Tucson Festival of Books

Back to the Future: Traveling through Time


Travel through time with three best-selling authors who explore the excitement and dangers of time travel. Erin Entrada Kelly won the 2025 Newbery for her book about a boy from the future who drops into the life of a bullied boy, while Ernesto Cisneros takes a grieving boy back in time and Margaret Peterson Haddix introduces a new series about a network of time travelers.


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Ernesto Cisneros

Ernesto Cisneros was born and raised in Santa Ana, California, where he still teaches. He is the award-winning author of “Efrén Divided,” which received the Pura Belpré Children’s Author Award, and “Falling Short....

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Margaret Peterson Haddix

Margaret Peterson Haddix grew up on a farm in Ohio and worked as a newspaper reporter and copy editor in Indiana before her first book, "Running Out of Time," was published. She has since written more than fifty books for kids and teens, including a number of series: Greystone Secrets, Shadow Children, Missing, and Children of Exile....

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Erin Entrada Kelly

Erin Entrada Kelly is the author of the Newbery Medal–winning novels "Hello, Universe" and "The First State of Being," which was also a finalist for the National Book Award. She received a Newbery Honor for "We Dream of Space....

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Books:
The First State of Being
Erin Entrada Kelly
Children
HarperCollins Publishers
March 2026
ISBN 9780063337329
272 pages

Queso, Just in Time
Ernesto Cisneros
Children
HarperCollins Publishers
March 2026
ISBN 9780063092242
272 pages
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Moonleapers
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Children
HarperCollins Publishers
September 2025
ISBN 9780063392564
320 pages
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