Readers' Recess
Monday, September 30 - 4:30 - 5:45 pm
Columbia Event Center A
Sponsored by Scholastic Tickets required
Four children's book authors talk about their books.
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Lynn Brunelle | Life After Whale | Neal Porter Books / Holiday House
Seattle writer Lynn Brunelle offers young readers an honest and informative look at the cycle of life in Life After Whale (Neal Porter Books/Peachtree), a depiction of what happens after a blue whale comes to the end of her natural lifespan and dies. The process known as whale fall is both fascinating and comforting, as the death of one creature provides food and shelter to so many more. Lynn Brunelle is a four-time Emmy Award–winning writer for Bill Nye the Science Guy, the author of the bestselling books Pop Bottle Science and Camp Out!, and a former K-12 teacher. A trusted science communicator, she has been featured on television, radio and podcasts, given a TED Talk, and spoken at the UN about girls and STEM education.
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Natalie Lloyd | The Witching Wind | Scholastic Press
Family, friendship, adventure and magic combine for the perfect mix in Natalie Lloyd’s new novel for middle graders The Witching Wind (Scholastic Press). New friends Roxie and Grayson might seem to be so different, but they share one thing in common – each has had the person dearest to them simply disappear. Could it be the Witching Wind – reported to steal away what people love most? And can the girls outwit that magical wind, and reunite with their missing loved ones before it is too late? Natalie Lloyd, bestselling author of A Snicker of Magic and Hummingbird, lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She collects old books, listens to bluegrass music, and loves exploring quirky mountain towns with her dog, Biscuit.
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Emily Lloyd-Jones | The Wild Huntress | Hachette Book Group
The Wild Huntress (LBBYA/Hachette), bestselling author Emily Lloyd-Jones’s eagerly anticipated companion to The Bone House and The Drowned Woods, is the thrilling tale of three unlikely allies bound together in a deadly, magical competition. Set in the same world as Lloyd-Jones’s two previous books, but with a whole new cast of characters, The Wild Huntress offers lush fantasy, magic and monsters, risk and reward, as wild huntress Branwen, prince-born Pryderi and trickster Gwydion vie for the Wild Hunt’s life-changing prize: a magical wish granted by the Otherking. Emily Lloyd-Jones grew up on a vineyard in rural Oregon, and currently lives in Northern California. She writes for middle grade readers and young adults, but always with a touch of magic and the otherworldy.
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Aiden Thomas | Celestial Monsters| Macmillan / Feiwel & Friends
New York Times-bestselling author Aiden Thomas returns to the beloved world of The Sunbearer Trials with Celestial Monsters (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan), in which Teo, Aurelio, and Niya must battle the Obsidian gods in order to return Sol to the sky. The sun is gone, the Obsidian gods have been released from their prison, and chaos and destruction are wreaking havoc on Reino del Sol. All because Teo refused to sacrifice a fellow semidiose during the Sunbearer Trials. Thomas’s original, queernormative mythmaking is the perfect read for fans of Sarah J. Maas. Originally from Oakland, California, Aiden Thomas now lives in Portland. They are the author of several fantasy novels for young adults, including Cemetery Boys and Lost in the Never Woods.
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