Save the Date!
2018 Fall Gala
Saturday, October 27, 2018

Keynote Speaker: Margarita Engle

Margarita Engle is the national Young People's Poet Laureate, for 2017 - 2019 and the first Latino to receive that honor. The Young People’s Poet Laureate aims to raise awareness that young people have a natural receptivity to poetry and are its most appreciative audience, especially when poems are written specifically for them.

Margarita is the Cuban-American author of many verse novels, including The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor winner, and The Lightning Dreamer, a PEN USA Award winner. Her verse memoir, Enchanted Air, received the Pura Belpré Award, Golden Kite Award, Walter Dean Myers Honor, and Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, among others. Drum Dream Girl received the Charlotte Zolotow Award for best picture book text.

Venue: Luminarias Restaurant
            3500 W. Ramona Blvd
            Monterey Park, CA 91754

Registration and more information will be available soon.

BOOKS BY MARGARITA ENGLE:

	Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2018) *Starred Review: School Library Journal
	The Flying Girl: How Aida de Acosta Learned to Soar (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2018)  *Starred Review: School Library Journal
	Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote (Peachtree Publishers, 2017) *Starred Review: Kirkus *Starred Review: School Library Journal
	Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music (HMH Books for Young Readers, 2015) *Starred Review: Kirkus *Starred Review: School Library Journal *Pura Belpre Award, 2016 *ALA Notable Children's Book 2016 More awards and honors may be found on the author's website.
	All the Way to Havana (Henry Holt and Co., 2017) *Starred Review: Booklist *Starred Review: Kirkus *Starred Review: Publishers' Weekly *Starred Review: School Library Journal
	Bravo! Poems About Amazing Hispanics (Henry Holt and Co., 2017) *Starred Review: School Library Journal
	Morning Star Horse (Horizon Bound Books., 2017)
	Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words (Atheneum Books of Young Readers, 2016) *Starred Review: School Library Journal
	Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir (Atheneum Books of Young Readers, 2015) *Starred Review: Booklist *Starred Review: Kirkus *Starred Review: School Library Journal
	The Sky Painter: Louis Fuertes, Bird Artist (Two Lions, 2015)
	Orangutanka: A Story in Poems (Henry Holt and Co., 2015) *Starred Review: School Library Journal
	Silver People:Voices from the Panama Canal (HMH Books for Young Readers, 2014) *Starred Review: Booklist
	The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist (HMH Books for Young Readers, 2013) *Starred Review: Booklist *Pura Belpre Honor Book, 2014 *ALSC Notable Book, 2013
	More awards and honors may be found on the author's website.

2018 Spring Workshop
was held Saturday, May 19, 2018
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Glendale Public Library

"Sharing Hard Truths in Nonfiction
for Children and Young Adults"

Keynote Speaker: Ann Bausum

Photos of the event can be found HERE.

Although "fake news," "alternative facts," bans on words and attacks on knowledge are not new in the history of our country, this is the climate in which writers are writing and librarians and teachers are sharing works of nonfiction for young readers. We are living in hard times for justice, understanding, and truth. In this workshop, we explored the state and look of nonfiction for children and young adults in 2018, where young readers get their nonfiction, and whose stories are being told and have yet to be told.

Ann Bausum writes about history for young people. Her books help upper elementary, middle school, and high school students discover the drama and significance of stories from history that may barely be presented in their textbooks. Her goal is to "make history relevant, engaging, alive, and irresistible." In a recent Horn Book article, Ann writes, "We observe that forgotten history tends to be repeated. Nothing good comes from distorted history, either, which is why we must hold fast to the truth, even when it’s painful, and do our best to set down stories straight." For more information about Ann, please visit her website: www.annbausum.com

Following Ann's Keynote Speech, workshop attendees rotated through four "deep-dive" sessions that focused on writing, reading, and teaching hard truths with and for children and young adults, as well as the look and content of contemporary nonfiction. A Nonfiction Petting Zoo will be on display throughout the workshop. Sessions were facilitated by: 

	Michelle Markel, Author
	Annette Goldsmith, Lecturer, University of Washington Information School
	Ethan Bradbury, History Teacher and Highly Gifted Magnet Coordinator at North Hollywood High School
	Madeline Bryant, Principal Librarian, Youth Services Department, Los Angeles Public Library.