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SupERTuesday Closing Reception: Tuesday, July 1, 2008, Beginning at 8:00 am (Note new, earlier time!) The Closing Reception will be held throughout the Exhibits be free breakfast, and exhibitors will be offering special giveaways booths and, like last year, great prizes from the exhibitors raffled off throughout the reception. This is a great way to conference experience in Anaheim, be sure to join us!

Meet the Authors: Your opportunity to meet and get autographs from favorite adult and children's authors and illustrators.

CANDLEWICK PRESS, BOOTH #2554

Saturday, June 28

9:00 – 10:00AM MEGAN MCDONALD signing Stink and the Great Guinea Pig Express, advanced reading copies of Judy Moody Goes to College, and other titles

10:00 – 11:00AM MARY BRIGID BARRETT, KATHLEEN KRULL, ROBERT BYRD, and LEONARD MARCUS signing Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out

11:00AM – 12:00PM MARC ARONSON signing advanced reading copies of War Is...: Soliders, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War

1:00 – 2:00PM LAURA AMY SCHLITZ and ROBERT BYRD signing the 2008 Newbery Medal winner Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village

3:00 – 4:00PM BETSY FRANCO signing Falling Hard: Love Poems by Teenagers and other titles

4:00 – 5:00PM CHARLES R. SMITH, JR. and BRYAN COLLIER signing 2008 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali


Sunday, June 29

9:00 – 10:00AM NIKKI GIOVANNI signing The Grasshopper’s Song and On My Journey Now

10:00 – 11:00AM RON KOERTGE signing Strays, advanced reading copies of Deadville, and other titles

12:00 – 1:00PM Newbery Medalist LAURA AMY SCHLITZ signing Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village and other titles


Monday, June 30

10:00 – 11:00AM JENNIFER RICHARD JACOBSON signing Andy Shane and the Queen of Egypt and other titles

1:00 – 2:00PM M.T. ANDERSON signing advanced reading copies of The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves and other titles

2:00 – 3:00PM LAURA MCGEE KVASNSOKY signing Zelda and Ivy and the Boy Next Door, Really Truly Bingo, and other titles


Tuesday, July 1

9:30 – 10:30AM CHARLES R. SMITH, JR. signing Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali and other titles

HARPER COLLINS CHILDREN’S BOOKS, BOOTH #1000

Enter to win Fancy Nancy’s Fancy Swag!

Hear Jamie Lee Curtis speak at the PLA President’s Program!

Pick up a FREE copy of RUMORS: A LUXE NOVEL on Saturday, June 28th (while supplies last)!

And don’t miss out on all of our AMAZING galleys and giveaways!


Author and Illustrator Signings

SATURDAY, JUNE 28TH

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM HARRY BLISS, Diary of a Fly

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM BRUCE HALE, Pirates of Underwhere

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK, Blood Roses

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM BRYAN COLLIER, Lift Every Voice and Sing

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM NIKKI GRIMES, Oh, Brother!

12:30 PM – 1:00 PM MICHELE DOMÍNGUEZ GREENE, Chasing the Jaguar

12:30 PM – 1:00 PM PAULA YOO, Good Enough

1:00 PM – 1:30 PM JENNIFER ANNE KOGLER, The Otherworldlies

1:00 PM – 1:30 PM WENDY LICHTMAN, Do the Math #2: The Writing on the Wall

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM LAURA NUMEROFF, If You Give a Cat a Cupcake

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM KEVIN HENKES, Bird Lake Moon


SUNDAY, JUNE 29TH

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PAT MORA, Sweet Dreams / Dulces sueños

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PETER SÍS, Play, Mozart, Play!

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM ROBIN PREISS GLASSER, Fancy Nancy’s Favorite Fancy Words

1:00 PM – 1:30 PM METTE IVIE HARRISON, The Princess and the Hound

1:00 PM – 1:30 PM TERRY TRUEMAN, Hurricane

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM SID FLEISCHMAN, The Trouble Begins at 8


MONDAY, JUNE 30TH

MEET OUR PRINTZ WINNERS!

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM GERALDINE McCAUGHREAN, The White Darkness, 2008 Printz Award

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM A. M. JENKINS, Repossessed, 2008 Printz Honor


Poster Sessions: Poster sessions give librarians the opportunity to make peer-to-peer presentations on research, innovative programs and problem solving ideas.

Silent Auction: Support ALA scholarships to deserving library school students by purchasing some of the great items up for bid at this year's ERT Silent Auction!

Library Product Spotlight will feature explanations and demonstrations of new products from ALA exhibitors that are designed to help improve your library. These presentations will take place Sunday, June 29 and Monday, June 30 from 10:00 am to 1:10 pm on the exhibit floor.

LIVE! @ your library Reading Stage: In the Exhibition Hall Saturday, Sunday & Monday, 12:00 - 4:00 pm, take a break from a day of meetings and programs and stop by the LIVE! @ your library Reading Stage in the Exhibition Hall to enjoy readings from new and favorite authors and poets, learn how to develop author programs for your library, and find new recommendations for your patrons. Each year, acclaimed and new writers grace the Reading Stage. The LIVE! @ your library Reading Stage is presented by the ALA Public Programs Office.

Free Author Programs Presented by FOLUSA

Best Sellers of a Different Color: Ethnic Writers in America
Saturday, 6/28/08, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Anaheim Convention Center, Room 211 B

Join FOLUSA for a unique look at ethnic writers in America. Authors Tracy Brown (Twisted, St. Martin's Griffin), Bich Minh Nguyen (Stealing Buddha's Dinner, Penguin), Nikki Turner (Black Widow: A Novel, One World, Ballentine), Yxta Maya Murray (King's Gold, Harper Collins), and Nina Revoyr (The Age of Dreaming, Akashic Books) will talk about ethnic fiction and non-fiction writers for this enlightening panel discussion.


Protecting Planet Earth
Sunday, 6/29/08, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Anaheim Convention Center, Room 203 A

Authors Patrick Carman (River of Fire and The House of Power, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers), Dan Koeppel (Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World, Hudson Street Press), Thomas M. Kostigen (You are Here: The Surprising Link Between What We Do and What That Does to the Planet, HarperCollins), William Fox (Making Time, Counterpoint), and John Francis, PhD (Planetwalker: 22 Years of Walking, 17 Years of Silence, National Geographic) will be joined by others who write about environmental concerns in both fiction and non-fiction. Library Journal's book review editor, Barbara Hoffert, will moderate the panel discussion. Authors will sign their books following the program - most of which will be free and others sold at a generous discount.


First Author, First Book
Sunday, 6/29/08, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Anaheim Convention Center, Room 203 A

Be the very first to hear from writers who are sure to end up on the best-sellers list in this popular annual program. Meet newcomers Kaya McLaren (Church of the Dog, Penguin), Scott Douglas (Quiet, Please, Perseus Books), Mark Sarvas (Harry, Revised, Bloomsbury USA), Daniel White (The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind - and Almost Found Myself - on the Pacific Crest Trail, Harper-Collins), Janelle Brown (All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, Spiegel & Grau), and Anya Ulinich (Petropolis, Penguin). Library Journal's book review editor, Barbara Hoffert, will moderate the program. The authors will sign copies of their books following the event most of which will be given away free while others will be sold at a generous discount.
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