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You Are Invited to the 8th Annual

AUTHOR EVENT FOR

NYC EDUCATORS

Come hear these authors in conversation and get a FREE copy of each of their books or audiobooks ★ Lisa Damour, Ph.D. ★ Christopher Emdin ★ Adam Gidwitz ★ Nadia Lopez ★ Mike Massimino ★ Imbolo Mbue ★ Nancy Jo Sales ★ Tanya Lee Stone

Monday, October 10th, 2016 1:00–4:00 pm Penguin Random House, 1745 Broadway, New York, NY (Between W. 55th & W. 56th Streets)

Light refreshments will be served

To RSVP go to: www.tiny.cc/ teacherevent (This is a FREE event for professionals only. Children and students are not permitted.)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Nadia Lopez with Rebecca Paley The Bridge to Brilliance

How One Principal in a Tough Community Is Inspiring the World The inspirational account of the creation of a path-breaking inner-city middle school in Brooklyn by the magnetic young principal who rocketed to national fame via Humans of New York. “Lopez’s efforts to support the needs of children in one of the most underresourced communities in the country should serve as a reminder to all that what’s required to open pathways to excellence are educators who unlock potential. We should all be committed to living Nadia’s legacy.”—David J. Johns, Executive Director, White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans

NADIA LOPEZ is the founding principal of Mott Hall Bridges Academy, a model for quality education that includes a safe, nurturing, and innovative learning environment. Since being featured on Humans of New York in 2015, she has been profiled in countless national media outlets, asked to speak at Harvard, and invited to the White House. She is the recipient of the 2015 Black Girls Rock Change Agent Award and the 2015 Barnard College Medal of Distinction. You can find her online at thelopezeffect.com, on facebook.com/ TheLopezEffect, and on Twitter at @TheLopezEffect.

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Viking | HC | 978-1-101-98025-5 288 pages | $26.00 Also available as an audio download and eBook

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TEACHING EMPATHY Roxanne Hsu Feldman (Moderator) Roxanne Hsu Feldman grew up in Taiwan and came to the States when she was twenty-six to pursue a master’s degree in children’s literature. She also has a B.A. in education and teaching English as a second language, as well as a master’s degree in library and information sciences. She has been a children’s and middle school librarian in New York City since 1994, and she has recently focused more and more of her personal writing and reflections on media representation of people of color in the United States via her blog, fairrosa.com. Roxanne is also a consultant for a Chinese publisher that aims to bring high quality, culturally authentic contemporary bilingual children’s books to the U.S. from China. When she’s not reading, thinking, and writing about young people’s books and media, she loves folding origami models and sampling a wide variety of cuisines.

Adam Gidwitz The Inquisitor’s Tale

Imbolo Mbue Behold the Dreamers

I’m at the Holy Crossroads Inn, a day’s walk north of Paris. Outside, the sky is dark, and getting darker . . . . It’s the perfect night for a story.

In the vein of Amy Tan and Khaled Hosseini comes a compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream— the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy.

Long awaited, beloved bestselling author Adam Gidwitz returns with his first new world since he introduced us to the remarkable Grimm series in 2010. Filled with his trademark storytelling style and humor, The Inquisitor’s Tale is also a bold and knowledgeable work about faith, history, and prejudice. ADAM GIDWITZ taught in Brooklyn for eight years. Now, he writes fulltime—which means he writes a couple of hours a day and lies on the couch staring at the ceiling the rest of the time. As is the case with all of his books, everything in them not only happened in the real fairy tales . . . it also happened to him. Really. You can find him online at adamgidwitz.com, on facebook.com/adam.gidwitz, and on Twitter at @AdamGidwitz.

“Behold the Dreamers will teach you as much about the promise and pitfalls of life in the United States as about the immigrants who come here in search of the so-called American dream.”—Sonia Nazario, author of Enrique’s Journey IMBOLO MBUE is a native of Limbe, Cameroon. She holds a B.S. from Rutgers University and an M.A. from Columbia University. A resident of the United States for more than a decade, she lives in New York City with her husband and children. This is her first novel. You can find her online at imbolombue.com and on facebook. com/imbolombue.

Dutton Books for Young Readers | HC 978-0-525-42616-5 | 368 pages | $17.99

Random House | HC 978-0-8129-9848-1 | 400 pages | $28.00

Also available as an audio download, CD, and eBook


Christopher Emdin For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y’all Too

Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, Christopher Emdin draws on his own experience of feeling undervalued in classrooms as a young man of color to offer a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education. CHRISTOPHER EMDIN is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Technology at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he also serves as associate director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education. He serves as a Minorities in Energy Ambassador for the US Department of Energy and is the creator of the #HipHopEd social media movement. You can find him online at chrisemdin. com, on facebook.com/christopher. emdin, and on Twitter at @chrisemdin. Beacon Press | HC 978-0-8070-0640-5 | 232 pages | $25.95 Also available as an eBook

HOW WE TALK ABOUT TEENAGE GIRLS Tara Christie Kinsey, Ph.D. (Moderator) Tara Christie Kinsey is the 8th Head of School at The Hewitt School, a K-12 independent school for girls in New York City. Previously, Kinsey was an Associate Dean at Princeton University, where she taught in the English Department, served as an academic advisor, and launched Princeton’s first women’s mentorship and leadership program. Kinsey lives in New York City with her husband and their two children.

Lisa Damour, Ph.D. Untangled

Nancy Jo Sales American Girls

Tanya Lee Stone Girl Rising

In this unprecedented and effective guide for parents and educators of teenage girls, Dr. Lisa Damour draws on decades of experience to reveal the seven distinct—and absolutely normal—developmental transitions that turn girls into grown-ups. The book also provides realistic scenarios and welcome advice on how to engage girls in smart, constructive ways.

Instagram. Vine. YouTube. Kik. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. With intimacy and precision, Sales provides a disturbing portrait of the end of childhood as we know it and of a new kind of adolescence—one ruled by new social and sexual norms, where a girl’s first crushes and romances occur in an accelerated electronic environment; where issues of identity and self-esteem are magnified by social platforms that provide instantaneous judgment.

Girl Rising, a global campaign for girls’ education, created a film that chronicled the stories of nine girls in the developing world, allowing viewers to witness how education can break the cycle of poverty. Now, Tanya Lee Stone deftly uses new research to illuminate the dramatic facts behind the film, focusing both on the girls captured on camera and many others. She examines barriers to education and shows how removing them means not only a better life for girls, but safer, healthier, and more prosperous communities.

Discussion Guide available at tiny.cc/damourguide

NANCY JO SALES is an award-winning journalist and author who has written for Vanity Fair, New York, Harper’s Bazaar, and other publications. She is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and is known for her reporting on youth culture and crime. She lives in New York City. You can find her online at nancyjosales.com, on facebook.com/ NancyJoSales, and on Twitter at @nancyjosales.

TANYA LEE STONE is an awardwinning author who is best known for her passion for telling little-known or unknown true stories of people who have been missing from our histories. Stone went to Oberlin College and now teaches writing at Champlain College. You can find her online at tanyastone.com, on facebook.com/ tanyastone, and on Twitter at @TanyaLeeStone.

Ballantine Books | HC 978-0-553-39305-7 | 352 pages | $27.00

Knopf | HC 978-0-385-35392-2 | 416 pages | $26.95

Wendy Lamb Books | HC 978-0-553-51146-8 | 208 pages | $22.99



Also available as an eBook

Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood

LISA DAMOUR, Ph.D. received her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Michigan. She directs Laurel School’s Center for Research on Girls, maintains a private psychotherapy practice, and is a faculty associate of the Schubert Center for Child Studies and a clinical instructor at Case Western Reserve University. You can find her online at drlisadamour.com, on facebook.com/ lisadamourphd, and on Twitter at @LDamour.

Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

Changing the World One Girl at a Time

CLOSING SPEAKER Mike Massimino Spaceman: An Astronaut’s Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe Mike Massimino’s childhood space dreams were born the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, but his journey to realizing those dreams is as unlikely as it is captivating. In his new memoir, Spaceman, Massimino puts you inside the spacesuit, with all the zip and buoyancy of life in microgravity. Spaceman invites us into a rare, wonderful world where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure, and pulls back the curtain on just what having “the right stuff” really means. MIKE MASSIMINO served as an astronaut with NASA from 1996 to 2014 and is the veteran of two space flights, including the historic final repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Massimino has co-starred in the film IMAX: Hubble 3D, appeared on PBS, CNN, Discovery, and more, and played himself on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory. A graduate of Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mike currently lives in New York City. You can find him on Twitter at @Astro_Mike. Crown Archetype | HC | 978-1-101-90354-4 | 336 pages | $28.00 Also available as an eBook

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Chelsea Clinton It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!

Chelsea Clinton has always been interested in making the world a better place. When she was a child in Little Rock, Arkansas, one of her favorite books was 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the author Earth, and as a teenager in Washington, D.C., she led her school’s Chelsea Clinton! service club. While at Stanford, Chelsea worked as a reading and writing tutor and volunteered at the Children’s Hospital. Today, she is Vice Chair of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation where she helps lead the work of the Foundation across its various initiatives, with a particular focus on work related to health, women and girls, creating service opportunities, and empowering the next generation of leaders. Chelsea holds a B.A. from Stanford University, an M.P.H. from Columbia University, and an M.Phil. and doctorate degree in international relations from Oxford University. She lives in New York City with her husband Marc, their daughter Charlotte, son Aidan, and their dog Soren. You can find her online on facebook.com/chelseaclinton and on Twitter at @ChelseaClinton.

It’s Your World

Philomel | HC | 978-0-399-17612-8 | 416 pages | $18.99


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