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Love talking about books? Join us for BEST 2024—The Spring Edition, a celebration of Children’s and Teen Fiction. Learn about the Black-Eyed Susan Award and participate, via Zoom, in a half day of small group discussions of some of the 2023-2024 Juvenile and Teen Fiction nominees. G. Z. Schmidt, author of The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby, will be our keynote speaker.

Please read all the titles for each group. 

Group 1, Grades 3-5

• Crowder, Tracy Occomy—Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key 
• Oh, Ellen—You Are Here: Connecting Flights 
• Schmidt, G.Z.—The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby 
• Stead, Rebecca, and Mass, Wendy—The Lost Library 
• Tandon, Nancy—The Way I Say It

Group 2, Grades 6-12

• Andreu, Maria E.—Love in English 
• Bow, Erin—Simon Sort of Says 
• Gemeinhart, Dan—Midnight Children 
• Hammonds, Jas—We Deserve Monuments 
• Swinarski, Claire—What Happened to Rachel Rile