Highlights from the 2018 National Book Awards Teen Press Conference

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The National Book Awards Teen Press Conference brings the excitement of the most prestigious literary award in the country to New York City’s middle and high school students. Held during National Book Awards week, Teen Press Conference invites school groups to attend a free literary event that is curated just for them.

Tuesday November 13th

Hosted by: Jenny Han, Author of To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, now a hit Netflix movie.

At the event, students received a special Reporter’s Notebook, which you can also digitally download here.

Featuring:

• Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
• M. T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin, The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
• Leslie Connor, The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
• Christopher Paul Curtis, The Journey of Little Charlie
• Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hey, Kiddo

ABOUT THE HOST

Jenny Han is the New York Times bestselling author of the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and The Summer I Turned Pretty series; Shug; the Burn for Burn trilogy, cowritten with Siobhan Vivian. She is also the author of the chapter book Clara Lee and The Apple Pie Dream. A former children’s bookseller, she earned her MFA in creative writing at the New School. Visit her at DearJennyHan.com.

More about the Teen Press Conference here.