Fostering the importance of literacy and encouraging the joy of literature in a young person's life is an important part of the Southern Festival of Books.
The children's and young adult programs at the Festival are great opportunities for librarians, educators, and parents to seek and find the newest releases in all genres, old favorites, and hot discussion topics. All ages will find something they love at the Southern Festival of Books.
Don't miss these children's and young adult authors this fall!
• Mark Wayne Adams, Down Under Kussins
• Hannah Barnaby, Bad Guy
• Annie Barrows, Nothing
• Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue
• Ashley Herring Blake, How to Make a Wish
• Emily Blejwas, Once You Know This
• Peter Bognanni, Things I'm Seeing Without You
• Alysson Foti Bourque, Alycat and the Thursday Dessert Day
• Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War I Finally Won
• Natalka Burian, Welcome to the Slipstream
• Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next
• Cinda Williams Chima, Shadowcaster
• Julie Dao, Forest of a Thousand Lanterns
• Sarah Dessen, Once and For All
• Trish Dollar, In a Perfect Word
• Alexandra Duncan, Blight
• Amy Engel, The Book of Ivy
• Charles Ghigna, First Times
• Alan Gratz, Refugee
• Rebecca Green, How to Make Friends with a Ghost
• Jeanne Walker Harvey, Maya Lin
• Deron Hicks, The Van Gogh Deception
• Robert Hoge, Ugly: A Memoir
• Linda Williams Jackson, Midnight Without a Moon
• Heather Kaczynski, Dare Mighty Things
• Sheba Karim, That Thing We Call A Heart
• SJ Kincaid, The Empress
• Nina LaCour, We Are Ok
• MA Larson, The Warrior Princess of Pennyroyal Academy
• Janet Lee, Return of the Dapper Men
• Samantha Mabry, All the Wind in the World
• Andrew Marannis, Strong Inside (Young Readers Edition)
• Lisa Maxwell, Last Magician
• Stacy McAnulty, Brave
• Jim McCann, Return of the Dapper Men
• Mary McCoy, Camp So and So
• Erin McGill, I Do Not Like Al's Hat
• Anne-Marie McLemore, Wild Beauty
• Sandhya Menon, When Dimple Met Rishi
• Amanda Morgan, Such A Good Girl
• Daniel Jose Older, Shadowhouse Fall
• Jo'anne O'Sullivan, Between two Skies
• Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House
• Linda Ragsdale, Alpha Better
• Amy Reed, The Nowhere Girls
• Catherine Reef, Florence Nightengale: The Courageous Life of the Legendary Nurse
• Brendan Reichs, Nemesis
• Judy Schachner, Sarabella's Thinking Cap
• VE Schwab, A Conjuring of Light
• Ali Standish, The Ethan I Was Before
• Javaka Steptoe, Radiant Child: The Story of Jean Michel Basquiat
• Courtney C. Stevens, Dress Codes for Small Towns
• Nic Stone, Dear Martin
• Jessica Taylor, A Map for Wrecked Girls
• Janet Taylor, Sparks of Light
• Maggie Thrash, Strange Lies
• Kristin Tubb, A Dog Like Daisy
• Catherynne Valente, The Glass Town Game
• Carol Boston Weatherford, Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
• Alana White, Come Next Spring
• Jessica Young, Howl at the Moon
• Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days
