Linda Sue Park is the author of many books for young readers, including the 2002 Newbery Medal winner A Single Shard and the NYTimes bestseller A Long Walk to Water. Her most recent title is The One Thing You’d Save, a collection of linked poems. Linda Sue serves on the advisory boards of We Need Diverse Books and the Rabbit hOle museum project, and created the kiBooka website, www.kibooka.com, to highlight Korean American creators of children’s books. Visit her website at www.lindasuepark.com; follow her on Twitter @LindaSuePark.
Linda Sue will be participating in several presentations during the AFBF. At 12:40, she will be part of “Making Space for Stories: Three Poets Share Their Novels in Verse,” and at 2:00 “Truth in the Fiction: The Power of Authenticity in Novels for TeensBite-Sized Read-Alouds: A Book Tasting for Hungry Readers (Each author will give a three-minute reading!).”
The following titles will be featured at the Festival:
A Single Shard
Long Walk to Water
Prairie Lotus
The One Thing You’d Save
Bee-bim Bop!
Gurple and Preen
Adirondack Family Book Festival 