Portland Book Festival Young Adult
Unfinished Business: Justina Ireland & Aiden Thomas
The dead rise, but that's not the only thing haunting the characters as they navigate race, gender, and the weight of history in these best-selling novels.
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Portland Book Festival Young Adult
Love & Basketball: Sloane Leong & Liara Tamani
Friendships are tested, hearts broken, and secrets are revealed on and off the basketball court in these luminous young adult novels.
Portland Book Festival Young Adult
Aftershocks: Jonathan Hill & Kiku Hughes
Two dynamic young adult graphic novels that explore generational trauma in the American West, going back in time to Japanese internment in World War II and forward to a near-future devastated by the Cascadia earthquake.
Portland Book Festival Young Adult Youth Events
The Seeds to Plant the Future: WITS 2019–20 Anthology Launch
Join Portland public high school students as they read from their work featured in the 2019–20 Writers in the Schools anthology, The Seeds to Plant the Future. Pre-order your copy of the book here! (Ships December 2020) To view this event, go to: https://www.pdxbookfest.org/daily-live-stream/ If you have not done so already, you will need to register for
Portland Book Festival Young Adult
Skyhunter: Marie Lu & Emily Suvada
An adrenaline-laced novel about the lengths one warrior will go to fight for freedom and those she loves.
Portland Book Festival Writing Classes Young Adult Youth Events
Youth Workshop: Hopes/Fears/Feathers: The Art of the Notebook and the Bird in Your Yard
In this workshop we’ll identify and then banish fears, generate new work on the page and examine ways the writer’s notebook can help to focus our attention, capture stories and make sense during unsettled times. We’ll look at poems by Claudia Rankine and Emily Dickinson and watch New York birder Christian Cooper nerd out on
Portland Book Festival Young Adult
Magic & Power: Tehlor Kay Mejia, Anna-Marie McLemore, & Bethany C. Morrow
Teen heroines find their voices and their power—thanks to strong female friendships, and at least a little bit of magic. Moderated by Emilly Prado.
Fiction Poetry Portland Book Festival Young Adult
Black Talk, Black Feeling with The Believer
This conversation series is intended to connect this critical moment to others in the past, establishing a link between the conversations folks are having now with the discussions that have been ongoing in Black writing communities.
Fiction Middle Grade Nonfiction Picture Book Poetry Portland Book Festival Writing Classes Young Adult
Collaborative Writing for Educators
Explore cooperative exercises in this workshop aimed at encouraging shy writers and offering a variety of ways to look at subjects to stimulate every student. You will learn how to teach group projects that practice a range of writing techniques. We will write team poems, working together from brainstorming to polished pieces, and you will
Portland Book Festival Young Adult
Make Art & Take Action: Youth Panel on Writing Creatively in Extraordinary Times
Three dynamic Oregon high school artists will perform their work and discuss their experiences at the intersections of writing and activism in 2020.
Portland Book Festival Young Adult
No Justice No Peace: Kim Johnson & Francisco X. Stork
Young adult novels about fighting for justice, which expose racism in the United States criminal justice system, and the injustices of immigration policies and the refugee crisis at the southern border.
Portland Book Festival Young Adult
It’s Complicated: Arvin Ahmadi & Adib Khorram
IRL friends and novelists talk about their new books, stories of coming out, running away, first love, and more.
Portland Book Festival Young Adult
Meet Cute: Leah Johnson & David Yoon
Contemporary YA romantic comedies about teens trying a new identity and grabbing the spotlight—and the girl. Moderated by Zan Romanoff.
Portland Book Festival Young Adult
Reality Check: J. C. Geiger & Alissa Sallah
Stories about friendship, growing up, and growing apart with young adult novelists J. C. Geiger and Alissa Sallah. Moderated by Kate Ristau.
Portland Book Festival Young Adult Youth Events
Curiosity in Ones and Zeros: 2020-21 WITS Student Anthology Launch
Each year, Literary Arts’ Writers in the Schools (WITS) program publishes an anthology of exemplary student work. Connections in 1s and 0s showcases poetry, prose, drama, and comics written by high school students from Portland’s public high schools in 2020-21.
Fiction Poetry Portland Book Festival Young Adult
NBF Presents: An Afternoon with the National Book Awards
Current National Book Award Longlisters, Finalists, and potential Winners come together for a variety-style showcase of readings and interviews. Presented in partnership with the National Book Foundation.
Portland Book Festival Young Adult
New Mythology: Michelle Ruiz Keil
Inspired by the Greek myth of Iphigenia and the Grimm fairy tale “Brother and Sister,” Michelle Ruiz Keil’s novel follows two siblings torn apart and struggling to find each other in early ’90s Portland. Moderated by Alicia Tate of Multnomah County Library.
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