Top-Selling Authors Adopt New York Area Schools, Meet with Local Students
Friday, 09 December 2011 | Andi Sporkin
New York; December 9, 2011 — Nearly 40 popular authors of fiction and non-fiction, representing 21 national publishing houses, will connect with the new generation of readers at 30 New York area schools starting next week as the sixth Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) Adopt-a-School Initiative to encourage literacy launches.
The Adopt-a-School program is aimed at improving literacy and encouraging reading through interaction by authors with area students. This year’s program will run from mid-December through Spring and includes elementary, middle and high schools in Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island. The events will feature top-selling, well-known authors of children’s and young adults’ books doing readings, answering questions and sharing other dialogue in classroom, library and auditorium settings. The well-received effort is a collaboration between AAP, the New York City Department of Education, the Children’s Book Council and the schools’ librarians. This year, the program will be extended to schools in California, Wisconsin, Virginia and Rhode Island.
A full list of the New York area schools with events currently confirmed are below. The confirmed participating authors and publishing houses to date are:
| Peter Ackerman, Godine Ellen Bari, Kar-Ben Publishing Bobbi Carducci, Tate Publishing BrainQuest Challenge, Workman Publishing Sally Cook, Simon & Schuster Celebrity author (TBA), Penguin Gitty Daneshvari, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Tracey Dockray, Macmillan Children’s Greg Foley, HarperCollins Chris Grant, Random House Tommy Greenwald, Macmillan Children’s Jenny Han, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Leanna Renee Heiber, Sourcebooks Don Hoffman, Charlesbridge Rebecca Jackson, Good Parent, Good Child Nancy Krulik, Scholastic Josh Lewis, Disney David Lubar, Tor/Forge | Barry Lyga, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Noel MacNeal, Workman Kate McMullen, HarperCollins Steve Metzger, Scholastic Gina Otto, Sterling Helen Perelman, Simon & Schuster Jason Pinter, Sourcebooks Gail Polisner, Macmillan Children’s Sarah Porter, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Gbemi Rhuday-Perkovich, Scholastic Sujean Rim, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Michael Sandler, Bearport Publishing Steve Savage, Scholastic Cara Lynn Shultz, Harlequin TEEN StoryCorps Audrey Vernick, HarperCollins Frank Viva, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
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The confirmed schools are:
Bronx
Urban Assembly for Civic Engagement 366X
CS150X — Charles James Fox
PS 360X
PS386 School for Environmental Citizenship
PS 102X — Joseph O. Loretan School for Creative Arts
St. Joseph’s School
Brooklyn
PS 131K
PS 32K
PS 10
The Science and Medicine Middle School, Shirley Chisholm Campus
East Brooklyn Community High
IS347 School of Humanities
Manhattan
PS 375M — Mosaic Prep
CS 154M — Harriet Tubman
East Side Community HS
George Jackson Academy
The High School for Arts and Technology
The Manhattan Theatre Lab High School
New York Harbor School 551M — Governors Island
Facing History School 303M
Good Shepherd School
Queens
IS 204Q
PS 62Q
PS 60 Woodhaven
PS 63Q
PS 184 Flushing Manor
Staten Island
PS 21R — Margaret Emergy-Elm Park
Tottenville High School
Media contact: Andi Sporkin, AAP
asporkin@publishers.org and 202-220-4554