Authors @ the Zoo
Every March, Teen Services invites a famous Teen Author to speak to teens,
librarians, teachers, and college students over a two day period. The
first day includes presentations at Hillside Middle School, the Kalamazoo
County Juvenile Home, and Kalamazoo Public Library. On the second
day, Teen Services sponsors a teen
literature seminar for educators, librarians,
parents, youth leaders, and college
students at Western Michigan University's
Fetzer Center.
Meet 2008 Author @ the Zoo authors Sharon Flake
and Angela Johnson on
March 13, 7:00 pm, at Central
Library!
How do they create those characters? Where do
their stories come from? Get into the heads of
award-winning writers
Sharon Flake
and
Angela Johnson!
Meet Sharon Flake, whose characters include
Maleeka who learns how to love who she is and
what she looks like in
The Skin I'm In, and
Raspberry Hill, who worries that she may have
inherited her drug addicted father's lying and
stealing ways in
Begging for Change.
Meet Angela Johnson, creator of Bobby,
whose carefree teenage life changes forever when
he becomes a father in
The First Part Last, and Marley,
who discovers that her father and mother are not
her real parents in
Heaven.
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2008
Teen Literature Seminar
