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It’s that time again!

I’m putting out a call for middle schools (and upper-elementary) that are interested in being on the I AM THE WALRUS tour in APRIL!

Spread the word and tag your school, teachers, and librarians to sign up to be included in the I AM THE WALRUS tour.

If you live in the San Francisco area, or will be attending the American Library Association (ALA) Conference this weekend (6/27–6/28), come find Eric Elfman and me in the Disney-Hyperion booth! We'll be signing copies of Edison's Alley and Tesla's Attic at Moscone Convention Center Exhibit Hall, Booth 1028 from 10:30am to 11:30am on Sunday morning.

"Join Southern CA authors Neal Shusterman – the author of many critically acclaimed novels for young adults, including the Skinjacker trilogy, Unwind, and Downsiders; and Eric Elfman – the author of several books for young readers, and co-authors of Tesla’s Attic at MG’s afternoon middle grade event. Fourteen-year-old Nick has learned that the strange antiques in his attic bedroom were left there by the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla. They are pieces of Tesla's Far Range Energy Emitter, capable of transmitting "free energy" to the globe. Some components of the contraption are still missing, but the objects themselves seem to be leading Nick and his friends to their current owners. However, members of the Accelerati, a menacing secret society of physicists, are on the hunt too, and their brazen leader, Dr. Alan Jorgenson, will stop at nothing to foil Nick and steal the objects."

It’s YA lucky day! It’s Teen Thursday! (On Friday… Sometimes We Get a Bit Busy…)

Where we bring you highlights from the BookPeople Teen Press Corp!

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Q&A with Austin Author Nikki Loftin - Nightingale’s Nest

TEEN PRESS CORPS: What inspired you the most about Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Nightingale?” Was there something about…

A Frenchman named Tillet studied the smut fungus, which caused black, powdery spots to form on wheat. For hundreds of years, "smutty" bread was common and people had to tolerate the awful taste. Tillet developed a procedure that helped stop the condition, but his cure may have been worse than the disease: the seeds of wheat were soaked in manure or putrefied urine.