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Meet the Authors

Meet the Authors

  • Friday, June 26, 2026
  • 5:30 PM - 5:55 PM CDT
    AUTHOR SIGNING / Character Meet & Greet (6-foot-tall eagle) / RANGER BALDY AND THE DISAPPEARING WATERFALL - A YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE plus preview his new Sequoia NP book!
  • 5:30 PM - 5:55 PM CDT
    Author Signing, SIGN OF THE SANDMAN. BOOKLIST described as …all adventure, all the time. Middle-grade readers who enjoy fun alongside their fantasy will love this one.”
  • 5:30 PM - 5:59 PM CDT
    Author Signing, SIGN OF THE SANDMAN. BOOKLIST described as “…all adventure, all the time. Middle-grade readers who enjoy fun alongside their fantasy will love this one.”
  • 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM CDT
    Author Signing / Character Meet & Greet (6-foot-tall Eagle mascot) / RANGER BALDY AND THE DISAPPEARING WATERFALL - A YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE
  • 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
    Lise Concolato: The Brave Fuzzy: A Microbiome Story
  • 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
    DC Vertigo Booth Giveaway
  • 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
    Andrea Beaty: Billie Jean Peet, Athlete and What's That Color?
  • 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)
  • 6:15 PM - 7:00 PM CDT
    Ananya Adya: The Brave Fuzzy: A Microbiome Story
  • 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM CDT
    Author Signing / Character Meet & Greet (6-foot tall eagle mascot) / RANGER BALDY AND THE DISAPPEARING WATERFALL - A YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE
  • 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM CDT
    AUTHOR SIGNING / Character Meet & Greet (6-foot-tall eagle) / RANGER BALDY AND THE DISAPPEARING WATERFALL - A YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE plus preview his new Sequoia NP book!
  • 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