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MCPL LitUp Fest Authors/Presenters 2018

Checkout our featured authors and presenters from LitUp 2018. LitUp is an all-day event that brings Kansas City-area teens together with authors, poets, illustrators, and other creators. To learn more, visit mymcpl.org/LitUp

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  • A Long Way Gone

    Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

    Beah, Ishmael, 1980-
    Ishmael Beah was a keynote speaker at LitUp 2018.
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. — 966.404 B359
  • Rainbow Rowell was a keynote speaker at LitUp 2018.
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Griffin, [2018] — YF ROWELL
  • Nnedi Okorafor was a keynote speaker at LitUp 2018.
    BookNew York : Viking, 2017. — YF OKORAFOR
  • Be Free or Die

    the Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape From Slavery to Union Hero

    Lineberry, Cate,
    Cate Lineberry was a featured author at LitUp 2018.
    BookNew York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 2017. — 973.8 L645
  • Clare Vanderpool was a featured author at LitUp 2018.
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2013] — JF VANDERPOOL
  • I Dissent

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark

    Levy, Debbie,
    Illustrator Elizabeth Baddeley was a workshop presenter at LitUp 2018.
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2016] — B G435L
  • My Lame Life

    Queen of the Misfits

    Mann, Jen,
    Jen Mann was a featured author at LitUp 2018.
    Book[Valley Village, CA] : Throat Punch Media, 2017. — YF MANN
  • Jennifer Brown was a featured author and workshop presenter at LitUp 2018.
    BookNew York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, [2018] — YF BROWN
  • Laura Moriarty was a featured author at LitUp 2018.
    BookNew York : HarperCollins Publishers, [2018] — YF MORIARTY
  • Madeline Miller was a featured author at LitUp 2018.
    BookNew York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — F MILLER
  • Popular

    Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek : a Memoir

    Van Wagenen, Maya
    Maya Van Wagenen was a featured author at LitUp 2018.
    BookNew York : Dutton, 2014. — B W122
  • Shannon A. Thompson was a featured author at LitUp 2018.
    Book[Place of publication not identified] : Clean Teen Publishing, [2017] — YF THOMPSON
  • The Hill We Climb

    An Inaugural Poem for the Country

    Gorman, Amanda, 1998-
    Amanda Gorman was a featured author at LitUp 2018.
    BookNew York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021. — 811.6 G68
  • Marie Arena was a featured author at LitUp 2018.
    BookMunich : Prestel, 2017. — 700.9 P166
  • The Teenage Brain

    a Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults

    Jensen, Frances E.
    Amy Ellis Nut was a featured author at LitUp 2018.
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015] — 612.6 J453
  • Ishmael Beah was a keynote speaker at LitUp 2018.
    BookNew York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. — F