GRADES 9-12
2026 National Book Award honorees in Young People’s Literature read from and discuss their books, and answer questions from Miami-Dade County students. Hosted by Sabaa Tahir, author of Empire. For more information and to RSVP, contact Amelia Badri at [email protected].
Featured authors: In Delali Adjoa’s The Free Verse Society, two students from vastly different backgrounds – one a teen mom who secretly put her baby up for adoption, the other a delinquent who breaks into his old house – butt heads in the school poetry club and find connection as they write about love and loss. T.A. Chan’s The Celestial Seas delivers a breathless sci-fi reimagining of Moby Dick in space, where a young captain seeks her revenge against a sentient spacecraft known as the Ballena. That Which Feeds Us by Keala Kendall is a mystery, where one twin disappears at a Hawaiian wellness resort and her sister must uncover the island’s dark history to figure out what happened. Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr’s Life on the Moon follows the adventures of a preteen who follows his family to the first Moon colony… only to discover there’s a lot more undiscovered life up there than anyone thought!
Buy That Which Feeds Us: A Sunnie Reads Select: A Hawaiian Gothic
