ALL “YA” NEED IS LOVE

1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
| Location of Session: Coates Chapel
Young Adult (YA) Sessions

Start of Signing: 2:30 pm
| Signing Location: Festival Marketplace

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About the Event

Cecil and Pacy are both fine being nerds and the thought of romance is the furthest thing from both of their minds… until sparks fly in the nurse’s office. On Again, Awkward Again is a hilarious, authentically awkward high school romance by two-time Newbery Medal winner Erin Entrada Kelly and the #1 New York Times bestselling Marvel and Rick Riordan Presents writer Kwame Mbalia.

About the Author

Photo Credit: Abrams Books

Erin Entrada Kelly

Erin Entrada Kelly is a New York Times bestselling author and has won a multitude of awards for her work including the Newbery Medal twice, for Hello, Universe and for The First State of Being; and a Newbery Honor for We Dream of Space. She is a professor of children’s literature in the graduate fiction and publishing programs at Rosemont College, where she earned her MFA, and is on the faculty at Hamline University. She lives in Philadelphia, PA. Her latest book, co-written with Kwame Mbalia is On Again, Awkward Again.

Photo Credit: Abrams Books

Kwame Mbalia

Kwame Mbalia is a husband, father, writer, a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a former pharmaceutical metrologist, and the publisher of Freedom Fire—an imprint from Disney-Hyperion, featuring stories of Black resilience and joy. His debut middle grade novel, Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, was a New York Times bestseller and awarded a Coretta Scott King Author Honor. A Howard University graduate and a Midwesterner now in North Carolina, he survives on Dad jokes and Cheezits. His latest book, co-written with Erin Entrada Kelly is On Again, Awkward Again.

Moderator

Lucy Podmore

Lucy Ibarra Podmore has served as a school librarian since 2007 and is an active member of the Texas Library Association and Texas Association of School Librarians. She has received district, state and national recognition for her work in school libraries.Lucy also helps coordinate LibraryPalooza, an author festival for teen readers in San Antonio. As a Hispanic woman working in a diverse community, ensuring her students are represented in library materials and programs is at the center of her work.