With the shift toward remote learning for children across the country, author visits to schools and libraries have been sidelined for the foreseeable future. To keep students engaged and interested in ...
As a kid, the library was the first place Kelly Yang felt invited to “dream bigger.” Yang, now a bestselling and award-winning middle-grade and YA author, spent her childhood moving from city to city, ...
RICHMOND, Calif. - An award-winning Bay Area author is advancing the conversation about racism and offering opportunity for dialogue, following incidents during which she was targeted for the color of ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — New York Times Best Selling author Kelly Yang joined KRON4 to discuss her book ‘Yes We Will’. The illustrated children’s book focuses on Asian Americans who helped shape this ...
Olga Tokarczuk: Translator Jennifer Croft will give a brief reading from Olga Tokarczuk’s novel “The Books of Jacob,” followed by a conversation between Tokarczuk and former Houston Poet Laureate ...
Apr 29, 2021 Apr 29, 2021 Updated Jun 3, 2022 0 The 2021 A Novel Idea … Read Together, concludes this weekend with virtual appearances by this year’s authors, Laila Lalami and Kelly Yang. Their books ...
How should race be taught in classrooms? There has been a lot of talk about book bans and for one Asian American children's author who had her book banned, she used that experience to write her latest ...
Now a New York Times-bestselling author, Yang’s numerous “about me” blurbs online simply say she gave up law to pursue writing, but they don’t tell the whole story. Yang herself experienced sexual ...
Author Kelly Yang (Front Desk) understands the meaning of positive reinforcement, especially when it comes to encouraging emerging writers to find their own voices. In this vein, she recently launched ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Karen Valby “You don’t have to go and ruin my life.” That’s the self-pitying cry the two female ...