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Saturday, October 19 • 3:15pm - 4:15pm
YA: Warrior Girls

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If you’re in search of drama and adventure, you won’t want to miss this! The authors whose books we explore in this session all feature kickass heroines conquering the biggest challenges the world can throw at them. Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy dream up a futuristic queer reincarnation of the Arthurian legend, and (spoiler alert) this time the Once and Future King is a girl named Ari. Fans of Westworld won’t want to miss Charlotte Nicole Davis’s bold debut, The Good Luck Girls, which finds a group of socially marginalized young women teaming up as outlaws in a reimagined Old West. In Rory Power’s debut Wilder Girls, when the planet has gone haywire and turned (literally) monstrous, female strength and solidarity is the only thing that can save the day . . . maybe. And in Brittney Morris’s debut Slay, the demon to slay is a troll--in this case an online troll, intent on taking down the hard work of a talented black girl video game developer. Educator Monique Harris will be our host for this hour celebrating powerful and resilient heroines.
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Monique Harris

A transplant from San Francisco, Monique Harris graduated from San Francisco State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature in 1997. She earned her teaching credential in Moderate Disabilities from the University of San Francisco in 2003. A special education... Read More →

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Amy Rose Capetta

Amy Rose Capetta is a science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer. Her books include Entangled and Unmade, two novels comprising a space opera; The Brilliant Death and its sequel, The Storm of Life; and Echo After Echo, a murder mystery. Her book Once & Future, a collaboration with... Read More →
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Charlotte Nicole Davis

Charlotte Nicole Davis is the debut author of the young adult novel The Good Luck Girlsl. Described as Westworld meets The Handmaid’s Tale, the book is hailed by New York Times–bestselling author Dhonielle Clayton as “a dust-filled, bloody fairytale.” Davis is a graduate of... Read More →
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Cori McCarthy

Cori McCarthy is a young adult novelist, editor, picture book writer, and author of You Were Here, Now a Major Motion Picture, and Breaking Sky, which is soon to be developed by Sony Pictures. Their most recent release, Once & Future, is a collaboration with author Amy Rose Capetta... Read More →
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Rory Power

Rory Power’s debut novel is the critically acclaimed Wilder Girls, a feminist Lord of the Flies meets Annihilation retelling. She grew up in New England, but received a Masters in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia across the pond. Power moved back home and currently... Read More →
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Brittney Morris

Brittney Morris is the author of Slay, a young adult novel that follows a teenage video game developer as she takes on a real-life troll which Entertainment Weekly deemed the “YA debut we’re most excited for this year.” Her work has appeared in The Boston University Chimaerid... Read More →

Saturday October 19, 2019 3:15pm - 4:15pm EDT
BPL Teen Central 700 Boylston St, Boston, MA, 02116
  Young Adult

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