Friday, October 13
The VCBF bookshop is located in Dorrill Lee Grand. Lunch, book signings, and outdoor activities are from 11:30-1:15.
Rice in the Pot: Wendy Shang
What meals bring your family together? In this beautiful singalong picture book by Wendy Shang, it's noodles, rice, and tofu! Join Wendy for this sweet, fun, and musical session. You'll even learn how to write some Chinese!
Grade Level: Elementary (This session has separate registration and is very limited. Please contact us for details.)
Session Time and location: 9:45am- Speech, Hearing, and Learning Services
Paint Fast and make mistakes: Tim Ering
Before Tim ever went to art school, he was a helmsman aboard the US Navy aircraft carrier USS KITTY HAWK. In fact, he illustrated his first book while sailing the high seas on a 30 foot boat alone with his father. Don't miss this chance to talk with, listen to, and learn from the one and only Tim Ering as you hone your own artistic talents and temper them with adventure.
Grade Level: Middle & Young Adult
Session Time and Location: 9:45am-Upchurch Wilson Chamber; 10:45am-Dorrill Nance Room
Hip Hop Intensive: Sonia Patel & Malik 16
Join Sonia and Malik 16 in this three-day program which will have you writing your own hip hop pieces based on Sonia's YA novel, Rani Patel in Full Effect. Over the course of three days, you will write & perform a hip hop song and film a music video with a production team from Los Angeles.
Grade Level: Young Adult (may register for one day or all three days: registration is VERY limited)
Session Time and location: 9:45am-2:00pm Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday-Moton Museum
It always takes courage to be kind: R.J. Palacio
From the author of “Wonder” comes "White Bird," an expansion of the Auggie universe. R.J. Palacio makes her graphic novel debut with Grandmère's heartrending story: how she, a young Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II; how the boy she and her classmates once shunned became her savior and best friend.
Grade Level: Middle & Young Adult
Session Time and location: 9:45am-Jarman Auditorium
The Blood Years: Elana K. Arnold
National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold tells the true experiences of her grandmother’s childhood in Holocaust-era Romania: an unforgettable tale of love and loss in the darkest days of the twentieth century—and the will to survive them.
Grade Level: Middle/Young Adult
Session Time and location: 9:45am & 10:45am -Blackwell Ballroom C (both)
Last Comics on Earth: Max Brallier & Jay Cooper
Jack, Quint, June, and Dirk face a challenge unlike any they’ve faced before . . . they’ve read every last issue of their favorite comic, Z-Man, and no new issues are coming...ever! (Thanks a lot, apocalypse.)
Grade Level: Middle
Session Time and location: 9:45am -Upchurch Soza Ballroom
Books that change your life: Meg Medina & RJ Palacio
Both R.J. and Meg have written books that have changed the lives of millions of kids? What does it mean to write a book that is as influential as "Wonder," or “Merci Suarez?” And what books changed THEIR lives?
Grade Level: Middle & Young Adult
Session Time and location: 10:45am-Jarman Auditorium
Comics Workshop: Jay Cooper & Max Brallier
Working on a graphic novel? Excited to make your own comic strip or web comic? In this workshop, you’ll join Jay Cooper and Max Brallier to learn about concepting, characters, layouts, and formats. Then you’ll begin work on your own comic!
Grade Level: Middle & Young Adult
Session Time and location: 10:45am-Upchurch Soza Ballroom; 1:00pm- Upchurch Wilson Chamber
Merci Suarez: Meg Medina, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
For Merci Suárez, eighth grade means a new haircut, night football games, and an overnight field trip. At home, it means more chores and keeping an eye on Lolo. When the soccer captain starts talking to Merci more, how will Merci play it cool?
Grade Level: Middle (with English and Spanish)
Session Time and location: 9:45am-Dorrill Nance Room
Love Double Dutch: Doreen Spicer-Donnelly
MaKayla can only think about one thing--taking her double Dutch team all the way to the National Jump, but she has to spend the summer in North Carolina while her parents work out their problems. Wear your sneakers!
Grade Level: Middle (there will be actual double dutch!)
Session Time and location: 9:45am & 10:45am- Lankford Ballroom
Love and Death: Martha Brockenbrough
For centuries Love and Death have chosen their players. They have set the rules, rolled the dice, and kept close, ready to influence, angling for supremacy. And Death has always won. Always. Could there ever be one time, one place, one pair whose love would truly tip the balance?
Grade Level: Young Adult
Session Time and location: 1:00pm-Upchurch Soza Ballroom
Books and Basketball: Pablo Cartaya
Sometimes the best ideas and the best talk come when we are playing a game. Sports are more than just a way to break the ice. They are a way to interact, to spur being social, to solve problems, to connect. So come play basketball!
Grade Level: Young Adult
Session Time and location: 10:45am* This session is full. No more registrations can be made. & 1:00pm-Pierson Hall Basketball Courts
Newbery master class: Meg Medina
There's no one better to help you with your writing than National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and Newbery Award-winner Meg Medina. Join Meg to focus on developing characters through vision boards, timelines, and more. This is a once in a lifetime workshop that you don't want to miss!
Grade Level: Middle & Young Adult
Session Time and location: 1:00pm-Maugans Virginia Room * This session is full. No more registrations can be taken.
Boba Tea extravaganza: Wendy Shang
How many problems can a delicious cup of bubble tea cause? Plenty, if you’re Chloe Wong. Bubble tea wreaks havoc when Chloe finds herself banned from Tea Palace (for dumping boba on someone who really deserved it!. What to do?
Grade Level: Middle/ Young Adult (we will be making boba tea in this session)
Session Time and location: 1:00pm-Lankford Ballroom
From Page to Screen and Back Again: Lamar Giles & Doreen Spicer-Donnelly
How many of your favorite books get made into tv shows or movies? How many people who make movies also write kids' books? What if you want to do both? Join Doreen and Lamar, two of the most successful people in the business, to find out the hows, whys, and wherefores of going from books to screen and back again.
Grade Level: Middle/ Young Adult
Session Time and location: 1:00pm-Dorrill Nance Room
Invisible Bonds: RJ Palacio
The bestselling author of Wonder returns with an unforgettable adventure about a boy on a quest to rescue his father with only a ghost as his companion and a mysterious pony as his guide. Part “True Grit”, part “War Horse,” “Pony” is an enthralling story of adventure, friendship, and the invisible bonds that connect us.
Grade Level: Middle/ Young Adult
Session Time and location: 1:00pm-Maugans Prince Edward Room
Mural Painting: Tim Ering & Monty Montgomery
Join Tim Ering and muralist Monty Montgomery as they finish up the 2023 LIVEmural at the LCVA. This is your chance to make your mark on a piece of public art that will be donated to a worthwhile organization.
Grade Level: Middle- Young Adult
Session Time and location: 1:00pm-Longwood Center for the Visual Arts
STATIC: even superheroes have their weaknesses: Lamar Giles
Join DC comic writer Lamar Giles as he takes through the making of a superhero story and how sometimes its their weaknesses that make them stronger. If you love comics, you won’t want to miss this!
Grade Level: Elementary-Young Adult
Session Time and location: 9:45am-Blackwell Ballroom B This session is full. Registration is now closed.
Artificial Intelligence v. Real: Martha Brockenbrough
Are you interested in A.I.? Scared of it? Intrigued? A.I. is here to stay, and do you have the skills to recognize it? Master it? Join Martha Brockenbrough as she takes you through the world of A.I., and the world it is creating.
Grade Level: Middle/Young Adult
Session Time and location: 9:45am-Maugans Prince Edward Room; 10:45am-Blackwell Ballroom B
Six ideas, one story: Pablo Cartaya
What will you do with an idea? How many ways can you turn it into a story? Join master storyteller Pablo Cartaya to take one kernel of an idea and turn that idea into a graphic novel, or a poem, or realistic fiction, or even a picture book.
Grade Level: Middle/Young Adult
Session Time and location: 9:45am-Maugans Virginia Room
Duty Station: Death Star: Lamar Giles
Join Lamar Giles, the latest author to contribute to the Star Wars canon, as he takes you into the inner life of Imperial Gunner Corr Lerrann, a career soldier with deep distrust for the Empire.
Grade Level: Middle/Young Adult
Session Time and location: 10:45am-Maugans Virginia Room * This session is full. No more registrations can be made.
