Join us for the Freedom Read-In, a free, all-day assembly of award-winning children's book authors reading from their own work to bring attention to and raise support for Freedom to Read bills that are active in twelve states.  Twenty acclaimed authors from across the United States will each present for fifteen minutes on May 9th, during Children's Book Week, to honor the need for diversity of American children's literature. Drop in for one 15-minute session, or stream the whole event, from 10:00AM-12:45PM and 1:00PM- 3:00PM Eastern Time.

This is a live event. Please no recording, out of respect for the copyrighted material that will be shared.

The schedule of readers for the afternoon session is:

1:00PM: Veera Hiranandani, author of The Night Diary

1:30PM: Juana Martinez-Neal, author of Alma and How She Got Her Name

1:45PM: Alison Green Myers, author of A BIRD WILL SOAR 

2:00PM:Lisa Stringfellow, author of Kingdom of Dust

2:15PM: Dana Levy, author of Not Another Banned Book

2:30PM: Carol Boston Weatherford, author of Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

2:45 PM:	Margarita Engle, author of Drum Dream Girl

Freedom to Read-In Afternoon Session