Young Adults’ Schedule

Saturday Young Adult Stage

Book Dating Game

Saturday, May 3rd, 10:30 AM
Decatur Library at 215 Sycamore Street

Congratulations, lucky contestant, and come on down to participate in The Book Dating Game! Cue the flashing lights and vintage-y theme music! During this panel, four lucky attendees looking for their next favorite read will get the chance to ask our mystery book bachelors (authors) a series of questions before choosing a book to take home! We’ll play four rounds of The Book Dating Game, each round featuring a different genre! Want to know who the mystery book bachelors are? You’ll have to come and find out!

Literary High Tea

Saturday, May 3rd, 1 PM
Little Shop of Stories at 133 East Court Square

You have been cordially invited to the Literary High Tea at Little Shop! Don your largest sunhats and dig out your paper fans as we prepare to feast on the finest fare provided by our gracious host and rub elbows with six truly spectacular authors! While delicately dining and gracefully gulping, each author will take to the mic to give us a blurb of their books throughout the affair. Each ticket includes scrummy tea and other delectables courtesy of The Reading Room. Participating authors: Julian Winters, MK Lobb, Trang Thanh Tran, Channelle Desamours, Gayle Forman, Shveta Thakrar. Registration required.

Sour Ones

Saturday, May 3rd, 3 PM
Decatur Library at 215 Sycamore Street

We’re Little Shop of Stories and you’re watching Sour Ones. It’s the show with tangy questions and even more sour candy! We’re taking inspo from one of our favorite web-shows and getting into it with some of our favorite authors, asking them increasingly juicy questions as they eat increasingly sour candy! Don’t miss what’s sure to be a hilarious evening with some of our favorite writers! Participating authors include: Mark Oshiro, Terry Benton-Walker, and Auburn Morrow

Sunday Young Adult Stage

Live D&D

Sunday, May 4th, 10:30 AM
Decatur Library at 215 Sycamore Street

Calling all fighters, bards, wizards, and those who love adventure! Come watch as our authors go from writers to characters in a brief Dungeons & Dragons one-shot adventure! Playing as a character from one of their books, our featured authors will go on an exciting quest, fight monsters, and maybe even save the realm in front of a live audience (provided no one rolls a one during a pivotal moment)! Participating authors include: Trang Thanh Tran, RM Gray, Kamilah Cole, MK Lobb, Mark Oshiro, Preeti Chhibber

Clue, Live at Little Shop

Sunday, May 4th, 1 PM
Little Shop of Stories at 133 East Court Square

Inviting all mystery fans! Bodies have been discovered at Little Shop of Stories and we need YOUR help to discover which dangerous (fictional) characters may have done it. You will receive an invitation, game rules, and clues at the door, then play your way through a themed game of Clue to solve the mystery! We encourage you to come dressed as your favorite literary character (or just as yourself)! Each ticket will include a random book from one of the featured authors. Participating authors include: Ginny Myers Sain, Emily J. Taylor, Channelle Desamours, Elora Cook, Jessica Goodman, and Gayle Forman. Registration required.

Sunday Talent Show

Sunday, May 4th, 3 PM
Decatur Library at 215 Sycamore Street

We know our featured authors are extremely talented writers, but what other super secret abilities are our novelists hiding under their scholarly facade? Come see our authors close out the festival with a bang and show off some serious skills in our Sunday Talent Show. Each author will give us a brief summary of their frontlist title followed by a 5 minute slot to showcase whatever talent they choose, from juggling to lipsyncing to stand up to sword swallowing… okay, maybe not sword swallowing… but who knows, anything could happen! Participants include: Kelly Quindlen, Juan Vidal, Julian Winters, and YOU!

For more info about all of these events, including participating authors, visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/ya-programming-at-the-lsos-childrens-book-fest-4201623