Win a signed hardcover of MAYBE MAYBE MARISOL RAINEY by New York Times bestselling author Erin Entrada Kelly and signed original art! The pen-and-paper drawing will resemble the image here, of Marisol with her stuffed animal.

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Erin Entrada Kelly is a Newbery Medalist and Newbery Honoree. She is also the author and illustrator of the MAYBE MAYBE MARISOL RAINEY series.

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Win a signed, Advanced Reader Copy of the forthcoming young adult novel At The End of Everything by Marieke Nijkamp.

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About At The End of Everything:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends comes another heartbreaking, emotional and timely page-turner that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

The Hope Juvenile Treatment Center is ironically named. No one has hope for the delinquent teenagers who have been exiled there; the world barely acknowledges that they exist.

Then the guards at Hope start acting strange. And one day?they don't show up. But when the teens band together to make a break from the facility, they encounter soldiers outside the gates. There's a rapidly spreading infectious disease outside, and no one can leave their houses or travel without a permit. Which means that they're stuck at Hope. And this time, no one is watching out for them at all.

As supplies quickly dwindle and a deadly plague tears through their ranks, the group has to decide whom among them they can trust and figure out how they can survive in a world that has never wanted them in the first place.

Marieke Nijkamp is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of novels, graphic novels, and comics, including This Is Where It Ends, Critical Role: Vox Machina - Kith & Kin, and The Oracle Code.

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Win signed, personalized copies of both 2021 Newbery Honor Books: A Wish in the Dark and All Thirteen by Christina Soontornvat.

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Christina Soontornvat is the award-winning author of over a dozen books for children of all ages. Her picture books include The Ramble Shamble Children, illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Lauren Castillo, and Simon at the Art Museum, illustrated by Christine Davenier. She is the author of the beloved Diary of an Ice Princess chapter book series. Her recent works include the middle grade fantasy, A Wish in the Dark, which was named a 2021 Newbery Honor Book, and was chosen as Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and School Library Journal, and All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team, which has received numerous nonfiction awards and was also named a 2021 Newbery Honor Book.

Image: A graphic of the books A Wish in the Dark and All Thirteen by Christina Soontornvat side-by-side.

Win a signed 30-copy classroom paperback set of Fresh Ink, edited by Lamar Giles! This starred YA short story collection features Nicola Yoon, Jason Reynolds, Melissa de la Cruz, and Gene Luen Yang, among others.

Give the books to a classroom of your choosing, or let WNDB select a school in need to receive the titles!

Fresh Ink, a WNDB YA short story collection called "powerful" (starred Booklist) and "compelling" (starred SLJ), is a Rainbow Book and an International Latino Finalist.

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Win anthologist/author autographed copies of Ancestor Approved edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith and Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Leitich Smith, plus a "Next Generation" enamel pin, designed by Sarah Agaton Howes (Anishinaabe), from Eighth Generation.

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Cynthia Leitich Smith is the 2021 NSK Neustadt Laureate and a New York Times bestselling author of books for young readers, including HEARTS UNBROKEN, which won the American Indian Library Association's Youth Literature Award. Her 2021 releases are the middle grade anthology ANCESTOR APPROVED: INTERTRIBAL STORIES FOR KIDS and novel SISTERS OF THE NEVERSEA. Cynthia is also the author-curator of Heartdrum, a Native-focused imprint at HarperCollins Children's Books, and serves as the Katherine Paterson Inaugural Endowed Chair on the faculty of the MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Cynthia is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and lives in Austin, Texas.

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Win a signed copy of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot by New York Times-bestselling author Jeff Kinney!

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Jeff Kinney is a #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series and the Awesome Friendly Kid series. He is a six-time Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award winner for Favorite Book and has been named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. He spent his childhood in the Washington, D.C., area and moved to New England, where he and his wife own a bookstore named An Unlikely Story.

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Win a signed copy of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot by New York Times bestselling author Jeff Kinney.

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Jeff Kinney is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series and the Awesome Friendly Kid series. He is a six-time Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award winner for Favorite Book and has been named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. He spent his childhood in the Washington, D.C., area and moved to New England, where he and his wife own a bookstore named An Unlikely Story.

Image: The book cover of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot by Jeff Kinney.

Win a Meg Medina elementary school readers pack! The bundle includes three signed hard cover books by Meg Medina: Evelyn Del Rey is Moving Away, She Persisted: Sonia Sotomayor; and Merci Suárez Can't Dance.

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Meg Medina is a Newbery award-winning and New York Times best-selling author who writes picture books, as well as middle grade and young adult fiction. Her works have been called "heartbreaking," "lyrical" and "must haves for every collection." She lives with her family in Richmond, Va.

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Win a 20-minute Zoom Session for a classroom with award-winning children's book author Janet Wong. Janet will answer students' questions about writing. Plus, receive five autographed books: Her & More collections (Good Luck Gold & MORE; A Suitcase of Seaweed & MORE) and diverse and inclusive anthologies curated by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong that feature the work of dozens of poets (Here We Go: A Poetry Friday Power Book; You Just Wait: A Poetry Friday Power Book; Hop To It: Poems to Get You Moving).

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Janet Wong is a graduate of Yale Law School and a former lawyer who switched careers to become a children's author. She is the author of more than 35 books for children and teens on a wide variety of subjects, including identity (A Suitcase of Seaweed & MORE) and racism (Good Luck Gold & MORE)-and is the winner of the 2021 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children, a lifetime achievement award that is one of the highest honors an American children's poet can receive. You can learn about her work at janetwong.com and pomelobooks.com.

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Win personalized copies of four of award-winning author Minh Lê's picture books: Let Me Finish, Drawn Together, The Perfect Seat, and Lift - along with their accompanying manuscripts!

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Minh Lê is the award-winning picture book author of Lift (Eisner Award-nominee) and Drawn Together (winner of the 2019 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature), The Perfect Seat, and Let Me Finish. He is also the author of the middle grade graphic novel Green Lantern: Legacy for DC Comics. He serves on the board of We Need Diverse Books and has been published by NPR, the Huffington Post, and the New York Times. Outside of spending time with his wonderful wife and kids at their home in San Diego, Minh's favorite place to be is in the middle of a good book.

Image: A photo of Minh Lê's finished published copies of the books Let Me Finish, Drawn Together, The Perfect Seat, and Lift, along with the manuscripts of these books.

Win signed (and personalized, if you wish) copies of Gloria Chao's: American Panda (paperback), Rent a Boyfriend (hardcover), Our Wayward Fate (paperback), and bookmarks!

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Gloria Chao is the critically acclaimed author of AMERICAN PANDA, OUR WAYWARD FATE, RENT A BOYFRIEND, and the upcoming WHEN YOU WISH UPON A LANTERN (2022). After a brief detour as a dentist, she is now grateful to spend her days in fictional characters' heads instead of real people's mouths. Her award-winning books have been featured on the Indie Next List and the "Best of" lists of Seventeen, Bustle, Barnes & Noble, PopSugar, Paste Magazine, Chicago Public Library, and more. She is honored to be a YA Mentor for the 2022 WNDB Mentorship Program. Visit her tea-and-book-filled world at GloriaChao.wordpress.com, and find her on Twitter and Instagram @GloriacChao.

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Win seven (or more!) new books, including:

• a signed copy of A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman
• a signed copy of Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman
• plus 5 "surprises"-books by other authors!

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Padma Venkatraman is the author of BORN BEHIND BARS ( Nancy Paulsen Books, Penguin Random House ) as well as THE BRIDGE HOME, A TIME TO DANCE, ISLAND'S END and CLIMBING THE STAIRS. She is the winner of a WNDB Walter Dean Myers Award, Golden Kite Award, Crystal Kite Award, Nerdy Book Award, two South Asia Book Awards and many other awards and honors. Her novels have received over 20 starred reviews, appeared on numerous best book lists. Her poetry has been published in Poetry magazine and elsewhere. Before becoming an American author, Dr. Venkatraman spent time under the ocean and in rainforests, served as chief scientist on oceanographic research vessels where she was the only BIPOC female, and also worked as a teacher and diversity director. When she's not writing, she loves speaking to others about her love for books and her passion for diversity, equity and inclusion and has presented keynote addresses, conducted writing workshops and attended festivals and conference around the world. Visit her at www.padmavenkatraman.com and arrange for a visit via The Authors Village.

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Win a signed, personalized copy of Alex Gino's Rick, the story of a boy named Rick who needs to explore his own identity apart from his jerk of a best friend.

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Alex Gino is author of middle grade novels Rick, You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P! and the Stonewall Award-winning George. They love glitter, ice cream, gardening, awe-ful puns, and stories that reflect the complexity of being alive. For more information, visit alexgino.com.

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Win a signed copy of Baptiste Paul's picture bookThe Field! Soccer fan or not, the call of The Field is irresistible.

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A Junior Library Guild Selection

Winner of the Sonia Lynn Sadler Award

Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of 2018

School Library Journal Best Book of 2018

The Horn Book Fanfare 2018

Shelf Awareness Best Children's Book of the Year

Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year

Baptiste Paul grew up in St. Lucia, where at age seven he propagated a root cutting that still produces breadfruit for his community. He holds an Environmental Science degree and is the author of several books, The Field which received multiple starred reviews and To Carnival - A Celebration in St. Lucia (2021). He is also the co-author of, I Am Farmer, Adventures To School and Peace (2021), with Miranda Paul. Learn more at baptistepaul.com.

Image: A graphic of the cover of The Field by Baptiste Paul.

Win signed hardcover copies of Get A Grip, Vivy Cohen! and The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family by Sarah Kapit!

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Sarah Kapit is the author of Get A Grip, Vivy Cohen! and The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family. Get A Grip, Vivy Cohen! has received the Schneider Family Honor and Washington State Book Award. She lives in Bellevue, Washington.

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Win a signed and annotated copy of Foreshadow: Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading & Writing YA, featuring thirteen stories written by new voices in young adult fiction. In addition, it includes craft essays exploring those stories by the editors, bestselling and award winning authors Emily X.R. Pan and Nova Ren Suma. Contributor Maya Prasad will sign and include 13-plus annotations in the winning copy!

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"An ingenious collection of 13 short stories that will especially be enjoyed by aspiring writers. Each of these selections displays great talent, and readers will hope to see future works by these up-and-coming creators. Ranging from deliciously creepy to glowingly hopeful, this collection offers a master class in short stories." -Kirkus Reviews

"Dazzling short stories by new YA voices along with enlightening essays about the writing process by established authors make Foreshadow a treasure for aspiring writers." -- Shelf Awareness, starred review

"Give this to a reader who wants to dig deeply into the craft of storytelling." -- BookPage, starred review

Maya Prasad is a South Asian American author, a Caltech graduate, and a former software engineer. She currently resides in the Pacific Northwest, where she enjoys hiking, canoeing, and raising her budding bookworm daughter.

Her YA debut Fall Winter Spring Summer will be published by Disney-Hyperion in fall 2022. Sejal Battles Super Storms is the first in her chapter book series to be published by S&S/Aladdin in spring 2023. Maya has also had short fiction published in Foreshadow: Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading and Writing YA, Cast of Wonders, and Voyage YA. A recipient of the We Need Diverse Books mentorship program, she is passionate about creating brown girl leads in children's literature.

Visit her website www.mayaprasad.com or find her on Instagram and Twitter @msmayaprasad.

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Win an autographed set of three books from the Farah Rocks series by Susan Muaddi Darraj!

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Susan Muaddi Darraj won an American Book Award in 2016. She is the author of Farah Rocks, the first chapter book series to feature a Palestinian American character.

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Win two signed books by Anna-Marie McLemore:

The Weight of Feathers, a William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist, and

Blanca & Roja, one of TIME Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time.

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Anna-Marie McLemore (they/them) is the author of The Weight of Feathers, Stonewall Honor Book When the Moon Was Ours, Wild Beauty, Blanca & Roja, Indie Next List title Dark and Deepest Red, and the recently released Mirror Season, which was longlisted for the National Book Award. Lakelore and Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix will be released in 2022.

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Win signed copies of the first three books in the Bad Kitty series, by Nick Bruel! These are full color reissues:

Bad Kitty Gets a Bath
Happy Birthday Bad Kitty
Bad Kitty vs. the Babysitter

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Nick Bruel is the creator of the New York Times bestselling Bad Kitty series. He lives in Pleasantville, NY, with his wife Carina, their daughter Izzy, and their sometimes-good-sometimes-bad cats Rose and Noodles.

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Win a signed hardcover copy of YA memoir A Face for Picasso by Ariel Henley.

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Ariel Henley is a writer from Northern California. She has a B.A. in English and Political Science from the University of Vermont and a Masters in Education from University of the Pacific. She is passionate about writing as a form of activism, and hopes to use her story to promote mainstream inclusion for individuals with facial differences. Her work has appeared in outlets like The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Narratively.

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Win a signed copy of The Reckless Kind by Carly Heath.

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Carly Heath (she/they) earned her BA from San Francisco State University and her MFA from Chapman University. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Carly teaches design, art, theater, and writing for various colleges and universities. She spends all her time and most of her money tending to a menagerie of rescued farm animals. The Reckless Kind is her first novel.

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Win a signed paperback copy of A Dragonbird in the Fern by Laura Rueckert, plus a matching bookmark.

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Laura Rueckert is a card-carrying bookworm who manages projects by day. At night, fueled by European chocolate, she transforms into a writer of young adult science fiction and fantasy novels. Laura grew up in Michigan, USA, but a whirlwind romance after college brought her to Europe. Today, she lives in Germany with her husband, two kids, and one fluffy dog.

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Win three autographed LGBTQIA+ picture books by Lesléa Newman: Heather Has Two Mommies, Donovan's Big Day, and Sparkle Boy.

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Lesléa Newman is the author of 78 books for readers of all ages including the LGBTQ+ picture books, "Heather Has Two Mommies," "Donovan's Big Day," "Sparkle Boy," and the teen novel-in-verse, "October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard." She has received creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, two American Library Association Stonewall Honors, and two National Jewish Book awards. From 2008 - 2010, she served as the poet laureate of Northampton, MA.

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Win a signed book bundle from award-winning children's author Aubre Andrus. The Book Bundle includes all three books from The Look Up Series: Real Women in STEAM. This is a nonfiction biography series is for children ages 8-12.

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Aubre Andrus is the award-winning children's book author of The Look Up Series, a nonfiction biography series featuring real women in S.T.E.A.M. careers. She also has written dozens of books for National Geographic, Lonely Planet, American Girl, Disney, Scholastic, and young YouTube stars.

Image: A graphic of The Look Up Series: Real Women in STEAM by Aubre Andrus, including Amanda: Toy Engineer, Zi: Video Game Developer, and Dr. Maya: Ice Cream Scientist.

Win a 30-minute AMA about publishing with Brazilian Kidlit author, Gabriela Martins, and a signed paperback copy of LIKE A LOVE SONG!

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Gabriela Martins is a Brazilian Kidlit writer. Her stories feature Brazilian characters finding themselves and love.

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Win a signed copy of Alice's Adventures in #Wonderland by Penny Farthing with illustrations by Bats Langley; and a copy of Unicorn Horn Mountain by Ammie Elliott, illustrated by Travis McCoy.

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Alice's Adventures in #Wonderland reimagines Lewis Carroll's classic stories through the digital lens, down the rabbit hole, and beyond the smartphone glass. With the help of Penny Farthing and illustrations by Bats Langley comes a new adventure for Alice.

Get ready to discover a new kind of unicorn in the children's picture book Unicorn Horn Mountain (the third book of The Dreamscape Series). Leave behind the overdone, glittery rainbow unicorn and meet the unicorn born of mural street art and poetry who reclaims the true power of the animal. Uniqueness!! Enter into an inclusive world-the dreamscape-where differences of race, gender, or culture are celebrated, and where children learn to welcome new points of view while feeling safe to explore, discover, and become their true, inner unicorn selves.

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Win a copy of Ex Marks the Spot by Gregory Norris; a signed copy of My Body Is a Big Fat Temple by Alena Dillon; and a copy of Four Funerals, No Marriage by Mike Keren.

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About Ex Marks the Spot

How far would you go to save the first love of your life?

Ten years ago on an August night, Steve Ranley crashed his ride into a tree, taking a big part of Oliver Canfield's soul with him. In the decade since, Oliver and Bradley MacIntyre have built a successful life together, but their relationship has always been haunted by Steve's death. On the dark anniversary, Oliver is thrust back counterclockwise in time to the summer before Steve's accident. Using his second chance, Oliver vows to alter the events leading to the tragedy. He reunites with Steve, only history doesn't follow the exact course as he remembers it, and circumstances lead to him meeting Bradley years before he was meant to. His corrupting of established time could save the first love of his life while dooming the second.

My Body Is A Big Fat Temple, a memoir of pregnancy and early motherhood, follows a writer as she debates having children, miscarries, faces morning sickness, uncertainty, physical impairments, labor, breastfeeding, the "baby blues," the heartache of not loving her son as she thinks she should, parenting through a plague, until finally (basically, mostly) blossoming into her new identity.

The undertaking of creating life is airbrushed to preserve the ideal of motherhood, and exacerbated by a culture that dictates what women can do and how they should feel. We don't get the full story, so mothers with unromantic experiences feel like aberrations, and worse, alone. This is why the voices of women matter. The voices of mothers matter. Here's one to remind you of the important things.

In Four Funerals, No Marriage: A Memoir, author Mike Keren gives his readers an inside look at his unexpected foray into caregiving to his sick and dying parents and in-laws. Often funny and always poignant, the story begins when his loving but difficult parents announce they are moving back to New Jersey from their retirement home in North Carolina because they "never really liked it there." Within days of arriving on a house-hunting trip, his father is hospitalized with a stroke and his mother with another in a series of heart attacks. At the same time, his partner's mother is recuperating from a hysterectomy and struggling with chemotherapy after a diagnosis of uterine cancer. Additionally, he must deal with the unhappy marriage between his parents, sibling relationships that have often been his undoing, a homophobic world, and his own lifetime of affective dysregulation."

Image: A colorful graphic with the book covers of Ex Marks the Spot by Gregory Norris, My Body Is a Big Fat Temple by Alena Dillon, and Four Funerals, No Marriage by Mike Keren.

Win a signed copy of A Soft Place to Land and From the Desk of Zoe Washington by MG author Janae Marks.

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Janae Marks is an author of middle grade novels. Her debut From the Desk of Zoe Washington is an indie bestseller and was named a Best Book of the Year by Parents Magazine, Book Riot, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Chicago Public Library and the Boston Globe. Her second novel is A Soft Place to Land. She has an MFA in Writing for Children from The New School, and lives in Connecticut with her family. Learn more at janaemarks.com.

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Win a signed hardcover copy of The Secret Garden on 81st Street by Ivy Nicole Weir, award-winning co-creator of Archival Quality!

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Ivy Noelle Weir is a writer of comics and prose. She is the writer of The Secret Garden on 81st Street and the upcoming Anne of West Philly (both Little, Brown for Young Readers) and the co-creator of the Dwayne McDuffie Award-winning graphic novel Archival Quality (Oni Press). Her writing has also appeared in anthologies such as Princeless: Girls Rock (Action Lab Entertainment) and Dead Beats (A Wave Blue World). She likes baking bread, walking in cemeteries, and hanging out with her husband and their two tiny, weird dogs.

Image: The book cover of The Secret Garden on 81st Street by Ivy Nicole Weir

Win two signed, lined, and dated first edition first print copies of Padma Venkatraman's latest novel Born Behind Bars, a Junior Library Guild Selection which was released to starred reviews in September 2021.

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Padma Venkatraman is the author of Born Behind Bars, The Bridge Home, A Time to Dance, Island's End, and Climbing the Stairs. She is the winner of a WNDB Walter Dean Myers Award, Golden Kite Award, Crystal Kite Award, Nerdy Book Award, two South Asia Book Awards, and many others. Her novels have received over 20 starred reviews and appeared on numerous best book lists, such as the ALA Notable, NYPL Best Book, Kirkus Best Book, Booklist editor's Choice, and Junior Library Guild selection. Before becoming an American author, Dr. Venkatraman spent time under the ocean and in rainforests, served as chief scientist on oceanographic research vessels where she was the only BIPOC female, and also worked as a teacher and diversity director. Visit her at www.padmavenkatraman.com; follow her on twitter (@padmatv) and (@venkatraman.padma) on fb and ig.

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Win a copy of Walking Cookie Dough by children's book author Lili Kim!

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About Walking Cookie Dough:

Walking Cookie Dough by Lili Kim is a children's book for ages 3-8. Having a puppy can be a daunting task, and requires a lot of responsibility and care. However, walking your pup each day can open you up to a world full of possibilities and wonder. Join Cookie Dough as he guides us on how to be more open with others, and teaches us how to live life to its fullest.

Lili Kim delved into the amazing world of children's literature about five years ago, due to her son's love for reading. She was introduced to a myriad of amazing authors, and got enveloped in a so many creative stories and beautiful illustrations. So, she decided-why not write a children's book herself? It didn't take long to think of what to write about-She would dedicate this book to her family's Jack Russell, Cookie Dough. He was adopted nearly a decade ago on a whim, while Lili Kim and her were vacationing in Texas. The animal shelter (The Humane Society in Harlingen) was right by the airport (ironic, isn't it?) and they had some time to check it out. And so, after looking at Cookie Dough's adorable puppy eyes when he was just a few weeks old, they decided to fly him over to NY. And their lives have changed incredibly ever since.

Lili Kim on WALKING COOKIE DOUGH:

"This book has been a labor (pun intended) of love while my son was a newborn. I decided to put in a ton of mementos from my childhood, people who I look up to, and memories of my loved ones. You'll see a page alluding to Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken," my fave motto "Carpe Diem," a painting of a sheep since my son was born in the year of the sheep, a bear that my now 96-year-old grandmother crocheted for me, and a photo studio my late mom used to own. There's a lot more references (such as taking the "J" subway, which spells out "JOY" versus the "ACE" in NYC), and I love how this book is filled with so many inside jokes and love. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!"

Image: The book cover of Walking Cookie Dough by Lili Kim.

Win a 30-minute Zoom AMA with picture book author Darshana Khiani. Discuss anything to do with the writing life-craft, publishing, work-life balance, marketing. Plus, receive a signed copy of her picture book How To Wear A Sari

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Darshana Khiani is the author of the funny, charming picture book HOW TO WEAR A SARI. She is also a champion of South Asian children's literature. She runs a quarterly newsletter featuring upcoming South Asian Kidlit titles which is read by booksellers, librarians, and influencers.

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Win four signed books in the ASTRID AND APOLLO chapter book series by V.T. Bidania - and fun book swag!

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V.T. Bidania won the McKnight Fellowship for Writers in 2021. She is the author of ASTRID AND APOLLO, a chapter book series starring Hmong American twins Astrid and Apollo Lee. ASTRID AND APOLLO was named a Best Fiction for Younger Readers by the Chicago Public Library. The Starry Campout, the first book in the series, is an Amazon Editors' Pick for Best Books for Readers 6-8 and was chosen as a Read Brave title by the St. Paul Public Library. Visit her at www.vtbidania.com.

Win a signed copy of Big Dreams, Small Fish by Paula Cohen (Levine Querido) upon release in March 2022 and a signed art print from the book (sent now!).

Big Dreams, Small Fish is the story of Shirley, a little girl in the 1930's whose family lives above their shop in an immigrant neighborhood. Her family tells her "we didn't come to this country for you to work" but Shirley has big dreams for their store. She plans to make it prettier, more modern, and more profitable. Maybe she will even help sell Mama's slow selling gefilte fish and introduce a new flavor into the neighborhood!

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Paula Cohen is an author/illustrator with a long career as an editorial illustrator. A few years ago she decided to focus on children's books and she's very glad she did. Her debut picture book, Big Dreams, Small Fish (Levine Querido) will be out in March, 2022. She is the illustrator of Honey On The Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children's Literature (Miriam Udel/NYU Press, 2020) and The Incredible Shrinking Lunchroom (Michal Babay/Charlesbridge, 2022.). Her work has also appeared in Honeycake Magazine, Black Enterprise Magazine, Scholastic Magazine, the Boston Globe, and more.
Paula lives in New Jersey with her family and cantankerous miniature schnauzer. She writes stories about all kinds of things but is often drawn to dogs, polar bears, and food!

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