Jessica Young takes another punny romp with two doggie best friends
Jessica Young’s latest early-reader graphic novel, Haggis and Tank Unleashed: Howl at the Moon, is a clever exploration of language and a celebration of imagination. Young will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 13 at 2 p.m.
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Sheba Karim’s meditation on desire and distance embraces and enlarges the YA genre
It’s the summer after high school, and Shabnam Qureshi has a simple plan: “Get through the summer. Get to Penn. Begin anew. Don’t look back.” But as Sheba Karim demonstrates in That Thing We Call a Heart, her second book for young adults, life is rarely so simple. Karim will appear on May 9 at 2 p.m. at Parnassus Books in Nashville.
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In Midnight Without a Moon, Linda Williams Jackson considers the civil-rights movement through the eyes of a feisty teenage girl
Thirteen-year-old Rose Lee Carter knows that the Jim Crow South has to change, but she’s not sure she wants to be the one to do it. Linda Williams Jackson makes a stunning debut with her middle-grade historical novel, Midnight Without a Moon.
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For two teenagers, a same-sex love affair plays out against a backdrop of family grief
In How to Make a Wish, Nashville YA author Ashley Herring Blake deftly describes the highs and lows of a burgeoning love affair between two young women dealing with personal problems that would challenge adults of any age. Blake will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 2 at 6:30 p.m.
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The world of children’s lit mourns the loss of the legendary Patricia C. McKissack
Middle Tennessee native Patricia C. McKissack, acclaimed author and storyteller, died near her home in Missouri on April 7. Her body of work, which includes many books written with her late husband Fredrick, did much to champion the African American experience.
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A young artist learns a thing or two about courage when his secret creation escapes
Jennifer Trafton’s Henry and the Chalk Dragon is a hilarious and touching tribute to the power of art and the courage it takes to unleash your imagination into the world. Trafton will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 15 at 10:30 a.m.
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