Boston Book Festival!

Boston Book Festival!

Here are Mr. Doreian's "Choice Selections"

M. T. Anderson

M. T. Anderson is an author of stories for diverse audiences, from picture books for children to novels for teens and adults. His most notable works include Feed and the Octavian Nothing saga, for which he won a National Book Award. His latest book, Symphony for the City of the Dead, is a nonfiction account of the surprising intersections of art and war during World War II.

12:00PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY TEEN CENTRAL, 700 BOYLSTON STREET

Robin Brenner

Robin Brenner is the teen librarian at the Brookline Public Library. She started a graphic novel and comic review website, No Flying No Tights, while in library school at the University of Illinois, and since then has been involved in many aspects of graphic novels and libraries.

10:45AM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24

EMMANUEL SANCTUARY, 15 NEWBURY STREET

Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat is the author of eleven books, includingBreath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, and the National Book Award-nominated story collection Krik? Krak! Her latest book is Untwine, a young adult novel Kirkushails as “an honest, endearing exploration of family, grief and perseverance.”

4:00PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24

EMMANUEL SANCTUARY, 15 NEWBURY STREET

Matt de la Peña

Matt de la Peña is an award-winning YA and picture book author. His picture books include A Nation’s Hope and Last Stop on Market Street. He is also the author of six young adult novels, including his latest The Hunted (the sequel toThe Living).

1:30PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY CHILDREN’S LIBRARY, 700 BOYLSTON STREET
3:00PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24
BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY TEEN CENTRAL, 700 BOYLSTON STREET

Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman is a #1 New York Times–bestselling author for children and adults. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, along with the Newbery and Carnegie medals. His most notable works include The Graveyard Book, The Sandman series, Stardust, American Gods, andCoraline. Gaiman’s most recent book is a collection of his shorter work titled Trigger Warning.

5:45PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24

OLD SOUTH SANCTUARY, 645 BOYLSTON STREET

Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande is a public health researcher and a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also a professor in both the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Department of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, as well as a staff writer for the New Yorker. Gawande’s most recent book is Being Mortal, which examines the limitations of medicine in end-of-life care.

4:00PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24

OLD SOUTH SANCTUARY, 645 BOYLSTON STREET

Sarah Kay

Sarah Kay is a poet best known for her award-winning spoken-word poetry. She is the founder and co-director of Project VOICE, a group dedicated to using spoken word as an educational and inspirational tool.

5:30PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24

STORYVILLE, 90 EXETER STREET

Brendan Kiely

Brendan Kiely is the author of the young adult novel The Gospel of Winter, which was selected by the ALA as one of its 2015 top ten books for young adults. All American Boys, his new YA novel co-authored with Jason Reynolds, focuses on the broad repercussions of a single violent act.

3:00PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY TEEN CENTRAL, 700 BOYLSTON STREET

Sonia Manzano

Sonia Manzano is an actress, author, and speaker best known for her role as Maria on Sesame Street. She was nominated twice for an Emmy Award as Outstanding Performer in a Children’s Series, and her writing for the show earned her fifteen Emmy Awards. She recently published a memoir, Becoming Maria.

12:00PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY TEEN CENTRAL, 700 BOYLSTON STREET

Kim McLarin

Kim McLarin is the author of the critically-acclaimed novelsTaming It Down, Meeting of the Waters, and Jump at the Sun,which was chosen as a 2007 Fiction Honor Book for the Massachusetts Book Awards. She is also author of the memoir Divorce Dog and co-author of the memoir Growing Up X.

2:30PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24

OLD SOUTH MARY NORTON, 645 BOYLSTON STREET

Christopher Muther

Christopher Muther is the Boston Globe’s recently-appointed travel writer and columnist. Over the past year he’s written about cats around the world—from Montreal to Peru to Turkey. When he’s not writing about cats, he’s covering hot new destinations, up-and-coming neighborhoods, and angry people on airplanes.

4:00PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24

FRENCH CULTURAL CENTER, 53 MARLBOROUGH STREET

Chinelo Okparanta

Chinelo Okparanta is an award-winning Nigerian-American writer. Her collection of short stories, Happiness, Like Water,was long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and won a 2014 Lambda Literary Award. Okparanta’s debut novel is Under the Udala Trees.

12:45PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24

EMMANUEL PARISH HALL, 15 NEWBURY STREET

Jason Reynolds

Jason Reynolds is the author of several novels, including the critically-acclaimed When I Was the Greatest, which earned him the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent. His latest novel, co-written with Brendan Kiely, is titled All American Boys.

3:00PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY TEEN CENTRAL, 700 BOYLSTON STREET

Louis Sachar

Louis Sachar is the Newbery Medal–winning author ofHoles, which was also awarded the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and was adapted into a 2003 film. Sachar’s most recent novel, Fuzzy Mud, is an environmental cautionary tale that blends suspense and humor.

10:45AM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24

OLD SOUTH SANCTUARY, 645 BOYLSTON STREET