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Keeping Young Readers
Friday October 23, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm MDT
Glen 203
True or false: despite the nay-sayers, children are reading more than ever, but not in the formats we might think?
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Gordon Jack

Gordon Jack has been a high school librarian for thirty years. In that time, he did his best to keep kids reading, including writing two young adult novels, The Boomerang Effect and Your Own Worst Enemy. Now that he's about to retire, he figured he should write for people closer to... Read More →
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avatar for Suzy Vadori

Suzy Vadori

Suzy is Calgary Bestselling Author of The Fountain Series (The Fountain, The West Woods, Wall of Wishes). This series has received three Aurora Nominations for Best Young Adult Novel. She is represented by Naomi Davis of Bookends Literary Agency. Suzy is an Advanced Certified Book... Read More →
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Daniel J. Hale

Daniel J. Hale is an Agatha Award-winning author, a repurposed attorney and a former Executive Vice President of Mystery Writers of America. He's bilingual (French-English) and holds remote pilot certification from the FAA.
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Kate (K.B.) Jackson

Kate (K.B.) Jackson is a two-time Agatha Award winner, two-time silver Falchion Award finalist, and three-time Anthony Award nominated author of mystery books for kids and grownups. When not writing about murder and Sasquatch, she enjoys traveling with her trophy husband and their... Read More →
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Mia P. Manansala

Mia P. Manansala is a writer from Chicago who loves books, baking, and bad-ass women. She is the multi-award-winning author of the Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery series, the Dizon Detective Agency series (YA), and the forthcoming cozy fantasy, The Spirit Medium’S Enchanted Apothecary... Read More →
Friday October 23, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm MDT
Glen 203 136 8th Avenue SE Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2G 0K6

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