Adirondack Family Book Festival

Kyle Lukoff is the author of many books for young readers. His debut middle-grade novel, Too Bright To See, received a Newbery honor and the Stonewall award, and was a National Book Award finalist. His picture book When Aidan Became A Brother also won the Stonewall award. His newest titles are the novel Different Kinds of Fruit and the non-fiction picture book If You’re A Kid Like Gavin. While becoming a writer he worked as a bookseller for ten years, and then nine more years as a school librarian. He hopes you’re having a nice day. http://www.kylelukoff.com/

Kyle will be participating in several presentations during the AFBF. At 11:20, he will be part of “Laughter and Tears: Books that Share Stories of Families,Yesterday and Today” and at 2:00 “Bite-Sized Read-Alouds: A Book Tasting for Hungry Readers (Each author will give a three-minute reading!).”

The following books will be featured at the Festival:

Too Bright To See
When Aidan Became A Brother
Different Kinds of Fruit
If You’re A Kid Like Gavin
The Sunken Ship (Mermaid Days #1)
A Storytelling of Ravens

Rajani LaRocca was born in India, raised in Kentucky, and now lives in the Boston area, where she practices medicine and writes award-winning books for young readers. Her middle grade novel in verse, Red, White, and Whole, is the winner of the 2022 Walter Dean Myers Award and a 2022 John Newbery Honor. She’s always been an omnivorous reader, and now she’s an omnivorous writer of fiction and nonfiction, novels and picture books, prose and poetry. She finds inspiration in her family, her childhood, the natural world, math, science, and just about everywhere she looks. Learn more about her at www.RajaniLaRocca.com.

Rajani 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 “Bite-Sized Read-Alouds: A Book Tasting for Hungry Readers (Each author will give a three-minute reading!).”

The following books will be featured at the Festival:

Red, White, and Whole
Midsummer’s Mayhem
Much Ado About Baseball
I’ll Go and Come Back
Where Three Oceans Meet
The Secret Code Inside of You

An enrolled citizen of the Nulhegan Abenaki Nation, Joseph Bruchac has authored over 170 books in many genres. His poems, essays, and stories have appeared in hundreds of publications from Parabola and National Geographic to Paris Review. His experiences, in addition to college teaching, include three years of volunteer teaching in Ghana and eight years directing a college program inside a maximum security prison. In 2021 his novel Code Talker was chosen by Time as one of the 100 best YA books of all time. His novel Rez Dogs was listed among the best books of 2021 by NPR. Learn more at https://www.josephbruchac.com/

Joseph will be participating in several presentations during the AFBF. At 12:40, he will be part of “Making Space for Stories: Three Poets Share Their Novels in Verse” and at 2:00 find him at “Bite-Sized Read-Alouds: A Book Tasting for Hungry Readers”(Each author will give a three-minute reading!).

The following books will be featured:

Code Talker
Peacemaker
A Peacemaker for Warring Nations
Rez Dogs

New York Times bestselling author Tracey Baptiste is best known for the popular Jumbies series and Minecraft: The Crash. She writes fiction and nonfiction from picture books to young adult. Her most recent titles include Looking for a Jumbie, African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History, and Because Claudette. Find Tracey online at www.traceybaptiste.com and connect on Twitter @traceybaptiste and on Instagram @traceybaptistewrites.

Tracey will be participating in several presentations during the AFBF. At 10:40, check her out in the middle grade “Hidden History: Three Nonfiction Authors Share the Stories Behind Their Books” and at 1:20, in the picture book/middle grade “Searching Jumbies: Meet Caribbean Monsters with Tracey Baptiste.”

The following books will be featured:

African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History
The Jumbies
Rise of the Jumbies
The Jumbie God’s Revenge
Looking for a Jumbie
Because Claudette