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Friday May 9, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
TBA
Middle grade novels exploring relationships between tweens and their adults are critical for addressing intergenerational patterns and showing children finding their own, healthy path forward. These stories create a gateway into difficult conversations and create community within various library patron populations. In this panel, four award-winning authors will present recent books that address themes of mental health stigma, drug addiction, systemic racism, generational trauma, and bodily autonomy, lead a conversation on library programming to open up intergenerational conversations, and provide reading lists, model display and book club ideas, and activities and community partnership ideas to facilitate family conversations.
Speakers
avatar for Heather Murphy Capps

Heather Murphy Capps

Upper MG Author/Writing Instructor, Lerner
I’m an award-winning author of upper middle-grade books. I write historical fiction and use magical realism—topics I love to talk about, especially with young readers and educators.
avatar for Meg Eden Kuyatt

Meg Eden Kuyatt

Writer / Instructor, Scholastic / Anne Arundel Community College
Meg Eden Kuyatt is a Maryland teacher at colleges and writing centers, including Anne Arundel Community College and University of MD College Park. She is the author of the 2021 Towson Prize for Literature winning poetry collection “Drowning in the Floating World,” the forthcoming... Read More →
avatar for Ali Terese

Ali Terese

Author, Aladdin / Simon & Schuster and Scholastic
Ali Terese is a middle grade and YA author who writes funny and heartfelt stories including FREE PERIOD (Scholastic - 2024) and VOTE FOR THE G.O.A.T. (Aladdin / Simon & Schuster - 2025). Her work has received the National Book Award longlist honor, a School Library Journal starred... Read More →
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Sydney Dunlap

Upper Middle-Grade Author
Sydney Dunlap (www.sydneydunlap.com) is an award-winning author and former elementary school teacher who has worked extensively with youth facing challenging circumstances. She enjoys reading and writing heartfelt, hopeful books that explore tough topics that aren’t often addressed in middle grade literature. He... Read More →
Friday May 9, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
TBA

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