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Celebration of Youth Literature

Join us for an all day celebration of children’s literature! Special guests, multi-award winning author Jean Alicia Elster and multi-award winning author/illustrator Matt Faulkner will tell us how they create their incredible books.

Jean Alicia Elster will speak at 11:30am and Matt Faulkner at 2:00pm.

Both will sell and sign books after their talks. But that’s not all! We’ll have a local children’s book author fair running from 11-4pm and the youth floor will have fun activities to celebrate our love of kid’s books! Drop-in and join the fun.

Date
Saturday, July 15, 2023
11:00am
Venue
Plymouth District Library
223 S Main Street
Plymouth MI
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AWARD
WINNER

How It Happens

Jean Alicia Elster

Intergenerational story of three Black women and their struggle to stake their claim to the American dream.

Paperback
Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814348697
$18.99
eBOOK
Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814348703
AWARD
WINNER

The Colored Car

Jean Alicia Elster

For young readers, the powerful story of an African American girl's train journey south from Detroit in 1937.

Paperback
Published: September 2013
ISBN: 9780814336069
$16.99
eBOOK
Published: September 2013
ISBN: 9780814336083
AWARD
WINNER

Who's Jim Hines?

Jean Alicia Elster

A look at issues of race in Depression-era Detroit for middle grade readers, aged 8 through 12, and up!

Paperback
Published: July 2008
ISBN: 9780814334027
$14.99
eBOOK
Published: July 2008
ISBN: 9780814335437