Join Books of Wonder for an afternoon with amazing authors KELLY J. BAPTIST, PAULA CHASE, JEWELL PARKER RHODES, and CHAD LUCAS as they share their newly released middle grade novels The Swag is in the Socks, Keeping it Real, Paradise on Fire, and Thanks a Lot, Universe. Their books are incredible stories of Black joy, strength, and love, and each of them is a book that your young readers will love returning to time and time again. Join Books of Wonder, KELLY J. BAPTIST, PAULA CHASE, JEWELL PARKER RHODES, and CHAD LUCAS Sunday November 7th at 3:00pm via Crowdcast.

Your young readers will love the sweet, suave, courageous, and powerful main characters of The Swag is in the Socks, Keeping it Real, Paradise on Fire, and Thanks a Lot, Universe. Whether using their grandmother's teachings, their street smarts, and their spiritual intuition to survive a forest fire or rocking their incredibly funky cool new socks, these characters are full of incredible writing and the strength of Black joy. Join Books of Wonder, KELLY J. BAPTIST, PAULA CHASE, JEWELL PARKER RHODES, and CHAD LUCAS Sunday November 7th at 3:00pm via Crowdcast.

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