Lunch Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jarred Amato (Project LIT co-founder, JUST READ IT: Unlocking the Magic of Independent Reading in Middle and High School Classrooms)

Evening Keynote Speaker: Alan Gratz (NYT best-selling author including War Games, Heroes,, Two Degrees, Refugee, Ground Zero, Allies, Grenade, Ban This Book and more!)

Breakfast Panelists: Leslie Barnard Booth (I Am We: How Crows Come Together to Survive, One Day This Tree Will Fall, A Stone is a Story), Courtney Gould (The Dead and the Dark, Where Echoes Die, What the Woods Took, Until the Light Goes Out) Steph Littlebird (You Are the Land, My Powerful Hair, Where the Wind Blows), and Emily Winfield Martin (Dream Animals, Snow & Rose, Day Dreams, The Wildest Thing)

For more information, including a full list of the amazing works of these authors and illustrators, visit the Speakers page.