SECRET OF THE MOON CONCH

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
| Location of Session: Coates Chapel
Young Adult (YA) Sessions

Start of Signing: 4:00 pm
| Signing Location: Festival Marketplace

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The two award-winning young adult authors David Bowles and Guadalupe García McCall joined forces for Secret of the Moon Conch, a sweeping fantasy romance that defies time.

Introduced by April Torres

About the Authors

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David Bowles

David Bowles is an award-winning Mexican American author and translator from Texas. His books include The Smoking Mirror, Feathered Serpent Dark Heart of Sky, They Call Me Güero, and They Call Her Fregona. He has been published in The New York Times, School Library Journal, Strange Horizons, English Journal, Rattle, Translation Review, and the Journal of Children’s Literature. In 2017, he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters, and in 2020, he co-founded #DignidadLiteraria, a social justice movement advocating for greater Latinx representation in publishing. His latest books are The Prince & the Coyote and Secret of the Moon Conch, co-authored with Guadalupe García McCall.

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Guadalupe García McCall

Guadalupe García McCall is the award-winning author of Under the Mesquite, Summer of the Mariposas, Shame the Stars, All the Stars Denied, and Echoes of Grace. She has received a Pura Belpré Award, a Westchester Young Adult Fiction Award, and the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award. She was a finalist for the William C. Morris YA Debut Award and the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy, among many other accolades. She advocates for literacy and diverse books. She lives with her husband in Texas. Her latest book is Secret of the Moon Conch.

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SECRET OF THE MOON CONCH

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David Bowles

Guadalupe García McCall

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