NOVEMBER 21-24 BALTIMORE, MARYLAND MEET THE AUTHORS 2019 ANNUAL CONVENTION MeetTheAuthors2019.indd 1 10/30/19 10:47 AM NCTE GENERAL SESSIONS THURSDAY, 11/21 FRIDAY, 11/22 5:30–7:30 PM 9:15–10:15 AM George Takei Henry Louis Gates Jr. Charles Street Lobby Tonya Bolden (Outside General Session) Charles Street Lobby FRIDAY, 11/22 8:15–9:15 PM Brittany Luby, Meg Medina, Celia C. Pérez, and Lilliam Rivera Level 400 Ballroom Foyer SATURDAY, 11/23 SUNDAY, 11/24 10:45–11:45 AM 1:30–2:30 PM Tommy Orange Tara Westover Charles Street Lobby Charles Street Lobby (Outside General Session) (Outside General Session) MeetTheAuthors2019.indd 2 10/30/19 10:47 AM NCTE AUTHOR SIGNINGS (NCTE Authors’ Corner—next to NCTE Central) Times listed are estimates of when the signings will begin. Baltimore’s The Ivy Bookshop is the official bookseller for the NCTE featured author signings. NCTE members will receive a 10% discount on books sold at these events and at The Ivy Bookshop’s booth in the Exhibit Hall (#839). FRIDAY, 11/22 3:30–4:00 PM Steven Alvarez Community Literacies en Confianza: Learning from Bilingual After-School Programs SATURDAY, 11/23 9:30–10:00 AM Kevin Long and Mary T. Christel Bring on the Bard: Active Drama Approaches for Shakespeare’s Diverse Student Readers 12:30–1:00 PM Ken Lindblom and Leila Christenbury Continuing the Journey 3: Becoming a Better Teacher of Language, Speaking, and Listening SUNDAY, 11/24 9:30–10:00 am Joseph Franzen and Brent Peters Say Yes to Pears: Food Literacy in and beyond the English Classroom MeetTheAuthors2019.indd 3 10/30/19 10:47 AM WEDNESDAY, 11/20 8:45–9:45 PM Erin Gruwell Level 400 Ballroom Foyer Broadway Books • The Freedom Writers Diary (Twentieth Anniversary Edition) THURSDAY, 11/21 10:45 –11:45 AM 5:30–7:30 PM Madeline Miller George Takei Outside room 347 Charles Street Lobby (Outside • Hachette Book Group General Session) • Circe and The Song of Achilles IDW Publishing They Called Us Enemy 2:15 –3:15 PM Matthew Desmond 7:15–8:15 PM Level 300 Market Street Cafe Broadway Books Ebony Elizabeth Thomas • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the Level 400 Ballroom Foyer American City New York University Press • The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Anica Mrose Rissi • Imagination from Harry Potter to Outside Ballroom I & III the Hunger Games Disney Book Group • Teacher’s Pet Torrey Maldonado • Watch Out for Wolf! Level 400 Ballroom Foyer Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers 3:45–4:45 PM • Tight Joan Bauer Outside room 345 Penguin Random House • Raising Lumie 2 • WEDNESDAY, 11-20–19 • THURDAY, 11-21–19 MeetTheAuthors2019.indd 4 10/30/19 10:47 AM FRIDAY, 11/22 ALL DAY 10:00–10:45 AM Jonathan Gross Jo Knowles Booth 630 Booth 1025 DePaul Candlewick Press • Eye on the Sparrow Where the Heart Is • The Harlem Renaissance See You at Harry’s • Remembered • Graffiti Kings Annie Silvestro • Thomas Jefferson’s Scrapbooks Booth 1110 • Belmour, by Anne Seymour Random House Children’s Books Damer (editor) • Bunny’s Book Club • Bunny’s Book Club Goes to School Gareth Hinds Booth 734 • Gareth Hinds / TheComic.com • The Iliad • The Odyssey 10:00–11:00 AM • POE: Stories and Poems Linda Sue Park • Beowulf Booth 711 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 9:15–10:15 AM • Nya’s Long Walk • Prairie Lotus Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Tonya Bolden Brian Pinkney Charles Street Lobby Booth 711 Scholastic Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction • Nya’s Long Walk and the Dawn of Jim Crow Nikki Grimes Booth 831 Boyds Mills & Kane 10:00–10:20 AM • Ordinary Hazards Build Your Stack Session Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham Sonja Cherry-Paul Booth 911 Dana Johansen Macmillan Children’s Publishing Build Your Stack Stage in the Exhibit Group Hall • Best Friends “Building Better Readers through Book Clubs!” Gravity Goldberg and Renee Houser Booth 731 Stenhouse Publishers Teacher’s Toolkit for Independent Reading FRIDAY, 11-22-2019 • 10:30–11:30 AM • 3 MeetTheAuthors2019.indd 5 10/30/19 10:47 AM 10:00–11:00 AM continued 10:15–10:45 AM Cheryl Bardoe Danielle Dufayet Booth 1231 Booth 935 Little, Brown Books for Young American Psychological Association Readers • Fantastic You Nothing Stopped Sophie Raúl Colón and Lesa Cline-Ransome Barb Rosenstock Booth 1031 Booth 1231 Simon & Schuster Little, Brown Books for Young • Counting the Stars Readers Shaun David Hutchinson • Otis and Will Discover the Deep Booth 1031 Simon & Schuster • Brave Face 10:30–10:50 AM Nic Stone Build Your Stack Session Booth 1051 Rose Brock Perfection Learning April Whatley • Dear Martin Build Your Stack Stage in the Exhibit Hall H. M. Bouwman “New York City Comes Alive Booth 1110 in Children’s and Young Adult Penguin Young Readers Literature” • A Tear in the Ocean Lisa Bunker Booth 1110 10:30–11:15 AM Penguin Young Readers Sarah Albee Zenobia July Booth 1324 S. K. Ali Publisher Spotlight Booth 1147 • North America ALAN (Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE) 10:30–11:30 AM • Saints and Misfits George Takei Ryan La Sala Booth 1319 Booth 1019 IDW Publishing Sourcebooks • They Called Us Enemy • Reverie Traci Sorell Booth 1023 10:00 AM–12:00 PM Charlesbridge Kathryn Otoshi • We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga Booth 740 Laurie Morrison • KO Kids Books Booth 1152 • ZERO, ONE, TWO ABRAMS • Up for Air 4 • FRIDAY, 11-22-2019 • 9:00 AM–2:00 PM MeetTheAuthors2019.indd 6 10/30/19 10:47 AM 10:45–11:30 AM 11:00–11:45 AM e. E. Charlton-Trujillo Yamile Saied Méndez and Booth 1025 Jaime Kim Candlewick Press Booth 1131 • Fat Angie HarperCollins Children’s Books • Fat Angie: Rebel Girl Revolution • Where Are You From? Samira Ahmed 11:00–11:20 AM Booth 1231 Little, Brown Books for Young Build Your Stack Session Readers Jennifer Buehler • Internment Caitlyn Dlouhy Jason Reynolds Build Your Stack Stage in the Exhibit 11:00 AM–12:00 PM Hall “YA Authors and Editors as Kacen Callender Booth 631 Readers” Booksource • Hurricane Child 11:00–11:30 AM David Elliott Shana Frazin and Katy Wischow Booth 711 Booth 616 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Heinemann • Voices • Unlocking the Power of • Bull Classroom Talk June Jo Lee Katie Egan Cunningham Booth 742 Booth 731 Readers to Eaters Stenhouse Publishers • Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food • Start with Joy • Remix Barb Rosenstock Travis Crowder Booth 831 Booth 743 Boyds Mills & Kane Benchmark Education • Prairie Boy: Frank Lloyd Wright • Reflective Readers Turns the Heartland into a Home Sayantani Dasgupta Sandra Neil Wallace and Booth 810 Rich Wallace Scholastic Inc. Booth 839 The Ivy Bookshop • Game of Stars Simon & Schuster Deborah Wiles • Between the Lines: How Ernie Booth 810 Barnes Went from the Football Scholastic Inc. Field to the Art Gallery • Anthem Laura Purdie Salas Lesa Cline-Ransome Booth 930 Booth 844 Lerner Publishing Group Holiday House • Lion of the Sky: Haiku for All • Finding Langston Seasons • Snack, Snooze, Skedaddle: How Animals Get Ready for Winter FRIDAY, 11-22-2019 • 10:30–11:30 AM • 5 MeetTheAuthors2019.indd 7 10/30/19 10:47 AM Elizabeth Zunon 11:00 AM–12:00 PM continued Booth 1252 Children’s Africana Book Award Caleb Roehrig • Grandpa Cacao: A Tale of Booth 911 Chocolate, from Farm to Family Macmillan Children’s Publishing • One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay Group and the Recycling Women of the • Death Prefers Blondes Gambia Heather L. Montgomery Booth 918 11:15 AM–12:15 PM Bloomsbury Children’s Books • Something Rotten Jennifer Swanson Booth 925 Marie Miranda Cruz Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. Booth 919 • Save the Crash-test Dummies Tor/Forge Books • Everlasting Nora Holly Brochmann and Leah Bowen 11:30–11:50 AM Booth 935 Build Your Stack Session American Psychological Association Lynsey Burkins • A Feel Better Book for Little Tears Kasey Short Jon Scieszka and Steven Weinberg Build Your Stack Stage in the Exhibit Booth 1024 Hall Chronicle Books “Books That Inspire Compassion and • AstroNuts Mission One Empathy in Students (Elementary and Middle Age)” Kate Hannigan Booth 1031 Simon & Schuster 11:30 AM–12:00 PM • Cape Lindsey Leslie Liz Garton Scanlon Booth 839 The Ivy Bookshop Booth 1031 Page Street Kids Simon & Schuster • Nova the Star Eater • One Dark Bird Amanda Claudia Wager, Lane W. Pablo Cartaya Clarke, and Grace Enriquez Booth 1110 Booth 1327 Penguin Young Readers Teachers College Press, Teachers • Each Tiny Spark College, Columbia University • The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora • The Reading Turn-Around with Cyndi Giorgis Emergent Bilinguals Booth 1110 Maria Nichols Penguin Random House Booth 616 • Jim Trelease’s Read-Aloud Heinemann Handbook • Building Bigger Ideas Torrey Maldonado Booth 1110 11:30 AM–12:15 PM Penguin Young Readers Cynthia Leitich Smith • What Lane? Booth 1025 Candlewick Press • Hearts Unbroken 6 • FRIDAY, 11-22-2019 • 11:00 AM–12:30 PM MeetTheAuthors2019.indd 8 10/30/19 10:47 AM Laura Gehl Kristina Perez Booth 1324 Booth 839 The Ivy Bookshop Publisher Spotlight Imprint • Juniper Kai: Super Spy • Wild Savage Stars (2nd in trilogy) Vicki S. Collet 11:30 AM–12:30 PM Booth 1327 Teachers College Press, Teachers Nadia L. Hohn College, Columbia University Booth 740 • Collaborative Lesson Study Owlkids Books • A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican • Poet Louise Bennett Coverley 12:00–12:45 PM Found Her Voice K-Fai Steele Tanya Bolden Booth 1131 Booth 1152 HarperCollins Children’s Books ABRAMS • A Normal Pig • Changing the Equation Josh Funk 12:00–1:00 PM Booth 1331 Sterling Publishing Jennifer A.