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Meet the Authors

Meet the Authors

  • Friday, June 26, 2026
  • 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM CDT
    Louise Borden: Thank You, School
  • 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM CDT
    Marcella Pixley: Neshama
  • 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM CDT
    Meg Anderson: The Memory of Borrowed Books
  • 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM CDT
    Rebecca Gardyn Levington : Finding Forgiveness
  • 5:30 PM - 6:15 PM CDT
    Nic Stone: Dasia Forever
  • 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM CDT
    June Jo Lee: Kimchi Taco Time
  • 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CDT
    Charles Pellicane: I Wish My Words Were Colors
  • 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CDT
    Dana Mashoian Walrath: The Book of Genocides
  • 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CDT
    Kadir Nelson: Basket Ball
  • 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CDT
    Kelly Foster Lundquist: Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage
  • 5:45 PM - 6:30 PM CDT
    Kristin Kobes Du Mez: Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
  • 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM CDT
    Kari-Lynn Winters: Double-Up Day!
  • 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM CDT
    Katie Weaver: Have You Ever Wondered?
  • 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM CDT
    Patricia Newman: Beatrice and the Nightingale
  • 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM CDT
    Raj Haldar: What Rhymes with Pterodactyl?
  • 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM CDT
    Valerie Bolling: The March for Hope
  • 6:00 PM - 6:45 PM CDT
    Tonnye Fletcher: Music Plants Hope (Book Signing)
  • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CDT
    Alex Willan: MONSTERS ARE THE WORST
  • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CDT
    Angie Thomas: The Hate U Give
  • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CDT
    Carole Boston Weatherford and Bryan Collier: TROUBLED WATERS
  • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CDT
    Charlie Donlea, BEHIND EVERY FACE
  • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CDT
    Meg Cabot: The Princess Diaries: The Graphic Novel
  • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CDT
    Sherri Duskey Rinker & AG Ford: Construction SIte: Firefight!
  • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CDT
    Taraneh Matloob: An Invisible River to Cross
  • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CDT
    Tim Seeley: Masters of the Universe/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles of Grayskull (book signing)
  • 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM CDT
    Jay Miletsky: Ricky the Rock That Couldn't Roll
  • 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM CDT
    Rekha S. Rajan: THAT SWINGIN' SOUND
  • Saturday, June 27, 2026
  • 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM CDT
    Janette Rallison: We Are Never Getting Together
  • 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM CDT
    Caroline McAlister: A Line Can Go Anywhere
  • 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM CDT
    Nadia Alam: Illustrated Many Things At Once
  • 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM CDT
    Photo Opportunity with Elephant & Piggie
  • 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM CDT
    Sourcebooks Booth Signing - Raj Haldar, What Rhymes with Pterodactyl?
  • 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM CDT
    Veera Hiranandani: Many Things at Once
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CDT
    Pauline Frommer: Frommer's New York City 2026
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CDT
    Sonja Cherry-Paul: HOW THE WORD IS PASSED (Adapted for Young Readers)
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CDT
    Vanessa Miller: The Disgruntled Black Ladies Book Club
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CDT
    Veronica Roth: The Sixth Faction
  • 9:00 AM - 10:55 AM CDT
    J.A. Hoskins: Writer-in-Residence (Next Generation Book Awards Grand Prize Winner)
  • 9:00 AM - 10:55 AM CDT
    Laura Rasey Miller: Night of the Cricket (Next Generation Indie Book Award)
  • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CDT
    Belle And Chloe: Reflections In The Mirror
  • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CDT
    Charles Pellicane: I Wish My Words Were Colors
  • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CDT
    Lauren Fornoles: Night Owl and Early Bird
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM CDT
    Dusti Bowling: Sir Edmund of the Wild West: Mystery in the Grand Canyon
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM CDT
    Victor Piñeiro: The Island of Forgotten Gods
  • 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM CDT
    Jasmine Warga: The Unlikely Tale of Chase and Finnegan
  • 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM CDT
    Julian Randall: Shook
  • 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM CDT
    Lee Wind: Different Kind of Enemy
  • 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM CDT
    Dan Watters: M.A.S.K.
  • 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM CDT
    Maddie Frost: REALLY RUBIE
  • 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM CDT
    Maritere R. Bellas: Tío Ricky Doesn’t Speak English / Tío Ricky no habla inglés
  • 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM CDT
    Megan E. Freeman: AWAY and THE SECRET TO BELONGING
  • 9:45 AM - 10:30 AM CDT
    Alex Ritany: Maybe Tomorrow I'll Know
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM CDT
    Anna Hrachoves: Knit Mini Amigurumi Cats
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM CDT
    Caroline Brewer and Ekua Holmes: Anansi and the Talking Cloth
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM CDT
    Florence Migga: The Summer Scrapbook
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM CDT
    Mariana Llanos: Los perros finos
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM CDT
    Nathan Weidman: Thirty-Six Fighting Holes
  • 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM CDT
    Alison Goldberg & Selina Alko: The Remembering Candle
  • 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM CDT
    Andrea Beatriz Arango: No Place On Earth
  • 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM CDT
    Chrystal D. Giles: Listen to the Girls
  • 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM CDT
    Kimberly Wilson: Where There's a Whale There's a Way (Book Signing)
  • 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM CDT
    Laurenne Sala: Mi Escuela is my School
  • 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM CDT
    Liz Brizzi: Milo and Twig
  • 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM CDT
    Paula Sevenbergen - FLOW
  • 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM CDT
    Sarah Dessen: CHANGE OF PLANS
  • 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM CDT
    Ten-year-old Sophie moves into a new house with Secret Service agents, paparazzi, and planned events. She meets a secretive artist and receives a mysterious key unlocking secrets within her walls. Booth 4044 Headline Books
  • 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM CDT
    Tina Neely author of Bacon Loves Everyone!
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    Bao Phi and Thi Bui, Ride/Đạp Xe
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    Blair Kamin: The Gates of Harvard Yard
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    Brooke Hartman: One Little Fishing Boat
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    Darin S. Cape: Zicky Wrath of the Rat King and Woodstake
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    Elizabeth Acevedo: Anger Is Only a Shadow
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    James Braithwaite: Billie Builds a RoboCorn
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    Lindsay Currie: The Secret Bookstore Sleuth Society
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    Sarah Maslin Nir: The Lost Unicorn
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    Sourcebooks Booth Signing - Meg Anderson, Memory of Borrowed Books
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    Sunshine O'Donnell: States of Arousal
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    Teresa Anne Power / In Search of the Holy Grail
  • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    June Jo Lee: Kimchi Taco Time
  • 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Charli’s Turtle Triumph: A Marine Biology Adventure
  • 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM CDT
    Ward Lehmann: Ideas People
  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    David Lee Csiscko: Iconic Artists
  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    Fiona Cook: The Wheel of the Year and The Dream Atlas
  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    Jon and Jess Fogel: Set My Feelings Free
  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    Lesa Cline-Ransome: Ida B. Wells and the Untold Truth of a Country
  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    Natasha Tarpley: KEYANA LOVES HER FRIEND
  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    Wayne D. Kramer: Penny the Pangolin and the Termite Trophy
  • 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM CDT
    Steve Sheinkin: Mind vs. Machine
  • 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM CDT
    Thien Pham: Mind vs. Machine
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    Dusti Bowling: The Drowning Game
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    Kathy Stinson & Mark Hoffman: Boogy & Tee and Twinkle & Hew
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    Kekla Magoon: The Secret Library
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    Mia Wenjen: Barbed Wire Between Us
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    Tracy Wolff: THE AFTERMYTH
  • 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    Amy Alznauer: Where the Wild Horses Are
  • 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    Jenny Robinson Clark: Are You Here?
  • 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    Jody Jensen Shaffer: Disco Dave
  • 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    Kari-Lynn Winters: Double-Up Day!
  • 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    Shannon Hale: Princess Academy Graphic Novel
  • 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    Sid Sharp: Bog Myrtle
  • 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    Susan Metallo: Hearts on the Table
  • 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM CDT
    Christopher Paul Curtis: Bud Not Buddy
  • 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM CDT
    Rebecca Gardyn Levington: Whatever Comes Tomorrow & Some Days I'm the Wind
  • 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM CDT
    Tonnye Fletcher: Music Plants Hope (Book Signing)
  • 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM CDT
    Adrianna Pakes Award Winning Author of That’s My Sister, Growing Up With My Special Needs Twin
  • 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM CDT
    Candace Fleming: Joint Publisher Signing
  • 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM CDT
    Joe Corallo: Ruth Roche: The Phantom Hand of Comics
  • 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM CDT
    Marcella White Campbell: Maya's Journey: A Story of Two Great-Grandmothers
  • 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM CDT
    Stephan Pastis/WillHenry: The Adventures of He-Man (and Porter!): Skeletor Ate My Homework
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    Barbara Perez Marquez: To Dance the Moon and Stars
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    Betty Chang: Frankie Lu's Summer of No Regrets
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    Darren Demaree: Two Towns Over
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    Donna Barba Higuera: Xolo (English Edition) & Xolo, un perro divino (Spanish Edition)
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    Frances O'Roark Dowell: HAZARD & THEN A HOUSE FELL ON HER HEAD . . .
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    Harold Green III: Hugged by the Night
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    James Tynion IV: Universal Monsters: The Invisible Man
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    Kevin Henkes & Laura Dronzek: Is It Spring? and Little Houses
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    LeUyen Pham: Shrinking Violet
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    Louise Claire Johnson & Krista Webster: SPINSTERS
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    Matthew Loux: My Journey to Japan
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    Meet Fantasy Author Caitlin Rozakis!
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    Meg Cabot: Enchanted to Meet You
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    Shannon Stocker/The Roach King of Raleigh: A Young Adult Novel about Friendship, Survival, and Finding Hope When Life Falls Apart
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    Sourcebooks Booth Signing - Daniel Nayeri, This is a Door
  • 11:00 AM - 12:55 PM CDT
    CiCi Soleil: Holy Orders (Next Generation Indie Book Award)
  • 11:00 AM - 12:55 PM CDT
    Dr. Julie McDonnell, EdD: The Flowers in Grandma’s Garden: A Bailey and Buttons Story -Mom's Choice Award Honoree
  • 11:00 AM - 12:55 PM CDT
    Jeanette Gil : Aloe Vera’s Special Gift (Gold Mom’s Choice Award)
  • 11:00 AM - 12:55 PM CDT
    Jessica M. Chrismer:Night of the Cricket (Next Generation Indie Book Award)
  • 11:00 AM - 12:55 PM CDT
    Shireen Eddleblute: Keys To My Heart (Mom’s Choice Award Winner and Amazon Best Seller)
  • 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM CDT
    The Fillbach Brothers: SS Junkee Star
  • 11:00 AM - 3:30 PM CDT
    Meet Xuemo, an award-winning writer , and explore Western China
  • 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    Elizabeth Acevedo: The Poet X American Classics Version
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    Delia Ruiz: Ways Papi Says I Love You
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    Gwen Mayes: More Person Than Patient: Finding Your Purpose and Power with Chronic Illness
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    Nívola Uyá: ¡Bonita es la Vida!
  • 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT
    Allie Millington: Trunk No. 3
  • 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT
    Lily Berlin Dodd: The Last Ember
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CDT
    Betsy Bird: POP! Goes the Nursery Rhyme
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CDT
    Colleen Coble: Conspiracy
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CDT
    Lisl H. Detlefsen: My Mom is Like a Kite
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CDT
    Zoulfa Katouh: THE OCEAN WOULD PAINT ME BLUE
  • 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM CDT
    Four siblings are trapped in a magical world of floating islands until they defeat an evil Vizier, literally rebuilding bridges between peoples. Contains witty banter, sword fights, and moral messages. Booth 4045 Zoom Into Books
  • 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM CDT
    Franco Aureliani: SPEED RACER ADVENTURES
  • 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM CDT
    Colleen Nelson: How to Save A Library
  • 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CDT
    Mariana Llanos: Vampirita and the Musical Mayhem (Vampirita, Book #2) (Book Signing)
  • 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM CDT
    Art Baltazar: Aw Yeah Universe
  • 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM CDT
    Sue Ruffle & Stefano Spaziani: The Stone of Shiro
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
    Andrew Hacket: In This Classroom
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
    Conor McCreery and Jibola Fagbamiye: Fela
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
    Jacqueline Alcantara: Tíos and Primos
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
    Jacqueline Renee: LEAVING WOODSTOCK
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
    Jess Lourey: The Verdant Cage
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
    John Glatt: The Playboy and the Chelsea Girl
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
    Misako Rocks! How to Draw Kawaii Manga Fashion, How to Draw Kawaii Manga Chibi, and How to Draw Kawaii Manga Characters in Booth Signing
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
    Rosanne Parry: A Raven of the Rainforest
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
    Sourcebooks Booth Signing - Brooke Hartmann, More Cute Animals That Could Kill You Dead
  • 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Darcy Day Zoells: Smithy and Me
  • 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM CDT
    Night of the Cricket is the story of a brave cricket who refuses to become a meal and sets out with determination to control his own destiny. Booth 4045 Zoom Into Books
  • 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM CDT
    Christopher Greenslate: QUEEN KODIAK
  • 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
    Phil Cousineau: Wisdom of the Odyssey: Twenty-four Life Lessons from Homer's Epic
  • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CDT
    Marz Jr.: Transformers: Worst Bot Ever - Bot Swap!
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM CDT
    Ariana Koultourides: Platypus and Puggle: Unusual Animals Big and Small
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM CDT
    Bao Phi/Thi Bui: Ride/Đạp Xe
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM CDT
    Jane Hamilton: The Phoebe Variations
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM CDT
    Kelly Rice Schmitt: I Fly
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM CDT
    Misael Osorio-Conde: some were just the Fragments // es que fueron solo los Fragmentos
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM CDT
    Molly Idle and Juana Martinez-Neal: Off the Wall
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM CDT
    Zetta Elliott: A SONG FOR JUNETEENTH
  • 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM CDT
    Christy Mihaly: America's Founding Myths...And What REALLY Happened!
  • 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM CDT
    Debbi Michiko Florence: Monster Maker (Book Signing)
  • 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM CDT
    Karla Arenas Valenti: Quetzal's Labyrinth
  • 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM CDT
    María Dolores Águila: A Sea of Lemon Trees
  • 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM CDT
    Ruth Ozeki: The Typing Lady
  • 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM CDT
    Tae Keller: When Tomorrow Burns
  • 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM CDT
    Col. William Dunn author of Gunfighter's Rule
  • 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM CDT
    Darin S. Cape: Zicky Wrath of the Rat King and Woodstake
  • 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM CDT
    Jashar Awan: EVERY MONDAY MABEL and LOOPS
  • 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM CDT
    Jay Fleck: Tiny T. Rex Tries Soccer
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Abby Denson: Uniquely Japan
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    DeAndra Davis: ALL THE NOISE AT ONCE and THE LOVERS, THE LIARS, AND ME
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Doug Salati: Cow and Sow Art Prints
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Dusti Bowling: Sir Edmund OF The Wild West
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Foz Meadows: GODBURNED
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Meg Waite Clayton: Typewriter Beach
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Ruth Spiro: Baby Loves Science
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    SJ Sindu: Tall Water
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Sourcebooks Booth Signing - Lindsay Currie, Secret Bookstore Sleuth Society
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Stef Wade, The Very Eager Evergreen
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Tara Betts: Break the Habit
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Vanessa Miller/The Ladies Hall: A Novel of Three Women Who Refused to Be Silenced
  • 1:00 PM - 2:55 PM CDT
    Adrianna Pakes:That’s My Sister, Growing Up With My Special Needs Twin (Gold Mom's Choice Award)
  • 1:00 PM - 2:55 PM CDT
    Amie Massey Aya-ay: Secrets in the House (New Release)
  • 1:00 PM - 2:55 PM CDT
    Dan E. Hendrickson: Railroad Man (International Impact Book Award)
  • 1:00 PM - 2:55 PM CDT
    Elizabeth Slade Author of Momentum: Montessori, a Life in Motion ( Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner)
  • 1:00 PM - 2:55 PM CDT
    Pam Gittleman: Nursery Rhymes for Kinder Times®, Volume 1 (Gold Mom's Choice Award)
  • 1:00 PM - 2:55 PM CDT
    Tina Neely: Bacon Loves Everyone! (Mom's Choice Gold Award )
  • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    Jodi Jill: International Puzzle Day
  • 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    American Icons: Randal Jelks, My America and Angela Dodson, We’ve Been Here Before
  • 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Colleen Nelson: Making a Splash
  • 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Jennifer Swanson: THE ATLAS OBSCURA EXPLORER'S GUIDE TO INVENTING THE WORLD
  • 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Kari-Lynn Winters: Double-Up Day!
  • 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Tanya Konerman: Mud to the Rescue! How Animals Use Mud to Thrive and Survive
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    Cynthia Swanson: Anyone But Her
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    Dana Mashoian Walrath: The Book of Genocides
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    Duncan Tonatiuh: Vida: Los ratones, el gato y el alebrije (Spanish Edition) & Vida: The Mice, the Cat, and the Alebrije (English Edition)
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    Kara Storti: The Electric Life of Lavender Lewis
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    Maria DesJarlait: I Am Not a Costume.
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    McCall Hoyle and Maria Oka: Nando and Wish on a Willow
  • 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM CDT
    Angie Thomas: The Hate U Give
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    Alicia Wallace: Bite Me & Love Bites Vol 1
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    David Unger: Topo Pecoso- Moley Mole. A bilingual book for children telling the story of the Topos, the mexican rescue group.
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    Dorothy Lazard: Behind the Desk at the Main: A Librarian's Memoir
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    Katie Risor: Welcome to the Forest: The Lake Trip
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    Leslé Honoré: MY BROWN BOY
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    Patricia Jackson: Ban This! How One School Fought Two Book Bans and Won (and How You Can Too)
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    Stacia Stark: We Who Will Die
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    Teresa Power: Little Mouse Adventures: In Search of the Holy Grail
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    Victor D.O. Santos:Things I Learned from My Dog
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    Yasmin Angoe: She Drinks the Light
  • 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM CDT
    Candice Ransom : Books on Horseback (Book Signing)
  • 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM CDT
    E. Lockhart: The Pools
  • 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM CDT
    Joanie Leeds: Breathe Deep
  • 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM CDT
    Judith Henderson: I Told a Little Lie
  • 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM CDT
    Karen Scholl: Surviving Soccer
  • 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM CDT
    Olga Herrera: A Light for Lucinda
  • 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM CDT
    Rene Marsh: The Nature of Change: Lessons of Determination, Resilience, and Hope from the Outside World
  • 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM CDT
    Roxie Munro: Treasure Thieves on the High Seas
  • 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM CDT
    Vikram Madan: Cactus Home
  • 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM CDT
    A. Marc Ross author of Attacking the Dragon
  • 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM CDT
    Drew Beckmeyer: STALACTITE & STALAGMITE
  • 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM CDT
    Lois Lowry: Building 903
  • 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM CDT
    Max Beaudry & David Perry: AW,NUTS! & SUPER SCAREDY CAT & BLUNDER BOAR
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Amy Chu: Carmilla Volume 3: The Eternal (book signing)
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Brad Timm, America is Wild!: A State-By-State Encyclopedia of American Wildlife in Booth Signing
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Cheryl Isaacs: The Unfinished
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Cynthia Leitich Smith: The Legendary Frybread Drive-In
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Diane Alber: Purple Space Chickens
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Dylan Weir: Public House
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Meredith Walker: Be Yourself and Other Bad Advice
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Mia Wenjen: Barbed Wire Between Us
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Monica Sanz: OF SAINTS AND MONSTERS
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Rex Ogle: Absent
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Selina Alko: THE KEEPER OF STORIES
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Sourcebooks Booth Signing - Stephanie Cohen, Clap, Wave, Blow a Kiss! and Lisa Katzenberger, A Love Letter to My Library
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Tae Keller: When Tomorrow Burns
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    VIZ Manga Signing: LYNX, Vol. 1 with Samuel Sattin
  • 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM CDT
    Jared Sams: Space Negro
  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
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    Dan Hendrickson author of Railroad Man: Legacy's Son
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    Rob Sanders: André: André Leon Talley—A Fabulously Fashionable Fairy Tale
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    Lamont O'Neal: André: André Leon Talley—A Fabulously Fashionable Fairy Tale
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    Meet Fantasy Author Caitlin Rozakis!
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    X. Fang: Broken
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    William Dunn author of Gunfighters Rule!
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    When a ragtag team of archeologists discover evidence of a horrific 700-year-old crime, they learn that Black Plague pales compared to the murderous intentions of a medieval cult leader. Booth 4045 Zoom Into Books
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    Mariana Llanos: Benita and the Night Creatures & Run, Little Chaski!
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    Dan Perucco: Exchanged
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    Vanessa L. Torres: On the Wings of la Noche
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    Sourcebooks Booth Signing - Victor Piñeiro, The Island of Forgotten Gods
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    Belle And Chloe: Reflections In The Miror. A story about trauma and recovery. It shares the story of the accident, the impact it has on Belle’s self-image and family relationships.
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    Charles Pellicane: I Wish My Words Were Colors
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    Micha Archer: While We're Here
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    TZ Layton: Doubles
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    Diana Sudyka: JUST ONE OAK
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    Jon Klassen: Now I See Summer
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    Nayeli Reyes: Medias naranjas: Lucy & Desi (Bilingual: English / Spanish)
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    Traci Sorell: INDIGENOUS FROM A TO Z
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    Giselle Potter: MARY MORLAND IN THE TIME OF DINOSAUR DISCOVERY
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    Katie Palazzola: The Great Frog
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    Stephen Barr: Sixteen Games of Hide and Seek and If This Were the World
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    Jodi Jill: Flower Power! Repurpose Jigsaw Puzzle Pieces into Art and Crafts
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    Ann D. Koffsky: What Emma Wrote: The Woman Behind the Words on the Statue of Liberty
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    Dr. Megan Moreno/Connecting: Raising Kids in the Digital World
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    Elaine Kachala: Building Homes for All
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    Kathy Crutcher: Bright Before Us Like a Flame: Igniting a New Generation of Writers
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    Paloma Angelina Lopez and Abraham Matias: Popo the Xolo
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    Janice Milusich: I Hear the Snow, I Smell the Sea
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    Katie Yamasaki: Ripples
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    Kimberly Wilson: Where There's a Whale There's a Way (Book Signing)
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    Andrea L. Rogers & Rebecca Kunz: Chooch Helped
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    Chas! Pangburn: DOUBLE BOOKING
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    Amanda Flower: THE FIRST LADIES' GUIDE TO MURDER
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    Author Angela Quezada Padron and illustrator Sol Salinas sign copies of From the Fields to the Fight.
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    Renee Gilmore: Wayfinding
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    Tim Seeley: Masters of the Universe/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles of Grayskull (book signing)
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    June Jo Lee: Kimchi Taco Time
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    Anitra Rowe Schulte: Starlin: Picture Day Drama and Starlin: Concert Queen
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    Drew Brockington: CatStronauts: Cosmic Clutter
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    Kathleen Reidy: Engineering a Love Story: A Novel
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    Lupe Ruiz-Flores: Paloma Joins the Circus
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    Red: Aurora: Volume 2
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    Juana Martinez-Neal: Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa
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    Sara Andrea Fajardo: Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa
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    Jason Douglas: Jane American
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    Chloe Ito Ward: Chopsticks Are
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    Dan Watters: M.A.S.K.
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    Jared Lemus: Guatemalan Rhapsody
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    Madeline Martin: The Secret Book Society
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    Riley Redgate: Come Home to My Heart
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    Sourcebooks Booth Signing - Iman Hariri-Kia, Once in a Timeline
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    Susan B. Katz: Gaudí–El arquitecto de la imaginación (Spanish Edition)
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    Carole Boston Weatherford: Fourteen Ways of Looking at Jellyfish
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    Chihiro Howe: Raven Saga
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    Laura Stanfill: The Neighborhood Dames
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    Marie Arnold: SPLIT THE SKY (Coretta Scott King Author Honor Title)
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    Maritere Rodríguez Bellas: Tio Ricky Doesn't Speak English. A bilingual book for children to read and share at home and at the classroom.
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    Michelle Kadarusman: Music for Tigers
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    Traci Sorell: Riding the Trail: Cherokees Remember the Removal
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    Victor D.O. Santos, Things I Learned From My Dog (Sun)
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    Will Hillenbrand: Light as a Feather
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    Debbi Michiko Florence: Monster Maker (Book Signing)
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    Deborah Santana: Loving the Fire
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    Joy Harjo and Adriana Garcia: For a Girl Becoming
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    Xelena González: Of the Sun
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    Angeline Boulley: Sisters in the Wind
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    Jewell Parker Rhodes: Will’s Race for Home (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
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    Nisha J. Tuli: Storm Breaker
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    Allison Epstein: Fagin the Thief
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    Charrise Barron: The Platinum Age of Gospel
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    Christy Mihaly: Music and Silence
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    Delia Ruiz: Ways Papi Says I Love You (English Edition) & Las maneras en que papi dice te quiero (Spanish Edition)
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    Ellie Owens: Cave Jumpers
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    Erin Entrada Kelly: At Last She Stood & The Second Life of Snap
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    Kate Messner: Keep the Ghost Light On
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    Leonard Pitts Jr.: THE ANGRY HOUSE
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    Maria Tureaud: BENEATH, IT SLEEPS
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    Meet Fantasy Author Caitlin Rozakis!
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    René Colato Laínez: MAMÁ THE ALIEN / MAMÁ LA EXTRATERRESTRE
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    Kevin McGuire: Sleeper Code: A Novel (Gold Manhattan Book Award)
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    Matt Dragovits: Dawn of Legends (Mom's Choice Award)
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    Melora Fern: Whistling Women and Crowing Hens (Laramie Book Award from Chanticleer International Book Awards)
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    Natalie James author of You Are So Loved: Unfailing, Faithful Love (Mom's Choice Award)
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    Nikita Rowitz (B.R. Michaels): Stolen Histories (Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner)
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    Darcy Day Zoells: Smithy and Me
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    Jodi Jill; Puzzle Day
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    Matt Fraction: Batman Vol. 1: Daylight
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    Nikita Rowitz (B.R. Michaels) author of Stolen Histories
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
    Derrick Barnes: WHO GOT GAME?: BASEBALL
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    E.E. Hornburg: The Night's Chosen
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    Hannah Chung: BREAD DAYS
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    Jilanne Hoffmann: The Ocean's Heart
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    Maria van Lieshout: Song of a Blackbird
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    Emily Rath: Devour Me
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    Emmanuel Valtierra: A-Ztec (Pura Belpre Honor)
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    Jashar Awan: Toad on the Go
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    Julie Lew: Death in Verse
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    Mariana Llanos: Vampirita and the Musical Mayhem (Vampirita, Book #2) (Book Signing)
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    Charli’s Turtle Triumph: A Marine Biology Adventure
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    Jay Stinnett author Bill W Conscious Contact-The Award Winning Film on Paper
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    Meet Jayme Branagh, EdD and receive a signed copy of We Will Join You, an award-winning picture book that helps children build empathy, practice inclusion, and create welcoming school communities.
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    Amit Tishler: Solar Sisters
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    Kadir Nelson: The Undefeated
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    Marz Jr.: Transformers: Worst Bot Ever - Bot Swap!
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    Maurice Broaddus: HARD TIMES
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    Nisha J. Tuli: Storm Breaker
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    Raúl the Third: THE SNIPS
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    Sourcebooks Booth Signing - Erin Entrada Kelly, Fatal Glitch: Camp Zero
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    Srividhya Venkat, Priya's Not-So-Perfect Brand-New Outfit
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    Julie Wright: Threads of Red
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    Nina Simon: My Sister Is Going to Kill Me
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    Rhonda McKnight: Writer in Residence
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    Peter Kuper: Insectopolis
  • 1:00 PM - 1:20 PM CDT
    Eliana Miao + Pen & Pipette: THE BRAVE FUZZY: A MICROBIOME STORY
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    Matt Dragovits author of Zach's Quest: A Tale for Christmas
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM CDT
    Angelica Page: BOUNTIFUL: Growing Up With Geraldine Page
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    Patricia Newman: Sharks Unhooked
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    Candice Ransom : Books on Horseback (Book Signing)
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    Christy Mihaly: America's Founding Myths
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    Adina King: The House No One Sees
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    Anton Treuer: Where Wolves Don't Die (AYILA Award Honor)
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    Sean Ryan:Xanar & Mr.Tuxedo
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    Amar Shah: I Wish I Was A Baller
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    HD Hunter: Futureland
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Mia Wenjen: Postcards from Malcolm X
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    Paula Lafferty, THE ONCE AND FUTURE QUEEN
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    Sourcebooks Booth Signing - Matthew Burgess, If the Moon
  • 1:00 PM - 2:55 PM CDT
    Jessica Teich: The Future Tense of Joy
  • 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    It's A Grr-ific Day To Meet Daniel Tiger
  • 1:00 PM - 11:50 PM CDT
    Abby White: D.J. Rosenblum Becomes the G.O.A.T.
  • 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM CDT
    Meet Sleeper Code: A Novel author Kevin McGuire at the autographing area. Discover a high-stakes cyber thriller where hidden malware threatens Americas infrastructure and a cybersecurity team races to stop catastrophic collapse. Booth 4045 Zoom Into Books
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    Melora Fern author of Whistling Women and Crowing Hens
  • 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Clay Anderson: This I Know
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    Colleen Delaney: The Hedge Witch
  • 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
    Daniel Ramirez: RAVEN'S RIBBONS (American Indian Youth Literature Award Honor Title)
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    Kim Long: CATCHING CRYPTIDS: THE SCIENTIFIC SEARCH FOR MYSTERIOUS CREATURES
  • 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT
    Rebeca Lee Morales: Winter Song
  • 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM CDT
    Maegan Brown, Brilliant Bites in Booth Signing
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    June Jo Lee: Kimchi Taco Time
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    X. Fang: Tom Nancy
  • 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM CDT
    Karl Stewart author of the Legend of SeeBird Series (Historical Fiction)
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
    Harold Green III: WORDS ARE MY SUPERPOWER
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    Matthew Loux: The Spark Experiment
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    Robert A. Pape: Our Own Worst Enemies
  • 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM CDT
    Crissa-Jean Chappell: Never Leave Me Alone
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    Eleni Tassoupoulos Wehner: Roscoe & Ivy
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    Jose Pimienta: Halfway to Somewhere
  • 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM CDT
    Nina Simon: My Sister is Going to Kill Me
  • 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM CDT
    Sarah Miller: Hick
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    Winsome Bingham: Farewell Friends (Fort Goode, Book #3) (Book Signing)
  • 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM CDT
    Jeremy Whitley & Jamie Noguchi: School For Extraterrestrial Girls
  • 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM CDT
    Karyn Parsons: BLUE BEACH
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    Mary Shyne: You and Me on Repeat
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Abigail Rose-Marie: White Rabbit
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Amy Chu: Carmilla Volume 3: The Eternal (book signing)
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    Andrew Hacket: In This Classroom
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Barbara Perez Marquez: To Dance the Moon and Stars
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Bonnie Jo Campbell: The Spirits
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Jonathan Fenske: STOP THAT MOP! and WE ARE ALL EARS
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Kristen McCurry, Doodle Digs In
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Lauren Rowe: HERO
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Linda Sue Park: Just One Gift
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Michael Rex: THE TUNNELER TUNNELS IN THE TUNNEL and BAD BANANA
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Paloma Angelina Lopez & Abraham Matias: Popo the Xolo (English Edition) & Popo el Xolo (Spanish Edition)
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Sourcebooks Booth Signing - Mauricio Velazquez De Leon, The Illustrated Guide to Tacos and Burritos
  • 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM CDT
    Calvin Alexander Ramsey and R. Gregory Christie: The Library in the Woods
  • 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM CDT
    Hollis Brady: Pescadero: a Novel
  • 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM CDT
    Jennie Wood, I Didn't Ask For This
  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Grace Daly: The Scald-Crow
  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Keezy Young: HELLO SUNSHINE
  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
    Kyle Sullivan: Hobgoblin and the Stanky Eight
  • 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM CDT
    Jasminne Paulino: The Extraordinary Orbit of Alex Ramirez
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CDT
    Cynthia Weill: ¡TOCAMOS!: MEXICAN FOLK ART MUSIC MAKERS IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CDT
    Jashar Awan: Where I Grew
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CDT
    Kristen Vale: A Tale of Mirth and Magic
  • 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM CDT
    Trevor Mueller: SECRET S.T.E.A.M. Society & Bat Pat
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM CDT
    Anne Lambelet: We Are Dwarf Sperm Whales! A Graphic Guide to Cetaceans
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM CDT
    Briana Johnson: If I Could Go Back
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM CDT
    Julian Peters: Nature Poems to See By
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM CDT
    Kekla Magoon: Alfie Hazard and the Spy Cats: A Spy in the Embassy
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM CDT
    Maisha Oso: VENUS WASHINGTON AND THE LASAGNA DRAMA
  • 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM CDT
    Ann Bausum: White Lies: How the South Lost the Civil War, Then Rewrote the History
  • 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM CDT
    J.C. Kato - Whale Boys (Book Signing)
  • 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM CDT
    Candace Fleming: Joint Publisher Signing
  • 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM CDT
    Gabrielle Raymond McGee - Author of Ocean Superheroes
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    Elana K. Arnold: Bat and the Business of Ferrets
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    Jeneva Rose: The Girl I Was
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    Jennifer Hartmann, DEAD THINGS
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    Kate Messner: Over and Under the Coral Reef
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    Linda Sue Park: Run. Sing. Dream.
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    Saadia Faruqi: The Strongest Heart
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    Samina Najmi: Sing Me a Circle
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    Sara Holly Ackerman: WOODS & WORDS
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    Sonido Reyes: The Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    Taylor Robin: Hunger's Bite
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    Barb Rosenstock: AMERICAN SPIRITS The Famous Fox Sisters and the Mysterious Fad that Haunted a Nation
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    Debbi Michiko Florence: A STUDY IN SECRETS
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    Juwanda G. Ford and Jada Jeni Bennett: I Like Hoops
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
    Steph Cherrywell: The Ink Witch (Stonewall Honor Title)
  • 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT
    Hayley DeRoche: Dress Your Baby in Sage and Taupe
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM CDT
    Alice Blumenthal McGinty: Tractor Zack on Sunshine Kibbutz
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM CDT
    Jon Klassen: I Wonder If I'm Growing
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM CDT
    Nisha J. Tuli: Too Cold for Comfort
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM CDT
    Sara Andrea Fajardo: Crack Goes the Cascarón (English Edition) & La explosión del cascarón (Spanish Edition)
  • 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM CDT
    Alex Combs and Andrew Eakett: Trans History: A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day
  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM CDT
    Anne Lambelet: Beatrix and Her Friends
  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM CDT
    Jennifer Iacopelli: Wildcard
  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM CDT
    Yas Imamura: WHEN CHERRY BLOSSOMS FALL
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CDT
    Cindy Chang: How to Draw a Secret
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CDT
    Jess Callans: Ollie in Between
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CDT
    Norm Feuti: A Kid Like Me
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CDT
    Trenise Ferreira: Post Office Bay (Book Signing)
  • 4:00 PM - 4:50 PM CDT
    Connie Boyd: The Power of Magical Women (Next Generation Indie Book Award 2026 Women’s Literature Non-Fiction)
  • 4:00 PM - 4:50 PM CDT
    Donna Barba Higuera: Firesnake
  • 4:00 PM - 4:50 PM CDT
    Making Global Sense: Grounded hope for democracy and the earth (inspired by Thomas Paine’s Common Sense)
  • 4:00 PM - 4:50 PM CDT
    Marion Seidemann Fredman - A Time to Hide: Based on a True Story of Survival During the Holocaust
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CDT
    Jason Douglas: Jane American
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CDT
    Shain Rose: IN THE DARK
  • 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM CDT
    Corey Liu: HE'S SO POSSESSED WITH ME (Stonewall Honor Title)
  • Monday, June 29, 2026
  • 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM CDT
    Aubrey Hartman: The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest (Newbery Honor Award Winner)
  • 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM CDT
    Cátia Chien: Fireworks
  • 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM CDT
    Daniel Nayeri: The Sweetest of Lemons
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CDT
    August Clarke: THE FELICITY COMPLEX
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CDT
    Deesha Philyaw: The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CDT
    Karina Yan Glaser: The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CDT
    Sourcebooks Booth Signing - Diane Alber, An Untold Story of the Halloween Fairy
  • 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM CDT
    Alyssa Colman: Where Only Storms Grow
  • 9:30 AM - 10:20 AM CDT
    Renée Watson: ALL THE BLUES IN THE SKY
  • 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM CDT
    Meg Fleming: PRETTY CLOSE, BUT NOT THE SAME
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM CDT
    Andrew Joseph White: You’re No Better
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM CDT
    Charlotte Gunnufson: SCHOOL SPIRITS
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM CDT
    Deesha Philyaw: The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM CDT
    Micha Archer: THE GEYSER SISTERS
  • 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM CDT
    J.C. Kato - Whale Boys (Book Signing)
  • 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM CDT
    Matthew Cordell: 102
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    Doug Salati: Cow and Sow Art Prints
  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    Lindsay Merbaum: Witches of the Wheel
  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
    Selma Soren: UNGODLY CHAOS
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    Laleh Khadivi: Female Life on Planet Earth
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    Mikita Brottman: A DOUBLE LIFE
  • 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
    Edel Rodriguez: MY PAPI'S HANDS
  • Cancelled
  • CANCELLED: Adam Wallenta: Punk Taco Adventures!
  • CANCELLED: Amit Tishler: SOLAR SISTERS
  • CANCELLED: E.E. Hornburg: The Night's Chosen
  • CANCELLED: Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen: Now I See Summer
  • CANCELLED: Wendy Haller, The Flannigan Girls book one and book two
  • Gabriel Valentin: Digital Lizards of Doom