Megan E. Freeman (she, her, hers)

Megan E. Freeman attended an elementary school where poets visited her classroom every week, and she has been a writer ever since. She writes middle grade and young adult fiction. Megan is also a Pushcart Prize–nominated poet. An award-winning teacher with decades of classroom experience, Megan taught multiple subjects across the arts and humanities to students of all ages. Her most recent books are "Away" and "Alone."

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Awards: Her New York Times bestselling novel in verse, ALONE, won the Colorado Book Award, the Illinois, Indiana, Japan, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, and Vermont Children’s Book Awards, is an NCTE Notable Verse Novel, and is included on over two dozen "best of" and state reading lists. Megan is also a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet.

Middle Grade Carousel: Invitations to Adventure

Meet a bunch of authors in 60 minutes as they share their new books filled with invitations to adventure. Each author will be seated at a table to talk with a small group about their newest book. Every eight minutes the authors will rotate to a new table in our version of author speed-dating.

Education 211 (Seats 200)  
Sat, Mar 15, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Children
Signing area: Signing Area - Children (following presentation)  

Panelists: Tom Angleberger, Kim Bussing, J.C. Cervantes, Megan E. Freeman, Gale Galligan, Leah Johnson, Rosanne Parry, Jose Pimienta, Kim Tomsic
Moderators: Magdalena Castillo-Cockrum, Caryl Crowell

Writing Fierce Girls who Lead the Way

These authors have created fierce girls who lead the way in solving mysteries within tales that range from fairytale mash-ups to dystopia to historical fantasy and contemporary fiction. Authors share their strategies for writing girls who persist when facing the unknown with courage and heart.

Education Room 351 (Seats 46, Wheelchair accessible)  
Sun, Mar 16, 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Children
Signing area: Signing Area - Children (following presentation)  

Panelists: Kim Bussing, Megan E. Freeman, Ginger Reno, S. J. Taylor
Moderator: Charlene Klassen Endrizzi

Hope in a Broken World

Children need hope to move forward from displacement in a broken world, be it a dystopian future with robots and evacuation camps or our contemporary present of forest fires and discrimination toward immigrants. These tales captivate readers through graphic novels, novels-in-verse, and nonfiction.

Education Room 353 (Seats 92, Wheelchair accessible)  
Sun, Mar 16, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Children
Signing area: Signing Area - Children (following presentation)  

Panelists: Megan E. Freeman, Guojing, Jose Pimienta, Jessica Stremer
Moderator: Loren Reyes

Books:

Away

Children
Aladdin
February 2025
ISBN 9781665959728
480 pages

Alone

Children
Simon and Schuster
May 2022
ISBN 9781534467576
416 pages