Megan McCafferty

Want to meet your favorite author? Want to meet some new authors? Grab your friends and come to the best tween reading conference in Texas! But if you can’t make it, and want autographed copies of these books, order below. For details on the event schedule, please visit tweensread.com. We have 23 authors on hand this year: Keynote Speaker D.J. MacHale Closing Speaker Shannon Hale Other Authors: Kathi Appelt Lee Bacon T.A. Barron Michael Buckley Caroline Carlson Michael Fry Lisa Greenwald Tommy Greenwald Lisi Harrison Amy Ignatow Gordon Korman Jeramey Kraatz Christopher Krovatin Diana Lopez John Bemelmans Marciano Megan McCafferty Sarah Mlynowski Catherine Gilbert Murdock Erica Perl Holly Goldberg Sloan Jude Watson

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Thursday, October 17 at 7PM BookPeople Presents Tween Author Panel Diana Lopez Shannon Hale Megan McCafferty Lisi Harrison Ask My Mood Ring How I Feel by Diana Lopez It's summer before eighth grade, and Erica "Chia" Montenegro is feeling so many things that she needs a mood ring to keep track of her emotions. She's happy when she hangs out with her best friends, the Robins. She's jealous that her genius little sister skipped two grades. And she's passionate about the crushes on her Boyfriend Wish list. And when Erica's mom is diagnosed with breast cancer, she feels worried and doesn't know what she can do to help. When her family visits a cuarto de milagros, a miracle room in a famous church, Erica decides to make a promesa to God in exchange for her mom's health. As her mom gets sicker, Erica quickly learns that juggling family, friends, school, and fulfilling a promesa is stressful, but with a little bit of hope and a lot of love, she just might be able to figure it out. Diana Lopez is a graduate of the creative writing program at Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos. She is currently a medical lab techician, and an eight-grade English teacher. Ever After High: The Storybook of Legends by SHANNON HALE Welcome to Ever After High—a boarding school where the spellbinding children of classic fairytale legends choose to either follow their parents’ fabled footsteps or discover their own Happily Ever After. Acclaimed author Shannon Hale brings her talent for reimagining classic fairytales and creating strong characters with emotional resonance to this tale about friendship and destiny. SHANNON HALE is the bestselling author of seven young adult novels, including multiple award winner The Goose Girl and Newbery Honor book Princess Academy. She also penned three books for adults, including Austenland, which spawned an upcoming motion picture starring Keri Russell. She co-wrote the hit graphic novels Rapunzel’s Revenge and Calamity Jack with husband Dean Hale. Jessica Darling's It List: The (Totally Not) Guaranteed Guide to Popularity, Prettiness & Perfection by Megan McCafferty This relatable prequel takes us back in time to when Jessica Darling is about to start 7th grade. Jessica isn't nervous about her new school -- that is, until her peppy and pretty older sister, Bethany, tells her that entering seventh grade means that everything will change. In an effort to continue the "Darling Domination of Popularity," Bethany presents Jessica with The IT List: A Guaranteed Guide to Popularity, Prettiness & Perfection. Armed with her instructions, Jessica stumbles her way through the first few weeks of seventh grade. Megan McCafferty is the bestselling author of Bumped as well as the New York Times bestselling Jessica Darling series, which includes Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, and Perfect Fifths. Pretenders by Lisi Harrison It’s the first day at Noble High, and the freshmen are assigned to keep a journal throughout the year. No one will read these journals. It is a private place for them to record their feelings. But big secrets are revealed when the journal entries of the five most popular students, also known as the Phoenix Five, are exposed by an unknown source. What secrets could Sheridan, Lily, Vanessa, Duffy, and Jagger be hiding within the pages of their journal? Lisi Harrison’s trademark wit and pitch perfect dialogue are sure to hook readers to this exciting new series. Lisi Harrison is the bestselling author of The Clique series has a new series to get excited about. In order to have anything signed at a BookPeople event, a copy of the event book must be purchased from BookPeople. If you purchase your book from BookPeople in advance of the event, please save your receipt and present it at the event. Thank you for supporting Diana Lopez, Shannon Hale, Megan McCafferty, Lisi Harrison, and your local independent bookstore.

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