Middle Grade: COVID and Communities

When the world falls apart … This session explores the effects of the global pandemic on both coasts of the Pacific. In bestselling novelist Kelly Yang’s latest standalone novel, New From Here, Knox Wei-Evans stands up to anti-AAPI racism at his new school after moving from Hong Kong to California during the pandemic. Ying Chang Compestine portrays how COVID-19 affected Wuhan in her forthcoming Morning Sun in Wuhan, which follows 13-year-old Mei as she puts her love of cooking toward a good cause by volunteering in a community kitchen. Join these two brilliant writers for a thoughtful discussion on community, resilience, and hope after a long period of being apart. Ages 8–12.

The bookstore partner for this session is Flashlight Books! Buy the books online at Bookshop.org or purchase them in person at the Festival. More information here.

Book signing information: Flashlight Books Tent at the Bookstore Blv (corner of Allston & Milvia in the Outdoor Fair) at in the park, 2:45 PM