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News from Kathy our Librarian

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Bookshop Santa Cruz Kids Events

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RUN: BOOK ONE

MONDAY AFTERNOON
AUGUST 16TH AT 4PM

https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/run

FREE VIRTUAL EVENT: Young readers who were inspired by the award-winning graphic novel series March will want to tune in to hear Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, and Nate Powell (the creative team, along with the late Congressman John Lewis, behind March) discuss the first book in their new, groundbreaking series, Run: Book One.

“In sharing my story, it is my hope that a new generation will be inspired by Run to actively participate in the democratic process and help build a more perfect Union here in America.” —Congressman John Lewis

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Lauren Tarshis,
I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001

TUESDAY EVENING
AUGUST 24TH AT 6PM

https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/i-survived

FREE VIRTUAL EVENT: Lauren Tarshis, author of the bestselling I Survived series for young readers, will be joined by Corey Egbert, Marcie Colleen, and Aaron Becker for a commemoration of the 20th anniversary of 9/11. A gripping graphic novel adaptation of Tarshis's bestselling I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001, illustrated by Egbert, will be published on August 3rd. Colleen and Becker are the writer and illustrator of the upcoming 9/11-themed picture book, Survivor Tree.

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Jewell Parker Rhodes, Paradise on Fire

WEDNESDAY EVENING
SEPTEMBER 22nd AT 6PM

https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/jewell-parker-rhodes

FREE VIRTUAL EVENT: Award-winning and bestselling author Jewell Parker Rhodes (Ninth Ward, Ghost Boys) will discuss her new book, Paradise on Fire, a powerful coming-of-age survival tale exploring issues of race, class, and climate change. Rhodes will be in-conversation with Samira Ahmed, author of the new middle grade novel Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds.

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Gary Paulsen, How to Train Your Dad

THURSDAY EVENING
OCTOBER 7th AT 6PM

https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/gary-paulsen

FREE VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz is excited to welcome acclaimed and bestselling author Gary Paulsen (Hatchet) for a virtual event celebrating his new middle grade novel, How to Train Your Dad--a fierce and funny novel about family, green-living, and untangling some of the ties that bind