2020 Virtual Buckeye Book Fair Schedule To participate, please register for programs on our website at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org • All programs are FREE and held via Zoom. Author Presentations Author Interviews with Q&A Sat., Nov. 7th - 6:30-8:00 p.m. Sat., Nov. 7th Politics & Ohio 1-2 p.m. Senator Sherrod Brown, David Giffels, Mark Ohio Indians Godsey, Kimberly Hamlin, Connie Schultz, Jack Shuler Paul & Sally Misencik will discuss the history of Ohio Indians in the 1700s. Sun., Nov. 8th - 6:30-7:30 p.m. The Writing Life Deborah Fleming, Joe Mackall, Robert Sat., Nov. 7th Miltner, Bonnie Proudfoot, Scott Sanders 2-3 p.m. Louis Bromfield Mon., Nov. 9th - 6:30-7:30 p.m. Stephen Heyman will discuss the life Sports Night of Ohio farmer and writer Louis Jim Ingraham, Scott Longert, Zack Meisel, Bromfield. David Lee Morgan

Tues., Nov. 10th - 6:30-7:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 7th Fiction Writers Chat 3-4 p.m. Gretchen Berg, Tiffany McDaniel, Jess Terry’s Talkin’ Sports Montgomery, Heather Webber Sportswriter Terry Pluto will be talking sports and taking your questions! Weds., Nov. 11th - 6:30-7:30 p.m. Mystery Writers Chat Linda Castillo, Kristen Lepionka, Jessica Sun., Nov. 8th Strawser, Andrew Welsh-Huggins 1-2 p.m. Think Like a Scientist Thurs., Nov. 12th - 6:30-7:30 p.m. Astrophysicist Paul Sutter will use games Cozy Mystery Writers Chat and examples to teach the audience how Bree Baker, Stephanie Cole, Abby Collette, scientists think. (All ages) Amanda Flower, Kylie Logan

Friday, November 13th - 6:30-7:30 p.m. Sun., Nov. 8th Illustrator Round-table 2-3 p.m. Tom Batiuk, Tim Bowers, Will Hillenbrand, Murder in Stark County Loren Long, Michael J. Rosen, Lindsay Kim Kenney will discuss historic crimes in Ward, and more! Stark County. Sat., Nov. 14th - 6:30-8:00 p. m. Ohio History David & Elise Meyers, Karen Robertson, Weds., Nov. 11th Nancy Stearns Theiss / Bob Batchelor, Vic 5:30-6:30 p.m. Fleischer, Nannette Maciejunes, Ken Rusk Brave the Wilderness! Coyote Peterson will discuss his new book Sun., Nov. 15th - 6:30-7:30 p.m. The Beast of Bites and his amazing animal Modern Ohio adventures around the world. (All ages) Norm Nite, Paul Orlousky, Olszewskis / Derf Backderf, William Shkurti, James Robenalt 2 2020 Virtual Buckeye Book Fair Schedule To participate, please register for programs on our website at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org • All programs are FREE and held via Zoom. Kids Book Showcases Discussion and Q&A for all ages Sat., Nov. 7th Sat., Nov. 14th 11:00-11:45 a.m. - Tim Bowers, Will 11:00-11:45 a.m. - Judy Carey Nevin, Hillenbrand, Loren Long, C.F. Payne Jeffrey Ebbeler, Kate Hoefler, Michael J. 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. - Richard Rosen Cowdrey, Dandi Mackall, Springstubb, 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. - Steve Harpster, Umrigar JasonTharp, Frank Tupta, Lindsay Ward

Sun., Nov. 8th Sat., Nov. 14th - YA Showcase 1:00-1:45 p.m. - 11:00-11:45 a.m. - Michael Armstrong, Sharon Draper, Margaret Lisa Amstutz, Barry Gott, Dave Szalay Peterson Haddix, Terri Libenson, Shelley Pearsall 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. - Nonfiction 1:45-2:30 p.m. - Fantasy Novel Showcase Showcase with Carson, Dawson, Mindee Arnett, Cinda Williams Chima, Hollihan, Pimm Emily A. Duncan, Intisar Khanani

Young Authors Workshops Educator’s Conferences For Ages 8–16 in partnership with Tri-County ESC Fri., Nov. 6 Mon., Nov. 9 4-5 p.m. 4-5 p.m. Fri., Nov. 6th - 1-2 p.m. Activating Readers & Writers Working with Picture Books Insider Writing Tips David Lee Morgan, Jr. Ages 0-7 Dandi Daley Mackall Judy Carey Nevin Plus learn about teaching with Tues., Nov. 10 Tues., Nov. 10th - 1-2:30 p.m. picture books by Dawson, 4-5 p.m. Springstubb, Umrigar 1-1:45 p.m. - The Writing Process Working with Picture Books Tricia Springstubb How to Revise & Shape Ideas 1:45-2:30 p.m. - The Illustration Process Will Hillenbrand Weds., Nov. 11 Jeffrey Ebbeler Plus learn about teaching with 4-5 p.m. picture books by Armstrong, Working with Non-Fiction Ebbeler, Szalay, Ward Mary Kay Carson Weds., Nov. 11th - 1-2 p.m. Plus learn about teaching with The Revising Process nonfiction books by Amstutz, Nancy Roe Pimm Thurs., Nov. 12 Hollihan, Longert, Pimm 4-5 p.m. Thurs., Nov. 12th - 1-2 p.m. Working with Books for Fri., Nov. 13 Teens & Tweeens 4-5 p.m. Graphic Novel Writing Workshop Schoolwide One Book, Jerzy Drozd Engaging Students & Teens One Day Program Sharon Draper Shelley Pearsall Plus learn about teaching with Plus learn about teaching YA books by Chima, Draper, Fri., Nov. 13th - 1-2 p.m. with middle grade books by Khanani, Morgan Character Writing Workshop Haddix, Libenson, Mackall, Shelley Pearsall Springstubb

3 Bob Adamov Mindee Arnett Bob Adamov is an award-winning Ohio mystery Mindee Arnett is the author of the YA high adventure author whose stories are based in the fantasy series Onyx & Ivory. In the world of Lake Erie South Bass Island resort village of Put- Onyx & Ivory, dragons rule the night and magic in-Bay. In Flight, investigative reporter Emerson rules the day. Once childhood friends and first Moore goes undercover at a Key West bar to lovers before betrayals broke them apart, Kate penetrate drug trafficking from Cuba and to solve Brighton, daughter of a traitor, and Corwin the disappearance of a missing Ford trimotor Tormaine, the rebel prince, now must work from 1928. The plot continues inA ssateague together and face their pasts in order to uncover Dark where Emerson recouperates from his a sinister new threat to the kingdom. Shadow near-death escape from Cuba and becomes & Flame returns to the world of Rime, where embroiled in a drug trafficking operation on Kate and Corwin face the last battle to save their Virginia’s Delmarva Peninsula. kingdom and each other. Nov. 14 @ 1:45 PM. • Assateague Dark HC ...... $24 .00 • Onyx & Ivory PB (ages 13-17) ...... $11 .50 • Chincoteague Calm HC ...... $24 .00 • Shadow & Flame PB (ages 13-17) ...... $11 .50 • Flight HC ...... $24 .00 Derf Backderf Lisa Amstutz On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard In Amazing Amphibians: 30 Activities gunned down unarmed college students protesting and Observations for Exploring Frogs, the Vietnam War at Kent State Univ. In a deadly Toads, Salamanders, and More, readers barrage of 67 shots, four students were killed and will find thirty hands-on activities to learn nine were wounded. A few days prior, 10-year-old about amphibians, including egg-laying, Derf Backderf saw those same Guardsmen patrolling metamorphosis, and facts about their diet, his nearby hometown, sent in by the governor to habitat, and behaviors. Dalton author Lisa crush a trucker strike. Using the journalism skills he employed on My Friend Dahmer and Trashed, Amstutz writes about science for young Backderf has conducted extensive interviews and readers including a new series on Earth’s research to explore the lives of these four young Landforms and a series on fun fall farm people and the events of those four days in May. activities that includes Let’s Go to the Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio is the newest Pumpkin Patch and Let’s Go to the graphic novel from Eisner-nominated cartoonist Apple Orchard. Nov. 8 @ 11 AM & Nov. 11 @ Backderf, of Cleveland. Nov. 15 @ 6:30 PM. 4:30 PM. • Kent State HC ...... $24 .00 • Amazing Amphibians P (9+) $16 .50 • Islands PB (ages 5-7) . . . . $6 .75 • My Friend Dahmer PB ...... $19 .00 • Applesauce Day HC ...... $16 .50 • Let’s Go to Apple Orchard PB $6 .75 • Trashed PB ...... $18 .50 • Canyons PB ...... $6 .75 • Let’s Go to Pumpkin Patch P $6 .75 • Finding a Dove for Gramps HC$16 .50 • Mountains PB (ages 5-7) . . . $6 .75 James Jessen Badal • Hills PB (ages 5-7) ...... $6 .75 • Ultimate Guide to Gardening PB $12 .50 (ages 4-8) March 4, 1908, children at Lakeview Elementary School were at work on their lessons when a fifth- Michael Armstrong grader noticed wisps of smoke, a discovery that led to a panicked stampede inside the school. While some It’s the last day of summer vacation and William inside jumped from the building to safety, most were has one thing left to accomplish: have the BEST trapped. Ultimately, 172 children, two teachers, and DAY EVER. Unfortunately, his meticulous one rescue worker were killed, and the Collinwood efforts keep getting sidetracked by Anna’s community was irrevocably changed. The fire’s outlandish interruptions. After dismissing each staggering death toll shocked the entire country, all one, William is finally ready to have the best day recounted in The Collinwood Tragedy: The ever. If only he knew how. Can a buttoned-up Story of the Worst School Fire in American kid let loose and embrace a day filled with free- History. Author James Badal is an assistant professor range fun? Mike Armstrong previously served as of journalism and has served on the board of trustees the Executive Director of the ALS Association of the Cleveland Police Historical Society since 2001. His previous books include In the Wake of and other nonprofits. Best Day Ever is his first the Butcher: Cleveland’s Torso Murders and Hell’s Nov. 8 @ 11 AM & book. Michael lives in Cleveland. Wasteland: The Pennsylvania Torso Murders. Nov. 10 @ 4:30 PM. • Collinwood Tragedy PB ...... $24 .00 • Best Day Ever HC (ages 4-8) ...... $16 .50 • Hell’s Wasteland PB ...... $19 .50 • In the Wake of the Butcher PB ...... $24 .00

Follow the Buckeye Book Fair’s YouTube channel for author videos! 4 Order autographed books online at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org/shop or use enclosed order form. Bree Baker Gretchen Berg Everly Swan, owner of a tea shop on the small island of Charm, North Carolina, investigates Nobody knows the people of Wooster, Ohio, her first murder in Live and Let Chai when better than switchboard operator Vivian Dalton. one of her customers is poisoned. In Tide and They aren’t supposed to listen in on conversations, Punishment, it’s Christmastime, but all is not but they do—especially Vivian. Then, one cold cookies, tinsel, and wrapping paper when Aunt December night, Vivian listens in on a call between Fran becomes the main suspect in a murder. that snob Betty Miller and someone whose voice Then in the newest mystery, A Call for Kelp, a formerly-famous actress hired to appear in she can’t quite place and hears something shocking. a documentary about bees turns up dead. Bree Betty Miller’s mystery friend has news that, if Baker is one of many pen names of Kent author true, will shatter Vivian’s tidy life in Wooster, Julie Anne Lindsey. Her new Cider Shop Mystery humiliating her and making her the laughingstock series is set at Smythe Orchards in Blossom Valley, of the town. Vivian may be mortified, but she isn’t West Virginia. Nov. 12 @ 6:30 PM. • 1-Live & Let Chai PB ...... $7 .75 going to take this lying down. The Operator • 3-Tide and Punishment PB ...... $7 .75 is a clever and moving debut novel about a nosy • 4-Call for Kelp PB ...... $7 .75 switchboard operator who overhears gossip with • Cider 1-Apple Cider Slaying PB ...... $7 .75 personal consequences. Nov. 10 @ 6:30 PM • Cider 2-Pulp Friction PB ...... $7 .75 • Operator HC ...... $27 .00 Bob Batchelor Allison Black Author and historian Bob Batchelor tells the Allison is a Columbus illustrator and designer compelling story of Rookwood, still operating specializing in cute and colorful creations. in Ohio from its founding to today. Filled with Discover all the incredible ways that prove Baby behind-the-scenes artist and creator interviews, already has what it takes to become a leader in stories of Rookwood’s avid collectors, as well as never-before-seen images and documents from Future President and Future Doctor. Her the company’s historic archives, you will see why new series of fun, interactive board books with Rookwood remains a pillar of true craftsmanship. tabs to pull includes Unicorn Munch, Turkey Rookwood: The Rediscovery and Gobble, and Santa Snack. Revival of an American Icon, An Pull the tabs to help Santa, a Illustrated History is a beautiful volume that tells the rich story of this turkey, and a unicorn find their female-founded, female-owned great perfect snack! Go, Girls, American art pottery company. Batchelor Go! is an exuberant journey is also the author of biographies of Stan that celebrates how girls can do Lee and The Bourbon King: The Life and (and drive!) anything. Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition’s Evil Genius Nov. 14 @ 6:30 PM. • Barnyard Boogie HC (ages 4-8) . . . $12 50. • Go, Girls, Go! HC (ages 4-8) . . $17 .50 . • Future Astronaut BRD (ages 0-3) . . $8 .75 • Santa Snack BRD (ages 0-3) . . . $9 .50 • Rookwood HC ...... $40 .00 • Future Doctor BRD (ages 0-3) . . $8 .75 • Turkey Gobble BRD (ages 0-3) . . $9 .50 • Bourbon King HC ...... $27. . .00 • Future Engineer BRD (ages 0-3) . . $8 .75 • Unicorn Munch BRD (ages 0-3) . $9 .50 • Stan Lee PB ...... $16 .50 • Future President BRD (ages 0-3)$8 75. •What Do They Do with All That Poo? HC $17 .50 Tom Batiuk Keturah Ariel Bobo Funky Winkerbean is one of the few comic strips Actress and activist Grace Byers and Columbus that allows its characters to grow and age. In The artist Keturah A. Bobo collaborate on picture Complete Funky Winkerbean Volume 9, 1996-1998, time continues to pass and events books that are the perfect gift for baby showers, take place that will forever alter the lives of the core birthdays, or just for reading at home again and characters, even as new characters take the stage again. I Believe I Can is an affirmation for boys with stories to tell. Batiuk’s narrative humor style and girls of every background to love and believe encompass such diverse events as retirement, in themselves and I Am Enough celebrates weddings, and character Lisa Moore’s struggle self-confidence and kindness. Developed with breast cancer, collected in Lisa’s Story by the National Museum of African and a complete Lisa’s Legacy Trilogy. Of American History and Culture, A is for All Medina, Batiuk also writes the Crankshaft the Things You Are: A Joyful ABC Book comic and Strike Four! is a collection of introduces young readers to 26 key traits baseball-themed strips. Nov. 13 @ 6:30 PM. they can explore and cultivate as they grow. • Comp Funky Winkerbean 8 HC $40 .00 • Lisa’s Story PB ...... $18 .50 • A Is for All the Things You Are BRD (ages 0-4) .$9 50. • Comp Funky Winkerbean 9 H$40 .00 • Strike Four! PB ...... $24 .00 • I Am Enough HC (ages 4-8) ...... $18 .50 • Lisa’s Legacy Trilogy HC Boxed $70 .00 • I Believe I Can HC (ages 4-8) ...... $18 .50 Follow the Buckeye Book Fair’s YouTube channel for author videos! Order autographed books online at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org/shop or use enclosed order form. 5 Tim Bowers Tim Carroll Acoustic Rooster forms a jazz band to compete When World War II engulfed the nation, the in the annual Barnyard Talent Show in Acoustic men and women of Akron dutifully played their Rooster and His Banyad Band. Now, in part in the epic struggle. On the homefront, Acoustic Rooster’s Barnyard Boogie Goodyear manufactured blimps used to hunt down Nazi submarines, and noted Beacon Starring Indigo Blume, Indigo is afraid of Journal cartoonist Web Brown pledged his singing in front of a large crowd, but after a talent and his pen to boosting morale at home storm flattens their barn, she helps organize a and abroad. Replete with more than one concert fundraiser. New in the series that started hundred images, including many of Brown’s with Memoirs of a Goldfish, Memoirs of a wartime drawings, World War II Akron is Tortoise is a sweet story of cherishing our a thrilling account by local author Tim Carroll loved ones. Nov. 7 @ 11 AM & Nov. 13 @ 6:30 PM. • Acoustic Rooster HC ...... $16 .50 • Acoustic Rooster & Indigo Blume HC $16 .50 that recalls all that Akron gave for freedom. • Back Roads, Country Toads HC . .$16 . .50 • Memoirs of a Tortoise HC . . . . $16 .50 Companion title World War II Cartoons • Dream Big, Little Pig HC ...... $16 .50 • Rappy & His Favorite Things PB . . . $4 .75 of Akron’s Web Brown is a collection of • Memoirs of a Goldfish HC . . . . . $15 .50 • Sorry Grown-ups You Can’t School HC $17 50. Beacon Journal cartoons from the WWII years. (ages 4-8) • WWII Akron PB ...... $21 . .00 • WWII Cartoons of Akron’s Web Brown PB . . . . . $21 .00 Senator Sherrod Brown Since his election to the U.S. Senate in 2006, Mary Kay Carson Ohio’s Sherrod Brown has sat on the Senate Wildlife Ranger Action Guide: Track, floor at a mahogany desk with a proud history. Spot & Provide Healthy Habitat for In Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators Creatures Close to Home (ages 8+) will Who Changed America, he tells the story of inspire the next generation of citizen scientists eight of the Senators who were there before him. to turn their backyard into a sanctuary by Despite their flaws and frequent setbacks, each creating an animal-friendly habitat. Dozens of made a decisive contribution to the creation of hands-on activities and habitat creation projects, a more just America. Desk 88 is the senior Ohio such as making a frog pond from a kiddie pool, Senator’s incisive, entertaining history of the encourage children to learn about and take an active role in protecting local wildlife. Mary Kay previous occupants of his Senate desk and what Carson lives in Cincinnati and is the author of they did for America. He resides in Cleveland numerous nonfiction books for young readers with his wife, Connie Schultz, a Pulitzer Prize- including books on weather, space exploration, Nov. 7 @ 6:30 PM. winning columnist and author. and strange animals. Nov. 8 @ 11:45 AM & Nov. 11 @ 4 PM • Desk 88 HC ...... $27 .00 • Alexnder Graham Bell . . . . $16 .50 • Mission to Pluto PB . . . . . $9 50. • Desk 88 PB ...... $18 .50 • Do Sharks Glow in the Dark? . $9 .50 • Tornado Scientist HC . . . . $18 .50 • Do Tigers Stay Up Late? HC . . $9 .50 • Wildlife Ranger Action Gde PB $18 .50 Judy Carey Nevin There is so much kindness in the world and Carol Cartaino this sweet board book celebrates those special Extraordinary events and notable characters differences that make kind acts both individual from Ohio’s past are collected in It and similar. Judy Carey Nevin’s bouncing text in Happened in Ohio: Stories of Events All Kinds of Kindness is paired with Susie and People That Shaped Buckeye Hammer’s bright, brilliant art, showcasing how State History. From the horrific massacre important kindness can be. Companion title of Moravian Indians to the Cincinnati All Kids Are Good Kids celebrates different Reds’ World Series Championships, Ohio types of children. Judy is a library director in history is full of strange, exciting, and Pickerington and is also the author of What harrowing events. Discover why one town Mommies Like and What Daddies Like. used a gift from Queen Marie Antoinette Nov. 9 @ 4 PM & Nov. 14 @ 11 AM. to mourn her death and read about the con • All Kids Are Good Kids BRD (ages 0-4) ...... $7 . .75 woman who swindled Cleveland banks out of millions of dollars • All Kinds of Kindness BRD (ages 0-4) ...... $7 .75 by claiming to be Andrew Carnegie’s illegitimate daughter. Carol • What Daddies Like BRD (ages 0-4) ...... $7 .75 Cartaino has been an Ohioan for over 40 years. • What Mommies Like BRD (ages 0-4) ...... $7 .75 • It Happened in Ohio PB ...... $16 .50

Follow the Buckeye Book Fair’s YouTube channel for author videos! 6 Order autographed books online at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org/shop or use enclosed order form. Linda Castillo Abby Collette Linda Castillo follows the bestselling Shamed A Deadly Inside Scoop kicks off Cleveland with Outsider, an electrifying thriller about author Abby Collette’s new cozy mystery series a woman on the run hiding among the Amish. set in an ice cream shop—with a fabulous cast Chief of Police Kate Burkholder’s past comes of quirky characters. Recent MBA grad Bronwyn back to haunt her when her old friend and fellow Crewse takes over her family’s ice cream cop Gina Colorosa is found unconscious in her shop in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, but unexpected car stuck in a snowdrift. And then Kate learns construction delays mean she misses the summer Gina is wanted for killing an undercover officer. season, and the shop has a literal cold opening: Gina claims she’s innocent, that she was framed the day she opens her doors an early first snow by corrupt officers. With a blizzard bearing down, falls…and she finds a body. Soon, Wyn’s father Kate delves into the incident in Outsider, the is implicated in the death. It’s not easy to juggle twelfth Kate Burkholder mystery set in Holmes a new-to-her business while solving a crime, but County. Nov. 11 @ 6:30 PM Wyn is determined to do it! Nov. 12 @ 6:30 PM. • 1-Sworn to Silence PB ...... $9 .50 • A Deadly Inside Scoop PB ...... $15 .50 • 9-Down a Dark Road PB ...... $9 .50 • 10-Gathering of Secrets PB ...... $9 .50 • 11-Shamed PB ...... $9 .50 • 12-Outsider HC ...... $27 .00 Richard Cowdrey Cinda Williams Chima Fiona, It’s Bedtime is a new follow-up to the blockbuster hit Fiona the Hippo and A Deathcaster is the indispensable conclusion to the Very Fiona Christmas, based on the adorable Shattered Realms series and it delivers spellbinding action, bittersweet reunions, and dazzling revelations. internet sensation from the Cincinnati Zoo. Warrior Alyssa ana’Raisa would do anything to Join Fiona and her loveable animal friends as protect her home and her legacy, the Gray Wolf line, they snuggle up and get ready for bedtime at the but as a prisoner of Empress Celestine, Lyss is forced zoo. Fiona, It’s Bedtime is a cuddly read-aloud to turn her fearsome talents as an army commander for fans of Fiona (and hippos!) everywhere. against her beloved homeland. Cinda Chima writes Gambier illustrator Richard Cowdrey is a grad high fantasy novels, including the Warrior Heir of CCAD and is the illustrator for the Bad Dog, series set in Ohio, and is a graduate of the University Marley series of picture books. Nov. 7 @ 11:45 AM & of Akron. Nov. 13 @ 4:30 PM & Nov. 14 @ 1:45 PM. Nov. 9 @ 4:30 PM. • 1-Flamecaster PB (ages 13-17) ...... $9 .50 • 4-Deathcaster PB (ages 13-17) ...... $11. .50 • Bad Dog, Marley PB . . . . . $7 .75 • Fiona, It’s Bedtime HC . $17. .50 • Demon King (ages 13-17) ...... $9 .50 • Fiona the Hippo BRD . . . . . $8 .75 • Legend of St . Nicholas HC .$16 . .50 • Warrior Heir -1 PB (ages 13-17) ...... $9 .50 • Fiona the Hippo HC . . . . . $17 .50 • Very Fiona Christmas HC . . . $17 .50 • Wizard Heir-2 PB ages 13-17) ...... $9 .50 Keila V. Dawson Stephanie Cole No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Al Dente’s Inferno is the first in a new Americans Making History is a picture-book Tuscan Cooking School Mystery series by anthology of short biographies and poems about Cleveland author Stephanie Cole. When Nell contemporary young activists. Each young person Valenti is offered a chance to move to Tuscany to help transform an aging villa into a farm-to- has an illustrated portrait, a short bio, a poem table cooking school, she eagerly accepts. But inspired by their life, and a call to action for the Nell gets more than she bargained for when she reader. The layered text will provide multiple entry arrives. With only a day to go until the launch points for readers of varying ages. Sparkling dinner for the cooking school, the villa is in with French phrases and New Orleans shambles, and Chef O is blissfully oblivious of colloquialisms, The King Cake Baby is a the work that needs to be done. The situation tasty new adaptation of an old folktale and only worsens when Nell discovers that the includes a recipe. A New Orleans native, Keila filmmaker is an ex-boyfriend, and he’s found worked in Cincinnati as a teacher and school murdered later that night. Even worse, Chef administrator before she became a children’s O has disappeared, and accusations of murder book author. Nov. 8 @ 11:45 AM & Nov. 9 @ 4:30 PM. could shut the school down for good. Nov. 12 @ • No Voice Too Small HC (ages 5+) ...... $18 .50 6:30 PM. • King Cake Baby PB (ages 4-8) ...... $8 75. • Al Dente’s Inferno PB ...... $7 .75 Follow the Buckeye Book Fair’s YouTube channel for author videos! Order autographed books online at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org/shop or use enclosed order form. 7 Jeffrey Ebbeler Sharon Draper Dylan’s getting ready to audition for the school Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black play, a musical about outer space, and he’s got father and white mother struggle to share his sights set on playing the STAR. Dylan faces custody, never feels whole, especially as racial a week of anguish when he lands the role of a tensions affect her school, both her parents squirrel instead in The One and Only Dylan become engaged, and she and her stepbrother St. Claire. Ebbeler’s illustrations capture are stopped by police. Blended is Isabella’s story this unique boy and his daily dramas as he and it explores how an adolescent deals with tackles each dilemma with pizzazz and skill. social and family turmoil. In Out of My Mind, Of Cincinnati, Ebbeler is also the illustrator ten-year-old Melody cannot walk or talk, but she is the smartest girl in her class. How she manages of Feast of Peas, an amusing mystery about to survive in school and in life and overcome the gardening, anticipation, hard work, and obstacles of communication and understanding generosity. Nov. 10 @ 1:45 PM & Nov. 10 @ 4:30 PM & Nov. is a powerful tale. A National Teacher of the Year 14 @ 11 AM. and Coretta Scott King Award winner, Sharon • Feast of Peas HC (ages 4-8) ...... $17 .50 Draper recently moved from Cincinnati to • George the Hero Hound HC (ages 4-8) ...... $17 .50 • Florida. Nov. 13 @ 4 PM & Nov. 14 @ 1 PM . • Laugh Out Loud HC (ages 8-12) ...... $13 .50 • Battle of Jericho PB (ages 14+)...... $10 .50 • The One and Only Dylan St. Claire HC (ages 4-8)$17. .50 • Blended PB (ages 8-12) ...... $8 .75 • Twelve Days of Christmas in Ohio HC (ages 5-10) . . . $12 .50 • Out of My Mind PB (ages 8-12) ...... $9 .50 Alex Erickson • Tears of a Tiger PB (ages 12+) ...... $8 .75 Krissy Hancock runs a bookstore-café in Pine Jerzy Drozd Hills, Ohio, but she sets up shop as a sleuth when she discovers a long-unsolved murder in Death Discover the history of rockets and their impact by French Roast, the eighth and newest in on the future in this nonfiction volume that Zanesville author Alex Erickson’s Bookstore Café explores the history of rockets along with Mystery series. Also new this year is the first in Newton’s Laws of Motion. In Science Comics: the Furever Pets mystery series where, with a Rockets, readers explore the 2,000 years that veterinarian dad and a pet-rescuing mom, helping rockets have been in existence, learning all about animals is a family business for the Dentons. gravity, force, acceleration, and the history When a dog is orphaned due to a murder, Liz of rockets made in the past and rockets to be Denton and her son, Ben, are on the case in The made in the future! Jerzy Drozd is the Interim Pomeranian Always Barks Twice. Executive Director of Cartoon Crossroads • 7-Death by Cafe Mocha PB ...... $7 75. Columbus comic con and is an Ohio teaching • 8-Death by French Roast PB ...... $8 75. artist. Nov. 12 @ 1 PM • Christmas Cocoa Murder PB ...... $8 75. • Science Comics: Rockets PB (ages 9+) ...... $12 .50 • Pomeranian Always Barks Twice 1 PB ...... $7 75. Emily A. Duncan S. Victor Fleischer Wicked Saints is the thrilling start to Emily Vic Fleischer has worked as a professional A. Duncan’s Something Dark and Holy trilogy of archivist for over two decades. He currently Gothic fantasy novels. A girl who can speak to serves as Head of Archival Services at U Akron. gods must save her people without destroying The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company: herself. A prince in danger must decide who to A Photographic History 1898-1951 trust. A boy with a monstrous secret waits in the visually chronicles the rich and fascinating wings. Together, they must assassinate the king history of Goodyear, highlighting the products and stop the war. In a centuries-long war where that helped make Goodyear a household beauty and brutality meet, their three paths entwine in a shadowy world where a forbidden name and Akron the “Rubber Capital of the romance threatens to tip the scales between dark World”—tires that shod winning race cars in and light. The dramatic follow-up,R uthless the first Indy 500s, blimps that advertised the Gods, opens the door to a world of fallen gods Goodyear brand, figure balloons that graced and eldritch horrors. Emily is a youth services the Macy’s parades, conveyors used to build the librarian in Ohio. Nov. 14 @ 1:45 PM. Shasta and Grand Coulee dams, and balloons • 1-Wicked Saints PB (ages 14+) $10 .50 and airplane components that were critical • 2-Ruthless Gods HC (ages 14+) ...... $18 .50 assets in both world wars. Nov. 14 @ 6:30 PM. • The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company HC ...... $46 .00 Follow the Buckeye Book Fair’s YouTube channel for author videos! 8 Order autographed books online at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org/shop or use enclosed order form. Deborah Fleming P.L. Gaus Author Deborah Fleming, who has lived in First death—an accident or a homicide? Second rural Ohio and cared for its land for decades, death—a murder or a suicide? Events unfold quickly shares fourteen interrelated essays, blending on the first day of classes for Professor Michael her own experiences with both scientific and Branden’s new semester. The tragedies envelop a literary research. Resurrection of the Schwartzentruber sect, the most conservative of all Amish peoples, and Branden and Sheriff Bruce Wild: Meditations on Ohio’s Natural Robertson must wrestle with cultural and religious Landscape discusses both natural and human barriers in order to investigate the deaths in Stars histories as it focuses on the Allegheney Plateau for Lydia, Gaus’ tenth Amish-Country Mystery. In and hill country in Ohio’s eastern counties. the eleventh mystery, English Shade, Amish bishop Deborah Fleming is an equestrian, mountain Small Henry Rupp worries about the corrosive impact climber, and organic gardener who writes poetry, of tourism and the secrets of a murdered congregant fiction, and essays. Nov. 8 @ 6:30 PM and her comatose husband. Gaus lives in Wooster. • Resurrection of the Wild PB ...... $19 .00 • 1-Blood of the Prodigal PB ...... $16 .50 • 2-Broken English PB ...... $16 .50 • 3-Clouds Without Rain PB ...... $16 .50 Amanda Flower • 10-Stars for Lydia PB ...... $13 .50 Bailey is attending a wedding in beautiful Amish • 11-English Shade PB ...... $13 .50 Country when a guest drops dead. Turns out, the uninvited victim came equipped with lots David Giffels of dirt on the devout reverend’s hidden past The question of America’s identity has rarely been in Marshmallow Malice, the fifth book more urgent than now, and no American place in Amanda’s Amish Candy Shop series. She has has ever been more reflective of that identity two new series this year, with Matchmaking than Ohio. As we experience a historic 2020 Can Be Murder the first Amish Matchmaker presidential election, Barnstorming Ohio: To mystery. In Dead End Detective, Piper is in Understand America is Giffels’ account of a shock. A seasoned female detective, her partner year on Ohio’s roads, visiting people and places that Samantha Porter is dead, and it doesn’t look like offer valuable reflections on national questions and an accident. In fact, evidence is pointing toward concerns. Giffels is professor of English at Univ of Piper. Nov. 12 @ 6:30 PM. Akron and is the author of two memoirs, All the • Dead-End Detective PB ...... $15 . .50 Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down • Magic Garden 2-Death and Daisies PB ...... $7 .75 Life and Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a • Magic Garden 3-Mums and Mayhem HC ...... $26 .00 Coffin, and a Measure of Life. Nov. 7 @ 6:30 PM. • Marshmallow Malice PB ...... $7 .75 • All the Way Home PB ...... $16 .50 • Matchmaking Can Be Murder PB ...... $7 .75 • Barnstorming Ohio HC ...... $27 .00 • Furnishing Eternity PB ...... $15 .50 Dee Garretson • Hard Way on Purpose PB ...... $16 .50 All Is Fair is a young adult historical novel set Mark Godsey during WWII. Gone by Nightfall is set in Mark Godsey is Professor of Law at the 1917 and Charlotte Mason is determined to University of Cincinnati. Drawing upon stories make a life for herself in czarist Russia. Then a from his own career as a federal prosecutor, handsome new tutor arrives. Charlotte has high Godsey shares how investigations go awry, hopes for Dmitri, but then Russia descends into leading to the convictions of innocent people. revolution and chaos. Can Charlotte flee Russia, In Blind Injustice : A Former Prosecutor keep her siblings safe, and uncover Dmitri’s Exposes the Psychology and Politics of many secrets before she runs out of time? Of Wrongful Convictions, Godsey explores Cincinnati, Dee Garretson also writes mysteries distinct psychological human weaknesses in the Boxcar Children series. inherent in the criminal justice system and • All Is Fair HC (ages 9-14) ...... $17 .50 illustrates each with stories from his time as a • Boxcar 3-Detour of the Elephants PB (ages 8-12)$6. .75 hard-nosed prosecutor and then as an attorney • Boxcar 4-Shackelton Sabotage PB (ages 8-12) . . $6 .75 for the Ohio Innocence Project. Nov. 7 @ 6:30 PM. • Gone by Nightall HC (ages 9-14) ...... $18. .50 • Blind Injustice PB ...... $24 .00

Follow the Buckeye Book Fair’s YouTube channel for author videos! Order autographed books online at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org/shop or use enclosed order form. 9 Eliese Colette Goldbach Erin Guendelsberger Always More Love is a heartwarming story To ArcelorMittal Cleveland Temper Steel, Eliese and a fun experience for families to share together is known as #6691: Utility Worker, but this was about love. An interactive book, just tap, shake, never her dream. The mill is everything she was or flip the book to show the many ways your love trying to escape, but it’s also her only shot at grows. In Always So Grumpy, hug, shake, and financial security in an economically devastated and forgotten part of America. Rust: A Memoir spin the book to see if a little love can turn that of Steel and Grit is one woman’s story of frown upside down. Believe in working in the backbreaking steel industry to the magic of Christmas with rebuild her life. But what she uncovers in the mill the heartwarming Little Red is much more than molten metal and grueling Sleigh, a picture book about working conditions. Under the mill’s orange the little red sleigh that could! flame, she finds hope for the unity of America. Erin is a Bowling Green grad. In this memoir, Eliese takes a long and intimate • Always More Love HC (ages 3-6) ...... $10 .50 look at her Rust Belt childhood and struggles to • Always So Grumpy HC (ages 3-6) ...... $10 .00 reconcile her desire to leave without turning her • Inky the Octopus PB (ages 4-8) ...... $8 75. back on the people she’s come to love. Eliese received an MFA in • Little Red Sleigh HC (ages 4-8) ...... $17 .50 nonfiction and is now at John Carroll University. • Rust HC ...... $27 .00 Susan M. Guy Explore the organized crime history of Steubenville Gooseberry Patch in the 1920s and 30s in Mobsters, Madams & Gooseberry Patch was founded in 1984 by Murder in Steubenville, Ohio: The Story of Delaware, Ohio, neighbors Vickie Hutchins Little Chicago. Prohibition ended in 1933, and and Jo Ann Martin. Their company is best Steubenville hoped that its reputation as “Little known for producing family-friendly, Chicago” would end with it. That hope was short- community-style cookbooks. All-Time lived when, eight weeks later, the Phantom Killer Favorite Recipes from Ohio Cooks has made his midnight debut. Under the glow of a full tried and true recipes for every meal of the moon, the killer ambushed and killed a rail worker. day, plus yummy party treats and delicious Police, sheriff, and security guards joined forces to desserts. With 148 recipes and fun trivia find the Phantom before he took another victim. about the great state of Ohio, Gooseberry Patch cookbooks are Local historian Susan M. Guy delves into one of the created with today’s time-strapped, budget-conscious families in city’s most infamous crimes in The Moonlight mind and contain time-saving tips to help get meals on the table Mill Murders of Steubenville, Ohio. in a jiffy. (Unsigned copies only) • Mobsters, Madams, & Murder in Steubenville PB . $19. .00 • All-Time-Favorite Recipes from Ohio Cooks HC ...... $13 .50 • Moonlight Mill Murders of Steubenville PB . .$21 . .00 Barry Gott Margaret Peterson Haddix It’s time to celebrate another holiday with the Chess, Emma, and Finn Greystone—ages 12, 10, dinosaurs, and this time they’re filled with and 8—investigate why their mother went missing Thanksgiving cheer. Preparations for the big day and uncover their ties to an alternate world in are underway: there are groceries to procure, book one of the Greystone Secrets, The Strangers. flights to catch, and turkeys to brine. When it’s In book two, The Deceivers, the kids continue time to feast on the carefully curated dinner, they their quest to rescue their mothers and so they all give thanks for food and family in Dino- must return to the alternate dimension where truth Thanksgiving. Euclid illustrator Barry is illegal. Columbus author Haddix has written Gott’s cheerful digital illustrations paint over 40 thrillers. The story of the Greystone kids a cozy world of colorful dinosaurs in an examines the power of the truth—or a lie—to alter Nov. 12 @ 4:30 amusingly human setting in a series of Dino- lives, society, and even an entire reality. PM & Nov. 14 @ 1 PM. themed sports and holiday books. Nov. 8 @ 11 AM. • Dino-Basketball HC (ages 4-8) $17 .50 • Dino-Halloween HC . . . $17 .50 • Children of Exile Comp Boxed Set 1-3 PB (10-14) . . . $23 .00 • Dino Christmas HC ...... $17 .50 • Dino-Thanksgiving HC . . .$17 .50 • Deceivers: Greystone Secrets 2 HC (ages 10-14)$17. .50 • Dino-Football HC ...... $17 .50 • Trucks Zooming By HC . . . $17 .50 • Strangers: Greystone Secrets 1 PB (ages 10-14).$8 75. • Remarkables PB (ages 10-14) ...... $7 75. • Summer of Broken Things PB (ages 12-16) ...... $12 .50 10 Follow the Buckeye Book Fair’s YouTube channel for author videos! Order autographed books online at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org/shop or use enclosed order form. Kimberly Hamlin Steve Harpster Learning to draw is easy, as long as you know your After being outed in Ohio newspapers in 1876 for having an affair with a married ABCs! With Cincinnati illustrator Steve Harpster’s man, Helen Hamilton Gardener reinvented books, all you have to do is use lower-case letters A herself and dedicated her life to securing through Z to draw your very own adorable animal women’s financial, physical, and political kingdom. Learn how an E becomes a silly sloth just autonomy. She changed her name and by adding a few pencil lines and following Steve’s became a famous speaker and author, and, step-by-step instructions in Draw Alphababies: eventually, the highest-ranking woman in 130+ Super Cute Creatures from Letters federal government and the “most potent and Shapes. When you get tired of drawing cute factor” in the Congressional passage of the 19th Amendment. Kimberly Hamlin baby critters, try something goofy and turn letters is a History professor at Miami University into robots. Or, instead of letters, Start with a and her new book Free Thinker: Sex, Heart. Believe it or not, a heart can become an Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life animal, too! Nov. 14 @ 11:45 AM. of Helen Hamilton Gardener adds • Draw Alphababies PB . . . . . $14 .50 • Draw Wizards & Warriors w/ Letters $7 75. fascinating new details to the story of how • Draw Alphabeasts PB ...... $14 .50 • Drawing Dragons with Numbers $7 .75 women won the vote. Nov. 7 @ 6:30 PM • Draw Cute Kawaii Critters PB . . . $7 .75 • Start with a Heart PB ...... $7 .75 • Free Thinker HC ...... $27. . .00 • Draw Rad Robots Using Letters PB $7 .75 (ages 8+) Jenn Harney Stephen Heyman When one little duck keeps sinking, it relies Louis Bromfield was a World War I ambulance on duckling ingenuity to stay afloat inS wim driver, a Paris expat, and a Pulitzer Prize– Swim Sink. Everyone will laugh at the adorable winning novelist. But he cashed in his literary duckling’s string of failures and cheer when success to finance a wild agrarian dream in his it comes up with the best solution of all. native Ohio. The ideas he planted at his utopian Underwear! is a silly rhyming romp that is experimental farm, Malabar, would inspire Cleveland illustrator Jenn Harney’s author- America’s first generation of organic farmers and illustrator debut. Friendship is the winner popularize the tenets of environmentalism. The in Probably a Narwhal, a hilarious Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield contest between a girl who blames a and the Seeds of a Food Revolution is a narwhal for her mess and the narwhal sweeping biography that unearths this lost icon who materializes to defend himself. of American culture, a fascinating, hilarious and • Probably a Narwhal HC (ages 4-8) . . . . $17 .50 unclassifiable character who—between writing • Smelly Kelly & His Super Senses HC . .$18 .50 and plowing—also dabbled in global politics and • Swim Swim Sink HC (ages 2-5) ...... $12 .50 high society. Nov. 7 @ 2 PM. • Underwear! BRD (ages 2-5) ...... $7 .75 • The Planter of Modern Life HC ...... $26 .00 Will Hillenbrand Karen Harper Snow, snow, and more snow! It’s the perfect day 1939. As the wife of King George VI and the to play in the newly fallen snow. Oscar can’t mother of the future queen, Elizabeth (the “Queen contain his excitement—and before his boy Matt Mother”) shows a warm, smiling face to the world. knows it, Oscar is off on a wintry adventure. But Elizabeth holds many powerful cards and she’s Dashing through the woods, Oscar finds another also hiding damaging secrets about her past and dog playing in the snow! Together they find all her provenance that could prove to be her undoing sorts of adventures—ice skating, making dog in The Queen’s Secret. Alex heads to Alaska angels in the snow, and they even build an igloo! for a fresh start in Deep in the Alaska Woods, Snow Friends is a charming winter picture the first in a new adventure series. When a body book about friendship and dogs set against the turns up, Alex knows it’s not just a coincidence. perfect snowy day. Mighty Reader and the Big A beloved BBF author for over 30 years, Karen Freeze is a comic-book style picture book packed Harper passed away in April 2020 after battling with advice for new readers. Nov. 7 @ 11 AM & Nov. 10 cancer. (Unsigned copies only) @ 4 PM & Nov. 13 @ 6:30 PM. • Deep in the Alaska Woods PB ...... $7 .75 • Down by the Barn ...... $16 .50 • Mother Goose Pic Puzz HC . $17 .50 • The Queen’s Secret PB ...... $16 . .50 • First Star PB ...... $8 .75 • Santa’s Story HC ...... $17 .50 • I’m a Duck ...... $15 .50 • Snow Friends HC . . . . . $18 .50 • Mighty Reader & the Big Freeze HC $18 .50 • Will H . Small Print (8 .5x11) $20 .00 (ages 4-8) Follow the Buckeye Book Fair’s YouTube channel for author videos! Order autographed books online at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org/shop or use enclosed order form. 11 Jen Hirt Aiko Ikegami Aiko was born in Tokyo, Japan, and now lives Hear Me Ohio is a collection of essays about in Columbus. Since a young age she has loved leaving Ohio while always looking back at drawing, painting, and creating stories. Her new it. From places as far away and different as Hello Idaho, to the familiar forest of an arboretum in picture book, , is a romantic wordless Friends Kentucky, to the Pennsylvania riverbanks of the picture book about friendship. depicts Susquehanna River, Hirt writes about discovery, how fun it is to make new friends and that cultural loss, connections, and place. Readers will find and physical differences cannot stop us from being Why Worry? nature writing, meditations, literary journalism, a friend. is a gentle story of two and memoir—a range of approaches for covering friends swept into the unpredictable wilderness a range of miles and years since a childhood spent and how, despite feeling anxiety and worries, growing up in Hirt’s Greenhouse in Strongsville, they find peace and calmness together. When a Ohio, which was the subject of her first book. mysterious stranger carrying a bag of seeds comes • Hear Me Ohio PB ...... $20 .00 to town, magical things happen in Seed Man. • Friends HC (ages 4-8) ...... $16 . .50 • Hello HC (ages 4-8) ...... $17 .50 Kate Hoefler • Seed Man HC (ages 4-8) ...... $16. .50 Filled with whimsy and warmth, Nothing In • Why Worry? HC (ages 4-8) ...... $16 .50 Common is a tender friendship story that reminds us to always lead with compassion. In this lyrical Jim Ingraham picture book, two strangers learn about the many There were spectacular highs—Rookie of the Year, ways the world connects us—even if the only All Star, World Series, and devastating lows—the thing we have in common is how much we care end of his playing days, a tragic accident in his about someone else. Kate Hoefler has an MFA in second year as manager, a heartbreaker in the poetry and lives in rural Ohio. Rabbit and the World Series, and being fired from the job he Motorbike is a sweet story about the grieving loved. The Cleveland Indians were at the center process. Rabbit loves hearing old Dog’s stories of of Hargrove’s baseball life for more than 20 years. life on the road with his motorbike—so when Dog He managed some of the best Indians teams dies and leaves Rabbit his bike, Rabbit starts to feel ever in the 1990s—including five consecutive the powerful pull of the open road. Nov. 14 @ 11 AM. division titles and two trips to the World Series. • Great Big Things HC (ages 4-8) ...... $17 .50 Mike Hargrove and the Cleveland Indians: • Nothing In Common HC (ages 4-8) ...... $17 .50 A Baseball Life is an inside, in-depth look at a • Rabbit and the Motorbike HC (ages 4-8) ...... $17 .50 fascinating baseball life, from small-town sandlots • Real Cowboys HC (ages 4-8) ...... $17 .50 to the World Series. Mike Hargrove truly spent a lifetime in baseball. Nov. 9 @ 6:30 PM Kerrie Logan Hollihan • Mike Hargrove PB ...... $16 .50 The Creepy and True series explores spine-chilling topics kids are sure to love. Packed with facts but John Kasich light in tone, Ghosts Unveiled: Creepy and Everyone wants the same things: to live a happy life True takes a humorous but well-researched look full of purpose and meaning. And yet people spend at ghost appearances, unsolved mysteries, and eerie so much time wringing their hands over what’s hauntings around the world. Mummies Exposed!: wrong and not nearly enough time fixing those Creepy and True explores strange phenomena, things within their control. In his new book, It’s fun facts, and out of the ordinary discoveries. Up to Us: Ten Little Ways We Can Bring Hollihan is a nonfiction writer for young readers about Big Change, former Ohio Governor who lives in Cincinnati. Theodore Roosevelt for John Kasich shares ten little ways anyone can Kids and Rightfully Ours: How Women Won bring about big change. Rather than waiting on the Vote combine history with fun application Washington, solutions start happening once people activities. Nov. 8 @ 11:45 AM & Nov. 11 @ 4:30 PM. become leaders in their own lives and communities. • Ghosts Unveiled HC (ages 10-14) ...... $16. .50 His earlier work, Two Paths: America Divided • In the Fields & Trenches: WWI Battlefields HC . .$19 .00 or United, is a powerful message of hope and • Mummies Exposed HC (ages 10-14) ...... $16 .50 togetherness. (Unsigned copies only) • Rightfully Ours: Women Won the Vote PB (9+).$16 .50 • It’s Up to Us HC ...... $19 .00 •Theodore Roosevelt for Kids PB (ages 9+) . . . . .$16 .50 • Two Paths PB ...... $17. . . .50

12 Follow the Buckeye Book Fair’s YouTube channel for author videos! Order autographed books online at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org/shop or use enclosed order form. Kristen Lepionka Katharine Kenah Junior-high school nurse Rebecca Newsome was On the first day of first grade, Sam has news an experienced hiker—until she plummeted to share with the class. Over the summer, his to her death at the bottom of a ravine in a elephant had a baby! Really! Will Sam be able Columbus metro park. Her daughter, Maggie, to convince his classmates that he’s telling the doesn’t believe it was an accident. PI Roxane truth in The Best Seat in First Grade? The Weary quickly uncovers that the dead woman’s team that wrote and illustrated the I Can Read ex is definitely a jerk, but is he also a murderer? favorites The Best Seat in Kindergarten and The Once You Go This Far is the fourth thrilling Best Seat in Second Grade knows how to create mystery from Shamus Award-winning author a gentle, believable, sweet story that helps kids Kristen Lepionka. Nov. 11 @ 6:30 PM explore their emotions and reflect on their own .• 1-Last Place You Look ...... $16 .50 experiences. Granville author Kate Kenah was an .• 2-What You Want To See PB ...... $17 .50 oceanographer, working on the ship that found .• 3-Stories You Tell PB ...... $17 .50 the Titanic, before starting to write for children. .•4-Once You Go This Far HC ...... $26 .00 • Best Seat in First Grade PB (ages 5-7) ...... $4. .75 • Best Seat in Kindergarten PB (ages 4-6) ...... $4 .75 J. Patrick Lewis • Best Seat In Second Grade (ages 5-7) ...... $4. .75 Pat Lewis is a former U.S. Children’s Poet • Super Marsupials (ages 5-10) ...... $6 .75 Laureate. His new edited poetry collection, The Poetry of US, includes more than 200 poems Kimberly Kenney and stunning photographs that celebrate the Kenney’s Murder in Stark County, OHIO people, places, and passions of the United States. recounts crimes of passion, greed, and revenge Lewis’ new series of picture books helps readers from right in our own backyard. Rendered in celebrate the holidays with Let’s Celebrate painstaking detail, accounts of high-profile Christmas, Thanksgiving, killings and courtroom drama filled the pages and Halloween. The of Stark County’s early newspapers. Using unbelievable yet true story of contemporary local newspaper accounts, author the friendship between an eight- Kim Kenney tells the story of eight Stark County year-old boy and legendary murders. Stark County Food takes a look at baseball player Jackie Robinson forgotten mom-and-pop grocery stores and long- is told in Always, Jackie. gone restaurants of the area. Kim Kenney is the • Always, Jacie HC ...... $18 .50 • Let’s Celebrate Halloween PB $5 75. Executive Director of the McKinley Presidential • I Am Polar Bear HC ...... $18 .50 • Let’s Celebrate Thanksgiving PB $5 75. Library & Museum in Canton. Nov. 8 @ 2 PM. • If You Were a Chocolate Mustache PB $9 .50 • Nat Geo Bk of Animal Poetry HC $24 .00 • Murder in Stark County, Ohio PB ...... $21 .00 • It’s Not the Puppy BRD . . . . $9 .50 • Poem-Mobiles PB ...... $7 75. • Stark County Food PB ...... $21 .00 • Let’s Celebrate Christmas PB $5 .75 • Poetry of Us HC ...... $24 .00 Terri Libenson Intisar Khanani Middle school is full of challenges. Told in To escape her cruel family and contemptuous alternating past and present chapters, Becoming court, fifteen-year-old Princess Alyrra is willing Brianna is a heartwarming story unfolding to marry Prince Kestrin. But when she magically over the eight months that shy Bri prepares for swaps lives with her nemesis, she may find her bat mitzvah. There are four books in Terri happiness as a commoner. In Thorn, Princess Libenson’s series of graphic novels about middle Alyrra always longed to escape the confines of school, friendship, and finding confidence. In her royal life, but when her mother betroths Just Jaime, Jaime knows something is off with her to a powerful prince in a distant kingdom, her friend group. They’ve started to exclude her she has little hope for a better future. But as and make fun of the way she dresses and the Alyrra uncovers dangerous secrets about her new things she likes. At least she can count on her world, including a threat to the prince himself, BFF, Maya, to have her back...right? Nov. 12 @ 4:30 she knows she can’t remain silent forever. Intisar PM & Nov. 14 @ 1 PM. grew up traveling the world and currently lives in Cincinnati. Nov. 13 @ 4:30 PM & Nov. 14 @ 1:45 PM. • Becoming Brianna PB (ages 9-12) ...... $12 .50 • 1-Thorn HC (ages 13+) ...... $18 .50 • Invisible Emmie PB (ages 9-12) ...... $12 .50 • Just Jaime PB (ages 9-12) ...... $12 .50 • Positively Izzy PB (ages 9-12) ...... $12 .50 Follow the Buckeye Book Fair’s YouTube channel for author videos! Order autographed books online at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org/shop or use enclosed order form. 13 Kylie Logan Jeannine Love Avery Morgan has been hired to breathe new life Jeannine Love is the former Director of the into the Portage Path Women’s Club, but first she’ll Intermuseum Conservation Association in have to deal with a dead body and a meddling Oberlin. Her book Cleveland Architecture, ghost. When the club president’s body is found in 1890-1930: Building the City Beautiful the home she is restoring, Avery sets out to solve looks at the architectural transformation of her first case inH aunted Homicide. Also new Cleveland during its “Golden Age.” Cleveland this year is the follow up to last year’s The Scent became noted for its distinction in the architecture of Murder, The Secret of Bones, of its public buildings, many in the style of the where Jazz’s cadaver sniffing dog finds French Ecole des Beaux-Arts. The book examines a body hidden at a parochial school 22 of those buildings in detail, giving a close and the staff is shocked to learn that look at the architects, sculptors, muralists, and the departed is a former colleague. Nov. 12 @ 6:30 PM. craftsmen who contributed to their successful Cleveland Architecture • 1-Scent of Murder PB ...... $7 . .75 design and adaptation. • 2-The Secrets of Bones HC ...... $26 .00 is a coffee table book with beautiful photos and • Haunted Homicide PB ...... $7. . .75 excellent background information on architecture. • Cleveland Architecture 1890-1930 HC ...... $52. .00 Loren Long Loren Long, of Cincinnati, is the illustrator of President Obama’s picture book Of Thee I Sing Scott MacGregor & Gary Dumm and the re-illustrated edition of The Little Engine Scott MacGregor and Gary Dumm’s new That Could.His new book, The Night Before graphic novel imagines the lives of blue- Christmas, presents a fresh, modern take on the collar workers involved in the real-life Lake classic Christmas poem. Long’s lush landscapes and Erie tunnel disaster of 1916 in Cleveland. charming scenes capture the wonder and magic of They tell the intersecting stories of a brilliant Christmas. Otis is a special tractor. He loves his farm African American inventor, Ben Beltran and farmer and has a series of adventures in Otis and (based on the real-life Garrett Morgan, Sr.), the Kittens, An Otis Christmas, and Otis and the desperate immigrants tunneling beneath Scarecrow which explores themes of friendship and Lake Erie, and corrupt overseers who risk bullying. Nov. 7 @ 11 AM & Nov. 13 @ 6:30 PM. countless lives for profit. As historical • Little Engine That Could HC . . $17 .50 • Otis and the Kittens HC . . . $17 .50 fiction, Fire on the Water sheds light not • Little Tree HC (ages 4-8) . . . $17 .50 • Otis and the Scarecrow HC $17 .50 only on one of America’s earliest man-made • Love HC ...... $17 .50 • Otis Christmas ...... $17 .50 ecological disasters but also on racism and • Night Before Christmas HC $18 .50 • Otis HC ...... $17 .50 the economic disparity between classes in the • Of Thee I Sing HC ...... $17 .50 • There’s a Hole in the Log HC $17 .50 Midwest at the turn of the century. • Fire on the Water HC (ages 14+) ...... $24 .00 Scott H. Longert Cy Young: American Baseball Hero tells the life story of Cy Young, the hardest-throwing pitcher Nannette Maciejunes in baseball history, and introduces middle-grade Nannette V. Maciejunes is Executive Director of readers to America’s favorite pastime, explaining the Columbus Museum of Art. Reflections: balls, strikes, and outs in an exciting and easy-to- The American Collection of the understand way. Cy Young tells the story of his Columbus Museum of Art adds a novel post-Civil War youth in a small town in central and provocative element to the library of art Ohio and his rise to the best pitcher in Major museum collection catalogs. In the traditional League Baseball. His personal life and years after manner, Reflections features selected works— baseball show what a man with good values and a more than 125—from the museum’s collection, strong foundation can accomplish. Scott Longert accompanied by concise essays by scholars of art writes about baseball history, particularly the Cleveland Indians. Nov. 9 @ 6:30 PM & Nov. 11 @ 4:30 PM. who reflect on and respond to the distinctive • Bad Boys, Bad Times PB ...... $24 .00 aspects of each work. Nov. 14 @ 6:30 PM. • Best They Cound Be HC ...... $30. .00 • Reflections: American Art HC ...... $49 . .00 • Cy Young PB (ages 9-14) ...... $14 .50 • No Money, No Beer, No Pennants PB ...... $24 .00

14 Follow the Buckeye Book Fair’s YouTube channel for author videos! Order autographed books online at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org/shop or use enclosed order form. Dandi Daley Mackall Dandi Mackall uses sweet, fun language to make Zack Meisel God’s word accessible for children ages 2-5 with In 1995, Cleveland rocked. The Indians reached God Is Always with Me and God Takes Care the World Series for the first time in 41 years. of Me, board books that each feature one simple Cleveland Rocked: The Personalities, psalm. West Salem author Dandi Mackall writes Sluggers, and Magic of the 1995 Indians for all ages including picture books like Rock Away is the complete story of the team that brought Granny, early reader books like A Horse Named sellout crowds and walk-off wins. Author Zack Bob, novels for teens including Larger-than-Life- Meisel traces the roots of the pennant winner Lara, a unique and multi-layered story where the and introduces readers to a cast of larger-than- main character communicates the art of storytelling life personalities, including Belle, Thome, Kenny as the action unfolds, and her novel for adults based Lofton, and manager Mike Hargrove, who managed on her parent’s true WWII love story, With Love, to keep the clubhouse at peace. Meisel covers the Wherever You Are. Nov. 6 @ 1 PM & Nov. 7 @ 11:45 AM & Indians for The Athletic and is also the author of Nov. 12 @ 4:30 PM. two books on OSU football. Nov. 9 @ 6:30 PM • 100 Things Indians Fans Should Know & Do PB . . . . $14 .50 • God Is Always with Me BRD $7 .75 • Legend of St . Nicholas HC . . $16 50. • Cleveland Rocked HC ...... $27 .00 • God Takes Care of Me BRD . . $7 75. • Rock Away Granny HC . . . . $16 50. • OSU Buckeyes Fans Bucket List PB ...... $16 .50 • Horse Named Bob PB . . . . . $4 75. • School’s First Day of Me PB . .$4 .75 • OSU If These Walls Could Talk PB ...... $17 .50 • Just Sayin PB ...... $9 .50 • Wild Thing: Winnie 1 PB . . . $6 .75 • Larger-than-Life Lara PB . . . $9 50. • With Love, Wherever You Are PB $15 .50 Joe Mackall Gary Meiter Co-founded by Ashland English professor Joe More than 900 species of birds are known Mackall in 1999, River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction from North America, an avifauna made up Narrative has become a nationally recognized leader of native year-round residents and seasonal in publishing a range of creative nonfiction, including migrants, modestly enhanced by introduced exotics and neighboring vagrants. Bird Is essays, memoir, and literary journalism. River the Word is an unequalled compilation Teeth: Twenty Years of Creative Nonfiction of the names of almost 800 of those birds collects work from up-and-coming authors as well and the record of how, when, where, and as luminaries such as Ann Hood, Lee Martin, and by whom those names were created and became parts of the Andre Dubus III. Mackall’s earlier works include his history and science of North America’s avifauna. memoir Last Street Before Clevleand and Plain Secrets: An Outsider among the Amish, about his • Bird Is the Word PB ...... $37 . . .00 surprising friendship with an Amish family trying to live a simple life in a complex world. Nov. 8 @ 6:30 PM • Last Street Before Cleveland PB ...... $19 .00 David Meyers & Elise Meyers Walker • Plain Secrets PB ...... $19 .00 Prior to the Civil War, Ohio • River Teeth Anthology PB ...... $24 .00 had more African American settlements than any other state. Tiffany McDaniel Owing to a common border with Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a white mother several slave states, Ohio became and a Cherokee father, Betty is the sixth of eight a destination for people of color siblings. The world they inhabit in the rural seeking to separate themselves town of Breathed, Ohio, is one of poverty and from slavery. Despite these communities having violence—both from outside the family and, populations that sometimes numbered in the devastatingly, from within. When her family’s hundreds, nearly all had lost their identities by darkest secrets are brought to light, she has no the beginning of the twentieth century. A father- choice but to reckon with the brutal history daughter writing team, David and Elise’s new hiding in the hills, as well as the heart-wrenching book looks at the Historic Black Settlements cruelties and incredible characters she encounters. of Ohio. Nov. 14 @ 6:30 PM. Tiffany is a novelist, poet, and visual artist born • Hello I Must Be Going PB ...... $16 .50 and raised in Ohio. Her new novel, Betty, is inspired by generations of her family and she is • Historic Black Settlements of Ohio PB . . . . . $23. .00 also the author of the novel The Summer That • Lynching and Mob Violence in Ohio PB ...... $37 .00 Melted Everything. Nov. 10 @ 6:30 PM • Ohio’s Black Hand Syndicate PB ...... $19 . .00 • Betty HC ...... $26 .00 • Summer that Melted Everything PB ...... $18 .50 Follow the Buckeye Book Fair’s YouTube channel for author videos! Order autographed books online at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org/shop or use enclosed order form. 15 Robert Miltner & Peter Grandbois David Lee Morgan, Jr. Triptych is a three-book collection of After playing all of their hard-fought football poems rediscovering one’s muse through the games, the Massillon Tigers football team would timelessness of art, song, love, and self. What gather in a circle to do 15 pushups—a pushup connects them all is the attention to voice. for every game it would take to lead them to the Contained within are three books, The Three- State Championship. The mantra for the season Legged World by Peter Grandbois, In Time became: 15 for 15. In The Massillon Tigers: 15 by James McCorkle, and Orpheus & Echo by for 15, each pushup is represented as a chapter Robert Miltner. Peter Grandbois is Associate and a different piece of the puzzle that explains Professor of English at Dennison. Robert the football town of Massillon, Ohio. David Lee Miltner is Emeritus Professor of English at Morgan, Jr., teaches English and Creative Writing Kent State. Nov. 8 @ 6:30 PM at Massillon High School. He is also the author • Triptych: Poems PB ...... $17 .50 of LeBron James: The Rise of a Star. Morgan’s riveting sports books appeal to teens and reluctant readers. Nov. 6 @ 4 PM & Nov. 9 @ 6:30 PM & Nov. 13 @ 4:30 PM. Paul & Sally Misencik • LeBron James PB ...... $15 .50 In the 1700s, the Iroquois Confederacy • The Massillon Tigers: 15 for 15 PB ...... $22. . .00 launched a war for control of the fur trade known as the Beaver Wars. The Norm N. Nite resulting defeat of the Erie nation led to For twenty-five years, the Rock and Roll Hall present-day Ohio becoming devoid of of Fame has defined Cleveland’s image as the Indian inhabitants. American Indians “Rock and Roll Capital of the World.” But of the Ohio Country in the 18th while the Rock Hall has become an iconic Century details the story of the Beaver Wars, the landmark for the city of Cleveland and for fans subsequent Indian migrations into present Ohio, of rock and roll around the world, it was just the locations and descriptions of documented one missed phone call away from never being Indian trails and settlements, and the Indians’ built in Cleveland. If the prominent singer forlorn struggles to preserve an Ohio homeland, and actress Lesley Gore hadn’t contacted radio culminating in their expulsion by Jackson’s personality Norm N. Nite in August 1983, the Indian Removal Act in 1830. Nov. 7 @ 1 PM. Hall of Fame would not be in Cleveland. The • American Indians of the Ohio Country PB . . . . $41 .00 House That Rock Built is a detailed record • G . Washington & Cheif Tanacharison PB ...... $32 .00 of the Rock Hall’s inception and creation, and • Original American Spies PB ...... $32 .00 a tribute to the people who made it happen. • Sally Townsend, George Washington’s Spy PB . . . . . $28 .00 Nov. 15 @ 6:30 PM. •House That Rock Built PB ...... $26 .00 Jess Montgomery Set against the backdrop of coal mining, Mike & Janice Olszewski prohibition and women’s rights, The Widows Romper Room’s Miss Barbara, Jungle is inspired by Ohio’s true first female sheriff Larry...their impact on Northeast Ohio and is the debut title of Jess’ Kinship Historical kids was lifelong and is the subject of Mystery Series. When Lily Ross learns that her From Captain Penny to Superhost: husband Daniel, the county’s widely respected Tales from the Golden Age of sheriff, is murdered while transporting a prisoner Cleveland Children’s Television, in 1925 in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio, 1950s-1970s. Mike Olszewski is the she is devastated and vows to avenge his death. curator and archivist for the Ohio Broadcast In the second book, The Hollows, Sheriff Lily Archive and Museum. He and his wife write Ross investigates the death of an elderly woman about the pop culture history of Cleveland and killed along the tracks of the spooky—and their Smoky, Sweaty, Rowdy, and Loud: Tales of allegedly haunted—railroad that runs through Cleveland’s Legendary Rock & Roll Landmarks the Moonvale Tunnel. Nov. 10 @ 6:30 PM looks at the rock legacy of the city. Nov. 15 @ 6:30 PM. • 1-The Widows PB ...... $9 .50 • Cleveland Radio Tales PB ...... $15 .50 • 2-The Hollows HC ...... $27 .00 • Cleveland TV Tales Vol 1 PB ...... $15 .50 • From Captain Penny to Superhost PB ...... $15 .50 • Smoky, Sweaty, Rowdy, & Loud PB ...... $15 .50 Follow the Buckeye Book Fair’s YouTube channel for author videos! 16 Order autographed books online at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org/shop or use enclosed order form. Paul Orlousky Coyote Peterson Animal Planet star, Westerville resident, and host On Cleveland TV news for almost 50 years of YouTube’s Brave Wilderness, Coyote Peterson (Channels 3, 5, and 19), Paul Orlousky is an animal expert and adventurer who famously specialized in investigative reports. He witnessed tried all of the world’s most painful insect historic events, horrific crimes, bizarre behavior, stings. This time he’s being BITTEN by some heartwarming deeds… and sometimes just of Earth’s wildest beasts! The Beast of Bites hilarious, silly stuff. Now, in Punched, Kicked, is a full-color exploration, perfect for animal Spat On, and Sometimes Thanked: Memoirs enthusiasts and fans of The King of Sting. of a Cleveland TV News Reporter, he shares Featuring photographic stills from web episodes, behind-the-camera stories about what he saw original full-color illustrations, and packed that viewers didn’t—what he overheard in a with facts about nature’s most misunderstood judge’s chambers or in a courtroom lobby after an creatures, these are dream books for any kid that eventful trial—and the threats he received from loves animals, the great outdoors, and daringly Nov. 11 @ 5:30 PM. shady business owners, crooked politicians, and dangerous adventures! sometimes even the cops. Nov. 15 @ 6:30 PM. • Beast of Bites H C (ages 9+) ...... $18 . .50 • Punched, Kicked, Spat On PB ...... $15 .50 • Brave Adventures HC (ages 9+) ...... $17 .50 • King of Sting HC (ages 9+) ...... $18 .50 C.F. Payne Roger Pickenpaugh Manon Rhaeaume always dreamed of playing The National Road was the first major improved hockey. At every level of competition, she faced highway in the United States built by the federal naysayers, but she continued to play, earning government. America’s First Interstate: The her place on prestigious teams and ultimately National Road, 1806-1853 looks at the road becoming the first woman to play a game in from the perspective of westward expansion, stage- the NHL. Including an afterword written by coach travel, freight hauling, livestock herding, and Manon herself, Breaking the Ice is the true politics of construction as the project goes through story of one woman’s courage, determination, changing presidential administrations. Picken- and love for the sport. C.F. Payne chairs the paugh also describes how states assumed control of illustration department at CCAD. Nov. 7 @ 11 AM the road once the US government chose to abandon • Breaking the Ice HC (ages 5-10) ...... $18 .50 it, including the charging of tolls. Pickenpaugh is a • Mickey Mantle HC (ages 5-10) ...... $17 .50 retired teacher and is the author of several books on • Miss Mary Reporting HC (ages 5-10) ...... $18 . .50 extreme weather events in Ohio history. • Mousetronaut HC (ages 4-8) ...... $19 .00 • America’s First Interstate HC ...... $27 .00 • To Dare Mighty Things HC (ages 5-10) ...... $17 .50 • Buckeye Blizzard PB ...... $11 .50 • Carpathia PB ...... $17 .50 • McKinley, Murder, & the Pan-Amer Expo PB ...... $28 .00 Shelley Pearsall • Night of the Wicked Winds PB ...... $13 .50 April is looking for an escape from the sixth- grade lunch hour, which has become a social- Nancy Roe Pimm scene nightmare, so she signs up to be a “buddy Shaesta Waiz, a refugee from Afghanistan, bench monitor” for the fourth grade recess. Joey dreamed of doing great things. But first she had Byrd is a boy on the fringes, who wanders the to leave a refugee camp with her family to make a playground alone, dragging his foot through the new life in America, overcome gender stereotypes, dirt. Over time in Things Seen from Above, be the first in her family to go to college, and April realizes that Joey isn’t just making random overcome her fear of flying. After becoming a circles. When you look at his designs from above, pilot, Shaesta made the flight of a lifetime and a story emerges. Nov. 12 @ 4 PM & Nov. 14 @ 1 PM. set a world record. Fly, Girl, Fly!: Shaesta • All of the Above PB (ages 8-14) ...... $7 . .75 Waiz Soars Around the World (ages 5-10) • Jump into the Sky PB (ages 8-14) ...... $8 .75 encourages readers to believe in themselves and • Seventh Most Important Thing PB (ages 8-14) . . . . . $7 .75 allow their dreams to soar. Nov. 8 @ 11:45 AM & Nov. 11 • Things Seen from Above HC (ages 8-14) ...... $16 .50 @ 1 PM & Nov. 11 @ 4:30 PM. • Trouble Don’t Last PB (ages 8-14) ...... $7 .75 • Bonded by Battle HC (ages 12+) ...... $16 .50 • Fly, Girl, Fly! HC (ages 5-10) ...... $18 .50 • Jerrie Mock Story PB (ages 10+) ...... $14 .50 • Smoky the Dog That Saved My Life PB (ages 10+) . . $14 .50 Follow the Buckeye Book Fair’s YouTube channel for author videos! Order autographed books online at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org/shop or use enclosed order form. 17 Terry Pluto Brad Ricca The Cleveland Arena and Richfield Coliseum are In 1910, Olive MacLeod, a thirty-year-old, long gone, but they and the Cavs teams from 1970 redheaded Scottish aristocrat, received word that to the 1990s come alive in Vintage Cavs: A her fiancé, the famous naturalist Boyd Alexander, Warm Look Back at the Cavaliers of the was missing in Africa. So she went to find him. Cleveland Arena and Richfield Coliseum Olive the Lionheart: Lost Love, Imperial Years. This is a personal history of the Cavs by a Spies, and One Woman’s Journey into the sportswriter who was there as a young fan and later as an NBA beat writer. From expansion team to Heart of Africa is the thrilling true story of her the brink of greatness with Austin Carr, “Hot Rod” astonishing journey. Brad Ricca earned his PhD Williams, and Mark Price, these stories will take in English from Case Western where he currently you back to vintage Cavs moments. Don’t miss this teaches. He is also the author of the Edgar chance to pick up Terry’s previous titles in a two-for- Award-nominated Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The one deal! Nov. 7 @ 3 PM. True Story of New York City’s Greatest Female • False Start & Browns Blues PBs - 2 books for 1 . . . . . $15 .50 Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case • Franchise & Comeback PBs - 2 books for 1 ...... $15 .50 That Captivated a Nation and Super Boys, a • Glory Days in Tribe Town PB ...... $15 .50 biography of the creators of Superman. • Vintage Cavs PB ...... $15 .50 • Mrs . Sherlock Holmes PB ...... $16 . .50 • Olive the Lionheart HC ...... $28. .00 • Super Boys PB ...... $23 .00 Bonnie Proudfoot Set from the late 1960s through the early 1990s, Natalie D. Richards Bonnie’s elegiac, unvarnished, and empathetic Mira needs to get home for the holidays. debut novel captures one working-class family in Badly. But when an incoming blizzard cancels rural West Virginia as they balance on the dividing her flight, she accepts a ride from Harper, the line between Appalachia old and new, with sisters glamorous seatmate from her flight. But as they Dessie and Billie Price at its urgently beating set off, Mira realizes her fellow travelers are all heart. Goshen Road opens in 1967 with a total strangers, and every one of them is hiding logging accident and the teenaged Lux Cranfield’s something. People’s belongings are mysteriously disappearing. Someone in the car is clearly lying, headlong plunge into the courtship of Dessie. and may even be sabotaging the trip—but why? Bonnie lives in Athens and has an MA in English Five Total Strangers is the newest YA thriller and an MA in Creative Writing. Nov. 8 @ 6:30 PM from Pickerington author Natalie Richards. • Goshen Road PB ...... $19 .00 • Five Total Strangers PB (ages 15+) ...... $10 .50 • Gone Too Far PB (ages 15+) ...... $10 .50 • My Secret to Tell PB (ages 15+) ...... $10 .50 • One Was Lost PB (ages 15+) ...... $10 .50 • What You Hide PB (ages 15+) ...... $10 .50 Justin A. Reynolds Justin A. Reynolds, author of Opposite of Always, James Robenalt returns with another charming and powerful YA In July 1968, police in Cleveland battled with black contemporary novel with a speculative twist. Early nationalists in a night of terror that saw 6 people Departures explores the question, what if you killed and at least 15 wounded. The gun battle could bring your best friend back to life—but only touched off days of heavy rioting. The confrontation for a short time? Jamal’s best friend, Q, doesn’t know was surprising given that Cleveland had just elected Carl Stokes, the first black mayor of a major US that he died, and that he’s about to die again. But city. Ballots and Bullets: Black Power a new technology allows Q to be reanimated for a Politics and Urban Guerrilla Warfare in few weeks before he dies. Early Departures weaves 1968 Cleveland looks at the roots of the violence together loss, grief, friendship, and love to form and its political aftermath in Cleveland, a uniquely a wholly unique homage to the bonds that bring important city in the civil rights movement. Fifty people together for life—and beyond. Of Northeast years later, the specter of race violence and police Ohio, Justin writes hilarious and heartfelt novels brutality still haunts the US. James Robenalt is a about the choices we make, the people we choose, trial lawyer in Cleveland. He is also the author of and the moments that make a life worth reliving. January 1973: Watergate, Roe V. Wade, Vietnam. • Early Departures HC (ages 16+) ...... $17 .50 Nov. 15 @ 6:30 PM. • Opposite of Always PB (ages 16+) ...... $11 .50 • Ballots and Bullets PB ...... $19 .00 • January 1973: Watergate PB ...... $19 .00 Follow the Buckeye Book Fair’s YouTube channel for author videos! 18 Order autographed books online at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org/shop or use enclosed order form. Karen Robertson Scott Russell Sanders Native Ohioan Scott Russell Sanders shows how A Cleveland native, Karen Robertson earned her imagination, linked to compassion, can help us Master’s degree in Public History from OSU. solve the urgent ecological and social challenges Little Ohio: A Nostalgic Look at the we face in The Way of Imagination: Essays. Buckeye State’s Smallest Towns is a coffee- Imagination breaks the shell of the status quo, table book that spotlights 100 small Ohio towns summoning up objects that do not yet exist, actions with populations under 500, featuring full-color that no one has yet performed, and wiser ways of photographs, fun facts, and details about what living. The Way of Imagination seeks to show how imagination might guide us through the makes each community unique. The towns current social and environmental upheaval. Scott’s include the old community of Tarlton that earlier picture books have been reprinted. Explore was settled prior to Ohio statehood, the the fossils, animal tracks, and insects found in bustling island resort community Put- Crawdad Creek. Meeting Trees captures the in-Bay, the Amish community of Mount delicate details of bark, branches, and leaves while Eaton, and many more. Nov. 14 @ 6:30 PM. enchanting readers with the beauty of the natural • Little Ohio PB ...... $18 .50 world. Nov. 8 @ 6:30 PM • Crawdad Creek HC (ages 5-10) ...... $16 .50 Michael J. Rosen • Dancing in Dreamtime PB ...... $18 .50 Curious and inventive, young Ben fails at several • Meeting Trees HC (ages 5-10) ...... $16. . .50 trades, but each time he fails to find a profession, he • Way of Imagination PB ...... $16 .50 takes some important bit of knowledge with him. Connie Schultz A Ben of All Trades: The Most Inventive In 1957 Clayton Valley, Ohio, Ellie has the Boyhood of Benjamin Franklin is a picture- best grades in her class. Her dream is to go to book biography that sheds light on this versatile nursing school and marry Brick McGinty. Brick, genius and his unconventional path to greatness. a basketball star, has the chance to escape his Michael J. Rosen has written or edited more than abusive father and become the first person in his 135 books for children and adults, including blue-collar family to attend college. But when Ellie The Tale of Rescue, a timeless tale of human- learns that she is pregnant, everything changes. The animal bonds and a daring rescue that is perfect evolution of women’s lives spanning the second for all ages of readers, and A Mile and a Half of half of the twentieth century is at the center of Lines: The Art of James Thurber. Nov. 13 @ 6:30 The Daughters of Erietown, a beautiful novel PM & Nov. 14 @ 11 AM. that richly portrays how much people know—and • A Ben of All Trades HC (ages 5-10) ...... $16 .50 pretend not to know—about the secrets at the heart • Greatest Table (ages 7+) HC ...... $19. .00 of a town, and a family. Connie Schultz is a Pulitzer • In the Quiet Noisy Woods (ages 4-8) HC ...... $17 .50 Prize-winning writer who lives in Cleveland with Nov. 7 @ 6:30 PM • Mile and a Half of Lines: Art of Thurber PB . . . . . $28 .00 her husband, Senator Sherrod Brown. • Daughters of Erietown HC ...... $27 .00 • Tale of Rescue (ages 8+) HC ...... $14 .50 Ken Rusk William Shkurti Students entering Ohio State University in Ken Rusk, the “million-dollar ditch digger,” is here to show you that blue-collar trades are a the 1960s enjoyed a period of unprecedented source of pride and that you can—and will—find prosperity and expanding freedom for young your version of happiness by pursuing a good people. They grooved to folk singers and acid old-fashioned craft. Ken creates a step-by-step, rockers, many of whom visited campus. Ohio interactive guide, including financial planning State University Student Life in the 1960s and savings advice, to creating alternative and is a photo exploration of this wild decade. Topics realistic routes to success and fulfillment. In include parties, traditions, athletics, concerts, Blue Collar Cash: Love Your Work, gathering places and fashion trends. Ohio State Secure Your Future, and Find Happiness University in the Sixties: The Unraveling of the for Life , Ken shares his insights from over Old Order uses contemporary news stories, archival 30 years working in blue collar trades as an materials, and interviews to explore how tensions entrepreneur and mentor. Ken is a blue-collar construction business entrepreneur in Toledo built up over protests and how they forever changed who has launched multiple successful endeavors the university. Formerly the CFO of Ohio State over the last thirty years. Nov. 14 @ 6:30 PM. University, Bill is also an OSU grad. Nov. 15 @ 6:30 PM. • Blue-Collar Cash HC ...... $24 .00 • OSU Student Life in the 1960s PB $21 .00 • OSU in the Sixties PB ...... $28 .00 Follow the Buckeye Book Fair’s YouTube channel for author videos! Order autographed books online at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org/shop or use enclosed order form. 19 Jack Shuler Paul Sutter Jack Shuler is chair of the narrative journalism So you’ve fallen in love with space and now program at Denison Univ and he explores the you want to see it for yourself? Maybe you current addiction crisis in This Is Ohio: The want to witness the birth of a star, or visit the Overdose Crisis and the Front Lines of a New black hole at the center of our galaxy? Well America. Opioids are the current face of addiction, stop, because all that will probably kill you! but as Shuler shows, the crisis in our midst is one From dying stars to young galaxies, the universe that has long been fostered by income inequality, may be beautiful, but it’s treacherous. Through the loss of manufacturing jobs across the Rust Belt, metaphors and straightforward language, and lack of access to health care. What is playing out How to Die in Space: A Journey Through in Ohio today isn’t only about opioids, but rather Dangerous Astrophysical Phenomena a decades-long economic and sociological shift in breathes life into astrophysics, unveiling how small towns all across the US. The brave men and particles and forces and fields interplay to create women profiled in This Is Ohio are mounting a the drama in the heavens above us. Prior to his grassroots effort to focus on saving lives through current appointment as a research professor in commonsense harm-reduction policies. What astrophysics, Paul served as the chief scientist at happens in Ohio will have ramifications felt across the Center of Science and Industry in Columbus. the nation and for decades to come. Nov. 7 @ 6:30 PM Nov. 8 @ 1 PM. • This Is Ohio HC ...... $25 .00 • How to Die in Space HC ...... $27 .00 Dave Szalay Tricia Springstubb Dave Szalay is an award-winning illustrator/ Khalil and Mr. Hagerty don’t appear to have designer, writer, and professor. He teaches a lot in common, but on hot summer days, illustration, visual storytelling, and design. Khalil looks for buried treasure in the yard Nineteen poems share fascinating stories Khalil and Mr. Hagerty tends to his garden. about events in Abraham Lincoln’s life in The and Mr. Hagerty and the Backyard Superlative A. Lincoln: Poems about Our Treasures is a heart-tugging tribute to the 16th President. If you’re taking your monster love of good neighbors and to the strength of on a road trip this summer, you’ll need Travel intergenerational and intercultural bonds. Guide for Monsters to help you both enjoy Cleveland author Tricia Springstubb is a the sights and avoid monster-related mishaps. former children’s librarian. Her middle grade Sure to win your heart, The True Story of novels include Every Single Second and Zippy Chippy: The Little Horse That Moonpenny Island. Nov. 7 @ 11:45 AM & Nov. 9 @ Couldn’t is a remarkable story of the famed 4:30 PM & Nov. 10 @ 1 PM & Nov. 12 @ 4:30 PM. racehorse who lost every race. Nov. 8 @ 11 AM & Nov. • Cody & the Fountain of Happiness PB ...... $6 .75 10 @ 4:30 PM. • Every Single Second PB ...... $6 .75 • Superlative A . Lincoln HC (ages 4-8) ...... $17 .50 • Khalil & Mr. Hagerty HC ...... $16 .50 • Travel Guide for Monsters HC (ages 4-8) ...... $16 .50 • Moonpenny Island PB ...... $6. . .75 • True Story of Zippy Chippy HC (ages 4-8) . . . . . $17 .50 Jessica Strawser Jessica Strawser is the editorial director of Writer’s Jason Tharp Digest magazine and is the author of the page- In It’s Okay to Be a Unicorn!, Cornelius turning novels Almost Missed You and Not That J. Sparklesteed is known among all the other I Could Tell, both of which explore the darker horses in Hoofington for his beautiful and sides of marriage and motherhood. Her newest creative handmade hats. But Cornelius is hiding thriller, Forget You Know Me, explores what a secret under his own tall, pointy hat: He’s really happens when a video call between friends captures a unicorn. Hoofington is a friendly place, but a shocking incident no one was supposed to see. its horses pass on lots of mean rumors about When Molly leaves the room to check on a crying unicorns. When Cornelius is chosen to perform child during a video chat, what Liza sees next will for this year’s Hoofapalooza, will he find the change everything. Only one thing is certain: Molly courage to show everyone his unicorniness? needs her. She knows there’s no denying what she Author and illustrator Jason Tharp lives in saw. Or is there? Nov. 11 @ 6:30 PM Columbus. He loves creating wacky worlds • Almost Missed You PB ...... $8 .75 with fun characters. Nov. 14 @ 11:45 AM. • Forget You Know Me PB ...... $16 . .50 • Not That I Could Tell PB ...... $9 .50 • It’s Okay to Be a Unicorn! HC (ages 4-8) . . . . .$17 .50

Follow the Buckeye Book Fair’s YouTube channel for author videos! 20 Order autographed books online at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org/shop or use enclosed order form. Lindsay Ward Nancy Stearns Theiss Built by women in the US and sent to England to The Ohio River provided a remarkable dig and plow alongside female farmers during World opportunity for the enslaved to escape to free War II, Rosie the Tractor does whatever is needed to soil in Indiana and Ohio. The river beckoned support the war effort. Both author and illustrator, fugitive slave Henry Bibb onto a steamboat Lindsay Ward’s new picture book is Rosie, at Madison, Indiana, headed to Cincinnati, Stronger Than Steel, a story about taking action where he discovered the Underground Railroad. and coming together for the greater good. Babies will enjoy spinning their wheels with Let’s Go! Upriver from Cincinnati, a lantern signal high and Let’s Build!, a new series of Flip-and-Find- on a hill from the Rankin House in Ripley, Out Books with an interactive guessing game. With Ohio, stirred others to flee for freedom. Author clues on every page, kids will delight in touching Nancy Theiss, Executive Director of the Oldham each die-cut shaped wheel with unique treads as they County Historical Society, takes readers on a tour guess what construction vehicle each wheel could be. through American history to places of courage Lindsay lives in Peninsula with her husband Frank and sacrifice inA Tour on the Underground Tupta and is also the author and illustrator of Don’t Railroad along the Ohio River. Nov. 14 @ 6:30 PM. Forget Dexter and This Book Is Gray, a colorful tale of fitting in. Nov. 10 @ 4:30 PM & Nov. 13 @ 6:30 PM • Tour Underground RR Along the Ohio River PB$23. .00 & Nov. 14 @ 11:45 AM. • Don’t Forget Dexter HC (4-8) . $17 .50 • Please Bring Balloons HC .$17 . .50 • Let’s Build BRD (ages 0-4) . . $8 .75 • Rosie: Stronger Than Steel H $17 50. • Let’s Go BRD (ages 0-4) . . . $8 .75 • This Book Is Gray HC . . . $17 .50 Frank Tupta In this spooky, rhyming romp, creatures of all Heather Webber types work together to build a haunted house After the unexpected discovery of a newborn for a vampire family in need of a home. From baby girl, two women must fight for what they mummies to Cyclops to the skeleton crew, they’re truly want in life and for who they love in all working hard to get the job done in How Heather Webber’s new novel South of the to Build a Haunted House (ages 4-8). But Buttonwood Tree. In doing so, they uncover they’d better hurry, because the house needs to long-held secrets that reveal exactly who they be finished before the sun comes up. It’s a good really are—and what they’re willing to sacrifice in thing their foreman, Frankenstein, is here to keep the name of family. Set in the south like Midnight everyone in check! Frank Tupta grew up in a at the Blackbird Café, South of the Buttonwood Tree haunted house in Cleveland. He currently lives is also a blend of magical realism, heartwarming in Peninsula with his wife, children’s book author romance, and small-town Southern charm. and illustrator Lindsay Ward, and their children. Heather lives in southwestern Ohio. Nov. 10 @ 6:30 PM Nov. 14 @ 11:45 AM. • How to Build a Haunted House HC (ages 4-8) . . $17 .50 • Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe PB ...... $16. . .50 • South of the Buttonwood Tree HC ...... $25 .00 Thrity Umrigar Sugar in Milk is a beautiful picture book that recounts an ancient Indian-Persian legend Andrew Welsh-Huggins about immigration and strangers helping one Andrew Welsh-Huggins, an editor and reporter another, which teaches a timeless lesson about for the Associated Press in Columbus, is the kindness, compassion, and the joy of diversity. In author of six novels about private eye Andy Hayes, an ex-Ohio State and Cleveland Browns Binny’s Diwali, Binny goes to school on Diwali, quarterback turned investigator. The latest, the Hindu festival of lights, eager to share her knowledge about her favorite holiday. But she Fatal Judgment, is a finalist for the Nero gets nervous and freezes until she uses the lessons Award. Andrew is both editor and a contributor of Diwali to get over her fear. Thrity Umrigar is to Columbus Noir, an anthology of 14 mystery the best-selling author of eight novels, including stories, each set in a different central Ohio Everybody’s Son. She is a distinguished professor neighborhood. Nov. 11 @ 6:30 PM of English at Case Western. Nov. 7 @ 11:45 AM & Nov. • 1-Fourth Down and Out PB ...... $16 .50 9 @ 4:30 PM. • 5-Third Brother PB ...... $16 .50 • Binny’s Diwali HC (ages 4-8) ...... $17 .50 • 6-Fatal Judgment HC ...... $26 .00 • Everybody’s Son PB ...... $15 .50 • Columbus Noir PB ...... $15 .50 • Sugar in Milk HC (ages 5-10) ...... $17 . .50

Follow the Buckeye Book Fair’s YouTube channel for author videos! Order autographed books online at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org/shop or use enclosed order form. 21 Kerry Winfrey What happens when your life is a rom-com, but you don’t even believe in true love? Chloe has no time—or interest—in getting swept up in some dazzling romance. Not like her best friend Annie, who literally wrote a rom-com that’s about to premiere in theaters across America... PURCHASE YOUR SIGNED BOOKS and happens to be inspired by Chloe and Nick Velez, Chloe’s cute but no-nonsense boss. But ONLINE FROM OCT 16 - NOV 30 unlike the romance Annie has written for them, Chloe isn’t so sure her own story will end in a WWW.BUCKEYEBOOKFAIR.ORG Not Like the Happily Ever After. Real life is Buckeye Book Fair authors are excited to share their Movies, right? books with you! You can learn more about titles on • Love & Other Alien Experiences PB (ages 13-18) . . . $10 .50 our website and on our Buckeye Book Fair YouTube • Not Like the Movies PB ...... $15 .50 channel (look for the code next to the author’s • Things Jolie Needs to Do Before PB (13-18) ...... $10 .50 name). • Waiting for Tom Hanks PB ...... $14 .50 Doyle Yoder Information in this brochure is accurate as of Sep- Explore the sights and citizens of Amish Country tember 30, 2020 and is subject to change. All infor- presented in twelve brand-new images in the mation online will be kept up-to-date. Amish Country Calendar 2021. The new Amish Country theme calendar is Percheron Horses and there is a new Trains calendar as well. Brand-new puzzles include beautiful scenes of horse carriages covered in snow in Snow Blasted Buggies Puzzle and buggies in fall and spring in Early Snow Puzzle and Beautiful OHIO BOOK TALKS Blooms Puzzle. A summer 2020-2021 evening hay harvest with a team join us for online lectures and discussion of Belgian horses pulling the grain binder is the scene of Evening December 2020 - David Meyers, Historic Black Settlements of Ohio Harvest Puzzle. With 1,000 pieces, these puzzles are a fun January 2021 - Misencik, American Indians of the Ohio Country challenge for ages 12+. Doyle Yoder has been photographing the February 2021 - Tim Carroll, World War II Akron sights and citizens of Ohio’s Amish Country for over 30 years. March 2021 - Mark Godsey, Blind Injustice • America’s Amish Country Big Calendar 2021 $19 .00 April 2020 - Nancy Theiss, Tour on the Underground Railroad • America’s Amish Country Calendar 2021 $12 .50 • Beautiful Blooms Puzzle . . $12 .50 • Filling Silo Puzzle . . . . . $12 .50 • Beautiful Bouquet Puzzle . $12 .50 • Percheron Horses Cal 2021 $12 .50 • Boys & Buggies Puzzle . . . $12 .50 • Snow Blasted Buggies Puzz $12 .50 • Early Snow Puzzle . . . . . $12 .50 • Trains Calendar 2021 . . . $12 .50 • Evening Harvest Puzzle . . . $12 .50

Follow the Buckeye Book Fair’s YouTube channel for author videos! 22 Order autographed books online at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org/shop or use enclosed order form. Buckeye Book Fair: For Ohio Authors & Ohio Readers

2020 Literacy Awards About Buckeye Book Fair

$350 - Highland County Library - Hillsboro, Highland County Buckeye Book Fair’s Literacy Award grants are funded $350 For books to highlight the writing of local authors and from the proceeds of the organization’s annual book fair to promote literacy amongst adults. This award is presented in and from sponsorship partners who make significant partnership with The Wooster Glass Company. contributions to assist with the grants. With this year’s $350 - Literacy Network of Greater Cincinnati awards, more than $222,468 will have been distributed - Cincinnati, Hamilton County in proceeds from 33 annual Buckeye Book Fairs, all held To provide all age level reading materials to help stock some of in Wooster. the 80 Little Free Libraries to help students retain the reading skills they learn in the classroom, throughout the neighborhoods The organization’s annual Buckeye Book Fair featuring of Greater Cincinnati. This award is presented in partnership over 100 Ohio writers, photographers, and illustrators with College Hills Honda. autographing their new books, will be held online this $350 - Mifflin Middle School - Columbus, Franklin County year from Nov. 6-15, 2020. This event is sponsored by the For books for the school to participate in a One School, One Wayne County Community Foundation, the Ohio Arts Book program. One School, One Book is designed to create a Council, and ArtsMidwest. shared reading experience across an entire school community. Following a common schedule across the district, every family reads that book together at home. This award is presented in Sign up on our website to receive our e-newsletter! partnership with The J.M. Smucker Company.

$250 - Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County - Mt. Vernon, Knox County For the library to have a virtual illustrator visit with Richard Cowdrey this October. The illustrator visit will be a special event, advertised through a big book display about hippos, animals, and careers in STEM, and supplemented with arts projects. This award is presented in partnership with D+S Distribution.

$350 - Tutoring Tenacity - Reynoldsburg, Franklin County For books to give to the children participating in their tutoring programs to help build basic language and behavior skills, expand their vocabularies, and build an appreciation for Ohio authors and literature. This award is presented in partnership with Consumers National Bank.

$350 - Wooster-Orrville NAACP - Wayne County To donate Black-themed children’s books to all seven branches in the Wayne County Public Library system. Books specifically by Ohio authors can help explore various aspects of how racism has played out in our home state.

A grand total of $2,000 in grants have been awarded to six Ohio schools, libraries, and literacy programs. Each literacy grant winner has a special project using books by and about Ohioans.

Further information about Buckeye Book Fair is available online at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org or by contacing Executive Director Julia Wiesenberg at [email protected].

23 Order Autographed Books! The Buckeye Book Fair is pleased to give you the opportunity to have signed books delivered to your home. Sorry, but we cannot have books personalized via mail order. Order online at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org/shop to pay by credit card or to request personalized autographs. Order autographed books online or by mail anytime Oct. 16 - Nov. 30, 2020 Please allow 3 weeks for delivery Thank you for supporting Ohio authors! Name: Address: City: State: Zipcode: Phone: e-mail: Please enclose a check or money order made out to the Buckeye Book Fair. Credit card orders are accepted online. Quantity Author Title Cost Subtotal

Subtotal: Shipping: Tax (Subtotal x 1.0675): • Orders under $50 add $6.00 shipping • Orders over $50 add $10.00 shipping Shipping & Handling: TOTAL: We encourage libraries to make purchases for their collections. Librarians and teachers will receive a discount of 20% off the book fair price. To receive the discounted price, new accounts must have an institutional purchase order or a letter of authorization on your library or school letterhead. Library and school orders will be pulled in advance and can be picked up on the day of the book fair, or if you wish to have your order shipped, please be sure to add shipping to your purchase order. Our Federal Tax ID number is 34-1184089. School or Library: Purchase Order Number:

Buckeye Book Fair Mail completed order form and check to: 527 N. Market St, Ste 2 • Wooster, Ohio 44691 Order online at www.BuckeyeBookFair.org/shop to pay by credit card or to request personalized autographs. Buckeye Authors’ Book Fair Committee NON Profit Org 527 N. Market St, Ste 2 U.S. Postage Wooster OH 44691-3477 PAID Cleveland, OH Permit No. 1737

rd 33 Annual Buckeye Book Fair for ohio authors & ohio readers ONLINE BOOK SALE ONLINE AUTHOR EVENTS for Autographed Books Nov. 6-15, 2020 Oct. 16 – Nov. 30, 2020 FREE Please go to • Author-to-Author Interviews • Picture Book Showcase www.BuckeyeBookFair.org • YA Showcase Thank you for supporting Ohio authors! • Young Authors Student Workshops • Educator’s Conference

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