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By tradition, Friday nights at ALA Annual Conference belong to the Booklist Youth Forum. We are especially excited to announce our 2012 panelists, a who’s who of popular authors outspoken on this year’s topic: “Guy Writers Talk Guy Readers.”

Michael Grant, author of the bestselling Gone series and the new novel BZRK.

Jon Scieszka, former National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and creator of the Guys Read project.

Andrew Smith, author of acclaimed novels including The Marbury Lens.

Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events (plus his “representative” Daniel Handler, author of the Printz Honor-winning Why We Broke Up).

“Guy Writers Talk Guy Readers”

Friday, June 22

8pm-10pm

Anaheim Convention Center

Anaheim, California

Room 204B

The event will be moderated by Booklist Books for Youth Senior Editor Daniel Kraus, author of the award-winning YA novel Rotters.

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