Huge congratulations to our own Elizabeth Acevedo, who has added to her already-impressive hardware collection with the country's most prestigious literature award, the National Book Award, for The Poet X! We're overjoyed for Elizabeth and so proud and grateful to...
Book Birthday Bash!
It's a book release bonanza here at The Author Village! Today, SEVEN of our authors have books entering the world, and we're celebrating them all! -- = Happy book birthday to Samantha Berger! Her Rock What Ya Got picture book, illustrated by Kerascoët, is an...
We’re Adding to the Village!
The Author Village is thrilled to announce that we're adding to our ranks! Seven talented authors who are also dynamic and powerful speakers have joined the Author Village, and we're so excited to help bring them to your classroom, library or event! Brandy...
Cover Reveal for Laurie Halse Anderson’s SHOUT!
SHOUT, Laurie Halse Anderson's memoir-in-verse, has a gorgeous new cover! Check out the reveal, and an exclusive poem, over on Bustle! -- Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual...
THE POET X Longlisted for the National Book Award!
Congratulations to Elizabeth Acevedo! Elizabeth Acevedo's stunning debut novel in verse, The Poet X, has been named to the longlist for the 2018 National Book Award in the category of Young People’s Literature. The Poet X is the story of Xiomara, a young woman growing...
Happy Birthday, Merci Suárez!
It’s no accident that my new middle grade novel, Merci Suárez Changes Gears (Candlewick Press, Sept 2018) opens on picture day at Seaward Pines Academy. Uy! When I think back to my school days at P.S. 22 in Queens, there weren’t many humiliations greater than that....
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