{"id":13450,"date":"2016-06-25T22:55:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T02:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=13450"},"modified":"2016-06-28T17:02:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T21:02:16","slug":"speed-dating-alaac16-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/speed-dating-alaac16-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed Dating: #alaac16 Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

This afternoon, I sat at a table as 14 different children’s and YA authors rotated around the room, each taking 4 minutes to try and make me (and the three other lovely librarians at my table) fall in love with them. And their newest books.<\/p>\n

Here’s Christina Diaz Gonzalez with Return Fire<\/em>, sequel to last year’s Moving Target<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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M.G. Leonard with her “international bestseller”, Beetle Boy<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer L. Holm with Full of Beans<\/i>, sequel to Turtle in Paradise<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Melissa de la Cruz with Something in Between<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Keira Drake with The Continent<\/i>, whose final cover is still yet to be revealed.<\/p>\n

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Other books I dated today were Donna Gephart’s Lily and Dunkin<\/em>, Adam Gidwitz’s The Inquisitor’s Tale<\/em>, Lynda Mullaly Hunt’s Fish in a Tree<\/em>, Barbara O’Connor’s Wish<\/em>, Kate Beasley’s Gertie’s Leap to Greatness<\/em>, Eric Telchin’s The Black and White Factory<\/em>, Monica Brown’s Marisol McDonald and the Monster<\/em> & Lola Levine and the Ballet Scheme<\/em>, Booki Vivat’s Frazzled<\/em>, and Linda Williams Jackson’s Midnight Without a Moon<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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