We hope this year’s online Festival will allow you and your students to participate in new ways! Below is the schedule for Children’s, Middle Grade, and YA. (They’re also included with the other books in the official schedule.) Please let us know (sfb1@humtn.org) if your class plans to tune in for a session!
Each session will be recorded and can be watched almost immediately upon its conclusion. If your students cannot make the live version of the session but would still like to submit a question for the author, please send it along to sfb1@humtn.org.
CHILDREN’S
Click, Clack, Good Night
Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin
In Conversation: Olivia Cole and Jessica Young
Time to Roar and A Magic Spark
Illustoria Live: DIY Abstract Expressionism
Create and Make Activity!
Who Gives a Poop? Surprising Science from One End to the Other
by Heather L. Montgomery
Robobaby by David Wiesner
MIDDLE GRADE
The Whole Wide World: Elizabeth Bunce, Karina Yan Glaser, and Courtney Stevens
The Vanderbeekers: Lost and Found, How to Get Away with Myrtle, and The June Boys
In Conversation: Kacen Callendar and Daphne Kalmar Stealing Mt. Rushmore and King and the Dragon
In Conversation: Ashley Blooms and Caroline DuBois
Every Bone a Prayer and The Places We Sleep
In Conversation: L.M. Elliott and Jennifer Li Shotz
American Dog and Storm Dog
Kenny and the Book of Beasts
Tony DiTerlizzi
Illustoria Live: DIY Abstract Expressionism
Create and Make Activity!
In Conversation: Renée Watson and Meg Medina
Ways to Make Sunshine and Evelyn Del Rey is Moving Away
Girlhood Revelations: Middle Grade Novels
Caterpillar Summer, Tune It Out, and Zora & Me: The Summoner
YOUNG ADULT
In Conservation: Phil Stamper and Lamar Giles
Not So Pure and Simple and The Gravity of Us
In Conversation: Ruta Sepetys and Andrew Maraniss
The Fountains of Silence and Games of Deception
This is My America
Kim Johnson
(See Below for Writing Activity)
In Conversation: Sharon Cameron and Deborah Wiles
The Light in Hidden Places and Kent State
Illustoria Live: DIY Abstract Expressionism
Create and Make Activity!
Princesses and Warriors: Kalynn Bayron, Sarah Henning, and Amy Tintera
Cinderella is Dead, Sea Witch Rising, and All These Monsters
THIS IS MY AMERICA WRITING ACTIVITY
What: Humanities Tennessee is pleased to partner with author Kim Johnson on a student writing activity for Tennessee students in grades 8-12. Watch the accompanying video from Kim Johnson. Write up to 300 words sharing what you think or hope your America will look like in five or 10 years. Feel free to send an essay, poem, song, or short story as your submission.
Select entries may be published and shared by Chapter16.org and/or Humanities Tennessee. In addition to publication, creators of selected entries will receive a copy of the book, This is My America.
When: Submissions Deadline is Friday, November 20, 2020
How: Student submissions must come from a teacher or librarian and be sent to America@humtn.org.
Watch Kim Johnson’s Southern Festival of Books session live on Tuesday, October 6 from 12:30-1:15 pm CT.
