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A person reading a book at the 2012 Texas Book Festival. The Texas Book Festival is a free annual book festival held in downtown Austin, Texas. The festival takes place each fall in October or November and includes programming for children and adults. [1] It is one of the largest and most critically acclaimed book festivals in the United States.
Dias in 2019. Born. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Occupation (s) Activist, writer. Marley Dias is an American activist and writer. While Dias was in 6th grade, in November 2015, she launched a campaign called #1000BlackGirlBooks to collect 1,000 books with black female protagonists to donate for black girls at other schools in the U.S.
Murphy wrote the book as part of National Novel Writing Month around 2010 while working as a librarian in Texas. [7] Her next young adult novel, titled Dumplin', was published in 2015. Critical reception for Dumplin’ has been positive. [8] [4] [9] The novel became a New York Times bestseller. [10]
Website. www .victoriascott .com. Victoria Scott (born 1982) is an American writer of young adult fiction novels. [1] She's the author of Titans [2] and the Fire & Flood series published by Scholastic Press, [3] as well as the Dante Walker trilogy published by Entangled Teen. [4] Scott's novels have been bought and translated in eleven foreign ...
After 2020's pandemic cancellation and 2021's hybrid online/in-person event, the Texas Book Festival returns in full force for 2022 this weekend in and around the Capitol.
August 31, 2024 at 7:40 PM. PRINCETON, Texas - A statewide AMBER Alert has been issued for a missing teenager last seen in Princeton, Texas. 13-year-old Madison Carroll was last seen at 2:40 a.m ...
Website. keklamagoon.com //. Kekla Magoon is an American author, best known for her NAACP Image Award -nominated young adult novel The Rock and the Rive r, How It Went Down, The Season of Styx Malone, and X. In 2021, she received the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association for her body of work.
Alex Sanchez (born 1957) is a Mexican American author of award-winning novels for teens and adults. His first novel, Rainbow Boys (2001), was selected by the American Library Association (ALA), as a Best Book for Young Adults. Subsequent books have won additional awards, including the Lambda Literary Award.